Outreach

If you are interested in contributing to the PalAss YouTube channel, these guidelines will help you to create high-quality video content, for both YouTube and other social media channels. The most important rules when creating video are to know your audience, be clear in your message and enjoy the whole process – if you enjoy making it, people will enjoy watching it! If you wish to make a submission to the PalAss YouTube channel please send it to education@palass.org or publicity@palass.org. Once the video passes our quality checks we will then upload it to YouTube.

The Association wishes to produce a series of six one-minute educational videos targeted at the general public. The series, ‘How fit are you?’ will focus on themes of morphological adaptation and fitness in response to environmental and ecological change. Eachvideo will feature ca 45 seconds of footage featuring a palaeontologist speakingto camera, and stills of key fossils and equipment. Each video should also include ca 15 seconds of animation that supports key concepts. The video series will constitute the initial content for a new PalAss YouTube Channel.

The PalAss is on YouTube!  We have developed a new PalAss YouTube channel as part of our response to the results of the 2018 PalAss Diversity Study, in order to reach out to a broader and more diverse audience. The first five videos on fossil fish (presented by Dr Tom Challands, University of Edinburgh), trilobites (presented by Dr Lucy McCobb, National Museum of Wales), fossil pigments (presented by Dr Maria McNamara, University College Cork), fossil plants (presented by Dr Susannah Lydon, University of Nottingham) and mass extinctions (presented by Dr Alex Dunhill, University of Leeds) are already available. An additional video will be launched soon. 

The Lyme Regis Fossil Festival (http://www.fossilfestival.com) will be taking place this year from Friday 29^th April til Sunday 1^st May 2016. The event is located in and around the Lyme Regis coast and town and at the Charmouth Heritage Centre.