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This is where Reality Capture Network shares what’s happening across our ecosystem. From industry news and conference highlights to podcast takeaways, recaps, and guest perspectives, this page captures the ideas, people, and conversations moving the built environment forward. Updated weekly with insights designed to inform, inspire, and connect innovators across the industry.
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The Re/Cap Podcast: Caldwell Buntin, PhD on his Drone Dinosaur Discovery, Photogrammetry, Academic VR, Geology, Mars, De-Extinction
Rogers “Caldwell” Buntin is a researcher, lecturer, and drone pilot who received his Ph.D. in Ocean & Earth Sciences from Old Dominion University. He specializes in interpreting subtle fossilized traces that reveal how dinosaurs interacted with their environments.
He joins Ellis Malmgren to explain his recent discovery at Dinosaur Ridge in Colorado; an apparent 100-million-year-old “dinosaur dance floor,” a site covered in intricate scrape marks and depressions made by theropods performing courtship displays. Using drones and high-resolution imaging, Buntin and his team interpreted these features as evidence of mating rituals, offering a rare glimpse into dinosaur social behavior and reshaping how scientists think about life in the Cretaceous.
5 Years of R-CON, Community, Education, & a Conference-Turned-Movement with Matthew Byrd & Phillip Ellering
Here's a unit of measurement you don't see every day: the entire location for your inaugural conference, becomes just one of four happy hours at your fifth. I mean, not to disparage happy hours, but what an evolution!