Our next meeting of the Castle Country Chapter of Utah Friends of Paleontology will be next Tuesday, February 14th at 7 pm in the Prehistoric Museum classroom. Our speaker, Rob Gaston, will be presenting “The Discovery of Gastonia and Dinosaur Reconstruction.” Click to read the full post with meeting details.
Speaker Colin Boisvert, MSc will present—
“Around the Neck Bend: Working on the Biomechanical Analysis of the Neck of Apatosaurus excelsus using BYU 18531 as a Case Study”
Join the Great Basin Chapter, Utah Friends of Paleontology, February 9 at 7:00 PM for our first hybrid meeting of 2023. Our guest speaker in-person and online at the Utah Core Center will be Colin D. Boisvert, MSc student in Vertebrate Paleontology at Brigham Young University.
Our first Castle Country UFOP meeting will be next Tuesday, January 10 at 7 pm in the Prehistoric Museum classroom. Our speaker will be Dr. Kathleen Ritterbush, associate professor in geology at the University of Utah. Her presentation is entitled “Ammonite Renaissance: How Technology and Imagination Are Changing Our View of Ancient Seas”.
Our last meeting of the year will be Thursday, December 8 at 7 pm in the Utah Core Center. Randy Irmis, PhD will be our speaker and this will be a hybrid meeting available for online attendance.
Our last meeting of the year will be Tuesday, November 29th at 7 pm in the Prehistoric Museum classroom. Josh Lively, PhD will be presenting on and showing off some new discoveries from this year’s field season, including the focus of my talk: New Contributions to the Fossil Assemblage of the Upper Cretaceous Neslen Formation, Book Cliffs, Utah
Our business meeting will include updates on our financial status, two new volunteer opportunities that are in the works, and an update from the BLM Moab Field Office on the situation at the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracks Site. Following the business meeting, Andy Connolly with NHMU will present “From the Field to the Classroom: How to Inspire a New Generation of Paleontology Detectives through Inquiry-Based Learning.”
The Castle Valley Chapter’s December 14, meeting features a talk by Dr. Josh Lively, Curator of Paleontology, Prehistoric Museum and Chapter Advisor. Dr. Lively’s talk is titled: “A Year Under Our Boots: Highlights from the Prehistoric Museum’s 2021 Paleo Fieldwork.”
The Castle Valley Chapter’s December 14, meeting features a talk by Dr. Josh Lively, Curator of Paleontology, Prehistoric Museum and Chapter Advisor. Dr. Lively’s talk is titled: “A Year Under Our Boots: Highlights from the Prehistoric Museum’s 2021 Paleo Fieldwork.”
The Utah Friends of Paleontology Castle Valley Chapter’s November 9 meeting will feature a talk by Benn Breeden, PhD candidate, University of Utah. The title of Benn’s talk is TBA. The meetings are held at USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum, 155 E Main St, Price, Utah.
The Castle Country Chapter’s October 12 meeting will feature a talk by Dr. Gussie Maccracken, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Dr. Maccracken’s talk is titled, “The inconspicuous herbivores of the Kaiparowits Formation: how plant–insect associations shaped Late Cretaceous ecosystems.”