Prof Peter Falkingham
School of Biological and Environmental Sciences
Faculty of Science
Email: P.L.Falkingham@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 2140
Professor of Palaeobiology
Please visit my personal website for my blog and a much clearer overview of my research and publications: https://peterfalkingham.com
My primary research focus is on dinosaur locomotion and footprint formation. Specifically, how the foot and sediment interact, and how we can subsequently reverse-engineer their formation in order to constrain and understand the limb motion of these extinct animals.
By understanding the motion of substrate around a dynamically moving foot, it is possible to use tracks to constrain possible motions of the distal (and therefore proximal) limb. My work incorporates digitisation of fossil tracks and computer simulation as well as using data from extant taxa using XROMM techniques to study the sub-surface motion of the foot during locomotion.
In addition to my work on footprints, I’m also involved in other research areas including dinosaur biomechanics and taxonomy, development of digitsation techniques and applications, cambrian echinoderm hydrodynamics, and materials science, collaborating with scientists from the UK, USA, across Europe, Australia, and South America.
Languages
English
Degrees
2010, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, PhD Palaeontology - Computer Simulation of Dinosaur Tracks
2004, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, Computer Science MSc
2003, University of Bristol, UK, Biology and Geology BSc (Hons)
Academic appointments
Professor of Palaeobiology, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, 2023 - present
Reader in Vertebrate Biology, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, 2020 - 2023
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer Vertebrate Biology, Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, 2015 - 2020
Marie Curie Research Fellow, Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, 2012 - 2015
Postgraduate training
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow, UK/USA, Royal Veterinary College/Brown University, 2012 - 2015
Highlighted publications
Hatala KG, Gatesy SM, Falkingham PL. 2023. Arched footprints preserve the motions of fossil hominin feet Nature Ecology and Evolution, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Lallensack JN, Romilio A, Falkingham PL. 2022. A machine learning approach for the discrimination of theropod and ornithischian dinosaur tracks Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 19 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Turner ML, Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2022. What is Stance Phase On Deformable Substrates? Integrative and Comparative Biology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Lallensack JN, Falkingham PL. 2022. A new method to calculate limb phase from trackways reveals gaits of sauropod dinosaurs Current Biology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham P, Turner M, Gatesy S. 2020. Constructing and testing hypotheses of dinosaur foot motions from fossil tracks using digitization and simulation Palaeontology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Tuner M, Falkingham PL, Gatesy S. 2020. It's in the loop: shared sub-surface foot kinematics in birds and other dinosaurs shed light on a new dimension of fossil track diversity Biology Letters, 16 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Crandell K, Howe R, Falkingham P. 2019. Repeated evolution of drag reduction at the air-water interface in diving kingfishers Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 16 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Gatesy SM, Falkingham PL. 2017. Neither bones nor feet: track morphological variation and “preservation quality” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Rahman I, Zamora S, Falkingham PL, Phillips JC. 2015. Cambrian cinctan echinoderms shed light on feeding in the ancestral deuterostome Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2014. The birth of a dinosaur footprint: Subsurface 3D motion reconstruction and discrete element simulation reveal track ontogeny Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 :18279-18284 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL. 2014. Interpreting ecology and behaviour from the vertebrate fossil track record JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, 292 :222-228 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Journal article
Hatala KG, Roach NT, Behrensmeyer AK, Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM, Williams-Hatala EM, Feibel CS, Dalacha I, Kirinya M, Linga E, Loki R, Alkoro A, Longaye , Longaye M, Lonyericho E, Loyapan I, Nakudo N, Nyete C, Leakey LN. 2024. Footprint evidence for locomotor diversity and shared habitats among early Pleistocene hominins Science, 386 :1004-1010 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Smyth RSH, Breithaupt BH, Butler RJ, Falkingham PL, Unwin DM. 2024. Hand and foot morphology maps invasion of terrestrial environments by pterosaurs in the mid-Mesozoic Current Biology, 34 :4894-4907 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Liang Q, Xing L, Falkingham PL, Du C, Wen K, Lin J. 2024. Forearm range of motion in Allosaurus fragilis (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Historical Biology, :1-12 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Grant BF, Charles JP, D'Août K, Falkingham PL, Bates KT. 2024. Human walking biomechanics on sand substrates of varying foot sinking depth Journal of Experimental Biology, 227 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Ahuir Torres JI, Burgess A, Sharp MC, Opoz T, Malkeson SP, Falkingham PL, Darlington RI, Tammas-Williams S. 2024. A Study of the Corrosion Resistance of 316L Stainless Steel Manufactured by Powder Bed Laser Additive Manufacturing Applied Sciences, 14 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Liang Q, Falkingham PL, Xing L. 2024. Virtual skeleton and body mass for revealing the life strategies of Sinosaurus Historical Biology, :1-15 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Hatala KG, Gatesy SM, Manafzadeh AR, Lusardi E, Falkingham PL. 2024. Technical note: A volumetric method for measuring the longitudinal arch of human tracks and feet American Journal of Biological Anthropology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Oussou A, Falkingham PL, Butler RJ, Boumir K, Ouarhache D, Ech-charay K, Charrière A, Maidment SCR. 2023. New Middle to ?Late Jurassic dinosaur tracksites in the Central High Atlas Mountains, Morocco Royal Society Open Science, 10 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Vincelette A, Renders E, Scott K, Falkingham P, Janis C. 2023. Hipparion tracks and horses' toes: the evolution of the equid single hoof Royal Society Open Science, 10 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Flannery-Sutherland JT, Kogan I, Trubin YS, Falkingham PL, Winkler A, De Sousa DD, Krylov KD, Pokhaznikova AA, Derbisheva M, Kapitany T, Dudashvili A. 2023. Dinosaur trackways from the Upper Cretaceous Nichkesai Formation near Mayluu Suu City, Southern Tien Shan Mountains, north-western Kyrgyzstan Royal Society Open Science, 10 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Hatala KG, Gatesy SM, Falkingham PL. 2023. Arched footprints preserve the motions of fossil hominin feet Nature Ecology and Evolution, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Grant B, Charles J, Geraghty B, Gardiner J, D'Août K, Falkingham PL, Bates KT. 2022. Why does the metabolic cost of walking increase on compliant substrates? Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 19 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Lallensack JN, Romilio A, Falkingham PL. 2022. A machine learning approach for the discrimination of theropod and ornithischian dinosaur tracks Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 19 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Lallensack JN, Owais A, Falkingham PL, Breithaupt BH, Sander PM. 2022. How to verify fossil tracks: the first record of dinosaurs from Palestine Historical Biology: an international journal of paleobiology, :1-11 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Turner ML, Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2022. What is Stance Phase On Deformable Substrates? Integrative and Comparative Biology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Lallensack JN, Falkingham PL. 2022. A new method to calculate limb phase from trackways reveals gaits of sauropod dinosaurs Current Biology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL, Maidment SCR, Lallensack JN, Martin JE, Suan G, Cherns L, Howells C, Barrett PM. 2021. Late Triassic dinosaur tracks from Penarth, south Wales Geological Magazine, :1-12 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Lallensack JN, Farlow JO, Falkingham PL. 2021. A new solution to an old riddle: elongate dinosaur tracks explained as deep penetration of the foot, not plantigrade locomotion Palaeontology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Cieri RL, Turner ML, Carney RM, Falkingham PL, Kirk AM, Wang T, Jensen B, Novotny J, Tveite J, Gatesy SM, Laidlaw DH, Kaplan H, Moorman AFM, Howell M, Engel B, Cruz C, Smith A, Gerichs W, Lian Y, Schultz JT, Farmer CG. 2021. Virtual and augmented reality: New tools for visualizing, analyzing, and communicating complex morphology. Journal of Morphology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Farlow JO, Falkingham PL, Therrien F. 2021. Pedal proportions of small and large hadrosaurs and other potentially bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs CRETACEOUS RESEARCH, 127 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Peri E, Falkingham PL, Collareta A, Bianucci G. 2021. Biting in the Miocene seas: estimation of the bite force of the macroraptorial sperm whale Zygophyseter varolai using finite element analysis Historical Biology: an international journal of paleobiology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Hatala KG, Gatesy SM, Falkingham PL. 2021. Integration of biplanar X-ray, three-dimensional animation and particle simulation reveals details of human ‘track ontogeny’ Interface Focus, 11 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Mármol-Guijarro A, Nudds R, Folkow L, Sellers W, Falkingham P, Codd J. 2021. The Influence of snow properties on speed and gait choice in the Svalbard rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta hyperborea) Integrative Organismal Biology, 3 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Marek RD, Falkingham PL, Benson RBJ, Gardiner JD, Maddox TW, Bates KT. 2021. Evolutionary versatility of the avian neck Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Tanaka I, Markó A, Hyodo M, Strickson C, Falkingham PL. 2021. A re-analysis of Chibanian Pleistocene tracks from VÉRTESSZŐLŐS, Hungary, employing photogrammetry and 3D analysis Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 91 :75-83 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL, Rae R. 2021. 3D morphology of nematode encapsulation in snail shells, revealed by micro-CT imaging Scientific Reports, 11 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Milàn J, Falkingham PL, Mueller-Töwe IJ. 2020. Small ornithopod dinosaur tracks and crocodilian remains from the Middle Jurassic Bagå Formation, Bornholm, Denmark: Important additions to the rare Middle Jurassic vertebrate faunas of Northern Europe Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, :245-253 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Gatesy SM, Falkingham PL. 2020. Hitchcock’s Leptodactyli, Penetrative Tracks, and Dinosaur Footprint Diversity Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Larkin NR, Duffin CJ, Dey S, Stukins S, Falkingham P. 2020. The first tetrapod track recorded from the Rhaetian in the British Isles Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham P, Turner M, Gatesy S. 2020. Constructing and testing hypotheses of dinosaur foot motions from fossil tracks using digitization and simulation Palaeontology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham P, Gatesy S. 2020. Discussion: Defining the morphological quality of fossil footprints. Problems and principles of preservation in tetrapod ichnology with examples from the Palaeozoic to the present by Lorenzo Marchetti et al. Earth-Science Reviews, DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Tuner M, Falkingham PL, Gatesy S. 2020. It's in the loop: shared sub-surface foot kinematics in birds and other dinosaurs shed light on a new dimension of fossil track diversity Biology Letters, 16 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Farlow JO, Richards RL, Johnson BD, Falkingham PL. 2020. A set-up for rapid screen-washing unconsolidated sediments for salvage-collecting large vertebrate fossils (pipe creek sinkhole, Late Neogene, Grant County, Indiana, USA) Proceedings Of The Indiana Academy Of Science, 129 :88-96
Otero A, Moreno AP, Falkingham PL, Cassini G, Ruella A, Militello M, Toledo N. 2020. Three-dimensional image surface acquisition in vertebrate paleontology: A review of principal techniques Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, 20 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Farlow JO, Bakker RT, Dattilo BF, Deschner EE, Falkingham PL, Harter C, Solis R, Temple D, Ward W. 2019. Thunder lizard handstands: Manus-only sauropod trackways from the Glen Rose Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Kendall County, Texas) Ichnos, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Strickson EC, Hutchinson JR, Wilkinson DM, Falkingham PL. 2019. Can Skeletal Surface Area Predict in vivo Foot Surface Area? Journal of Anatomy, :72-84 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Troelsen P, Wilkinson D, Seddighi M, Allanson D, Falkingham PL. 2019. Functional morphology and hydrodynamics of plesiosaur necks: Does size matter? