Birmingham Paleontological Society

Dr. Jim Lacefield will be our featured speaker at the February 7 BPS meeting.  Dr. Lacefield is the author of "Lost Worlds in Alabama Rocks; a Guide to the State's Ancient Life and Landscapes".

BPS members headed to St. Clair County this month to search for Devonian fossils.  With the past week having numerous days below freezing, we were hoping the predicted 48 degrees would be bearable.  It actually turned out to be a very pleasant sunny day.  After a too-long hiatus from fossil trips, we had members showing up from Huntsville, Birmingham, Mobile, Anniston, Montgomery, and Georgia to spend the day outside digging in the dirt.  Quite literally!   We had been asked to collect soil samples for Jun Ebersole so the first order of business was to collect baggies of dirt.

UA ALLELE Lecture Series Continues with NC State Biologist Mary Schweitzer

Dr. Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University will present her lecture, "T. Rex Under the Microscope: A New Look at an Old Dinosaur," Jan. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology Building auditorium on The University of Alabama campus. Schweitzer is a professor of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences at North Carolina State University. Her presentation is the third in the 2010-2011 Alabama Lectures on Life's Evolution, known as ALLELE.

The next meeting of the BPS will be Monday, January 3, 2011, 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 2011.  The Awards Committee will be honoring numerous individuals for their various contributions to the group, including hard work and events that provided us with hours of laughter and entertainment!

The incoming Republican majority in the House of Representatives has selected the National Science Foundation

The next regular meeting of the BPS is Monday, December 6, 2010, 7-9 pm at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama.

Dr. Travis Lee Clark is an artist in Big Bend, Texas, who posts videos showing the basic techniques of drawing pterosaurs, pterodactyls, sauropods,

During September and early October, BPS members had several field trips to find fossils and help excavate in the Cretaceous gullies of Dallas County.  Over a period of several days (September 19, 24, 26, October 1, 2, 3) a turtle and mosasaur were excavated.  Also, a number of other fossils were found, including shark teeth, upper and lower Xiphactinus fish jaw with teeth, a variety of shells

The next regular meeting of the BPS is Monday, November 1, 2010, 7-9 pm at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama.

UPDATE - The workshop will begin at 9AM instead of 8AM.