The next regular meeting of the BPS is Monday, June 1, 2009, 7-9 pm at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama. The speaker will be Dr. Fred Andrus. His title for the lecture is "Sclerochronology: Fossil records of ecology, climate, and environment". He is an assistant professor in the department of geological sciences in Tuscaloosa.
Dr. Andrus research interests:
Check out the Google Search site for today, May 20, 2009 - In honor of the finding of the Missing Link to humans, published in numerous places on the web, Google has honored paleontology with a special banner on their search page. For more details of this fossil find, see this research article titled "Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology" published in PLoS ONE.
Well, sometimes things happen unexpectedly. A call on Monday to the landowner to schedule a field trip for March. Well, actually he said, the site is ready to be reclaimed. Next week. Can you come this Saturday? Well .
The next regular meeting of the BPS is Monday, May 4, 2009, 7-9 pm at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama. The speaker will be James Lamb, Paleontologist at McWane Science Center. His lecture tonight will be "Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg: The Fossil History of Birds".
Free parking, enter the McWane parking deck from 2nd Ave. NORTH and proceed to yellow level "C". Enter door marked "Special Events" and turn left to the large auditorium.
Sunday was spent hiking in the Cane Creek Canyon Preserve. Pictures are below.
Photos courtesy Nancy Lea and Vicki Lais.
The next regular meeting of the BPS is Monday, April 6, 2009, 7-9
pm at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama.
Free
parking, enter the McWane parking deck from 2nd Ave. NORTH and proceed
to yellow level "C". Enter door marked "Special Events" and turn left
to the large auditorium.
McWane Science Center started a blog several months ago, and their paleontologist, James Lamb, will be contributing on a regular basis. His first blog entry is titled "Giant Snake Myths and Other Tall Tails". As they become available, BPS will provide links to these blogs in the
NEW DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION FOR MARCH BUSINESS MEETING
CHANGE IN DATE AND LOCATION
See March 7, 2009 for details.
Dr. Donald R. Prothero: "Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It matters."
7:30 pm, March 9th, 2009.
Biology auditorium, University of Alabama, Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL.
A number of transitional fossils have been documented by Dr. Prothero, including the "fishbian" and the "frogamander."
This talk is part of UA's ALLELE series.
