Heads up everyone! The Alabama Museum of Natural History will hold their annual National Fossil Day Event in the Grand Gallery on November 2, 2024. BPS, along with many other groups, will showcase fossils from their collections. There are several kid friendly events, including a fossil dig, give-aways, and art tables. The 2024 Alabama Avocational Paleontologist Award will be presented to BPS this year, and there will be a dinosaur movie, "Why Dinosaurs" documentary, followed by a Q&A with the producer, Tony Pinto. As more details become available, they will be posted.
Here is a preliminary schedule:
The 2024 theme is dinosaurs!
As many people know, BPS members discovered a new species of hadrosaur dinosaur on one of our field trips in 2007. It was one of our most exciting digs, and provided the research community with an entirely new species of dinosaur to study, Eotrachodon orientalis, which means “dawn rough tooth from the east.”
Here is a link to the 2023 Fossil Day Event at the Alabama Museum of Natural History, to give you an idea of what to expect.
| Alabama’s 2024 National Fossil Day Schedule Saturday November 2nd - University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Math Science Education Building Auditorium: Alabama Avocational Paleontologist Award Presentation by Dr. Adiel Klompmaker followed immediately by introduction and showing of Why Dinosaurs documentary (72 min) followed by Q&A. Producer Tony Pinto will be present. 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Grand Gallery of Smith Hall (Alabama Museum of Natural History): fossil exhibits and kids activities. Raffle at end for small bits of dinosaur bone from out west. Parking on the University of Alabama campus on Saturday is free! Parking spots are available behind Smith Hall, next to the Math and Science Education Building and next to Lloyd Hall. |