Please make plans to join us on the last weekend of April!

 

This Year's Theme is A DECADE OF DISCOVERY

 

Please download the PDF Registration Form for complete details:

 

Registration Form

Utah Friends of Paleontology

Annual Meeting 2012

 

Natural History Museum of Utah

at the Rio Tinto Center

 

Salt Lake City, Utah

 

April 27 – 29, 2012

 

The meeting will take place in the beautiful new Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center. The museum is located in the University of Utah Research Park on the east side of the Salt Lake valley. This is a great opportunity for UFOP members from across the state, their families, and friends to explore the new museum and learn more about paleontological discoveries over the past decade. If you're not a UFOP member but you're interested, please consider registering. We'd be happy to welcome you!

 

Guest Speaker –

Joe Sertich, PhD

Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Digging Snowmastodon: A High Elevation Window into the Ice Age

Preview the 2012 Annual Meeting T-Shirt

Shirt design PDF (2-pages)

 

If you wish to join us at the banquet events and have yet to get tickets, we currently have an extremely limited number of tickets available.

 

Contact Martha Hayden immediately

(if not sooner):

 

marthahayden@utah.gov

 

 

Final Program for the Annual Meeting

(PDF)

 

How and Where to Register at the UFOP Annual Meeting:

 

All attendees need to register for the talks (includes museum admission for SATURDAY only).

 

• Friday night registration is in the "Confluence" lobby of the Frederick Albert Sutton Building, Geology & Geophysics (see map on this page).

 

• Saturday registration is in the Swaner Forum room on the Natural History Museum of Utah's 5th floor.

 

• At NHMU everyone will need a ticket to access the Swaner Forum room on the museum's 5th floor for UFOP activities, and to access the NHMU exhibit hall that day.

 

• Those in attendance who come in the morning (before 9:00 am) will be allowed access to the elevators without a ticket. Tickets will be provided at the registration table.

 

• Once NHMU staff arrives at the admissions desk at approximately 9:00 am, you will get your ticket there before you go to the 5th floor.

 

NHMU admissions staff will have a list of UFOP registrants.

 

The link below shows the NHMU floor plan:

 

Floor plan maps of the Natural History Museum of Utah (NHMU)

 

 

   Schedule*

Friday, April 27

12:00 - 1:30 pm – Executive board meeting

Room 303 of the University of Utah’s Geology Building (FASB)

2:00 and 3:00 pm – Tours available for the NHMU

Please sign up for an available time slot

5:00 - 7:00 pm – Registration and sign-in at the University of Utah’s Geology Building (FASB)

6:00 - 8:30 pm - Social gathering at the        University of Utah’s Geology Building (FASB)

Light refreshments. Parking is available on the west side of the building (See map in registration form) after 5:45 pm. Building tours will also be occurring.

 

Saturday, April 28 – Natural History Museum of Utah (NHMU)

7:00-9:00 am – Registration and sign-ins

8:00-9:00 am – General business meeting

The Business Meeting and Presentation Sessions will be on the 5th Floor of the NHMU

9:00 am-12:00 pm – Presentations

12:00-1:00 pm – Break for lunch on your own

Box lunches are available for purchase, please see pages 6-7 of registration form.

1:00-5:30 pm – Presentations

5:30 pm – Poster presenters can set up posters

The Poster Session/Social Event and Banquet will be located in the Canyon of the NHMU

6:00-7:30 pm – Social event/ poster session

7:30-10:00 pm – Banquet dinner

Guest Speaker – Joe Sertich, PhD

Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Digging Snowmastodon:

A High Elevation Window into the Ice Age

 

 

Sunday, April 29 – Field Trips

10:30 am – Field Trip to Spanish Fork Canyon:

Meet at NHMU Lower Lot to leave for Spanish Fork Canyon

12:00 pm – Arrive at Spanish Fork Canyon

(Meet at Little Acorn)

Have lunch on the outcrop (box lunches are available) and look for swim tracks and crinoids

2:00 pm – Leave outcrops and head home

*Schedule subject to change.

Updates will be posted on this web page.