On March 31, thirteen BPS members and guests had the pleasure of visiting a working limestone quarry in Morgan County. The weather was superb, the attendees were enthusiastic and the fossils were everywhere! The fossils found
Our speaker for April is James Lamb, Director of the Black Belt Museum at the University of West Alabama who will speak on “Climate Change Throughout Geologic Time”.
Hoover Public Library, Fitzgerald Room, downstairs. Business meeting 7pm, program 7:30pm. Free and open to the public.
For the February field trip, six stalwart fossil hunters ignored the gloomy forecast and journeyed through a storm front to a lovely Franklin County lake site. As it turned out, the weather was perfectly suited to fossil hunti
Our speaker for March is Dr. Brian Axsmith, Professor of Biology at the University of South Alabama. Dr. Axsmith will speak on “A Rare Miocene Plant Fossil Site from Mississippi.”
Hoover Public Library, Downstairs, Fitzgerald Room. Business meeting at 7 pm, program at 7:30 pm. Free and open to the public.
The annual Fossil Road Show will be held in Jackson, MS at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. BPS will be one of the exhibitors. Professional paleontologists will be on hand to identify your unknown fossils and rocks. The speaker will be micropaleontologist Dr. Mark Puckett.
Our speaker for February is Dr. Fred Andrus, Professor of Geology and Department Chair in Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama. Dr. Andrus will speak on “Fossil Growth and Chemistry as Windows into Past Climate and Ecology.”
Hoover Public Library, Fitzgerald Room, downstairs. Business meeting starts at 7:00, program at 7:30pm. Free and open to the public
Last trip to the gullies before hunting season starts.
Our speaker for December is Dr. Tom Tobin, Assistant Professor in Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama. Dr. Tobin will discuss the geochemistry of ammonite fossils, and what they tell us about ammonite biology and life history. Hoover Public Library, Fitzgerald Room. Free and open to the public.
