The American Center for Mongolian Studies Virtual Speaker Series recently hosted a panel session on “The History and Scientific Legacy of Roy Chapman Andrews.”

The November Virtual Speaker Series panel will focus on the American explorer, adventurer and naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews, who headed the Central Asiatic Expedition to Mongolia, which made important discoveries and brought the first-known fossil dinosaur eggs to the American Museum of Natural History. The panel will have six speakers with the following topics.

Moderated by Dr. Marissa Smith and the session will feature speakers on six topics:

• Michael Novacek: The Legacy of Roy Chapman Andrews and the Role of the American Museum of Natural History, Then and Now
• Mark Norell: The Legacy of the Central Asiatic Expeditions. The Fossils and the Unknowns
• Ann Bausum: Roy Chapman Andrews’s early history and early days at AMNH
• Tsogtbaatar Khishigjav: Introduction to the Activities Organized in Mongolia to Celebrate the Centenary of the CAE III Led by R. C. Andrews”
• Kelly Cluer and Saandar Mijiddorj: CAE II Rephotographic Mission

If you missed the live stream, the recording is available on YouTube: