Birmingham Paleontological Society

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.

Please note - the March meeting will be on TUESDAY March 5, due to library room reservation conflicts on Monday.

Our speaker will be Dr. Fred Andrus - “Behavior insights from Alabama ammonite aptychi geochemistry”.

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BPS is now using https:// in our URL instead of http://.  This will make the site more secure, and all passwords will be encrypted.  In the past, a number of educational organizations (and a few ot

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