DinoFest 2017 Speaker: Andrew Milner
The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm
Scroll down to see a video of Andrew Milner's talk at DinoFest 2017.
Join Dr. Milner and hear how a few strange dinosaur tracks discovered by a St. George optometrist revealed an entire paleoecosystem through one of the best preserved collections of dinosaur tracks in the world.
Dr. Andrew Milner is a Paleontologist and Curator of the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site, Johnson Farm.
Since 2001, Andrew Milner has worked with all scientific aspects of the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm (SGDS), dealing with paleontology and geology. His other research interests in Utah include the paleontology and geology of Triassic and Lower Jurassic, the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, and the Upper Cretaceous Iron Springs Formation.
Milner worked for the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Canada on Late Pleistocene (last Ice Age) Champlain Sea fossils from eastern North America. Past fieldwork experience includes five seasons at the Cambrian Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada working for the Royal Ontario Museum. He lectures, provides higher educational services such as field trips, and has been a member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology since 1988.
He helped establish the nation’s first Paleontological Site Stewardship Program for the United States federal government in Washington County, Utah. He also continues to conduct research on vertebrate tracks and other fossils on lands administered by the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management in the American Southwest.
Milner recently co-published his first book entitled, Tracks in Deep Time: The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm. He is currently writing two more books, one on the Champlain Sea and a more detailed book on the SGDS and the Triassic-Jurassic extinction.
Born in England, Milner moved to Quebec in eastern Canada in 1971, getting his Canadian citizenship in 1987. He then moved to Utah in 1997.