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 39 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Crandell K, Howe R, Falkingham P. 2019. Repeated evolution of drag reduction at the air-water interface in diving kingfishers Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 16 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Novotny J, Tveite J, Turner M, Gatesy S, Drury F, Falkingham PL, Laidlaw D. 2019. Developing Virtual Reality Visualizations for Unsteady Flow Analysis of Dinosaur Track Formation using Scientific Sketching IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25 :2145-2154 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Bates KT, Falkingham PL. 2018. The importance of muscle architecture in biomechanical reconstructions of extinct animals: a case study using Tyrannosaurus rex Journal of Anatomy, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL, Bates KT, Avanzini M, Bennett M, Bordy E, Breithaupt BH, Castanera D, Citton P, Díaz-Martinez I, Farlow JO, Fiorillo AR, Gatesy SM, Getty P, Hatala KG, Hornung JJ, Hyatt JA, Lallensack JN, Martin AJ, Marty D, Matthews NA, Meyer CA, Milán J, Minter NJ, Razzolini NL, Romilio A, Salisbury SW, Sciscio L, Tanaka I, Wiseman ALA, Xing LD, Belvedere M. 2018. A standard protocol for documenting modern and fossil ichnological data Palaeontology, 61 :469-480 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Gatesy SM, Falkingham PL. 2017. Neither bones nor feet: track morphological variation and “preservation quality” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Lomax DR, Falkingham PL, Schweigert G, Jimenez AP. 2017. An 8.5 m long ammonite drag mark from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Lithographic Limestones, Germany PLOS ONE, 12 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Davies TG, Rahman IA, Lautenschlager S, Cunningham JA, Asher RJ, Barrett PM, Bates KT, Bengston S, Benson RBJ, Boyer DM, Braga J, Bright JA, Claessens LPAM, Cox PG, Dong XP, Evans AR, Falkingham PL, Friedman M, Garwood RJ, Goswami A, Hutchinson JR, Jeffrey NS, Johanson Z, Lebrun R, Martínez-Pérez C, Marugán-Lobón J, O'Higgins PM, Metscher B, Orliac M, Rowe T, Rucklin M, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Shubin NH, Smith SY, Starck JM, Stringer C, Summers AP, Sutton MD, Walsh SA, Weisbecker V, Witmer LM, Wroe S, Yin Z, Rayfield E, Donoghue PCJ. 2017. Open data and digital morphology Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Xing L, Lockley MG, Klein H, Falkingham PL, Kim JY, McRea RT, Zhang J, Persons IV WS, Wang T, Wang Z. 2016. First early Jurassic small ornithischian tracks from Yunnan Province, Southwestern China PALAIOS, 31 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL, Horner AM. 2016. Trackways Produced by Lungfish During Terrestrial Locomotion Scientific Reports, 6 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Klein H, Wizevich MC, Thuring B, Marty D, Thuring S, Falkingham PL, Meyer CA. 2016. Triassic chirotheriid footprints from the Swiss Alps: ichnotaxonomy and depositional environment (Cantons Wallis & Glarus) Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 135 :295-314 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Bates KT, Mannion PD, Falkingham PL, Brusatte S, Hutchinson JR, Otero A, Sellers WI, Sullivan C, Stevens K, Allen V. 2016. Temporal and phylogenetic evolution of the sauropod dinosaur body plan Royal Society Open Science, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Xing L, Daqing L, Falkingham PL, Lockley M, Benton MJ, Klein H, Zhang J, Ran H, Persons IV WS, Dai H. 2016. Digit-only sauropod pes trackways from China – evidence of swimming or a preservational phenomenon? Scientific Reports, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Basu C, Falkingham PL, Hutchinson JR. 2016. The extinct, giant giraffid Sivatherium giganteum – skeletal reconstruction and body mass estimation Biology Letters, 12 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Rahman I, Zamora S, Falkingham PL, Phillips JC. 2015. Cambrian cinctan echinoderms shed light on feeding in the ancestral deuterostome Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Bates KT, Falkingham PL, Macaulay S, Brassey C, Maidment SCR. 2015. Downsizing a giant: Re-evaluating Dreadnoughtus body mass Biology Letters, 11 :1-6 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2014. The birth of a dinosaur footprint: Subsurface 3D motion reconstruction and discrete element simulation reveal track ontogeny Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 :18279-18284 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Bennett MR, Morse SA, Falkingham PL. 2014. Tracks made by swimming Hippopotami: An example from Koobi Fora (Turkana Basin, Kenya) Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 409 :9-23 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Maidment SCR, Bates KT, Falkingham PL, VanBuren C, Arbour V, Barrett PM. 2014. Locomotion in ornithischian dinosaurs: an assessment using three-dimensional computational modelling BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS, 89 :588-617 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL, Bates KT, Farlow JO. 2014. Historical photogrammetry: Bird's Paluxy River dinosaur chase sequence digitally reconstructed as it was prior to excavation 70 years ago. PLoS One, 9 :1-5 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Razzolini NL, Vila B, Castanera D, Falkingham PL, Barco JL, Canudo JI, Manning PL, Galobart A. 2014. Intra-trackway morphological variations due to substrate consistency: the El Frontal dinosaur tracksite (Lower Cretaceous, Spain). PLoS One, 9 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL. 2014. Interpreting ecology and behaviour from the vertebrate fossil track record JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, 292 :222-228 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL, Hage J, Bäker M. 2014. Mitigating the Goldilocks effect: the effects of different substrate models on track formation potential Royal Society Open Science, 1 :2-9 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
White MA, Falkingham PL, Cook AG, Hocknull SA, Elliott DA. 2013. Morphological comparisons of metacarpal I for Australovenator wintonensis and Rapator ornitholestoides: implications for their taxonomic relationships ALCHERINGA, 37 :435-441 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Castanera D, Vila B, Razzolini NL, Falkingham PL, Canudo JI, Manning PL, Galobart A. 2013. Manus track preservation bias as a key factor for assessing trackmaker identity and quadrupedalism in basal ornithopods. PLoS One, 8 :1-13 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Bates KT, Savage R, Pataky TC, Morse SA, Webster E, Falkingham PL, Ren L, Qian Z, Collins D, Bennett MR, McClymont J, Crompton RH. 2013. Does footprint depth correlate with foot motion and pressure? JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE, 10 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL. 2013. Low cost 3D scanning using off-the-shelf video gaming peripherals Journal of Paleontological Techniques, 11 :1-9 Public Url
