DinoFest 2017 Speaker: ReBecca Hunt-Foster
Trailing Dinosaur Tracks in the Early Cretaceous: the Documentation and Public Interpretation of the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite, Utah
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Join ReBecca Hunt-Foster and learn how a newly discovered dinosaur tracksite north of Moab has been preserved for the public through the use of state-of-the-art technologies and innovative site stewardship.
ReBecca Hunt-Foster is the District Paleontologist for the Canyon Country District of the BLM, located in Southeastern Utah. Hunt-Foster holds a master of science in geology (emphasis in vertebrate paleontology) from Texas Tech University, and has a bachelor’s of science in earth science from the University of Arkansas.
Her current research includes Early Cretaceous ornithomimosaurs from North America, the Upper Cretaceous Williams Fork Formation paleofauna of western Colorado, the ichnofauna of the lower-middle Jurassic rocks of southeastern Utah.
Hunt-Foster has worked as a paleontologist in Western Colorado and Eastern Utah since 2007. Prior to moving to the area, she was a research assistant at Augustana College, where she worked on latest Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaurs from southern Laramidia and preparing Cryolophosaurus, the first known dinosaur from Antarctica.