The Dinosaur Lady

Hi! I'm Jenni Creagh, but to the school kids I've visited and talked to over the past 20 years I'm also known as The Dinosaur Lady. I worked at The National Dinosaur Museum in Canberra for 18 years and had the pleasure of taking tours, designing/building exhibits and writing for The Dinosaur Age magazine.

I have been interested in the prehistoric past ever since I was young, and I just never grew out of it.

Science Communication is very important to me - and I get tremendous satisfaction from seeing the joy in others when they see the potential of the past opening before them. That lightbulb moment is so important to spark the investigation and scientific interest in an audience - especially in young kids.

Digging for fossils is one of my favourite things and I've been lucky enough to work on sites from the Devonian through to the Pleistocene. Dinosaurs are my passion, but all prehistoric life is import to a perspective of how the Earth has become what it is now.

So I'm an amateur Palaeontologist geek who is really looking forward to adding more depth to my knowledge through this course.

I've really enjoyed putting this blog together for the Animal Behaviour MOOC, and making observations. So much so that it has been hard to limit my posts and stay on topic. I think I'll keep this going after the assignment is assessed and that way I can share more discoveries and add in the things that don't quite fit the topic like Spiders, Giant Crickets and Echidnas... not that they are so easy to compare to dinosaurs in a behavioural sense, but they are cool facets of the natural world.

Also I'm an Aussie, so my spelling will reflect that (and therefore some words have extra letters) :)