Birmingham Paleontological Society

Our speaker for July 1 is Bethany Cobb Faulk.  

This meeting is free and open to the public.

Business meeting starts at 7pm, program will begin around 7:30.  

Hoover Public Library, 200 Municipal Drive, Hoover, AL  35216, Downstairs, Fitzgerald Meeting Room.

Our speaker for June 3rd is Maddy Dissinger, an undergraduate student at UA.  Her presentation title is "My Museum Journey: ALMNH, Yale, and Beyond".  Ms. Dissinger is majoring in Biology, while concurrently in the Accelerated Master’s Program earning her Master’s degree.

This meeting is free and open to the public.

Rain has been forecast all week... today was no exception! A planned fossil hunt for BPS on a creek, to hunt Cretaceous Period marine fossils! 88% chance of rain, and of course Alabama weather can turn on a dime! It turned out to be a gorgeous, pleasent day for the most part, and surprisingly the water levels weren't that bad either considering all the rain we'd been getting!

Our speaker for May is Dr. George Phillips, Curator of Paleontology, Mississippi Museum of Natural Science .  The program title is: "Smith Co, MS Lime Pit".

This meeting is free and open to the public.

Business meeting starts at 7pm, program will begin around 7:30.  

Two hours of hunting time was allowed on this trip. We covered a lot of literal ground and found lots of fossils and then some! Three BPS members enjoyed the hunt because there were so many Carboniferous Period fossils to find! 3D Calamites, Stigmaria and fern fossils were abundant and what a day it was! It was an overcast day with a cool breeze, so the temperature was pleasant. I found a pile of shale and found lots of fern fossils, large slabs I had to say no to because I have no room to store them.

BPS was invited by Adiel at the University of Alabama to hunt the chalk gullies of South Alabama Saturday... couldn't of asked for better weather! Wow! It turned out to be a gorgeous day, with the weather cooperating and temperature not steaming hot like it usually is on days like this in the South. About 20 enthusiastic people showed up for this event including 6 if Adiel's students to hunt fossils as well and meet some of us who does this for a hobby.

It was a gorgeous day to go creek hunting in Mississippi with BPS! We were the first ones, all seven members there and had the park to ourselves up till around 3ish. The water that morning was freezing cold, but our bodies acclimated to it, and it helped the temperature shot up to 78 degrees! After 3ish, about 20 people showed up to party with us... got a lil' crowded, but most left after an hour. Pictured is my haul for the day, all were found under the bridge where it has been picked over... the secret is ya gotta dig a lil' deeper!

Our speaker for April is Chase Egli, a Geology grad student currently working on his masters.  The program title is: "Updates on Chondrycthian Research in North Alabama".

This meeting is free and open to the public.

Business meeting starts at 7pm, program will begin around 7:30.  

Hoover Public Library, 200 Municipal Drive, Hoover, AL  35216, Downstairs, Fitzgerald Meeting Room.