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How To Dig Up A Giant Dinosaur
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At Our Meeting: Monday, January
14, 2008
Location: Greenbank Mill,
Prices Corner, Wilmington, DE
Program:
The Delaware Mineralogical Society (DMS)
Presented
Jason
Schein
He spoke on:
“How
to Dig Up A Giant Dinosaur”
Jason shared
with us his experiences excavating a huge sauropod dinosaur in southern
Patagonia, Argentina. The talk described the scientific, logistical and
paleontological details and techniques for this large-scale
excavation. He also talked about Patagonia and that desert like,
fossil-rich area.
Jason grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and earned both
his B.S. and M.S. in Geology from Auburn University in Alabama.
His M.S. thesis title is The teleost fish Enchodus
and the paleoceanography of Upper Cretaceous rock units in Alabama.
He
is presently a Ph.D. student in Paleontology at Drexel University
focusing on Late Cretaceous marine vertebrates in New Jersey, but is
still involved with their Southern Patagonia Dinosaur Project in
southern Argentina. He is also the Assistant Curator of Natural
History Education at the NJSM.
The DMS membership, friends, as
well as the general interested public, all ages (kids too!) were welcome
to attend. Our club meeting started at 7:30 and Jason’s talk
was
afterwards about 8:00.
Jason has also invited us to enjoy the
NJSM's new
Sunday Science Lecture Series (see below).
Click on graphic for larger size
NJSM Lectures Series Brochure (2 MB, MSWord)
Program Review (coming soon!)
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Past Programs
"Annual 2007
Holiday Party & Silent Auction!"
"The Land Beneath Our Feet" by Tom Pankratz
"Fossil Fakes, Forgeries & Misconceptions" by
our own Gene Hartstein
"Show
'n Tell 2007"
"Annual 2007 Club Picnic & Sale!"
"Minerals
of St. Hilaire, Canada"
Presented by
Phil Betancourt
"Field Collecting: Special Specimens, Good Friends, Great
Memories" Presented by Alex Kane & Friends
"Caught in Canada, Minerals of Bancroft, Ontario Region"
by Jim and Mimi Stauffer
"Putting Together Award-Winning Display Cases" by Wayne Urion & Esther Kerns
"Processing Minerals into Metals-History & Present" by Brownell Ferry
"Annual Holiday Party & Silent Auction"
"The Colors of Fluorite" by Ken
Casey
"Preserving the Past: How to Manage Fossil Collections" by Jenn Anné
"Alaska" by Alex Kane and Tom Pankratz
"Mazon Creek
Fossils" by Gene Hartstein
"Pearls" by Nancy Marks
"Mines &
Minerals of Rush, Arkansas" by Eric Meier
"Faceting"
by Tom Pankratz
Eric Meier's North
American Collecting Locales
Holiday Party & Silent Auction
Joey Hatcher's
"Maastrichtian Dinosaur Ecology of the Hell Creek Formation of Eastern Montana"
The Geology of
Turkey
How to Buy &
Sell on E-Bay
Ed Rowse's Trips
to Peru, Ukraine & CA
Irenee du Pont
Mineral Museum, U. of D.
Larry Krause's
Collection
"Rhodochrosite: Red Treasure of the Rockies"
Don Miller's
"Fossilpalooza!"
Eric Meier's
"Tool Time at the Rock Club"
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