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.”
May 9 — Castle Country Chapter meeting with speaker Joe Bonsor, Natural History Museum, presenting “British iguanadontid dinosaurs and their kin”
Castle Country Chapter’s March 15 speaker: Dr. Evey Gannaway Dalton, USU Eastern, Salt Tectonics and Sedimentation (title TBA)
Castle Country Chapter’s Feb. 8, 2022 speaker is Tylor Birthisel, paleontologist with the Natural History Museum of Utah.
Our February speaker, Beth Townsend, PhD, is a professor at Midwestern University – Glendale, AZ campus.
Our UFOP monthly meetings in Moab will resume on January 26th at 6:00 PM in the Front Conference Room of the Grand Center at 180 North 500 West with speaker Julia B. McHugh, Ph.D. – Curator of Paleontology, Museums of Western Colorado (Fruita, Co.)
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.”