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Sept. 21, 2007--The fabled Northwest Passage, sought by explorers for centuries, has opened up for the first time on record, and a Phaeton expedition is preparing to travel high into the Arctic to investigate this historic development first-hand.
Dr. David West Reynolds will lead the Phaeton reconnaissance team, which is preparing to rendezvous by helicopter with the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent and proceed to a point near the center of the Northwest Passage. Joining Reynolds will be Phaeton's top photographer Alex Ivanov, engineer Hugh Williams, military logistics expert Matt Bliss, and Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans science liaison Vera Williams. A ship-based helicopter will serve the team as a shuttle vehicle for intermediate landings during the voyage. The Phaeton team plans to depart for the rendezvous on October 9, 2007. Northwest Passage
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| Feb. 26, 2007--Phaeton chief paleontologist Dr. Michael J. Ryan has unveiled his latest discovery Albertaceratops nesmoi, a new genus of horned dinosaur from Western Canada. Ryan, a dinosaur specialist and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, is known for his expertise in ceratopsian dinosaurs, a group which resemble the modern rhinoceros. Ryan discovered, and in 2005 published and named, the new species Centrosaurus brinkmani. The new dinosaur Albertaceratops is the earliest known member of the family which contains Centrosaurus brinkmani, as well as other famous certapsions such as Triceratops.
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| On Friday March 16, 2007, at 7:30 p.m., Dr. David West Reynolds will present a lecture at the Cleveland Natural History Museum offering a retrospective of the Apollo Moon landing program. The Moon was once a byword for "impossible," but NASA achieved this unprecedented goal on time and on budget. Reynolds draws out the reasons behind this success and explains their application to any large-scale enterprise. The talk is part of the Museum's 2006-2007 "Explorer" series, and is open to the public. For information call the Museum at (216) 231-1177, or (800) 317-9155, ext. 3279.
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| CLEVELAND, Dec. 2005--Phaeton Group's Chief Paleontologist Dr. Michael J. Ryan has just named a new species of dinosaur, which he discovered during his work on material from the badlands of Alberta, Canada. The dinosaur is a new species of the rhinoceros-like Centrosaurus, which had a neck frill and one long nose horn. The animal lived during the twilight of the dinosaurs, during the late Cretaceous Period, about 76 million years ago. Ryan's new species is distinguished by sea-urchin-like spines around the neck frill, which Ryan presumes were decorative, since they appear to have been too delicate to have been used for combat. Ryan named the species Centrosaurus brinkmani in honor of Phaeton friend and colleague Donald Brinkman, a paleontologist at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology. Ryan's first official article about his new centrosaur has just appeared in the latest issue of the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.
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