Dr. Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago and Field Museum will present the lecture "Finding Your Inner Fish: New Discoveries on the Shift From Fish to Land-Living Animal".

The lecture will be held 7;30 pm, February 21, 2008 at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, in the Biology Auditorium, across the street from the Geological Survey office. This talk is part of the ALLELE 2007-2008 presentations - Alabama Lectures on Life's Evolution. All lectures are open to the public.

Dr. Carl Stock, paleontology professor at University of Alabama, will give the program on "Biogeographic Barriers".

Background: Dr. Stock received his PhD from the University North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has been teaching paleontology and geology and the University of Alabama for a little over 30 years. His research focus includes topics in invertebrate paleontology, stromatoporoids, paleobiogeography, and Ordovician/Silurian/Devonian.

The program will be on "Ingersoll Shale", by Terry Knight, a grad student at Auburn University. Some amazing fossils, including insects, have been found in this formation. His thesis is titled “Exceptionally Preserved Soft-Bodied
Fossils of the Ingersoll shale, an Upper Cretaceous
Konservat-Lagerstätte in the Eutaw Formation of East-central Alabama".

Click for pictures of the dig in the Ingersoll shale. 

This month's program will be "Eastern Dinosaurs" by James Lamb.

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

From the Anniston Star:

Nov. 15: Lecture by Dr. Jim Lacefield, retired adjunct professor from the University of North Alabama; 6 p.m.

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News Release
Organization: Anniston Museum of Natural History

For immediate release
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"Lost Worlds" Wraps Up Museum Lecture Series