Our speaker for February is Andy Rindsberg. Associate Professor of Biology at the University of West Alabama. Hoover Public Library, Fitzgerald Room. Business meeting starts at 7:00, program at 7:30pm. Free and open to the public
The PRRA is a set of rules regarding fossil collecting on federal lands.
A sister project of The FOSSIL Project, iDigBio is hosting a webinar focused on the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act, featuring Dr. Scott Foss who is the Senior Paleontologist at the Bureau of Land Management. The webinar is scheduled for Thursday, 19 January, 3:00 p.m. EST, 2:00 p.m. CST.
The business meeting, including elections and installation of officers, will begin at 7pm.
Our speaker for December is Drew Gentry, instructor and PhD student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Hoover Public Library, Shakespeare Room. Business meeting starts at 7:00, program at 7:30pm. Free and open to the public.
Our speaker for November is Dr. Delores Robinson, Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Hoover Public Library, Theater Conference Room. Business meeting starts at 7:00pm, program starts at 7:30pm. Free and open to the public.
The annual Fossil Teacher Workshop held jointly by the University of West Alabama and the Geologic Survey of Alabama was held at a gully site this year, and was set up a bit differently. After the morning lecture, teacher
The Alabama Museum of Natural History hosts an annual National Fossil Day event in the Grand Gallery. BPS set up an exhibit table, as did numerous groups from around the area. This year, BPS highlighted photos of th
The BPS August field trip was to the UA museum archives in Tuscaloosa, where we were treated to a behind the scenes look at the collections. Many items are from the 1800's or early 1900's, so their preservation is remarka
Our speaker for Monday, October 3rd will be Dr. David Kopaska-Merkel, geologist at the Geological Survey of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. The title of his presentation is "Stalking Chesterian Monsters." The business meeting will be from 7:00 to 7:30; the public program is from 7:30-8:30.
Though he will not be speaking on the topic, Dr. Kopaska-Merkel is one of the authors of the new edition of "Footprints in Stone: Fossil Traces of Coal-Age Tetrapods" textbook.