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Alberta

Native Basketry

New Orleans

Nuestra Música




Alberta: Wild Roses, Northern Lights
Alberta: Wild Roses, Northern Lights

Classic Canadian Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Classic Canadian Songs From Smithsonian Folkways

Scotland the Real
Scotland the Real



Chuckwagons: A summer staple of Alberta towns.

Alberta at the Smithsonian

Coming to the Festival:
Paleontology

 


Coming to the Festival:
Agriculture and Ranching
Architecture and Urban Planning
Cold Weather Adaptation
Crafts
Energy
Foodways
Forestry
Innovation
Ice Sports
Music and Dance
Oral History, Narrative, and
Spoken Word
Paleontology
Radio
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Theatresports
Wilderness, Outdoors, and Mountain Culture

Don Brinkman, Drumheller, Alberta
Dr. Brinkman is the head of the research section at the Royal Tyrrell Museum and curator of vertebrate paleontology. Originally from a farm near Craigmyle, Alberta, he studied at the University of Alberta and McGill University and worked at Harvard University before starting as curator in 1982 at the newly established Tyrrell Museum. Don maintains an active field-based research program, with research focused on questions of paleoecology of Late Cretaceous communities.

Jim McCabe, Drumheller, Alberta
Jim McCabe grew up in Kingston, Ontario and moved to Alberta in 1977 after completing his Bachelor of Sciences degree in Biology at Queen's University.  Jim is the senior lab technician at the Royal Tyrrell Museum where he has worked since 1981, doing fossil preparation and field work and supervising the fossil preparation labs. His extensive field work experience has taken him to the Gobi Desert in China, the Canadian Rockies, and the fossil-rich badlands of Alberta.

Earle Wiebe, Drumheller, Alberta
Earle Wiebe is the Science Education Administrator at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, responsible for marketing, administration, program development, and evaluation of school and public programs. Earle completed a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Regina and has worked as a Science Educator with the Canadian Wildlife Service and Alberta Parks and Protected Areas.







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