The Directors of BPS were informed by Dr. Adiel Klompmaker that our society has been chosen for the honor of receiving the 2024 Alabama Avocational Paleontologist award at the National Fossil Day event being held on November 2, 2024. What a great honor!
Heads up everyone! The Alabama Museum of Natural History will hold their annual National Fossil Day Event in the Grand Gallery on November 2, 2024. BPS, along with many other groups, will showcase fossils from their collections. There are several kid friendly events, including a fossil dig, give-aways, and art tables.
Our speaker for this month is Jessie McCraw, an instructor at the University of Alabama. The presentation will be "Geochemical explorations of Cretaceous Ammonites of the Western Interior Seaway".
This meeting is free and open to the public.
Business meeting starts at 7pm, program will begin around 7:30.
Hoover Public Library, 200 Municipal Drive, Hoover, AL 35216
Downstairs, in the Fitzgerald Meeting Room.
Our speaker for this month is David Butler, staff attorney for Cahaba Riverkeepers. He is a former river guide leading canoe and kayak trips, observing river needs regarding cleanup and pollution.
This meeting is free and open to the public.
Business meeting starts at 7pm, program will begin around 7:30.
Hoover Public Library, 200 Municipal Drive, Hoover, AL 35216, Downstairs, Theatre Conference Room.
You couldn't ask for a beautiful day to fossil hunt with BPS on a creek hunting for fossils.
BPS members got to visit a creek that is regularly on our list each year. The times we've visited the water levels were usually too high to traverse.
Our speaker for this month is Dr. Andrew Rindsberg, a trace fossil expert. His program is titled: "It was a dark and stormy night: the ichnostratigraphic record of a brief event in the Pennsylvanian of northwestern Alabama".
This meeting is free and open to the public.
Business meeting starts at 7pm, program will begin around 7:30.
Hoover Public Library, 200 Municipal Drive, Hoover, AL 35216, Downstairs, Fitzgerald Meeting Room.
Two hours of hunting time was allowed on this trip. We covered a lot of literal ground and found lots of fossils and then some!
