Project Exploration
delivers customized educational and motivational
programming tailored to your company’s specific
needs. We will work with you to develop a
unique experience that includes a combination of
keynote lectures by Dr. Paul Sereno or Gabrielle
Lyon and hands-on workshops led
by practicing scientists. Let us put our
expertise in the field of paleontology, geology,
scientific arts, and leading educational pedagogy
to work for you.
Paul Sereno (right) with
the African pterosaur.
Photo © M. Hettwer |
Speaking Engagements
Paul Sereno, University of Chicago paleontologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, takes you back more than 100 million years to ancient Africa where he and his team have been unearthing Africa's dinosaurs in the world’s largest desert. Hear first-hand how a leading scientist answers some of the most fundamental questions about how the earth and its inhabitants evolved over millions of years.
Dr. Paul Sereno, president of Project Exploration, teaches paleontology and evolution and human anatomy at the University of Chicago. As one of National Geographic’s Explorers-in-Residence, Sereno has discovered dinosaurs on five continents. A behind-the-scenes museum tour as a child opened his eyes to a life of science, art and adventure. Sereno earned a doctorate in geology at Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. His field work began in 1988 in Argentina, where his team discovered the earliest dinosaurs to roam the Earth, Herrerasaurus and Eoraptor. In the early 1990's his attention shifted to the Sahara, and the search for Africa's lost world of dinosaurs. There, Sereno and his team have discovered and named a number of new species, including: the 70-foot-long plant-eater Jobaria, the huge, T. rex-sized meat-eater Carcharodontosaurus, and the world's largest crocodile, the 40-foot-long Sarcosuchus, dubbed SuperCroc. Other expeditions have taken Sereno to India and Mongolia.
Gabrielle Lyon,
during the 2000 Expedition in Niger
Photo © M. Hettwer |
Gabrielle Lyon combines social justice activism with a passion for informal science education. Lyon earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in history from the University of Chicago, and is working on a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1994 Lyon was selected to be a Fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center where she worked as a writer and researcher for the education magazine Teaching Tolerance, a national forum for educators to discuss tolerance, diversity and justice in and beyond the classroom. In 1996 Lyon returned to Chicago to direct the School Change Institute and serve as the Outreach Coordinator at the Small Schools Workshop at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lyon’s honors include representing the International Association of Educators for World Peace as a delegate to the United Nations in Geneva, addressing the U.N. Subcommittee on Human Rights on "The Prevention of Racism and the Protection of Minorities” in 1995, and, in 1999, being recognized as one of “Tomorrow’s Leaders Today” by Public Allies.
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