NOTE : Detailed information of the lecture topics will be posted on niwothistoricalsociety.org Please check our website for more Niwot Historical Society information. NIWOT GAZETTE Newsletter of the Niwot Historical Society April 2019 Be a part of Niwot’s future by helping to preserve our past. Wednesday, April 24, 2019 7:00 PM, Doors open at 6:30 PM for coffee and conversation Left Hand Grange Hall, 195 2 nd Ave, at Franklin St intersection General Admission: $5.00, No charge for members of the Niwot Historical Society Page 1 of 2 Join us on April 24 th to learn about prehistoric discoveries !!!. Dinosaurs Of The Rocky Mountain West: New Discoveries and Old Approaches NOW&Then Lecture Series Like the pages of an upturned book, nearly the entire history of dinosaurs and their lost ecosystems were revealed by the uplift and erosion of mountains across the Rocky Mountain region. The fossils of Colorado were among the first to be discovered over a century ago, revealing fantastic forms like the plated Stegosaurus and the giant, long-necked Sauropods. However, numerous new discoveries along the Colorado Front Range, and elsewhere in the West, have begun to reveal new dinosaur species and ecosystems that can teach us about life on a dynamic planet. Using the same techniques as early paleontologists mixed with new technologies and enthusiastic volunteers, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science has leaped to the forefront of discovery. Presenter: Dr Joe Sertich is the Curator of Dinosaurs at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. His research focuses on dinosaurs and the ecosystems during the Late Cretaceous. His field based research is split between the Gondwanan confinents of the southern hemisphere and western North America. He is one of the primary researchers on the Madagascar Paleontology Project exploring the latest Cretaceous of Madagascar and has expanded the search for dinosaurs to older deposits across the island. He is also working on several projects searching for the latest Cretaceous dinosaurs of Africa, including work in northern Kenya and Egypt. In North America, Dr. Sertich leads the Laramidia Project, currently working to uncover a lost world of dinosaurs in the Cretaceous of southern Utah, northwestern New Mexico and northwestern Colorado.