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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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SUMMARY:Delta\, Utah
DESCRIPTION:Dates:  Saturday\, June 20 – Monday\, June 22. \nLeader:  Dennis Gertenbach \nLocation:  Delta\, UT – U-Dig Quarry\, Fossil Mountain\, Conger Spring \nOver three days\, participants will be collecting fossils covering 150 million years of Earth’s history. \n \nOn Saturday\, we will head to the U-dig Quarry to collect trilobites and other Middle Cambrian fossils from the Wheeler Shale\, which dates to 500-513 million years ago. This is a pay quarry\, with the following rates for a half day: \nAdults (ages 17+): $70\nChildren (ages 7-16): $42\nYoungsters (ages 6 and younger): FREE with an adult\nMilitary (bring ID): $59.50\nUtah Resident (bring ID): $59.50 \nOn Sunday\, we jump 50 million years to collect Early to Middle Ordovician fossils from the Pogonip Group\, 458 to 485 million years ago\, at Fossil Mountain. This site has a wide variety of fossils that evolved during the Ordovician Radiation\, including brachiopods\, bryozoans\, gastropods\, ostracods\, nautiloids\, and even a trilobite species. \nOn our last day\, we jump another 100 million years to the Late Mississippian Chainman Formation at Conger Spring. These fossils date to 330 to 350 million years\, and include brachiopods\, horn and tabulate coral\, gastropods\, bivalves\, and crinoids. \nIn addition to the fee for the U-dig Quarry\, participants are responsible for their own transportation\, lodging (motel or camping)\, and food. \nFor more information about the trip\, please contact Dennis Gertenbach at gertenbach1@gmail.com.
URL:https://westernpaleo.org/event/deckers-utah/
LOCATION:Delta\, Utah\, Delta\, UT\, 84624\, United States
CATEGORIES:Field Trips
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ORGANIZER;CN="Dennis Gertenbach - Leader":MAILTO:gertenbach1@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260718
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SUMMARY:Trout Creek
DESCRIPTION:Dates:  Saturday\, July 18th \nLeader:  Dennis Gertenbach \nLocation:  Trout Creek\, CO – Collecting on local\, state\, or federal public land between Deckers and Woodland Park \nOn this trip\, we will be collecting is in the Manitou Formation from two sites. During the Ordovician (439 to 500 million years ago)\, Colorado was covered with an ocean. Fossils from that time include trilobites (mostly molts)\, brachiopods\, cystoids\, and other marine animals. \nBoth sites we plan to visit are old quarries. We will look for fossils that remain in the loose rock. \nThe first site is a half-mile uphill hike from where we will park. This site has brachiopods and cystoids. (Cystoids were ancient animals that were related to crinoids and other five-sided echinoderms.) \nThe quarry at the second site is about 1/2 mile up a rough road. If we have enough high-clearance vehicles\, we can all ride to the quarry. If not\, there will be a moderate hike with a 500-foot elevation gain. (At least we’ll be hiking our specimens downhill\, rather than uphill.) This site has trilobites (mostly separate pygidiums and cephalons) and several species of brachiopods. \nThe field trip leader has a permit from the Forest Service to provide information about the fossils we collect. Please show any interesting fossils you find to him. \nIf you have questions about the trip\, please contact Dennis Gertenbach at gertenbach1@gmail.com.
URL:https://westernpaleo.org/event/trout-creek/
LOCATION:Trout Creek\, CO\, Trout Creek\, CO\, 80135\, United States
CATEGORIES:Field Trips
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