Guided tour of the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracks Site (about 6 miles north of Moab) on September 15th, 8:30 -10 a.m. This is a 2023 Moab Festival of Science event, hosted by the UFOP Gastonia Chapter.
Park Manager Joshua Hansen will be hosting a Utahraptor State Park booth in the gymnasium of the Margaret Hopkin Junior High School in Moab from 8 AM to 2:30 PM. UFOP members will be assisting to discuss the Utahraptor adult and juvenile fossil legs we’ll be displaying. This event is part of the 2023 Moab Festival of Science.
Rescheduled from April’s meeting, paleontology reconstruction artist Rob Gaston will be the featured speaker at Gastonia Chapter’s Monthly Meeting, Wednesday September 27, 6:00 p.m. at Moab’s Grand Center.
Andrew RC Milner from St George Dinosaur Discovery Center, will present “The End-Triassic Extinction and the Rise of Dinosaurs in the American Southwest.” Join us at Gastonia Chapter’s Monthly Meeting, Wednesday June 28, 6:00 p.m. at Moab’s Grand Center.
Julia McHugh from Museums of Western Colorado will give a talk comparing results from quarries in WY, CO and UT including the Dalton Wells site within Utahraptor State Park. Also, Park Manager Joshua Hansen from Utahraptor State Park discussing current plans and new funding. Join us at Gastonia Chapter’s Monthly Meeting, Wednesday June 28, 6:00 p.m. at Moab’s Grand Center.
The next meeting of the Castle Country Chapter of UFOP will be next Tuesday, May 23 at 7 pm in the Prehistoric Museum classroom. Our speaker will be Dr. Ryan King, adjunct professor at Western Colorado University. His presentation is titled: “The Role of Trace Fossil Analysis in Deciphering Mesozoic Paleoecology in the U.S. Western Interior”.
Join the Great Basin Chapter of Utah Friends of Paleontology for and online-only meeting Thursday May 18, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Speaker: Joseph Peterson, Ph.D.
“Dino-Sores: Inferring Dinosaur Behavior
from Injuries and Feeding Traces”
Paleontology reconstruction artist Rob Gaston will be the featured speaker at Gastonia Chapter’s Monthly Meeting, Wednesday April 26, 6:00 p.m. at Moab’s Grand Center.
Our next meeting of the Castle Country Chapter of Utah Friends of Paleontology will be next Tuesday, March 28th at 7 pm in the Prehistoric Museum classroom. Our guest speaker will be visiting researcher Dr. Michael D’Emic, Associate Professor at Adelphi University. Dr. D’Emic’s presentation is titled:
“The Evolution and Development of Gigantic and Miniature Theropod Dinosaurs.”
UFOP Great Basin Chapter with speaker Ethan Cowgill — Geological Technicial, Utah Geological Survey
“A New Face for the ‘Savage Reptile’: Cranial Anatomy of a New Specimen of the Jurassic theropod Torvosaurus”
Thursday April 13, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Online & In-Person
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.