Over the course of my relatively short blogging career, I've had the pleasure of being in contact with a number of working paleontologists, people who are actively contributing to our understanding of ancient life. Although I'm always a little intimidated talking to professionals in paleontology, I've been thinking that I'd like to start up a series of interviews paleontologists active in the field today. What do you think? Is that something you'd like to see? I can't guarantee everyone that I have in mind will respond, but I think it would be a neat feature to run.
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I'd love it!
I agree with Melanie. I'd love it too! (Ooo, Robert Bakker? Dinosaur Heresies had a big impact on me when I was a young'un).
Good call - if you can get them to reply. I suggest you do it by e-mail with questiosn written out well in advance to give them time to respond and not feel pushed.
Sounds good to me. Something that might be interesting is to do a sort of round table by email about various current issues in paleontology(instead of making it more of a focus on one person, although that would be good too).
I'd love it too, Brian!
Go for it!
I think it would be great!
Bill Sanders is a really cool guy and I assume he'd be willing to do something like this. He works with Dan Fisher and Phil Gingrich, both of whom are doing some incredibly important work right now. Needless to say, I'd be interested in seeing such a series.
Listen to Coturnix. He did a great turn interviewing sciencebloggers.
I think it is a great idea. Go for it!
Great idea, go for it!
Not to discourage you, Brian, from doing this, but Steve Brusatte has been doing this for several years. As a kid, he started a website called Dino Land--he's now a grad student in the UK in paleo. Here's a link to some of his old interviews, which may be interesting to some: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Galaxy/8152/interviews.html
But I think posting new interviews that reflect the current thinking in paleo would be great.
That'd be wonderful!
I'd read them!