Bennett MR, Falkingham PL, Morse SA, Bates KT, Crompton RH. 2013. Preserving the Impossible: Conservation of Soft-Sediment Hominin Footprint Sites and Strategies for Three-Dimensional Digital Data Capture PLoS ONE, :e60755-e60755 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Castanera D, Vila B, Razzolini NL, Falkingham PL, Canudo JI, Manning PL, Galobart À. 2013. Correction: Manus Track Preservation Bias as a Key Factor for Assessing Trackmaker Identity and Quadrupedalism in Basal Ornithopods. PloS one, 8 DOI Publisher Url
Sellers WI, Hepworth-Bell J, Falkingham PL, Bates KT, Brassey CA, Egerton VM, Manning PL. 2012. Minimum convex hull mass estimations of complete mounted skeletons BIOLOGY LETTERS, 8 :842-845 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Bates KT, Falkingham PL. 2012. Estimating maximum bite performance in Tyrannosaurus rex using multi-body dynamics BIOLOGY LETTERS, 8 :660-664 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL, Bates KT, Mannion PD. 2012. Temporal and palaeoenvironmental distribution of manus- and pes-dominated sauropod trackways JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 169 :365-370 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Bates KT, Benson RBJ, Falkingham PL. 2012. A computational analysis of locomotor anatomy and body mass evolution in Allosauroidea (Dinosauria: Theropoda) PALEOBIOLOGY, 38 :486-507 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL. 2012. Acquisition of high resolution three-dimensional models using free, open-source, photogrammetric software PALAEONTOLOGIA ELECTRONICA, 15 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL, Bates KT, Margetts L, Manning PL. 2011. The 'Goldilocks' effect: preservation bias in vertebrate track assemblages JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE, 8 :1142-1154 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Farlow JO, O'Brien M, Kuban GJ, Datillo BF, Bates KT, Falkingham PL, Pinuela L, Rose A, Freels A, Kumagai C, Libben C, Smith J, Whitcraft J. 2011. Dinosaur tracksites of the Paluxy River Valley (Glen Rose Formation, Lower Cretaceous), Dinosaur Valley State Park, Sommervell County, Texas Proceedings of the V International Symposium about Dinosaur Palaeontology and their Environmen, :41-69
Falkingham PL, Bates KT, Margetts L, Manning PL. 2011. Simulating sauropod manus-only trackway formation using finite-element analysis BIOLOGY LETTERS, 7 :142-145 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL, Margetts L, Manning PL. 2010. FOSSIL VERTEBRATE TRACKS AS PALEOPENETROMETERS: CONFOUNDING EFFECTS OF FOOT MORPHOLOGY PALAIOS, 25 :356-360 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Bates KT, Falkingham PL, Rarity F, Hodgetts D, Purslow A, Manning PL. 2010. APPLICATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION LASER SCANNING AND PHOTOGRAMMETRIC TECHNIQUES TO DATA ACQUISITION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION IN PALAEONTOLOGY Mills JP, Barber DM, Miller PE, Newton I. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ISPRS COMMISSION V MID-TERM SYMPOSIUM CLOSE RANGE IMAGE MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES, 38 :68-73 Author Url
Falkingham PL, Agenbroad LD, Thompson K, Manning PL. 2010. Bird Tracks at the Hot Springs Mammoth Site, South Dakota, USA ICHNOS-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PLANT AND ANIMAL TRACES, 17 :34-39 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL, Milán J, Manning PL. 2010. A crocodylian trace from the Lance Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Wyoming New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin, 51 :171-174
Manning PL, Margetts L, Johnson MR, Withers PJ, Sellers WI, Falkingham PL, Mummery PM, Barrett PM, Raymont DR. 2009. Biomechanics of Dromaeosaurid Dinosaur Claws: Application of X-Ray Microtomography, Nanoindentation, and Finite Element Analysis ANATOMICAL RECORD-ADVANCES IN INTEGRATIVE ANATOMY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, 292 :1397-1405 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL. 2009. Walking with dinosaurs Planet Earth, :12-13
Bates KT, Falkingham PL, Breithaupt BH, Hodgetts D, Sellers WI, Manning PL. 2009. HOW BIG WAS 'BIG AL'? QUANTIFYING THE EFFECT OF SOFT TISSUE AND OSTEOLOGICAL UNKNOWNS ON MASS PREDICTIONS FOR ALLOSAURUS (DINOSAURIA: THEROPODA) PALAEONTOLOGIA ELECTRONICA, 12 Author Url
Falkingham PL, Margetts L, Smith IM, Manning PL. 2009. Reinterpretation of palmate and semi-palmate (webbed) fossil tracks; insights from finite element modelling PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, 271 :69-76 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Bates KT, Falkingham PL, Hodgetts D, Farlow JO, Breithaupt BH, O'Brien M, Matthews N, Sellers WI, Manning PL. 2009. Digital imaging and public engagement in palaeontology Geology Today, 25 :134-139 DOI Publisher Url
Manning PL, Ott C, Falkingham PL. 2008. A probable tyrannosaurid track from the Hell Creek Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Montana, United States PALAIOS, 23 :645-647 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Bates KT, Breithaupt BH, Falkingham PL, Matthews NA, Hodgetts D, Manning PL. 2008. Integrated LiDAR & photogrammetric documentation of the Red Gulch dinosaur tracksite (Wyoming , USA) Proceedings of teh 8th Conference on Fossil Resources, :101-103
preprint
Jones M, Lallensack JN, Jarman I, Falkingham P, Siekmann I. 2024. Classification of dinosaur footprints using machine learning Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory DOI Publisher Url
Conference publication
Falkingham PL, Turner ML, Gatesy SM. 2023. Walking, swimming, and everything in between: Guineafowl limb kinematics on firm, soft, and semiliquid substrates INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, 62 :S91-S91
Hatala KG, Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2022. Arched footprints reveal bipedal kinematics, not arched foot anatomy, of fossil hominins AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 177 :80-81
Hatala KG, Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2021. A new ontogenetic framework for analyzing fossil hominin tracks AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 174 :45-45 Author Url
Hatala KG, Falkingham PL, Megherhi S, Perry DA, Cheleden S, Novotny J, Laidlaw DH, Gatesy SM. 2020. Merging biplanar X-ray, 3-D animation, particle simulation, and virtual reality to understand 3-D foot dynamics on deformable substrates AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 89th Annual Meeting of the American-Association-of-Physical-Anthropologists (AAPA) 171 :117-117 Author Url
Marek RD, Falkingham PL, Bates KT. 2019. The Surrogate Arm: Assessing Factors Influencing Vertebral Morphology in the Avian Cervical Spine JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, 280 :S173-S174 Author Url
Falkingham PL, Turner M, Gatesy SM. 2019. Generating and Testing Hypotheses of Dinosaur Foot Motions Using 3D-Digitized Tracks and Large-Scale Granular Simulations JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, 280 :S118-S118 Author Url
