If you're looking for Alabama fossils, this is the place to come!
Exciting field trips, educational programs on paleontology and geology, and interesting people to meet! No prior knowledge required, just a desire to learn and a love of fossils and the outdoors. Professionals and novices of all ages are welcome.
Our speaker for May is TBA
The program begins at 7:00, followed by the business meeting at 8:00 pm. Hoover Public Library, downstairs, Fitzgerald Conference Room. Free and open to the public.
Our speaker for March is Chase Egli, a Geology grad student currently working on his masters. Chase is well known for his expertise in sharks.
The program begins at 7:00, followed by the business meeting at 8:00 pm. Hoover Public Library, downstairs, Fitzgerald Conference Room. Free and open to the public.
BPS members visited a new Pennsylvanian site in Jefferson County, where mostly coal age plant fossils were found, including stigmaria, lepidodendron, and some other bark patterns. The weather was absolutely perfect; we couldn'
Our speaker for March is Dr. Christina Robins, a geoscientist at UA, and the world expert on fossil squat lobsters. Her program will be: "Crossroads of Land and Sea: Fieldwork Stories and Fossil Finds from the Panama Canal Expansion Project"
The program begins at 7:00, followed by the business meeting at 8:00 pm. Hoover Public Library, downstairs, Fitzgerald Conference Room. Free and open to the public.
Come see exhibits from all around the south at the 22nd Annual Fossil Road show at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson, MS.
Our speaker for February is Dr. Adiel Klompmaker, curator of paleontology at Alabama Museum of Natural History. He will be speaking on "Late Cretaceous crocodilians, plesiosaurs, turtles, and mosasaurs from the Alabama Museum of Natural History collection"
The program begins at 7:00, followed by the business meeting at 8:00 pm. Hoover Public Library, downstairs, Theatre Conference Room. Free and open to the public.
