“Fossicking For Fossils”: Dr. Gibson will provide highlights of his lifetime study of fossils from around the world, with particular emphasis on work in West Tennessee as a professor at UT Martin. He has documented and named new species (has had fossils named in his honor), and has even had a shark named for him. He has worked with the Smithsonian Institution and other museums, and collaborated with paleontologists in Japan, Germany, and Mexico. He is credited with finding Tennessee’s first dinosaur skull and the oldest known proven instance of fossil mutualism. Dr. Gibson will share stories about the “perils” of fossicking, including being robbed in the Guatemalan jungle, and diving adventures with sharks, barracuda, octopi, and other divers.