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
October 21 — Moab Science Festival Paleontology Event 9 AM at the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite: UFOP Gastonia Chapter is sponsoring a guided tour of the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite by ReBecca Hunt-Foster, Park Paleontologist at Dinosaur National Monument.
BLM update on Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite and showing of PBS Nova’s “Dinosaur Apocalypse — the Last Day” at the Gastonia Chapter Monthly Meeting, Wednesday October 26.
First Annual Fossil Fest, Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah — October 13-16, 2022. The Prehistoric Museum will host a free day with activities, museum tours, speakers, and more!
August 31 at 6:00 PM – Gastonia Chapter (Moab) Meeting with Dr. Joe Peterson presenting, “Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry: A Re-Evaluation of a Dinosaur Death Pit.”
A team is rasing seed money to create a new popular book about Utah’s Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation. Learn more about this project and visit it’s GoFundMe page.
April 12 — Castle Country Chapter meeting, Dr. Janet Bertog is our speaker
Our March speaker, Neil Shubin, PhD, is a paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer.
Our March speaker, Neil Shubin, PhD, is a paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer.
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.”