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In July, Kevin
returned to Paris for a student’s Ph.D. thesis defense and to
attend the First International Conference on Phylogenetic Nomenclature, then
on to the International Conference on Vertebrate Morphology meeting in Florida,
and back to France at the end of
 Philippe Taquet of the Institute of Paleontology in Paris, working in a corner of the Early Jurassic sauropod quarry near Taoundoute, Morocco. (photo by Kevin Padian) |
the month. This trip was to southern France for some fieldwork and paper
writing on new pterosaur trackways with Jean-Michel Mazin. The trip was
courtesy of National Geographic, who is making a documentary about
pterosaurs that should be ready late in 2005. Jim Parham
also started his summer travels early. In May he spent six weeks
traveling through United Arab Emirates and Iran collecting reptiles and
amphibian samples for DNA studies. “I had good times and a lot of success
collaborating with scientists from Tehran on biotic surveys near the borders
of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
 Jim Parham with a Testudo horsfieldi in Touran National Park, Semnan Province, Iran. |
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