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.”
Our speaker for September 29th will be Rob Gaston, owner of Gaston Design, Inc in Fruita, CO and discoverer of Gastonia burgei. We will meet at 6:00 PM in the Front Conference Room of the Grand Center in Moab, 182 North 500 West.
Our speaker for the August 25th UFOP Gastonia Chapter meeting will be Josh Lively, Curator of Paleontology at USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum in Price. We will meet at 6:00 PM in the Front Conference Room of the Grand Center in Moab, 182 North 500 West.
The UFOP Gastonia Chapter is pleased to announce its July 28, 2021 chapter meeting speaker will be Josh Hansen, Manager of Utahraptor State Park. Josh will review for us the current status and plans for the new park, plus answer your questions. 6:00 PM in the Front Conference Room at the Grand Center, 182 North 500 West in Moab.
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