“Digging Dinosaurs with the College of Charleston: An Expedition Into the Glenrock Badlands”

The Horry County Museum presents a program by Dr. Scott Persons on paleontology work done by the College of Charleston in the Glenrock Badlands of Wyoming on Saturday, April 5th, at 1:00 PM. Dr. W. Scott Persons IV is an associate professor of paleobiology at the College of Charleston and is the curator of the Mace Brown Museum of Natural History. He holds a PhD in Evolution and Systematics from the University of Alberta and is the cowriter and presenter of the University of Alberta’s widely successful paleontology online courses. Dr. Persons is also a children’s book author and a research curator at the Glenrock Paleon Museum, in Wyoming – where he digs for dinosaurs every summer. He has over eighty formal scientific journal publications and has taken part in fossil-hunting expeditions throughout the badlands of the American West, the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, the canyons of Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, and the pampas of Argentina. The program is free to the public and will be held in the Museum’s McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street, Conway, SC 29526. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov. To view a full list of scheduled programs, visit the museum website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.