hello!
We're the Vertebrate Palaeontology Team at the Royal Ontario Museum, and our members are participating in the 5K run this October 17th at the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon!We're running to raise funds for our research - this includes presenting at conferences, fieldwork expenses, collections visits, and more! Many of these activities often involve out-of-pocket expenses, and the money raised for this fund is intended to assist our graduate students with offsetting these costs.
Please support our research by donating through the link provided. You can either donate directly to the ROM Vert Palaeo Team or to any of our intrepid runners; all funds will be collectively shared across the entire team. Any amount helps! Please see the "Photo Gallery" for examples of the activities these donations will be funding.Thank you very much for your support!
meet the ROM Vert Palaeo team!
Thomas Dudgeon
Postdoctoral ResearcherAt ROM, I'm studying freshwater fish from the end of the age of dinosaurs, shedding new light on how these communities responded to the mass extinction and led to the species we have today.
Seishiro Tada
Postdoctoral ResearcherI'm currently deciphering how horned dinosaurs evolved their unique skull features in terms of thermal physiology!
Aaron Dyer
PhD CandidateMy research with the ROM focuses on tooth diseases and malformations in living and extinct reptiles (including dinosaurs!) and utilizing these to explore the effects of prehistoric environmental changes on the health of extinct animals.
Denny Maranga
PhD CandidateMy dissertation work focuses on studying the amount of shape and size variation present in the teeth of bird-like dinosaurs like Velociraptor and Troodon in order to better understand their diversity and ecology!
Ryan Wilkinson
PhD CandidateI'm studying how long-term climate trends affected dinosaur biodiversity leading up to their extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period.
Maximilian Mataija
MSc StudentMy research focuses on the evolution of horned dinosaurs—at present, I am redescribing a unique bonebed that may represent a new species.
Towa Ota
MSc StudentFor my Master's project, I am investigating shifts in the body size and diversity of Cretaceous crocodiles during the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.
see us at work!
Here's a quick peek at the work we do, including (but not limited to) science outreach, fieldwork, and presenting our research at conferences!Click photos to enlarge and view in high-quality.
