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Dino Stats (tm) Name: A Date Born/ Age:B Length:1 Weight:7 Favorite Food: H Family: 1 Genus:L Species: H Place of Origin: P Habitat: S Favorite Movie: E Favorite TV Show: T Favorite Dinosaur: D Favorite Sport: B Exercise: P Hobbies: H Distinguishing Features: S Thomas Eugene Svarney & Patricia Barnes-Svarney were Authors of the Month on Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette Dino Dish from April 1-30, 2000 Vera Velociraptor's Very Vast, Verbose, Voracious Vocabulary Students? Pay Attention! Be sure to check out that is to say, investigate, (humph), certain other useful pieces of terminology at the 7V-WOW Archives. |
Thomas--hiking around Rabbit Valley Research Natural Area, Colorado, site of the Mygatt-Moore Quarry. (You may also notice that , Patricia, is not in the photo Hah Hah. Fooled you. She's behind the camera. Can you see her?) Okay. Okay. Here's Pat.
Thomas Eugene Svarney & Patricia Barnes-Svarney We both grew up always wanting to be scientists. And we made it--Thomas has a background as a physicist and material scientist; Patricia’s background is in geology and astronomy. Then one day, we decided we wanted everyone else to be just as excited about science as we were--and now we’re science writers, writing about everything from dinosaurs and weather to natural history. Solo or in tandem, we have 26 books published, with many more on the way. Patricia also writes science fiction--or "playing science" as she calls it--and for science magazines. But no matter what we write
about, we always turn back to dinosaurs. We live in upstate New York, land
of fossils and Devonian shale. But we’re surrounded by geologic wonders:
Glacial erosion deepened the Finger Lakes (and probably wiped away all
our dinosaur rock layers) and created the hummocky landscape surrounding
us; the PreCambrian of the Adirondacks is a short drive away; and alas,
our only remnant of a dinosaur was found downstate in the form of dinosaur
So we usually have to turn elsewhere in pursuit of dinosaur research. For our The Handy Dinosaur Answer Book and other books in the works, we’ve been all over the country--from Virginia and Connecticut to Colorado and Utah. We’ve swung a rock hammer with the best of them and have seen some wonderous sights. Not only do we like the actual field work, but we’re also fascinated with the history of dinosaur discoveries--from Cope and Marsh to today’s dinosaur hunters. The closest we come to being up close and personal with dinosaurs is our volunteer work at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, New York. The museum contains many fossils from the region, but also some bones and casts of dinosaurs from other areas of the country and world. They recently obtained a new addition that doesn’t go back to the dinosaurs, but is thrilling none-the-less: The bones of a 12,100 year old mastodon, one of two found around Watkins Glen, New York. To see something that was once alive so long ago--and to be one of only a handful of people to first see the animal--is short of a miracle in our eyes. If you have any dinosaur
(or other) questions, please let us know!
April 2000
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Books by Patricia Barnes-Svarney (sometimes with others including Thomas!) Look for these books at your Public Library! Some of these books may be purchased (instantly) online through our relationship with Amazon.Com. All purchases support D.I.G. NON-FICTION
Born
of Heat and Pressure; Mountains and Metamorphic Rocks
Clocks in the Rocks :
Learning About Earth's Past (Earth Processes Book)
Fossils;
Stories from Bones and Stones
The
Handy Ocean Answer Book
The National Science Foundation
The
Oryx Guide to Natural History : The Earth and All Its Inhabitants
Through
the Telescope : A Guide for the Amateur Astronomer
Traveler's
Guide to the Solar System
FICTION 
Computer Crunch! (An Alex Mack Book)
Patricia Barnes-Svarney / Paperback / Published 1998 Our Price: $3.39 ~ You Save: $0.60 (15%)
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