2013 St Clair County Community College STEM Conference Keynote Presentation by Dr Robert T. Bakker

A recording of the keynote presentation from the inaugural year of the St. Clair County Community College STEM Conference, an academic conference led by SC4 as a model conference for community conferences with learning tracks for college students, local K-12 educators, and community members.

This keynote presentation was wonderful presentation on the current topics & research in paleontology by world-renowned paleontologist Dr. Robert T. Bakker.

This video was filmed in the Fine Arts Theater of the SC4 Campus on the evening of Friday, October 25th

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Robert T. Bakker
Curator of Paleontology
Houston Museum of Natural Science

Bakker is a world-renowned paleontologist, one of the
first to posit that dinosaurs had feathers, long before
feathered fossils were found. Along with other noted
paleontologists, such as John Ostrom and Armand de
Ricqules, Bakker has changed the image of dinosaurs
from slow-moving, slow-witted, cold-blooded creatures
to, in at least some cases, warm-blooded giants well
equipped to dominate the Earth for 200 million years.

Bakker has developed a world premiere exhibition,
Dinosaur Mummy CSI: Cretaceous Science
Investigation, in which Leonardo, a mummified dinosaur
with actual, preserved skin, was on public display for
the first time at the Houston Museum of Natural
Science. Bakker was one of the first scientists to work
on the mummy, beginning in 2002. He also leads the
museum’s paleontology field program, currently digging
for Dimetrodon and other Permian-era species in
Seymour, Texas.

He is the author of the groundbreaking 1986 book The
Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the
Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction, and has
written many dinosaur books for both adults and
children since then. Bakker was among the advisors for
the film Jurassic Park, and the character Dr. Robert
Burke in the motion picture The Lost World: Jurassic
Park is based on him.