WIPS' April meeting will be a Spring ice cream social and 'meet and greet' in-person event. There will be no Zoom presence or speaker this month. Members and guests are invited to join us in person at Front Range Community College (Westminster campus). There will be refreshments, fossils, field trip news and fun! • Enjoy […]
Dates: Two-day class. Saturday, May 2, is classroom instruction from 9 am to 3 pm. Sunday, May 3, is a field session to collect and study petrified wood, starting at 1 pm. Instructors: Sam Alllen and Mike Viney Location: Mines Museum of Earth Science on Saturday, private ranch outside Elizabeth on Sunday Number of Participants: […]
Dr. Patrick (Pat) O'Connor is a vertebrate paleontologist who integrates data from the fossil record with our understanding of form-function relationships in modern animals to explore eco-functional implications of morphological novelty in different groups of backboned animals (e.g., non-avian dinosaurs, birds, crocodiles). He completed a degree in biological anthropology at Michigan State University, followed by […]
Dates: May 29th - 31st - One day of speakers and two days of field trips. Saturday evening includes a dinner and Keynote Speaker Kirk Johnson. Theme: Twilight of the Dinosaurs: Terrestrial Life in the Cretaceous Leader: Dennis Gertenbach Location: Tate Museum, 125 College Drive, Casper, WY 82601. Lodging: The Ramkota Hotel in Casper is […]
Dates: Saturday, June 20 - Monday, June 22. Leader: Dennis Gertenbach Location: Delta, UT - U-Dig Quarry, Fossil Mountain, Conger Spring Over three days, participants will be collecting fossils covering 150 million years of Earth’s history. On Saturday, we will head to the U-dig Quarry to collect trilobites and other Middle Cambrian fossils from the […]
Dates: Saturday, July 18th Leader: Dennis Gertenbach Location: Trout Creek, CO - Collecting on local, state, or federal public land between Deckers and Woodland Park On 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. […]
