The February MAPS(Mid-America Paleontology Society) meeting will be held in Room 125 of Trowbridge Hall at the University of Iowa on February 9. The regular business meeting will run from 1-2 p.m. followed by a program by Bill Hickerson on the fossils of the Cedar Valley Formation. (Bill is familiar to many of you for his work on the Silurian soft-bodied fauna from Eastern Iowa)
EXPO XXX at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois
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The October MAPS (Mid-America Paleontology Society) meeting was held in conjunction with the fall field trip at Klein Quarry in Coralville Iowa on October 14.
March 30,31 & April 1 at Western Illinois University in
Macomb, Illinois
Theme: Dinosaurs.
Friday night's Keynote Speaker: Pete Larson
Chair: Steve Holley Co-Chair: Gil Norris
See the Expo 29 page for more information.
Location: Room 125 of Trowbridge Hall at the University of Iowa.
The regular business meeting will run from 1-2 p.m. followed by a program presented by Paul Liu and Bob McKay (research geologists from the Iowa Geological Survey) entitled "The Middle Ordivician Winneshiek Lagerstatte from the St. Peter Sandstone in northeast Iowa." This is one of the most significant fossil finds in Iowa history (from a paleontological perspective). Don't miss it!
Location: The Norton Geology Center on the Cornell College campus in Mt. Vernon, Iowa on January 20.
The regular business meeting will run from 1-2 p.m. followed by a program presented by Dr. Ben Greenstein - Professor and Geology Dept. Chair at Cornell. He has new data from his work on the coral reefs in Western Australia - as well as a story of the wreck of the Batavia which occurred on one of the islands where he worked. It is a story of murder, mutiny, intrique, survival and heroism - all integrated with fossils! Please note that this is at Cornell rather than at the University of Iowa. Speaker Link
Directions:
http://cornellcollege.edu/tours_maps/maps/static_map.shtml
The Norton Geology Bldg is basically on the corner of First St. W and Fifth
Ave. S
Mapquest gives a route turning left off of Hiway 1 on 2nd St SW and proceding to Fifth Ave. I would go a block further north on Hiway 1 to the stoplight (First St - which is the main street east and west thru town) - then turn west and proceed to Fifth Avenue. There is a small parking lot to the north of the Geology Bldg where we park.Then you have to walk up the hill to go in the front door on the south side of the building . The meeting room is right inside - the first door to the right.
From: N Dodge St & I 80 Iowa City, IA 52240 US
To: 5th Ave Sw & 1st St Nw Mount Vernon, IA 52314 US
1. Start out going NORTH on IA-1 N/N DODGE ST toward IA-1 S. Continue to
follow IA-1 N. (18.44 miles)
2. Turn LEFT onto 2ND ST SW. (0.26 miles)
3. Turn RIGHT onto 5TH AVE S. (0.07 miles)
4. End at 5th Ave Sw & 1st St Nw Mount Vernon, IA 52314 US
Total Estimated Time: 24 minutes
Total Distance: 18.77 miles
The meeting will be held in Room 125 of Trowbridge Hall at the University of Iowa on Saturday November 11. The regular business meeting will run from 1:30-2:30 p.m. followed by a program on "The progress of the sloth dig in Western Iowa" presented by Sarah Horgen, Education and Outreach Coordinator from the Museum of Natural History. There is a scheduled dig the weekend before so the program will be an up-to-date report. We have been invited to go across the street to the museum to see their sloth exhibit after the meeting. Please note that the meeting starts a half hour later than normal. Sloth Dig Link
The meeting was held in conjunction with the fall field trip at Klein Quarry in Coralville Iowa on October 15.
The November MAPS (Mid-America Paleontology Society) meeting will be held in Room 125 of Trowbridge Hall at the University of Iowa on November 10. The regular business meeting will run from 1:00-2:00 p.m. followed by a program by James Preslicka on the spectacular fossils(ammonoids, cephalopods, etc.) coming out of an eastern Iowa Devonian quarry this summer. Local collectors are being encouraged to bring some of their better specimens to the meeting for a show and tell.
The January MAPS (Mid-America Paleontology Society) meeting will be held in Room 125 of Trowbridge Hall at the University of Iowa on January 12. The regular business meeting will run from 1:00-2:00 p.m. followed by a program by Brian Witzke of the Iowa DNR on the Burlington Limestone.