BPS July 2, 2007 Meeting

BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at the McWane Science Center.

Program: Dinosaurs of Alabama by James Lamb, Curator of Paleontology, McWane Science Center.

Park in the deck on "Level C", go through doors marked Special Event Center, and follow signs to meeting. The business meeting begins at 7:00, followed by the program around 7:45 or 8pm.

Date: 
Monday, July 2, 2007 - 7:00pm

June 23, 2007 - Eocene Fossils, Covington Co, AL

The weather was unbearably hot for this June BPS trip to a river in Covington County. Maybe it was the heat, but we had a smaller than normal turnout. The water at this Eocene age site was extremely low, and our usual collecting-holes were sometimes totally flushed clean, and sometimes filled with silt. Very odd. However, we still

BPS June 4, 2007 Meeting

BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at the McWane Science Center.

Program: Hadrosaurs of Alabama by James Lamb, Curator of Paleontology, McWane Science Center & Greg Mestler, BPS VP

Park in the deck on "Level C", go through doors marked Special Event Center, and follow signs to meeting. The business meeting begins at 7:00, followed by the program around 7:45 or 8pm.

Date: 
Monday, June 4, 2007 - 7:00pm

May 19, 2007 - Cretaceous Fossils, Montgomery Co, AL

Another hot day found the troops begging for a "water field trip" so we could cool off. We had mixed feelings about what we saw when we got there and found that drought conditions had virtually dried up the creek-bed. On the other hand, a good deal more fossils were exposed. This is our favorite spot for collecting

BPS May 7, 2007 Meeting

BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at the McWane Science Center.

Program: Earthquakes by Sandy Ebersole, Geological Survey of Alabama

(see also Geohazards

Date: 
Monday, May 7, 2007 - 7:00pm

April 19, 2007 - Dr. Gingerich Lecture in Tuscaloosa, AL

A few BPS members drove over to Tuscaloosa, AL to hear a lecture on fossil whales. We arrived early, and decided to "fossil hunt" at the Geological Survey of Alabama building. The steps and bannisters are of limestone, and are nicely weathered out to show beautiful fossils.

April 21, 2007 - Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils, Butler Co, AL

The April field trip took us to Butler County where a creek has cut through early Tertiary and late Cretaceous sediments. Once again as with last months field trip to Green County we had some of the best spring weather Alabama can offer, with the temperature reaching a pleasant 76 degrees.

Everyone met at a central location, and a brief introduction to the geology of the area was given before driving about 12 more miles to the entrance to the site. While past trips to

BPS April 2, 2007 Meeting

BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at the McWane Science Center.

Program:  Mass Extinctions and the K-T Boundary in Alabama by Greg Mestler.

Park in the deck on "Level C", go through doors marked Special Event Center, and follow signs to meeting. The business meeting begins at 7:00, followed by the program around 7:45 or 8pm.

Date: 
Monday, April 2, 2007 - 7:00pm

March 11, 2007 - Cretaceous Fossils, Greene Co, AL

The March field trip was graced with perfect weather for playing in a creek. The morning started out pleasantly cool but was shorts and T-shirt weather by the time we got to the site.

We met at a rest area then caravaned to Greene County where we met our host who guided us to his property. We parked most of our vehicles then piled into several pickups and SUV's for the last 2 miles to the site. The site was a beautiful 80 acre parcel of high land on the Sipsey River which was underlain by

BPS March 5, 2007 Meeting

BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at the McWane Science Center.

Program: Cenozoic Fauna of Alabama by Jun Ebersole, McWane Science Center.

Park in the deck on "Level C", go through doors marked Special Event Center, and follow signs to meeting. The business meeting begins at 7:00, followed by the program around 7:45 or 8pm.
Date: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 7:00pm

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