October 3, 2011 - Guest Speaker - Thomas Lang
Our guest speaker will be Thomas Lang, owner of Carto-Craft, the best source of maps in this area. His lecture is titled "Progression of Mapping". He has been in the mapping business for 25 years and is an expert on the mapping process, from ancient hand drawn maps to modern day maps using satellites.
WHO: Thomas Lang, owner of Carto-Craft maps
WHAT: Lecture - "Progression of Mapping"
WHEN: Monday, October 3, 2011, 7:00-8:00 pm
July 30, 2011 - Cretaceous Fossils - Dallas Co, AL
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Science Teacher Workshop - Fossils of the Black Belt
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.
Sept 12, 2011 - Guest Speaker - James Lamb
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,
May 28-29, 2011 - Cretaceous Fossils - Butler Co, AL
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May 7, 2011 - Mississippian Fossils, Morgan Co, AL
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April 2, 2011 - Cretaceous Fossils, Union Co, MS
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August 1, 2011 Meeting - Guest Speaker - Jun Ebersole
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
July 11, 2011 Meeting - Guest Speaker - Dr. Brad Deline
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
Alligator Education
Submitted by Leisa Whitlow on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 2:42pmThe 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
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