Turner ML, Novotny J, Falkingham PL, Laidlaw DH, Gatesy SM. 2019. Where Does Footprint Morphology Come from? Developing Virtual Reality Visualizations for Exploring Dinosaur Track Formation JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, 280 :S70-S70 Author Url
Crandell KE, Howe R, Falkingham P. 2019. Using 3D-Printed Models to Explore the Functional Consequences of Avian Beak Morphology JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, 280 :S56-S56 Author Url
Strickson EC, Wilkinson DM, Hutchinson JR, Falkingham PL. 2019. No Small Feet: Investigating Mass Distribution and Heteropody in the Past and Present JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, 280 :S226-S226 Author Url
Crandell KE, Howe RO, Cannon C, Falkingham PL. 2019. A comparative analysis of the hydrodynamics of beak shape kingfishers INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB) 59 :E44-E44 Author Url
Glasgow S, Troelsen P, Falkingham PL, Marek RD. 2019. Stretching Evolution: Regionalisation and Neck Elongation in Plesiosaurs Integrative and Comparative Biology, Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB) 59 :e261-e441 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Gatesy SM, Turner ML, Falkingham PL. 2018. CT Imaging of Dinosaur Footprints: Hidden Topography and the Origin of Track Diversity INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB) 58 :E72-E72 Author Url
Turner ML, Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2018. Avian Subsurface Foot Kinematics on Deformable Substrates INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB) 58 :E437-E437 Author Url
Farlow JO, Robinson NJ, Kumagai CJ, Paladino FV, Falkingham PL, Elsey RM, Martin AJ. 2018. Trackways of the American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) in Northwestern Costa Rica: Implications for Crocodylian Ichnology Ichnos, 25 :30-65 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2016. Using extant taxa to inform studies of fossil footprints
Farlow JO, Robinson NJ, Paladino FV, Falkingham PL, Martin AJ. 2016. Trackways of the American crocodile, northwestern Costa Rica: implications for crocodylian ichnology. 131st Annual Meeting, Indiana Academy of Science, Abstracts, 131st Annual Meeting, Indiana Academy of Science :57-57
Farlow JO, Bates KT, Bonem RM, Dattilo BF, Falkingham PL, Gildner R, Jacene J, Kuban GJ, Martin AJ, O'Brien M, Whitcraft J. 2015. DINOSAUR FOOTPRINTS FROM THE GLEN ROSE FORMATION (PALUXY RIVER, DINOSAUR VALLEY STATE PARK, SOMERVELL COUNTY, TEXAS) Noto C. Early- and Mid-Cretaceous Archosaur Localities of North-Central Texas, SVP 2015 Meeting Field Trip Guidebook, 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology :14-37 Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2015. The birth of a dinosaur track: sub-surface 3-D motion reconstruction and discrete element simulation reveal footprint ontogeny' INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB) 55 :E54-E54 Author Url
Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2014. Using experimental and simulated footprints to interpret dinosaur limb motion INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, 54 :E61-E61
Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2012. RECONSTRUCTING LIMB KINEMATICS OF SMALL BIPEDAL DINOSAURS TRAVERSING SEMI-FLUID SUBSTRATES JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society-of-Vertebrate-Paleontology 32 :92-92 Author Url
Falkingham P, Bates K, Mannion P. 2011. EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS IN SAUROPOD BODY PLAN EXPRESSED IN FOSSIL TRACKS AND TRACKWAYS JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, 31 :107-107 Author Url
Falkingham P. 2009. DIVERSITY IN FOSSIL VERTEBRATE TRACK ASSEMBLAGES: PRESERVATIONAL BIAS DUE TO SEDIMENT CONSISTENCY AND ANIMAL MASS JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, 29 :93A-93A Author Url
Falkingham P, Margetts L, Manning P. 2008. USING FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS TO AID INTERPRETATION OF DINOSAUR TRACKS JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, 68th Annual Meeting of the Society-of-Vertebrate-Paleontology 28 :76A-76A Author Url
Falkingham P, Manning P, Margetts L. 2007. Finite element analysis of dinosaur tracks JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, 27 :73A-73A Author Url
Farlow JO, Richards RL, Johnson BD, Falkingham PL. New fossil vertebrate specimens from the Pipe Creek Sinkhole (Grant County, Indiana) 130th Annual Meeting, Indiana Academy of Science, Program, 130th Annual Meeting, Indiana Academy of Science :38-38
Poster
Jackson N, Wakely D, Falkingham PL. 2021. 3D marker tracking with GoPros and XMALab: A low-cost 3D tracking set-up Society of Experimental Biology Annual Meeting Public Url
Other
Bates KT, Falkingham PL. 2018. Estimating maximum bite performance in Tyrannosaurus rex using multi-body dynamics (vol 8, 20120056, 2012) BIOLOGY LETTERS, 14 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham P. Fossil Bird Track, Mammoth Site of Hot Springs DOI
Falkingham P, Milan J. Emu track and Undertracks in cement - photos + photogrammetric models. DOI
Chapters
Falkingham PL. 2016. Applying objective methods to subjective track outlines. Falkingham PL, Marty D, Richter A. Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps :72-80 Indiana University Press 978-0-253-02102-1
Falkingham PL, Marty D, Richter A. 2016. Introduction Falkingham PL, Marty D, Richter A. Dinosaur Tracks The Next Steps :2-11 Indiana University Press 9780253021021
Marty D, Falkingham PL, Richter A. 2016. Dinosaur Track Terminology: A Glossary of Terms Falkingham PL, Marty D, Richter A. Dinosaur Tracks The Next Steps :399-402 Indiana University Press 9780253021021
Milan J, Falkingham PL. 2016. Experimental and Comparative ichnology Falkingham PL, Marty D, Richter A. Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps :14-27 Indiana University Press 978-0-253-02102-1
Milàn J, Falkingham PL. 2016. Experimental and comparative ichnology Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps :15-27
Falkingham PL. 2016. Applying objective methods to subjective track outlines Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps :73-80
Manning PL, Falkingham PL. 2011. Science communication with dinosaurs Handbook of Research on Computational Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice :587-610 DOI Publisher Url
Manning PL, Falkingham PL. 2011. Science Communication with Dinosaurs Leng J, Sharrock W. Handbook of Research on Computational Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice :587-611 9781613501160 DOI
Books (authored)
Falkingham PL, Marty D, Richter A. 2016. Dinosaur Tracks The Next Steps Falkingham PL, Marty D, Richter A. 9780253021021
Falkingham PL, Marty D, Richter A. 2016. Introduction :3-11
Software/Code
Budka M, Bakirov R, Deng S, Falkingham PL, Reynolds SC, Bennett MR. 2016. DigTrace Academic
Budka M, Bakirov R, Deng S, Falkingham PL, Reynolds S, Bennett M. 2016. DigTrace Pro
Thesis/Dissertation
Falkingham PL. 2010. Commputer simulation of dinosaur tracks Manning P, Margetts L.
