UFOP Meeting Announcement for Tonight - Jeff Eaton

Dear UFOP Members, Friends, and Associates,

This is a reminder that the Utah Friends of Paleontology, Great Basin Chapter Meeting will be held on Thursday, February 9th at 7 PM in the Department of Natural Resources Auditorium, 1594 W. North Temple, Salt Lake City. Our speaker will be Jeff Eaton from the Department of Geosciences at Weber State University who will give a talk entitled:

 

“A Review of the Stratigraphy and Fossils of the Bryce Canyon Area and Recent Advances."

UFOP Meeting Announcement - Joshua Lively

Please join us for our chapter meeting on Thursday, November 10th at 7 PM in the Department of Natural Resources Auditorium, 1594 W. North Temple, Salt Lake City. Our speaker is Joshua Lively, a graduate student at the University of Utah Department of Geology & Geophysics. His talk is "Baenid turtles from the Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah: Implications for Laramidian biogeography."

First UFOP Meeting of the Season

Announcing the first Great Basin Chapter meeting for UFOP for the season. Here are the details:

Instead of a regular speaker, we will have a number of the University of Utah students presenting posters of their current research in a program we have entitled a "Paleo Poster Presentation Palooza."

It will be in the department of Natural Resources in SLC. If you wish to join us, feel free. Contact me for the exact address if you need it.

UFOP May Meeting - Thursday

Please join us for our UFOP meeting on Thursday, May 12th at 7 PM in the Department of Natural Resources Auditorium, 1594 W. North Temple, Salt Lake City.

Our speaker will be Jim Lehane, Ph.D. student in the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the University of Utah, and our current state and chapter UFOP President. His talk will be:

"Dinosaurs! From Cultural to Pop Culture."

UFOP Annual Meeting

Sorry for the lack of posts lately but time has been extremely limited. But I did want to mention this.

The UFOP Annual Meeting is coming up in Price, UT.

College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum and Holiday Inn

April 14 - 16, 2011

Early is over, unfortunately, but you can still sign up. Materials are located over at the official site. Click on over and check it out.

Announcement - February UFOP Meeting Tonight

Just wanted to announce the February meeting for the Utah Friends of Paleontology - Great Basin Chapter in Salt Lake City tonight. Come if you are able to. See below for the official announcement.

Dear UFOP Members, Friends, and Associates,

Please join us for our February chapter meeting on Thursday, February 10th at 7 PM in the Department of Natural Resources Auditorium, 1594 W. North Temple, Salt Lake City. Our speaker will be Randy Irmis from the Utah Museum of Natural History and Department of Geology & Geophysics at the University of Utah, and his talk will be "Origin of the Dinosaurian Lifestyle."

If you are coming from the downtown area, please keep in mind that the North Temple Viaduct is closed for reconstruction, so you should use an alternative route, such as 200 South or 400 South.

UFOP - First Meeting of the Year

For those who do not know of UFOP, it is the Utah Friends of Paleontology group located across (obviously) Utah. We are an organization were people who are interested in paleontology (and more specifically vertebrate paleo) get together monthly to listen to talks by people in the field. The is a large variety of topics from invertebrate to current research. Here is the statement from the official website (linked below):

Utah Friends of Paleontology (UFOP) is a statewide non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to preserving Utah's fossil resources through public education and volunteer support of sponsoring institutions. Certification classes train UFOP members to assist paleontologists in a variety of ways. Trained volunteers may participate in museum-sponsored digs, specimen preparation projects, and public outreach programs. Individual chapters (listed at left) provide educational meetings, field trips and volunteer work for university paleontological research as well as the State Paleontologist's office at the Utah Geological Survey.

If anyone has any questions please feel free to get in contact with me. I am currently the president of the Great Basin Chapter (Salt Lake City region) and VP of the entire statewide organization. We hare having our first meeting of the year today in case you wished (or are able to) attend. Below is the official announcement:

Please join us for our first chapter meeting of the new year on Thursday, January 13th at 7 PM in the Department of Natural Resources Auditorium, 1594 W. North Temple, Salt Lake City. Our speaker will be Tony Ekdale from the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the University of Utah, and his talk will be "Crab Legs and Shrimp Cocktails in the Geologic Record: Paleoecology and and Ichnology of Fossil Crustaceans."

If you are coming from the downtown area, please keep in mind that the North Temple Viaduct is closed for reconstruction, so you should use an alternative route, such as 200 South or 400 South.

Click here for the official UFOP website.