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I am pleased to announce that I have collaborated with another member of this Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ group to produce a paper and 2.5 hour presentation at the Founders Symposium, Western Interior Paleontological Society, at the Colorado School of Mines in March, 2015. The other member is a student, Vishwam Sarakan. The paper was printed as part of the "Proceedings of the Symposium" and is now part of the body of scientific papers. Vishwam was a student at SATRA university in India. With his help we were able to present a fabulous program on cutting edge science and new discoveries. I think this is important to note that Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ and our science group is capable of so many good things. Vishwam took me up on my offer of collaboration and was so successful we are planning more research and writing. I had offered this before to some student Goodread members of our group, but they did not take the plunge. Vishwam did. I am also fortunate that he did as he is now a valuable member of my science research and writing team.

Although Vishwam lives in India and could not make the trip to present, he was a senior author who helped participate in extensive research and writing. Vishwam now has a major academic writing credit to his name.

Another student, only in middle school, lives in Scotland and was a contributing author. We engaged a paleo artist who lives in Russia to create original artwork for our paper and oral presentation. We also had a young fellow who is a fossilist in England. Needless to say, I am very excited about this development and plan to use this as a model to work with other student readers/writers. Our paper examined the history of life, impact events, climate change, extinction events, and the evolution of the planet as evidenced through advances in paleontology that have been made in the Pikes Peak region of Colorado (including El Paso, Fremont, and Teller counties). One unusual part was fossilized wood found in the Cripple Creek Mining District, in Teller County, one of the most important gold districts in the world. Carbonized wood, logs, and trunks have been discovered during underground mining operations in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some of the wood was found more than 3,000 feet below the surface. Earlier work was done by my research team in 2013. I used a middle school student as part of the team. He ended up being the presenting author at the Geological Society of America. Here is a link to our abstract:

Steven wrote: "I am pleased to announce that I have collaborated with another member of this Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ group to produce a paper and 2.5 hour presentation at the Founders Symposium, Western Interior Paleontologica..."

Congratulations. What an exciting international project -- among countries, specialties, and academic levels!