Media
Falkingham P, Xing L. Xing et al 2016 Anomoepus.zip DOI
Dataset
Hatala K, Gatesy S, Falkingham P. Integration of biplanar X-ray, 3-D animation, and particle simulation reveals details of human ‘track ontogeny’ - Data DOI
Farlow JO, Falkingham P. Fossil Screen-Wash set-up, Pipe Creek Sinkhole DOI
Farlow JO, Falkingham P. Canid Jaw - Pipecreek Sinkhole DOI
Falkingham P. Penarth tracks dataset DOI
Falkingham P, Horner AM. Lungfish terrestrial traces DOI
Highlighted activities
Research Grants Awarded:
UKRI, Mud to Muscles: Dinosaur to bird evolution from fossil footprints, Grant value (£): £2.2 million, Duration of research project: 5 years. 2023
Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, Simulating footprint formation, from Humans to Dinosaurs, Grant value (£): ~200,000 (15,000,000 CPU hours), Duration of research project: 12 months. 2022
Leverhulme, Bones in motion: A new integrated experimental-computational approach to understanding the evolution of human locomotion, Karl Bates, Kristian D'Aout, Grant value (£): 249045, Duration of research project: 3 years. 2017
NERC, Integrated software solution for the 3-dimensional capture and analysis of footwear evidence, Bennett; Budka; Gabrys; Osselton, Grant value (£): 100k, Duration of research project: 12 months. 2014
NSF, Birth of a dinosaur track: Formation dynamics and the origin of footprint diversity., Gatesy, S.M. (PI), Grant value (£): $315,698, Duration of research project: 3 years. 2014
NSF, X-rays, 3D animation and human locomotion, Kevin Hatala, Stephen Gatesy, Grant value (£): $340,052.
Professional activities
Public engagement:
Performance art: music, dance, drama, etc., Children and families interested in science, invited guest, Fun Kids Science Weekly, Appearance on podcast for Fun Kids Science,, https://omny.fm/shows/fun-kids-science-weekly/dino-beginnings-unlocking-the-mystery-of-their-ori. 2024
Public talk or lecture, special interest group., invited speaker, Talk for Manchester Geological Association, talk for a local interest group. 2024
Other, General, Podcast, guest, Online, Terrible Lizards Podcast, Episode of the podcast terrible lizards featuring me and my work, https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls10e03-dinosaur-footprints. 2024
Performance art: music, dance, drama, etc., Netflix viewers, Consultant/Biomechanics specialist, Consultant for Netflix Documentary "Life on Our Planet", Major consultant (credited) for netflix documentary on extinct life., https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80213846. 2023
Other, Global audience interested in palaeontology, Podcast, Guest, Podcast guest - Palaeocast, Interviewed for the podcast Palaeocast about my role consulting for a recent Netflix documentary, and the importance of biomechanics for media., https://www.palaeocast.com/life-on-our-planet/. 2023
Performance art: music, dance, drama, etc., TV watchers Channel 5/Amazon, Expert, Online/Terrestrial TV (Channel 5 and Amazon Prime), Documentary Appearance "Dinosaurs with Stephen Fry", Appeared on documentary "Dinosaurs with Stephen Fry", https://amzn.to/3sC260A. 2023
Other, General TV, Documentary, expert, Channel 5 and Apple TV, Appearance on documentary "Natural History Museum World of Wonder", Appeared in episode 2 as an expert, https://tv.apple.com/gb/episode/episode-2/umc.cmc.4e21g6e4yzoii94pke24iybu2. 2021
Public talk or lecture, Interest/students, Invited speaker, Earth Sciences department, Cambridge University, Talk for Sedgewick Society, University of Cambridge. 2019
Public talk or lecture, Undergraduate/interested public, Invited speaker, Bangor University, Talk for Bangor Biological Society, https://www.facebook.com/events/719496735076323. 2018
Public talk or lecture, 16-19 + parents, Invited speaker, Birkenhead Academy High School, Talk at Birkenhead Academy. 2018
Other, General public, Online article, Author, https://theconversation.com/footprint-fossils-suggest-lizards-have-been-running-on-two-feet-for-110m-years-91865, Article for the Conversation: Footprint fossils suggest lizards have been running on two feet for 110m years. 2018
Other, Wider Public, Article, Writer, https://theconversation.com/walking-fish-help-scientists-to-understand-how-we-left-the-ocean-91411, Article for The Conversation: ‘Walking’ fish help scientists to understand how we left the ocean. 2018
Public talk or lecture, Student society, Invited speaker, Bangor University, Talk for Bangor University Biology Socity. 2018
Other, Global, Radio/New media, Expert, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswvxr, BBC World Service Radio Programme - Crowd Science, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswvxr. 2018
Other, General; technical; specialist, Blog/Website, Author, https://pfalkingham.wordpress.com, Personal Website/Blog 2018. 2018
Other, General/General science, Website/Blog, Writer/Author, https://pfalkingham.wordpress.com/, Personal Website/Blog 2017, https://pfalkingham.wordpress.com/. 2017
