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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">July 13, 2018
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<strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Royal BC Museum welcomes new Curator of Paleontology<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">VICTORIA, BC–</span></strong><a name="OLE_LINK5"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">The
Royal BC Museum welcomes a rock-star scientist to oversee its fossils collection, as Dr. Victoria Arbour joins the museum as the Curator of Paleontology.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Dr. Arbour is a vertebrate paleontologist and evolutionary biologist specializing in fossils from the age of dinosaurs.
She is the leading expert on the armoured dinosaurs known as ankylosaurs, which are characterized by their extensive bony plating and weaponized clubbed tails.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">“I’m excited about the opportunities to search for more dinosaurs in the remote northern mountains of BC, as well as other
amazing fossil localities around the province,” said Dr. Arbour. “BC has an incredibly rich paleontological heritage and there are many untold stories yet to be revealed by BC’s fossils.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Dr. Arbour joins the Royal BC Museum a year after the retirement of Dr. Richard Hebda, who spent 38 years as Curator of
Botany and Earth History, and, with recently-retired collections manager Marji Johns, cared for and championed this remarkable collection.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Fossils in the Royal BC Museum Paleontology collection range from specimens that are more than 550 million years old to
clams and other invertebrates from the Victoria area that are only a few thousand years old.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">The Paleontology collection has grown from about 2000 specimens in the late 1800s to more than 90,000 specimens today. Fossils
are presently the museum’s fastest growing collection and are frequently the basis for new scientific papers.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">For more information about the Royal BC Museum’s Paleontology collection, visit
</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/collections/natural-history/paleontology"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/collections/natural-history/paleontology</span></a></span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Before joining the Royal BC Museum, Dr. Arbour worked as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, a Contract
Assistant Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum, and a Brimley Postdoctoral Scholar at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and North Carolina State University.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Dr. Arbour completed her PhD and MSc at the University of Alberta under the supervision of Dr. Philip Currie, Canada Research
Chair in Dinosaur Palaeobiology. Her BSc is in Earth Sciences and Biology from Dalhousie University.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Dr. Arbour has published several scientific research papers on the fossils of British Columbia, including one of BC’s rare
dinosaur fossils, and a small flying reptile from Vancouver Island. She has named three new species of dinosaurs: Ziapelta sanjuanensis from New Mexico, Zaraapelta nomadis from Mongolia, and most recently, Zuul crurivastator from Montana.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">As with all curatorial staff at the Royal BC Museum, Dr. Arbour’s role includes scientific research in the museum’s collection,
field work, replying to media inquiries and extensive engagement with members of the public at learning activities and other special events.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Dr. Arbour will be immersed in fieldwork over the summer and starts work at the Royal BC Museum in September, 2018.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">About the Royal BC Museum</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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BC, and provides a dynamic forum for discussion and a place for reflection. The museum and archives celebrate culture and history, telling the stories of BC in ways that enlighten, stimulate and inspire. Located in Victoria on the traditional territory of
the Lekwungen (Songhees and Xwsepsum Nations), we are a hub of community connections in BC–onsite, offsite and online–taking pride in our collective histories.
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