Darren H. started following the work of 3 people.
Darren H. started following the work of Lida Xing.
Darren H. started following the work of Adolfo Cuetara Yañez.
Darren H. Is now getting ready for fieldwork. Getting paperwork together to license our new powerboat which we plan to use to access remote riveredge outcrops in the province. Also gathering field equipment t... more
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
Senior Technician II, Preparation Laboratory
About
Now the longest serving employee of the Royal Tyrrell Museum, in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, I have been there and its predecessor (the Paleontology Department at the Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton) since starting as a volunteer in the summer of 1979. My job at the Royal Tyrrell Museum is mainly the collection of fossil specimens (mostly Late Cretaceous dinosaurs and other vertebrates) and preparation of same for research and display purposes. I was Dr. Philip J. Currie's (Canadian dinosaur paleontologist) lab and field technician for about 25 years. Mostly in my spare time I do research and writing on various aspects of Alberta's early paleontological heritage, relocation of lost dinosaur quarries, identification of "mystery quarries" via dating and interpretation of garbage left in the site by workers long ago, ceratopsian ontogeny, and dinosaur paleopathology. Fieldwork has taken me across western Canada, Montana, Utah, Texas, Argentina, Mongolia, Australia, and France. Paleontology history research has also taken me to China, Norway and England (3 times). My current main preparation project is a small Late Cretaceous Gorgosaurus partial skeleton with skull; TMP 2009.012.0014.
People often ask how many lost dinosaur/etc quarries I have found and mystery dinosaur/etc quarries I have identified- the number now stands at 37. The last two so resolved were two 1931 Royal Ontario Museum Edmontosaurus quarries relocated identified by a local resident, but identified by me through fieldnotes and newspaper left in one site.
From the technical perspective, besides fossil preparation techniques, I am also interested in megafossil extraction techniques past and present, as well as rock cutting and coring technologies.
Additional publications by me are listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Tanke
See also the "Talks" section of this page, I have uploaded some of my professional conference posters here.
Contact Information
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(403) 823-7707 (ext. 3300). |