Other, general public, Podcast, Interviewee, Palaeocast is a monthly podcast series, Online, Palaeocast interview, http://www.palaeocast.com/episode-44-trackway-modelling/. 2015
Other, General Public, Online learning resource, Editor/Contributor, Online, Palaeontology[Online], http://www.palaeontologyonline.com/. 2011
Other, general public/you, Online public outreach forum, Specialist, Online, AskABiologist Specialist, http://www.askabiologist.org.uk/. 2010
Media Coverage:
Pre Lights coverage of dinosaur footprints machine learning preprint 2024
Featured on science show 'Quirks and Quarks' 2022
www.cbc.ca
www.cbc.ca
Media Coverage of sauropod walking dynamics paper. Featured in Science, New Scientist, etc 2022
www.science.org
phys.org
www.newscientist.com
News coverage of Current Biology paper - Sauropod gaits 2022
institutions.newscientist.com
www.dailymail.co.uk
www.science.org
Dinosaur tracks found in south Wales 2022
www.thenational.wales
www.itv.com
www.mirror.co.uk
Coverage on Dinosaur track CT work 2017
Media coverage of PhD student (Pernille Troelsen) work on Plesiosaur necks. 2017
knowridge.com
www.sciencedaily.com
News coverage on PLOS ONE ammonite paper 2017
www.livescience.com
www.bbc.co.uk
Daily Mail article on Lungfish traces 2016
Media coverage for Bates et al 2016 2016
www.engadget.com
phys.org
www.sciencedaily.com
Media coverage of Digit-only sauropod tracks from China 2016
www.bristol.ac.uk
www.csmonitor.com
www.asianscientist.com
Media coverage for paper 'Downsizing a Giant' 2015
www.dailymail.co.uk
www.washingtonpost.com
news.nationalgeographic.com
Coverage of the announcement that the NERC grant (PI Bennett, Bournemouth University) has been awarded funding. 2015
www.forensicmag.com
www1.bournemouth.ac.uk
Media coverage associate with the paper 'Historical Photogrammtery' publishing in PLOS ONE. 2014
phenomena.nationalgeographic.com
www.bbc.co.uk
www.voanews.com
Media coverage on the 2014 paper "The Birth of a Dinosaur Track" published in PNAS 2013
sciencenode.org
www.bbc.co.uk
www.foxnews.com
Blog post for the Gaurdian newspaper about the outreach site Palaeontology[Online] 2012
Media Coverage for Sivatherium reconstruction
www.dailymail.co.uk
www.bbc.co.uk
www.nature.com
Other invited event:
"Science in the Age of AI" Reception, Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London, This reception will bring together members of the research community, industry, and government to hear more about the challenges and opportunities of AI in scientific research. In addition to a panel of speakers, the reception will host exhibitions showcasing applications of AI in scientific research.. 2024
Royal Society invitation: Science x AI Safety: Horizon-scanning AI safety risks across scientific disciplines, Carlton House Terrace, The objectives of this event were as follows: • Examine and highlight the potential short-to-medium term AI safety risks across scientific fields by performing a ‘future wheels’ horizon scanning exercise. • Engage senior scientists with the conversations in the run up to the Global AI Safety Summit. • Draw policymakers’ and the public’s attention to the importance of considering ‘AI safety’ within scientific research. This exercise will also inform a current Royal Society project provisionally titled Science in the Age of AI.. 2023
European Geosciences Union Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria, Invited speaker. 2016
Research Grants Awarded:
UKRI, Mud to Muscles: Dinosaur to bird evolution from fossil footprints, Grant value (£): £2.2 million, Duration of research project: 5 years. 2023
Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, Simulating footprint formation, from Humans to Dinosaurs, Grant value (£): ~200,000 (15,000,000 CPU hours), Duration of research project: 12 months. 2022
Palaeontological Association, Regionalization of cervical vertebrae in plesiosaurs, Grant value (£): £2192, Duration of research project: 8 weeks. 2018
Leverhulme, Bones in motion: A new integrated experimental-computational approach to understanding the evolution of human locomotion, Karl Bates, Kristian D'Aout, Grant value (£): 249045, Duration of research project: 3 years. 2017
EPSRC/NERC, Extrapolating ground reaction force from fossil dinosaur footprints, Grant value (£): 63,334.90, Duration of research project: 24 months. 2015
Company of Biologists, Digitizing archosaur tracks and traces, Grant value (£): 500. 2015
NERC, Integrated software solution for the 3-dimensional capture and analysis of footwear evidence, Bennett; Budka; Gabrys; Osselton, Grant value (£): 100k, Duration of research project: 12 months. 2014
NSF, Birth of a dinosaur track: Formation dynamics and the origin of footprint diversity., Gatesy, S.M. (PI), Grant value (£): $315,698, Duration of research project: 3 years. 2014
XSEDE, Using computer simulation to study dinosaur biomechanics from fossil footprints (TG-EAR140012), S.M. Gatesy, Grant value (£): 365768 SUs, Duration of research project: 18 Months. 2014
NSF, X-rays, 3D animation and human locomotion, Kevin Hatala, Stephen Gatesy, Grant value (£): $340,052.
