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Photo of Masters student Colin Boisvert with yellow fall leaves behind him

February 9 — Great Basin Chapter Meeting — Talk by Colin Boisvert

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.

February 8, 2023

January 10 — Castle Country Chapter Meeting — Talk by Dr. Kathleen Ritterbush

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”.

January 4, 2023

December 8 — Great Basin Chapter Meeting with Speaker Randy Irmis

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.

November 16, 2022

November 29 — Castle Country Chapter meeting featuring new discoveries from 2022 field season

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

November 7, 2022

October 21 — Moab Science Festival Paleontology Event 9 AM at the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite

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.

October 18, 2022

February 9 — Great Basin Chapter Meeting — Talk by Colin Boisvert

January 10 — Castle Country Chapter Meeting — Talk by Dr. Kathleen Ritterbush

December 8 — Great Basin Chapter Meeting with Speaker Randy Irmis

November 29 — Castle Country Chapter meeting featuring new discoveries from 2022 field season

October 21 — Moab Science Festival Paleontology Event 9 AM at the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite

October 26 — Gastonia Chapter meeting, BLM Acting Field Manager Presenting Update on Mill Canyon Tracksite

October 13-16 Prehistoric Museum’s First Annual Fossil Fest (Price, Utah)

August 31 — Gastonia Chapter meeting, Dr. Joseph Peterson on the Cleveland Lloyd Quarry

“The Dinosaurs of Cedar Mountain” GoFundMe Campaign to Raise Seed Money for Book

April 12 — Castle Country Chapter meeting, speaker to be announced

March 31, Tate Geological Museum Spring Lecture Series with Josh Slattery

March 17, Online Meeting With Speaker Dr. Neil Shubin (hosted by Great Basin Chapter)