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There
are many people that need thanking for many reasons, all of
which are given below. If you think I have forgotten anybody,
then please e-mail me and I will
include them.
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- Mr
Parris, my tutor at Hardenhuish Secondary School, for being
there throughout my secondary education, even when I was a berk.
- Dr
Dave Martill of The
University of Portsmouth, for getting me interested in the
subject of Isle of Wight dinosaurs.
- Professor
Mike Benton
of The University
of Bristol, for information and support.
- The University
of Portsmouth and the University
of Bristol, without whom this website would not be up-and-running.
- Mr
Paul De La Salle, for his photographs of his extensive
collection, and support during DinoWight's troubled times.
- Mr
Nick Oliver, for Neovenator
information and support during DinoWight's troubled times.
- Mr
Bob Loveridge of The
University of Portsmouth, for information and his wonderful
photographs of some of his models.
- Mr
Steve Sweetman
of The University
of Portsmouth, for information about his finds.
- Dr
Lorna Steel of Dinosaur
Isle, for information about her new pterosaur.
- Mr
Langan Turner, for information and photos of his Leptocleidus.
- Mr
Denver Fowler,
for information on palaeoecology, amongst other things...
- Mr
Remmert Schouten,
for support, information and contacts.
- Ms
Sandra Chapman of The
Natural History Museum, London, for allowing access to specimens.
- Mr
Darren Naish
of The University
of Portsmouth, for information and "encouragement".
- Mr
Grim Styles, for support in the early days of DinoWight.
- Miss
Carolyn
Staehle,
for her picture of the polacanthid
skull.
- Mr
Paul Glover of Neovenator.org,
for use of pictures in his collection.
- M.
T. Keesey, of The
Dinosauricon, for demonstrating how to do a no-frills dinosaur
website, with proper scientific information on it, for adults.
- The creators
and researchers of DinoData,
for featuring in-depth, actually scientific data on dinosaurs
for adults.
- Miss
Hannah
Tibbs,
for being lovely and wonderful and lovely.
- Mr
Alex Morgan, for acting as chauffeur during my last big
research trip on the island.
- All the
staff at Dinosaur Isle,
Dinosaur Farm Museum
and The Fossil Shop, for
being VERY helpful, and allowing me to dismantle their display
cabinets at a moments notice!
- Miss
Jeannie Liddington,
for providing accommodation for my last few trips.
- Mr
Trevor
Dykes, for supporting DinoWight from the early days,
and being the first to plug the site on his own website.
- The Isle
of Wight Index, for being the first website on the Island
to support DinoWight, and for the wonderful things they had to
say about it, which really made my day.
- The
local collectors, for all the nice thing they say about
me!
- Bernie
Fishnotes, for technical, moral and physical support.
- Mr
Adam Smith,
for support during DinoWight's troubled times, pictures and persuading
me to do something useful on the Internet, and to use my own drawings.
- The
Captain, Mr Ben, Mr
Hector and Miss Chris "LIP-KIN!",
for support, friendship and amusement.
- All the
fossilhunters I met on the island, especially Mr
Mick Green, and all the holidaymakers for making me feel
like an expert!
- Southern
Vectis buses, especially the driver who waited for me at
Blackgang Chine when I was photographing exhibits at the Fossil
Shop. Shame they're so expensive, though...
- The SVPCA
fieldtrip website, for providing vital information about the
Island Geology.
- Mr
Johnny
Ball, Televisual Science Teacher, for getting me interested
in science as a child.
- Jean
Luc Sala and Emmanuelle Zicot,
for letting me fill their book on Isle of Wight dinosaurs with
science
- My old
Primary school teacher, Miss Olive,
who many years ago got me interested in dinosaurs by reading to
us Megs Eggs, a book about a friendly witch who magics
up some eggs for breakfast, from which dinosaurs hatch and cause
lots of outdated trouble (the Diplodocus lives on a pond,
harasses the ducks and eats all the pondweed). Still a great book,
buy it for your children if they are aged 2-7, or if you want
it for yourself
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