Birmingham Paleontological Society

Our May speaker is Dr. Richard Carroll, an expert on coal systems at the Geological Survey of Alabama, who will present a lecture titled "The Secret Life and Death of Wood: Alabama's Petrified Wood".

The BPS business meeting starts at 6:30, and the program starts at 7:15pm.

SPEAKER: Dr. Richard Carroll

TITLE:  Lecture - "The Secret Life and Death of Wood: Alabama's Petrified Wood"

WHEN:  Monday, May 5, 2014, 7:15-8:15 pm

Our speaker for April is Dr. Andy Rindsberg, Associate Professor of Biological and Environmental Science at the University of West Alabama, who will speak on "Trilobite traces and not-trilobite traces." Hoover Public Library, Meeting Room A&B. Free and open to the public.

An opportunity for volunteers to work with paleontologists from East Tennessee State University and the General Shale Natural History Museum. 

Our speaker for March is James Lamb, Curator of Paleontology at the Black Belt Museum at the University of West Alabama, who will speak on "Lions and Tigers and Bears…Oh Miocene." Hoover Public Library, Meeting Room A&B. Free and open to the public.

February's program is titled "Piecing Together the Paleogeography of Coal Age Alabama." Speaker Jim Lacefield will examine the geography of Coal Age Alabama and highlight some of the factors that helped produce the rich and diverse record of fossilized life that existed here during the Pennsylvanian Period; factors that included the unusual tectonic and environmental changes that were taking place here during that time. LOCATION: Hoover Public Library, Meeting Room A&B. Free and open to the public.

Wetumpka Crater Events Set for January 30th to February 1st

If you have not been on a tour of the Wetumpka Impact Crater, you have missed a great history lesson. About 85 million years ago a very large meteor hit where Wetumpka sits today. It created a five-mile wide crater that is still visible near the city.

NOTE: The business meeting will be from 6:00-6:30, program will start at 6:45.

Our January meeting will be devoted primarily to our annual election of officers. A brief program by James Lamb will follow.

LOCATION: Hoover Public Library, Meeting Room A and B. Free and open to the public.

The annual Science Teacher Workshop was conducted by the University of West Alabama, and the Geological Survey of Alabama.  Volunteer assistance was provided by members of BPS.