Hermsen Lab

Encephalartos ferox , a cycad in the Ohio University greenhouse The 35th Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium (MPC) will be held on the campus of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, from June 1-3, 2018. A mixer will be held at a local brewery on Friday, June 1. Talks and a poster session will be held on Saturday, June 2; the day will end with a banquet and keynote speaker. On Sunday, June 3, a field trip to the Hocking Hills will be arranged. A block of dorm rooms will be reserved on campus for meeting participants to rent. For those who do not wish to stay in the dorms, local hotels and camping are available in the Athens area. Participants should be aware that the Nelsonville Music Festival will be held in nearby Nelsonville, Ohio, on the same weekend as MPC, which may limit the availability of local hotel rooms.  Follow the 35th MPC on Facebook for updates as they become available. The colloquium Facebook page is "35th Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium-2018" (se

Festive sauropod skull at the Mef In early January, I traveled to Trelew, Argentina, to examine fossils from the Cretaceous La Colonia and Eocene Laguna del Hunco floras held at the Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (Mef) in Trelew, Argentina. These fossils included mosquito ferns ( Azolla ), which I am studying with colleagues María A. Gandolfo and Nathan Jud of Cornell University. Check out our recent abstract from the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (2017) here .