[CINC] Thanks - Dynamic Science Multi-Media - David Begun

[Marty Flam]

Fellow CINCers,
 
While Tuesday night we volunteers were thanked by CINP and CINMS superintendents, we CINC volunteers shout-out our THANK YOU to Shauna, Derek, Clare and all the rest responsible for organizing, administering, the great training and keeping it real! 
 
Now, check out this cool multi-media from Scorpion Ranch's visitor center. http://www.nps.gov/chis/photosmultimedia/multimedia.htm
 
Science and intepretation for the public in our Channel Islands National Park and Marine Sanctuary is fun and exciting while exploring dynamic theories including:
 
1) evolutionary island sizes (rising seas: astrogeology, Daniel Muhs' Marine Terraces, Santa Rosea; Tanya Atwater's rising rocks folding faulting slipping sliding thrusting crashing; unexplored undersea villages);
 
2) evolutionary animal sizes  [Dwarfism: 1/3 sized Pygmy Mammoth, 2/3 sized island Fox, and Gigantism: Island Scrub Jay 40% larger]; 
 
2) dates of human arrival at Arlington Springs, mammoth extinction, method and dates of island fox arrival sourthern and northern Channel Islands; 
 
3) cause of mega-fauna die-off about 12,900 years ago (great chill, kill, ill, or grill from cooling, hunting, human to animal disease transfer or nanodiamonds from "Kennett's Comet");
 
Recent Darwinius controversy comments of paleoanthropologist David Begun, namesake of our former collegue who was most deservedly honored Tuesday night, further demonstrates dynamic science in action. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091021/ap_on_sc/us_sci_controversial_fossil
 
Marty
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