BPS May 1, 2006 Meeting
BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at the McWane Science Center.
Program: "I got Crabs in Lowndes County", the Ripley Formation, by Paleontologist James Lamb
Park in the deck on "Level C", go through doors marked Special Event Center, and follow signs to meeting. The business meeting begins at 7:00, followed by the program around 7:45 or 8pm.
Program: "I got Crabs in Lowndes County", the Ripley Formation, by Paleontologist James Lamb
Park in the deck on "Level C", go through doors marked Special Event Center, and follow signs to meeting. The business meeting begins at 7:00, followed by the program around 7:45 or 8pm.
Date:
Monday, May 1, 2006 - 7:00pm
April 1, 2006 - Cretaceous Fossils, Russell Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Tue, 04/04/2006 - 11:00pmOn a gray, overcast day that began with morning drizzle in Birmingham, and an unscheduled side trip to Georgia (don't ask), several BPS members participated in a paleontological salvage operation in Russell county, Alabama. When the sun came out full force later in the day, it made us appreciate the cloud cover!
BPS April 3, 2006 Meeting
BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at the McWane Science Center.
Program: Video: The Burgess Shale
Park in the deck on "Level C", go through doors marked Special Event Center, and follow signs to meeting. The business meeting begins at 7:00, followed by the program around 7:45 or 8pm.
Program: Video: The Burgess Shale
Park in the deck on "Level C", go through doors marked Special Event Center, and follow signs to meeting. The business meeting begins at 7:00, followed by the program around 7:45 or 8pm.
Date:
Monday, April 3, 2006 - 7:00pm
March 18, 2006 - Mississippian Fossils, St. Clair Co, AL
Submitted by Nancy Kenfield Lea on Sun, 03/19/2006 - 11:00pmBPS members collected in St. Clair county,
Alabama this
month.
The weather started out a little chilly, but turned into a
perfect, pleasant day. The first stop was a
Mississippian
age road cut, where geologic uplift is obvious. There we
found several varieties of coral, including quite a few large
horned coral, brachiopods, and sponges in layers of the
BPS has a New Meeting Location
Submitted by admin2 on Mon, 03/06/2006 - 11:00pmBPS members voted at last night's business meeting to begin meeting at McWane Science Center, instead of the Homewood Public Library.
BPS March 6, 2006 Meeting
BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month. This month we will be meeting at the McWane Science Center.
Program: Tour of the Alabama Collections Center at McWane Science Center, by Paleontologist James Lamb
Park in the deck on "Level C", go through doors marked Special Event Center, and follow signs to meeting. The business meeting begins at 7:00, followed by the program around 7:45 or 8pm.
Program: Tour of the Alabama Collections Center at McWane Science Center, by Paleontologist James Lamb
Park in the deck on "Level C", go through doors marked Special Event Center, and follow signs to meeting. The business meeting begins at 7:00, followed by the program around 7:45 or 8pm.
Date:
Monday, March 6, 2006 - 7:00pm
Change of Meeting Location
Submitted by admin on Sun, 03/05/2006 - 11:00pmOn March 6, 2006, BPS members
voted to begin meeting
at the McWane Science Center, rather than Homewood Public Library,
effective immediately. This was a hard decision for us, since the
HPL had been home to us for so long, but McWane offers us access to a
professional paleontology staff and lab. As we leave, we
want to say a HUGE "Thank you" to HPL for all the help and
support over the years, to the helpful and concerned staff and the
wonderful facilities they always made available to us. HPL is one
of the greatest community assets we have here in Birmingham.
February 18, 2006 - Pennsylvanian Fossils, Bibb and Shelby Co, AL
Submitted by Nancy Kenfield Lea on Sun, 02/19/2006 - 11:00pmAnother trip not put off for "rain, nor sleet, nor snow etc." Near-freezing temperatures, 100% chance of rain, an overcast sky and icy drizzle to begin the day were all on the menu at the BPS field trip in February to strip-mine sites in Bibb and Shelby county. To give you an idea of what we decided to brave, our host at our first
BPS February 6, 2006 Meeting
BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at the Homewood Public Library. Meeting is downstairs, in room 101.
Program "Vegetation and Climate of the Cretaceous" by James Lamb, a BPS founder, currently Curator of Paleontology, McWane Science Center .
Program "Vegetation and Climate of the Cretaceous" by James Lamb, a BPS founder, currently Curator of Paleontology, McWane Science Center .
Date:
Monday, February 6, 2006 - 7:00pm
January 14, 2006 - Cambrian Fossils, Cherokee Co, AL
Submitted by Nancy Kenfield Lea on Thu, 01/19/2006 - 11:00pmNeither rain, nor sleet nor snow
nor lake wind advisories will deter
the BPS from hitting a favorite NE Alabama site. No kidding
about the
snow! As we assembled in the morning at the rest area little
flakes
were seen drifting down. We all bundled up and headed
out
anyway. In spite of the weather, we had a great
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