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SUMMARY:WIPS Contingent to the Tate Museum Conference
DESCRIPTION:Dates: May 29th – 31st – One day of speakers and two days of field trips. Saturday evening includes a dinner and Keynote Speaker Kirk Johnson. \nTheme: Twilight of the Dinosaurs: Terrestrial Life in the Cretaceous \nLeader:  Dennis Gertenbach \nLocation: Tate Museum\, 125 College Drive\, Casper\, WY 82601. \nLodging: The Ramkota Hotel in Casper is the host hotel. The Keynote Dinner will be held there. They also have a shuttle available to bring folks to the Casper College campus\, as long as there is no airport shuttle at that time. The number is 307-266-6000. \nField Trip(s): Still being finalized. One will include the Lance Formation area in eastern Wyoming. We will visit sites that have been worked on by Tate Museum crews for years. This is less of a collecting trip\, but rather a show and tell. There will be time for prospecting. On our field trips we usually allow personal collecting and/or collecting for your institution\, but the Tate Museum and the landowner would have first rights of refusal for any fairly complete or unusual specimens found. \nCost:  Participants are responsible for the conference cost\, lodging\, food\, and transportation to Casper and back. The cost for the conference has not been announced\, but those who sign up for the WIPS contingent will be notified about the cost and how to register for the conference. Note: There is no WIPS field trip fee for signing up to join the ‘WIPS contingent’ to the Conference. \nEvery year the Tate Museum in Casper\, Wyoming\, holds a three-day conference\, with one day of talks and two days of field trips. The topic for this year’s 30th Annual Conference will be Twilight of the Dinosaurs: Terrestrial Life in the Cretaceous. Kirk Johnson is the keynote speaker and Saturday’s talks will feature speakers from around the country. \nOnce again the WIPS Education Subcommittee is organizing a WIPS contingent to the Conference. We will meet up for breakfasts and dinners\, and enjoy each other’s company over the weekend. Participants can arrange for carpooling to Casper among themselves. \nParticipants are responsible for the conference cost\, lodging\, food\, and transportation to Casper and back. The cost for the conference has not been announced\, but those who sign up for the WIPS contingent will be notified about the cost and how to register for the conference. The Ramkota Hotel in Casper is the host hotel for the Conference\, and there are blocks of rooms reserved at the hotel for the pre-tax price of $89 per night. \nQuestions? Contact Dennis Gertenbach at gertenbach1@gmail.com. Come for an enjoyable weekend of Cretaceous terrestrial life.
URL:https://westernpaleo.org/event/wips-contingent-to-the-tate-museum-conference/
LOCATION:Tate Museum\, Casper College\, 125 College Drive\, Casper\, 82601\, United States
CATEGORIES:Field Trips
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ORGANIZER;CN="Dennis Gertenbach - Leader":MAILTO:gertenbach1@gmail.com
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