PRESS RELEASE
July 17, 2008
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Don Begley
505-216-7562
Santa Fe Complex
Dinosaurs Capture Santa Fe Youth
Uly Youngblood Joins Smithsonian Paleontologists
for Santa Fe Complex Blender
Wednesday, July 23
6-8 pm
Admission free (donations welcome)
Click here for directions.
Blenders are a Wednesday night feature at Santa Fe Complex, located at
632 Agua Fria St. Entrance is on Romero St. Admission is free. Light
refreshments will be served; donations to defray their costs are
welcome.
Please note addition of date & time info.
Dinosaurs have a magical grip on the imaginations of young and old so
we begin this blender with the perspective of a paleontologist in the
making, six-year-old Ulysses Youngblood. Uly, as he is known, admits
to confusing the Jurassic and Triassic eras upon occasion but he is
not confused about his passion for the ancient creatures known to us
today only by the fossil remnants they left behind.
Paleontologist Ralph Chapman follows with an insider's guide to the
technology scientists use to study dinosaurs or, as Ralph puts it,
"21st century technology to study 65 million-year-old creatures." The
former director of the National Museum of Natural History's Applied
Morphometrics Laboratory and the former director of the Idaho
Virtualization Laboratory (Uly assure us he's read about Ralph and
Ralph knows what he's talking about), Ralph will demonstrate how
scientists use fossil fragments and computer programs to recreate the
thunder lizards of old (now known to be bird ancestors, of course.)
Linda Deck, Bradbury Science Museum director, will relate Ralph's
comments to her work at the Smithsonian and other institutions where
she has created paleontology exhibits and overseen the use and care of
one-of-a-kind specimens for public displays. Dealing with the
original, the virtual, the replica and sometimes the "especially
durable prototype," as Linda calls them, is all part of her work as a
museum expert, including 20 years as senior exhibit developer at the
Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, where she met and
married Ralph, and five years as director of the Idaho Museum of
Natural History.
Blenders are a Wednesday night feature from 6-8 pm at Santa Fe
Complex, located at 632 Agua Fria St. Entrance is on Romero St.
Admission is free. Light refreshments will be served; donations to
defray their costs are welcome.
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About Santa Fe Complex Santa Fe Complex is a nonprofit, community
studio creating connections in science, technology and art. Our studio
stands on three core activities: Collaboration to address real-world
problems, encourage cooperation and create economic opportunities in
applied complexity, urban planning and simulation, and computational
arts.
Communication with local, national and international communities about
our work in Santa Fe and elsewhere. Whether it's a live feed or
published reports, we broadcast our work - and the role Santa Fe plays
in this important effort - to all interested parties.
Education through the principle of learning-by-doing in active
projects that lets students be part of, and contribute to, their
project team. We offer formal classes, scientific and technology
lectures, and internships.
Santa Fe Complex is located next to the Railyard Art District and
within walking distance of the hotels, restaurants and shops at the
plaza downtown. We're housed in two facilities, the conference area at
624 Agua Fria and the project space at 632 Agua Fria.
The conference area contains meeting rooms and facilities for short-
term use associated with on-going complex projects. The project space
houses the great room, where we hold events and offer working
facilities for laptop users, coffee lounge and work carrels.
While there is parking at 624 Agua Fria, the Romero Street parking lot
is more conveniently located for the 632 facility. Romero St. is an
old-style Santa Fe ox-cart road just east of the 624 driveway. Follow
it until it opens up to two lanes and turn hard right into the parking
lot for 632.
Here's a map to our location, a representative shot showing the
Railyard District and a sketchup drawing of the facility at 632: For
more information, call 505/216.7562 or click here.
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