Birmingham Paleontological Society

Sean Lytle is an Economic Development Analyst for the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama.  His lecture is titled "GIS:  More than Making Pretty Maps".  You are probably familiar with GIS from Google Maps, where you can take a basic map and overlay roads, waterways, tornado paths, population density, even the Geologic Map of Alabama.  Sean will discuss how GIS can be used

Ryan Pierce, Professional Photographer, will speak at the April meeting of the Birmingham Paleontological Society.  The lecture will cover photographing geologic formations and small fossils with poor light or contrast, close-ups, and composition ideas.  Bring your cameras, flashes, lights and other camera gear and find out how to take better pictures with what you have.

The program starts at 7pm, to be followed by our business meeting around 8pm.

 WHO: Ryan B. Pierce, Professional Photographer

WHAT:  Lecture - "Photography Techniques"

Mike Goodson, author, journalist, storyteller, and avid shark tooth collector, will be our speaker for March.  His lecture is titled "In Search of Megalodon Sharks, Prehistoric To Present", and he will talk about the interesting quest for the giant Megalodon Shark tooth.  His impressive collection is on display at McWane Science Center near the paleo lab.  Come hear about these gia

Over 60 replica and moving museum quality dinosaurs will take over the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center this weekend.  BPS has nothing to do with the show, but wanted to pass the information along

Our speaker for February will be James Lamb, paleontologist at the University of West Alabama, who will present a lecture on "Fantastic, Freaky Fossils - the Deeply Weird World of Paleozoic Sharks".  This is an introduction to the type of sharks we will be finding on summer digs.   The program starts at 7pm, to be followed by our business meeting around 8pm.  Note: we will be meeting in a different room at McWane this month, the Rushton Theater. 

WHO: James Lamb, paleontologist, University of West Alabama

Due to various scheduling conflicts, the next meeting of the BPS will be Monday, January 16, 2012, 7-9 pm at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama.  

This will be a concurrent Annual Meeting, Directors Meeting, and Regular Business meeting.  We will elect and install officers for 2012.  The Awards Committee will be honoring numerous individuals for their various contributions to the group, including hard work and memorable events.  No speaker for this meeting.

UPDATED: Tonight on The History Channel - American Pickers: Jurassic Pick - a 65 million year-old dinosaur bone is found.  George Phillips, Paleontology Curator at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science will discuss the fossil fin

Jun Ebersole, Collections Manager at McWane Science Center, will present a lecture titled “Teeth: The Identification of Mammals from Archaeological and Fossil Sites” at the Monday, December 5, 2011 meeting of the Birmingham Paleontological Society.  Jun Ebersole is a paleoanthropologist who has done extensive research of the mammals found in Alabama's Pleistocene

BPS members took a long weekend and on Saturday the group collected in 3 Eocene sites in Mississippi, finding echinoids, sand dollars, coral, worm tubes, crabs, oyster, gastropods, fish vertebra, and one shark vertebra.  Then on Sunday the group visited a couple of tourist locations - the Mississippi Petrified Forest in Flora, MS, and the Mississippi Museum of Natural History in Jackson, MS.