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Contact:
Don Begley
505-216-7562
Santa Fe Complex | | | | Dinosaurs Capture Santa Fe Youth
Uly Youngblood Joins Smithsonian Paleontologists
for Santa Fe Complex Blender | Wednesday, July 23
6-8 pm
Admission free (donations welcome)
Click here for directions. | Blenders are a Wednesday night feature at Santa Fe Complex, located at 632 Agua Fria St. Entrance is on Romero St. Admission is free. Light refreshments will be served; donations to defray their costs are welcome. Please note addition of date & time info.
|  Dinosaurs have a magical grip on the imaginations of young and old so we begin this blender with the perspective of a paleontologist in the making, six-year-old Ulysses Youngblood. Uly, as he is known, admits to confusing the Jurassic and Triassic eras upon occasion but he is not confused about his passion for the ancient creatures known to us today only by the fossil remnants they left behind.
Paleontologist Ralph Chapman follows with an insider's guide to the technology scientists use to study dinosaurs or, as Ralph puts it, "21st century technology to study 65 million-year-old creatures." The former director of the National Museum of Natural History's Applied Morphometrics Laboratory and the former director of the Idaho Virtualization Laboratory (Uly assure us he's read about Ralph and Ralph knows what he's talking about), Ralph will demonstrate how scientists use fossil fragments and computer programs to recreate the thunder lizards of old (now known to be bird ancestors, of course.) Linda Deck, Bradbury Science Museum director, will relate Ralph's comments to her work at the Smithsonian and other institutions where she has created paleontology exhibits and overseen the use and care of one-of-a-kind specimens for public displays. Dealing with the original, the virtual, the replica and sometimes the "especially durable prototype," as Linda calls them, is all part of her work as a museum expert, including 20 years as senior exhibit developer at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, where she met and married Ralph, and five years as director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History. Blenders are a Wednesday night feature from 6-8 pm at Santa Fe Complex, located at 632 Agua Fria St. Entrance is on Romero St. Admission is free. Light refreshments will be served; donations to defray their costs are welcome. --30-- |
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Santa Fe Complex is located next to the Railyard Art District and within walking distance of the hotels, restaurants and shops at the plaza downtown. We're housed in two facilities, the conference area at 624 Agua Fria and the project space at 632 Agua Fria. The conference area contains meeting rooms and facilities for short-term use associated with on-going complex projects. The project space houses the great room, where we hold events and offer working facilities for laptop users, coffee lounge and work carrels. While there is parking at 624 Agua Fria, the Romero Street parking lot is more conveniently located for the 632 facility. Romero St. is an old-style Santa Fe ox-cart road just east of the 624 driveway. Follow it until it opens up to two lanes and turn hard right into the parking lot for 632. Here's a map to our location, a representative shot showing the Railyard District and a sketchup drawing of the facility at 632: For more information, call 505/216.7562 or click here. # # # | | | Santa Fe Complex supports the open source and GNU public license philosophies. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. Please credit our work. | | | | Santa Fe Complex | 624 Agua Fria | Santa Fe | NM | 87501 |  ============================================================
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