University of Iowa Paleontology Repository: FOSSILS!

If you are easily distracted by rocks - and fossils - head on over to the Mid-America Paleontology Society (MAPS) Expo, Orr Building, Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield. Saturday 8am to 5pm, Sunday 8am - noon, April 25/26.

Iowa might not know if it’s low on water until it’s already happening Iowa has 49 groundwater monitoring wells throughout the state that officials with the geological survey use to keep track of water levels.

The entrance to Trowbridge Hall is getting a refreshing remodel for our new existence as the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability 😃

So proud of our graduating seniors! I’m looking forward to seeing what they do next, and wish them all the best of luck. Thanks to all the students who’ve worked in the UI Paleontology Repository this year!

Graduate spotlight: Maya Monk Maya Monk never could have predicted when she went looking for a research opportunity at the University of Iowa that she would end up working with 13,600-year-old mastodon bones. “It’s been such an incredible experience to get to work on this,” says Monk, who will graduate this spring with a B...

Happy 99th Birthday David Attenborough! I remember the first time I met him. I was having cake and tea in the Paleo Dept common room at the Natural History Museum, London, when my hero walked in and said “Good morning” to me. All I could do was blow cake crumbs at him! I hope he’s enjoying his own cake today. 😁🎂

Happy birthday, David Attenborough! 99 ways he has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman – and many more This week the presenter turns 99. To celebrate, we asked 99 nature lovers – including Margaret Atwood, Jane Fonda, Bono, Kate Winslet and Michael Palin – how he has helped us see the world with fresh eyes

TODAY!! Please support our students’ fieldwork training! Every little helps to train the next generation of geologists and environmental scientists! Thank you 🫶🦖🦕🦎🦣 🗺️ 🪨

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We’re enjoing helping with this massive challenge! It’s a real team effort!
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A piece of prehistoric history that was unearthed in southern Iowa is being carefully preserved at the Office of the State Archaeologist. 📹️+✍️by Natalie Dunlap

OMG so cute!!! 🥹🥹😍😍 Bumastoides beckeri - an Ordovician trilobite from Iowa.

In case you missed it!

Iowans band together to unearth and preserve mastodon skull Last summer, University of Iowa archaeologists uncovered the first-ever well-preserved mastodon skull scientifically excavated in Wayne County. That was only the beginning of this community-minded project.

Santa’s elves are dusting off the mosasaur, ready to pull the sleigh through the skies! What’s that, children? Reindeer?? Pffff!