Award:
Excellence in Digital Education 2022, Teaching and Learning Academy, LJMU. 2022
Excellence in Digital Education Award Commendation 2021, LJMU. 2021
General Biomechanics session Talk Prize, Society for Experimental Biology. 2013
Conference presentation:
3D marker tracking with GoPros and XMALab: A low-cost 3D tracking set-up, Society of Experimental Biology, Poster presentation. 2021
WHY DID SOME QUADRUPEDAL DINOSAURS HAVE SMALL FRONT FEET?, SVP, Brisbane, Australia, Oral presentation. 2019
CT IMAGING OF DINOSAUR FOOTPRINTS: HIDDEN TOPOGRAPHY AND THE ORIGIN OF PENETRATIVE TRACK DIVERSITY, SVP, Brisbane, Australia, Oral presentation. 2019
Generating and testing hypothesis of dinosaur foot motions using 3d-digitized tracks and large-scale granular simulations., ICVM, Prague, Czech Republic, Oral presentation. 2019
No small feet: Investigating mass distribution and heteropody in the past and present., ICVM, Prague, Czech Republic., Oral presentation. 2019
Repeated evolution of drag reduction at the air-water interface in diving kingfishers, ICVM, Prague, Czech Republic., Oral presentation. 2019
The Surrogate Arm: Assessing factors influencing vertebral morphology in the avian cervical Spine., ICVM, Prague, Czech Republic, Oral presentation. 2019
Where does footprint morphology come from? Developing virtual reality visualizations for exploring dinosaur track formation, ICVM, Prague, Czech Republic., Oral presentation. 2019
A comparative analysis of the hydrodynamics of beak shape kingfishers, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida, USA, Oral presentation. 2019
Stretching Evolution: Regionalisation and Neck Elongation in Plesiosaurs, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual meeting, Tampa, Florida, USA, Poster presentation. 2019
Developing Virtual Reality Visualizations of Dinosaur Track Creation with Scientific Skethcing, Vast Infovis SciVis (VIS) 2018, Berlin, Germany, Poster presentation. 2018
Where does footprint morphology come from? Integrating 3D methods for exploring dinosaur track formation, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, Oral presentation. 2018
An everyday tool: how the avian neck has adapted to (almost) every situation., Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Manchester, UK, Oral presentation. 2018
Functional morphology and hydrodynamics of plesiosaur necks: Does size matter?, Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Manchester, UK, Oral presentation. 2018
The implications of underfoot pressures and mass distribution for extreme heteropody, Society of Experimental Biology, Florence, Italy, Poster presentation. 2018
The surrogate arm: Analysing the role of regionalisation in the variation of the avian neck, Society of Exoerimental Biology, Florence, Italy, Oral presentation. 2018
Avian Subsurface Foot Kinematics on Deformable Substrates, Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Francisco, CA, USA, Poster presentation. 2018
CT Imaging of Dinosaur Footprints: Hidden Topography and the Origin of Track Diversity, Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Franscisco, CA, USA, Oral presentation. 2018
REGIONALISATION OF THE AVIAN CERVICAL COLUMN: A LINK BETWEEN MORPHOLOGY AND ECOLOGY, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Calgary, Canada, Poster presentation. 2017
GRABBING EVOLUTION BY THE THROAT: FUNCTIONAL REGIONALISATION OF THE AVIAN CERVICAL COLUMN, Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Birmingham, Poster presentation. 2017
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON BIOMECHANICAL RECONSTRUCTIONS OF EXTINCT ANIMALS: A CASE STUDY USING TYRANNOSAURUS REX, Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Birmingham, Oral presentation. 2017
RANGE OF MOTION AND HYDRODYNAMIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE LONG- NECK IN PLESIOSAURS, Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Birmingham, Oral presentation. 2017
A re-analysis of the middle Pleistocene hominin-like footprints from Vértesszőlős, Hungary, British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, Liverpool, Poster presentation. 2017
A RE-ANALYSIS OF ~350 KA HOMININ-LIKE FOOTPRINTS FROM VÉRTESSZOLOS, HUNGARY, EMPLOYING PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND 3D ANALYSIS., Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Calgary, Poster presentation. 2017
Can skeletal surface area predict in vivo foot surface area, Society of Experimental Biology, Sweden, Poster presentation. 2017
Grabbing evolution by the throat: Functional regionalisation of the avian cervical column, Society of Experimental Biology, Sweden, Poster presentation. 2017
Hydrodynamic implications of the long neck in plesiosaurs using computational fluid dynamics, Society of Experimental Biology, Gotenburg, Sweden, Poster presentation. 2017
Reconstructing moving morphology using RaspberryPi (PiROMM): Range of motion in ostrich cervical vertebrae at progressive stages of dissection, Society of Experimental Biology, Gotenburg, Sweden, Poster presentation. 2017
Foot Morphology or exit feature: A CT perspective on Hitchcock's Dinosaur Tracks, Symposium of Vertebrate Paleontology, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Poster presentation. 2016
Footprints are neither bones nor feet: Problems with track "preservation" and the mold-based paradigm, Symposium of Vertebrate Paleontology, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Poster presentation. 2016
The morphology of motion in sub-surface foot trajectories and fossil dinosaur tracks, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Oral presentation. 2016
Trackways of the American Crocodile (Crocodylus Acutus), northwest Costa Rica: Implications for archosaurian ichnology, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Poster presentation. 2016
Mobility and hydrodynamic implications for the long neck in plesiosaurs, Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Liverpool, Poster presentation. 2016
Making footprints without feet: Modern terrestrial lungfish locomotion creates traces similar to those of early tetrapods., Society of Experimental Biology (SEB), Brighton, UK, Oral presentation. 2016
One Foot, Many Footprints: the Origin of Track Morphological Diversity, International Conference on Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM), Washington DC, USA, Poster presentation. 2016
The morphology of Motion: Sub-surface foot trajectories and fossil tracks, International Congress on Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM), Washington DC, USA, Poster presentation. 2016
Using extant taxa to inform studies of fossil footprints, European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, Oral presentation. 2016
Using LIGGGHTS to investigate dinosaur footprint formation, 1st CF-DEM User Meeting, Linz, Austria, Oral presentation. 2016
Difficulties in estimating mass from fossil footprints, SVPCA, Southampton, Oral presentation. 2015
Estimating body mass of the extinct giraffid Sivatherium giganteum, using a skeletal reconstruction and the minimum convex hull method, SVPCA, Southampton, Poster presentation. 2015
Conference organisation:
Symposium of Palaeontological Preparation and Conservation, Organiser/Host, http://svpca.org/. 2016
Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Host/Organiser. 2016
Progressive Palaeontology, http://www.palass.org/modules.php?name=propal&page=46. 2008
Membership of professional bodies:
Member of EGU, European Geosciences Union. 2016
Member of Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Member of the Ichnological Association, Ichnological Association.
Member of the Palaeontological Association, Palaeontological Association.
Member of the Society of Experimental Biology, Society of Experimental Biology.
Member of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology.
Teaching qualification:
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 2015
Fellowships:
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship, Royal Veterinary College, London. 2012
Editorial boards:
Journal of Paleontological Techniques, Scientific Editor, http://jpaleontologicaltechniques.org/. 2012
Palaeontology[Online], Commissioning Editor, http://www.palaeontologyonline.com/. 2011
External collaboration:
Brown University, Stephen Gatesy.
Liverpool University, Karl Bates.
Royal Veterinary College, John Hutchinson.