The 2017 Fossil Teacher Workshop held jointly by the University of West Alabama and the Geologic Survey of Alabama In Dallas County, Alabama. Students attended a lecture in the morning, then went into the field to learn about
Kilauea volcano is erupting near Puna, Hawaii, and Honolulu Civil Beat has set up a live camera in someone's back yard about 1/2 mile from fissures 20 and 17. It's mesmerizing! Their HST is 5 hours behind Birmingham, Alabama CDT.
Live Video: Kilauea Lava Flow Activity In Lower Puna Hawaii
The feed sometimes goes down for short periods of time, so if it's stopped, check back in a few minutes.
Our speaker for June is Dr. Andy Rindsberg, Associate Professor of Environmental Geology and Paleontology at the University of West Alabama, who will speak on "Trace Fossils of Portugal." Hoover Public Library, Fitzgerald Room. Free and open to the public.
THIS SPEAKER HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER 2018.
Our speaker for May is Dr. Jason Heaton, professor of Biology at Birmingham Southern College.
Hoover Public Library, Fitzgerald Room, Downstairs. Business meeting at 7:00 pm, program at 7:30. Free and open to the public.
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 hunting with partly sunny
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.
