The next regular meeting of the BPS will be Monday, November 3, 2008, 7-9 pm at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama.  Our speaker will be Dr. Mark Uhen, a paleontologist at the Alabama Museum of Natural History.  Dr. Uhen's specialty is the evolution of cetaceans (whales and dolphins).  His lecture is titled "Where Did Whales Come From?".

In October 2008, Dr. Uhen spoke on NPR's All Things Considered, on the topic "Legs Propelled Whale Ancestor".

The next regular meeting of the BPS will be Monday, October 6, 2008,
7-9pm at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama.  James Lamb,
Curator of Paleontology for McWane Science Center will be speaking on
"Fossil Preservation and Preservation of Fossils".
 
Free
parking, enter the McWane parking deck from 2nd Ave. NORTH and proceed
to yellow level "C".  Enter door marked "Special Events" and turn left
to the large auditorium.
 
Optional supper prior to the meeting

Nic Minter is a visiting paleontologist from the Univ. of Bristol in the UK. Dr. Minter specializes in coal-age fossil footprints/trackways. He is visiting the fossil trackways at McWane and the Alabama Museum of Natural History over the next few weeks and will be speaking at the Dept. of Geological Sciences' seminar on Wednesday, Sept. 24th. His talk will be held on the Univ. of Alabama campus in Smith Hall (the AL museum), room 205, at noon. The title of his talk will be: "Terrestrial trace fossils from the Permian of the southwest USA”.

Our speaker for the September 8th BPS meeting will be Sandy Ebersole, Geologist and Paleontologist from the Geological Survey of Alabama. The topic will be "The GSA Paleo Collection and Where it is Headed". (No, we are not meeting on Labor Day.)

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 the meeting. The program begins at

Fossil Workshop in SW Alabama

This fossil workshop is sponsored by the Geological Survey of Alabama, The University of West Alabama, and Discovering Alabama.

The cost of the workshop is $15. Science teachers will receive 8 CEU's, a field guidebook, Lost Worlds in Alabama Rocks
by Jim Lacefield, two Discovering Alabama DVDs, a geologic map of
Alabama, fact sheets on Alabama fossils, a box lunch, a fossil kit, and
more.