About The Society

Top: Don Lofgren (left) watches some of his Webb School students apply plaster bandages to a fossil turtle carapace. Photo by David K. Smith.

Founded in 1940, the society now has more than 2,300 members representing professionals, students, artists, preparators, and others interested in VP. The society is organized exclusively for educational and scientific purposes. The object of the society is to advance the science of vertebrate paleontology and to serve the common interests and facilitate the cooperation of all persons concerned with the history, evolution, comparative anatomy, and taxonomy of vertebrate animals, as well as field occurrence, collection, and study of fossil vertebrates and the stratigraphy of the beds in which they are found. The society is also concerned with the conservation and preservation of fossil sites.

WE ARE SVP (the video)

TELLS THE inside story of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology -- who we are, what we do, and why our work is important for science and society. The video is introduced and narrated by Sam Waterston, the long-time star of "LAW & ORDER."

Contacts

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
111 Deer Lake Road, Suite 100
Deerfield, IL 60015 USA
Tel: 847/480-9095
Fax: 847/480-9282
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SVP President
Philip J. Currie
Professor
University of Alberta
Dept of Biological Sciences
11145 Saskatchewan Dr
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9
Canada
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SVP Online Editor
Brooke Haiar
Lynchburg College
Lynchburg, VA
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