Birmingham Paleontological Society

Our speaker for April is James Lamb, Director of the Black Belt Museum at the University of West Alabama who will speak on “Climate Change Throughout Geologic Time”.

Hoover Public Library, Fitzgerald Room, downstairs. Business meeting 7pm, program 7:30pm. Free and open to the public.

Dr. George Phillips of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson, Mississippi, held the 15th Annual Fossil Road Show, where various groups from around the south were invited to set up exhibits and help identify fossils.  The BPS exhibit showcased Alabama fossils,

For the February field trip, six stalwart fossil hunters ignored the gloomy forecast and journeyed through a storm front to a lovely Franklin County lake site.  As it turned out, the weather was perfectly suited to fossil hunting with partly sunny

Our speaker for March is Dr. Brian Axsmith, Professor of Biology at the University of South Alabama. Dr. Axsmith will speak on “A Rare Miocene Plant Fossil Site from Mississippi.”
Hoover Public Library, Downstairs, Fitzgerald Room. Business meeting at 7 pm, program at 7:30 pm. Free and open to the public.

The annual Fossil Road Show will be held in Jackson, MS at the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.  BPS will be one of the exhibitors.  Professional paleontologists will be on hand to identify your unknown fossils and rocks.  The speaker will be micropaleontologist Dr. Mark Puckett.

Site where trackways were found in the 1930's may have been identified.

Our speaker for February is Dr. Fred Andrus, Professor of Geology and Department Chair in Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama. Dr. Andrus will speak on “Fossil Growth and Chemistry as Windows into Past Climate and Ecology.”

Hoover Public Library, Fitzgerald Room, downstairs. Business meeting starts at 7:00, program at 7:30pm. Free and open to the public

Last trip to the gullies before hunting season starts.

Our speaker for December is Dr. Tom Tobin, Assistant Professor in Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama. Dr. Tobin will discuss the geochemistry of ammonite fossils, and what they tell us about ammonite biology and life history. Hoover Public Library, Fitzgerald Room. Free and open to the public.

The Alabama Museum of Natural History hosts an annual National Fossil Day event in the Grand Gallery.  BPS set up an exhibit table, as did numerous groups from around the area.