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
To our members - we plan to use the website to keep you informed of the latest information from the meetings, including preliminary field trip information. This information is only available to logged-in users, so please log-in periodically to keep yourself informed.
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.
Program by Jun Ebersole - Preview of the next major McWane Science Center Exhibit - Alabama Cretaceous Dinosaurs, which is expected to open around March 14, 2008.
B P S
T-SHIRT
CONTEST
2008
It's time for you to get started
on your
sketch for the BPS T-Shirt
Contest!
Remember your submission is due on or before the
December 3, 2007 BPS meeting.
The current drought brought us to a favourite site in the Conasauga formation in Cherokee County, hoping that low water levels would have exposed more finds.
On Monday, October 29, 2007, Dr. Roger Sauterer will present a noon lecture titled Fast Times in the Cretaceous: The Life and Times of Tyrannosaurus rex. The seminar will be held at UAB, in the Alumni Auditorium at Hill University Center. The lecture is sponsored by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.
A number of Birmingham attendees, including nine members and guests of BPS, made their way to the Anniston Museum of Natural History Thursday night to hear James Lamb speak on Alabama Dinosaurs. James is Curator of Paleontology at McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama. After the lecture, we visited with the special exhibit "A T. rex Named Sue" then toured the rest of the museum. Sue is on loan from The Field Museum in Chicago through January 6, 2008.
Late Friday night, October 19th, the old familiar BPS website was retired, and the new, improved version was moved into production. The new BPS website uses a Content Management System to manage the pages and photos, and provides a means for members to easily and quickly post information on the site. The site now boasts a calendar to keep up with fossil related events, and a sneak preview o
Organization: Anniston Museum of Natural History
For immediate release
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Museum's Special Lecture Series Continues
Anniston, AL - Thursday, October 18, from 6-7:30pm, Anniston Museum will present the second in its Special Lecture Series in conjunction with the "A T. rex Named Sue" exhibit. Dr. James Lamb, vertebrate paleoecologist and Curator of Paleontology at McWane Science Center in Birmingham, will lecture on the dinosaurs of Alabama.
The Sea Monsters exhibit that opened at McWane Science Center on October 5, 2007 took many months of hard work by McWane Science Center employees and others. One afternoon of this months-long effort was captured on film, and is presented here for your enjoyment.
(photos courtesy Vicki and Chris Lais)
