Due to various scheduling conflicts, the next meeting of the BPS will be Monday, January 16, 2012,
7-9 pm at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama.  

This
will be a concurrent Annual Meeting, Directors Meeting, and
Regular Business meeting.  We will elect and install officers for 2012.  The Awards Committee
will be honoring numerous individuals for their various contributions
to the group, including hard work and memorable events.  No speaker for this meeting.

UPDATED: Tonight on The History Channel - American Pickers: Jurassic Pick - a 65 million year-old dinosaur bone is found.  George Phillips, Paleontology Curator at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science will discuss the fossil find. 9:00pm eastern/8 central.  THIS EPISODE WILL AIR AGAIN ON SUNDAY DEC 4, 2011 .

Jun Ebersole, Collections Manager at McWane Science Center, will
present a lecture titled “Teeth: The Identification of Mammals from Archaeological and Fossil Sites” at the
Monday, December 5, 2011 meeting of the Birmingham
Paleontological Society.  Jun Ebersole is a paleoanthropologist who has
done extensive research of the mammals found in Alabama's Pleistocene

Our guest speaker will be Dr.  Sandy Ebersole, Geologist at the Geological Survey of Alabama will present a lecture on "Microstructure of Fossil Bone and Teeth".  Sandy has researched the fossils and rocks of Alabama for many years, and has done extensive research on the Ripley Formation.   Her field studies are compiled into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and used to create

The Birmingham Paleontological Society will have a special fossil display set up at the McWane Science Center on Monday, October 10, outside the paleo lab. This event will coincide with a school group day at the museum.

This is in conjunction with Earth Science Week, organized each year by the American Geological Institute.

Our guest speaker will be Thomas Lang, owner of Carto-Craft, the best source of maps in this area.  His lecture is titled "Progression of Mapping".  He has been in the mapping business for 25 years and is an expert on the mapping process, from ancient hand drawn maps to modern day maps using satellites.

WHO: Thomas Lang, owner of Carto-Craft maps

WHAT: 
Lecture - "Progression of Mapping"

WHEN:  Monday, October 3, 2011, 7:00-8:00 pm

A teacher workshop in Livingston Alabama on Tuesday, October 18, will provide experience collecting and identifying fossils from the fossiliferous limestone chalks of south Alabama. All teachers who feel this experience and the materials they receive in the classroom will assist them back in their own schools are welcome to attend.

Workshop presented by the Geological Survey of Alabama, the University of Alabama, Discovering Alabama, the Black Belt Museum, the Alabama Geological Society, and with volunteer help from the Birmingham Paleontological Society.