Our January meeting will be devoted primarily to our annual election of officers. A brief program by James Lamb will follow.
LOCATION: Hoover Public Library, Meeting Room A and B. Free and open to the public.
Our speaker for December is James Lames, Curator of Paleontology at the Black Belt Museum and Professor of Zoology at the University of West Alabama. He will be speaking on “What happened in the world of paleontology in 2014.” Hoover Public Library, Meeting Room C. Free and open to the public.
Note: this is the 2nd Monday due to room reservation conflicts.
BPS members went to North Shelby Public Library, where they did a presentation to approximately 53 students and their parents. Riley Chandler gave the presentation on Dinosaurs, and Don
BPS traveled to Munford, AL one beautiful Sunday to do a lecture and fossil exhibit for the Alabama Freethought Society.
The teacher workshop was held near Selma, Alabama this year. It was taught by professors from the University of West Alabama and geologists from the Geological Survey of Alabama. Volunteers from BPS assisted with fo
Another trip back to the January location. Several members were psyched up about wanting to find another of the very large crinoid heads. Alas, while we found nice brachiopods and crinoid stems, no more heads were f
After a BBQ stop to warm up and fill our bellies, we proceeded to a site that contains some Frog Mountain formation. Most of our finds at this site were horned corals and trilobites, though many shells and various forms o
