Birmingham Paleontological Society

A teacher workshop in Livingston Alabama on Tuesday, October 18, will provide experience collecting and identifying fossils from the fossiliferous limestone chalks of south Alabama. All teachers who feel this experience and the materials they receive in the classroom will assist them back in their own schools are welcome to attend.

Workshop presented by the Geological Survey of Alabama, the University of Alabama, Discovering Alabama, the Black Belt Museum, the Alabama Geological Society, and with volunteer help from the Birmingham Paleontological Society.

Paleontologist James Lamb will be our speaker at the September 12th meeting.  James is currently the Curator of Paleontology at The Black Belt Museum in Livingston, Alabama.  He is also an Adjunct Professor of Zoology at the University of West Alabama.   His lecture tonight is titled "Exotic Terranes: How Continental Drift left seafloor, volcanic islands, and part of Africa in Alabama,

Report to come... Photos now posted.

Report to come... Photos now posted.

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Jun Ebersole, Collections Manager at McWane Science Center, will present a lecture titled "Late Pleistocene Mammals of Alabama" at the Monday, August 1, 2011 meeting of the Birmingham

Dr. Brad Deline, Assistant Professor at the University of West Georgia, will present a lecture titled "Crinoids Through Time" at the Monday, July 11, 2011 meeting of the Birmingham

The following article is not comment from an expert on alligators, but from a BPS member who believes that more alligator handbags and matching shoes might not be so bad, and its posting also stems from a bit of healthy paranoia.  Those of us who are outside often become familiar with lurking dangers, but visitors to our outings and perhaps newer members need some education.  This article cou

Dr. Henry Barwood, currently Professor of Earth Science at Troy State University, will present a lecture titled "Microstructure of Fossil Bone and Teeth" at the Monday, June 6, 2011 meeting of the Birmingham Paleontological Society.  Dr. Barwood has done extensive research in rock staining techniques, fluorescence and luminescence in minerals, structure of pegmatites, turquoise and other copper minerals from various states, and has researched the phosphate minerals of Cherokee County, Alabama.  

Dr. Takehito Ikejiri, from the University of Michigan, will be our guest speaker on May 2, 2011.  Dr. Ikejiri "Ike" is currently conducting research in Alabama on the morphology and structure