This hands-on Fossils of the Black Belt teacher workshop is a fun way to get CEU credits. It will be held Tuesday, October 17, 2017 near Selma, Alabama. Details regarding location will be sent to each participant. The workshop will run from 8:30 until 4:30 pm.
Our speaker for August is James Lamb, Director of the Black Belt Museum at the University of West Alabama, who will speak on "Pteranodon – the original Pterror-saur" Hoover Public Library, Fitzgerald Room. Free and open to the public.
Our speaker for July is Dr. Doug Phillips, Executive Producer of Discovering Alabama, The University of Alabama. His talk is titled “Discovering Alabama – Past, Present, and Future”.
Hoover Public Library, Fitzgerald Room, downstairs. Business meeting starts at 7:00, program at 7:30pm. Free and open to the public
BPS members were invited to participate in a salvage operation at Ft. Tombecbe, where debris and artifacts were falling into the river and being lost to science. A number of BPS members showed up to assist Dr.
Our speaker for June is Dr. George Phillips, Curator of Paleontology at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Hoover Public Library, Fitzgerald Room. Business meeting starts at 7:00, program at 7:30pm. Free and open to the public
Our speaker for May is Jeremiah Stager, Cultural Resources Assistant at the UA Office of Archaeological Research. Hoover Public Library, Fitzgerald Room. Business meeting starts at 7:00, program at 7:30pm. Free and open to the public
On a rainy Saturday, a number of BPS members braved the weather to collect in a quarry in Bibb County. Numerous brachiopods, a few trilobites, a whole sponge, and bryozoans were found.
Our speaker for March is Dr. Kevin Kocot, assistant professor in Biological Sciences at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and the curator of invertebrate zoology at the Alabama Museum of Natural History.
BPS meets at Hoover Public Library downstairs, Fitzgerald Room. Business meeting starts at 7:00, program at 7:30pm. Free and open to the public.
Our speaker for March is Dr. Scott Brande, Associate Professor of Chemistry at UAB. Hoover Public Library, Fitzgerald Room. Business meeting starts at 7:00, program at 7:30pm. Free and open to the public.
