SOLD OUT - Zealandia and Forest & Bird invite you to an exclusive members-only event.

Join us for an afternoon with world renowned palaeontologist Prof. Julia Clarke as she discusses her expansive career focused on the evolution of dinosaurs and birds.

Julia was part of the team that first discovered the colours of some dinosaurs' feathers, and was the first person to find a fossilised dinosaur voice box! She has worked extensively on the appearance of dinosaurs and the sounds that they made.  As part of her research into the relationship between dinosaurs and avian dinosaurs (modern birds), she has developed expertise on the penguin family including (giant) extinct penguin species.  She has worked on digs in the Chatham Islands and in the Antarctic.

This event is open to members of Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne and Forest and Bird only.

Where: Pāteke Room, L2, Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne Visitor Centre. 

When: Saturday 24th May, 1:30 - 2:30pm

Light refreshments will be provided. Venue is wheel chair accessible. 

More about Julia:

Julia A. Clarke is Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology in the Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin where she holds the Jackson Chair in Geobiology. She is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. She has published over 140 papers including 16 in the journals Nature and Science. She is interested in how new structures and functions arise in deep time with a focus on the evolution of dinosaurs including birds. She has an international field program in paleontology (e.g. in Antarctica, South America, Asia) as well as leading highly interdisciplinary collaborative teams
integrating data on living animals to ask new questions of the fossil record. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Humboldt Foundation, The National Geographic Society, Explorers Club, AAAS, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and has been covered by NPR’s Science Friday, The New York Times, Washington Post, National Geographic Magazine, NOVA, and other outlets. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, American Ornithological Society, and The Anatomical Society. She received her degrees from Brown University (B.A) and Yale University (PhD).