Category: Calendar of Events
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ESCONI March 2021 General Meeting – March 12th, 2021 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “The Big Hill Lagerstätte”
The ESCONI March 2021 General Meeting is on March 12, 2021 at 8:00. The program will be presented via Zoom by Dr. James Lamsdell of West Virginia University. Dr. Lamsdell studies Paleozoic arthropods such as eurypterids and xiphosurans (horseshoe crabs and their relatives). He recently published on the fauna of the Ordovician “Big Hill” Lagerstatte…
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March Mammal Madness 2021
The “Mammals Suck… Milk!” blog is running a March Madness type tournament with Mammal species. The tournament was created by Dr. David Schiffman a mammologist at Arizona State University. It is a simulated combat between the animals. Follow along and make a bracket. They will be posting update throughout the month of March. BUT WELCOME…
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ESCONI Events March 2021
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Fri, Mar 12th ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “The Big Hill Lagerstätte; a small locality with large implications for early chelicerate evolution” by Dr. James Lamsdell of West Virginia University. Zoom link. Sat, Mar 13th ESCONI Junior Meeting 7:00 PM Zoom –…
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Report from ESCONI February 2021 Paleontology Meeting – “Ammonite Fields Forever”
If you missed the Paleontology Study Group meeting last Saturday (or even if you did attend), Rhonda Gates wrote an excellent report on their trip to the North Yorkshire beaches in England last February. The full pdf file can be downloaded here. Ammonite Fields Forever: From the Jurassic Coast to collecting on the beaches of…
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Burpee PaleoFest 2021 – March 5, 6, and 7
Head on over to the Burpee Museum’s website for information on PaleoFast 2021. Held on March 5th, 6th, and 7th, 2021, it’s going to be all virtual this year. Join the Fun Dino-lovers, rock collectors, and fossil diggers unite for an internationally attended festival. Our audience includes scientists and researchers, aspiring scientists, students, paleo-lovers, and even dino-loving…
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Reminder: ESCONI February 2021 Paleontology Meeting – February 20th, 2021 at 7:30 PM via Zoom – “Ammonite Fields Forever”
Ammonite Fields Forever: from the Jurassic Coast to collecting on the beaches of North Yorkshire, England. On February 20th, four club members – Marie Angkuw, Rhonda Gates, Deborah Lovely, and Andrew Young – will host a slide presentation on their March 2020 fossil-collecting adventure to North Yorkshire, England. Based in the historic harbor town of…
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AMNH: Happy 147th Birthday Barnum Brown… Discoverer of T-rex
Happy Birthday, Barnum Brown! Known as one of the greatest dinosaur collectors of all time, Barnum Brown helped the American Museum of Natural History establish its world-class fossil collection. Brown’s extraordinary fossil-hunting career—which took him from a frontier farm to the world’s top fossil sites and to the halls of the Museum—included the discovery of…
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Happy 211th Birthday, Charles Darwin!
Happy 211th Birthday, Charles Darwin! There are events scheduled for Darwin Day 2021. By Henry Maull (1829–1914) and John Fox (1832–1907)
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ESCONI February 2021 General Meeting – February 12th, 2021 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “Assessing the Early Mars Hydroclimate Using Paleolake Geometries”
Did rainfall and snowmelt fill rivers and lakes on Mars? GETTY Our February 2021 speaker via Zoom will be Dr. Gaia Stucky de Quay from the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. The topic of her talk will be evidence for water and its effect on the geomorphology of early Mars.…
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Status of the 2021 ESCONI Show – October 16th, 2021
The ESCONI show is usually held in each year March. The board evaluated the chances of being able to hold such a show on the usual weekend in March of 2021 and determined that it wasvery unlikely. Other possibilities were considered, such as a virtual show, and rescheduling an in-person show in the fall. The…
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ESCONI Events February 2021
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Fri, Feb 12th ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “Assessing the Early Mars Hydroclimate Using Paleolake Geometries” by Dr. Gaia Stucky de Quay, from the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Zoom link Sat, Feb 13th ESCONI…
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4.5 Billion Years in 45 Minutes on Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 at 6:00 PM CST (Zoom webinar)
The Forest Preserve of Will County has a Zoom webinar tonight, Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 at 6:00 PM CST. It’s called “4.5 Billion Years in 45 Minutes”. (Photo courtesy of Barb Ferry) Please note this program is being offered virtually via Zoom. Using this Facebook Event page to indicate you are going does not…
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Field Museum Reopening Saturday, January 23rd, 2021
Opening Saturday, January 23 for exploration See the world’s wonders at the Field Museum. The health of our guests and staff is always our top priority. We welcome you back to safely explore around the world in nearly half a million square feet of open gallery space, right here in Chicago. We will be reopening…
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ESCONI January 2021 Paleontology Meeting – January 16th, 2021 at 7:30 PM via Zoom – “Giant Heteromorph Ammonites”
The ESCONI January 2021 Paleontology Meeting will be held on January 16th, 2021 at 7:30 PM via Zoom. The topic is “Giant Heteromorph Ammonites” by Professor Linda Ivany of Syracuse University. Professor Ivany wrote a paper called “Growth Rate and Ecology of the Giant Heteromorph Ammonite Diplomoceras maximum Using Stable Isotopes of Accretionary Shell Carbonate”. …
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ESCONI January 2021 Junior Meeting – My Collection by Scott Galloway on Saturday, January 9th, 2021
“My Collection” – Scott Galloway will talk about and show his lifelong collection of rocks, minerals, fossils, native American artifacts (stone points), and even artifacts from a mining ghost town. The meeting’s activity will be “To draw your favorite specimen or two from your personal earth science collection.” Every child should be equipped with drawing…
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Reminder ESCONI January 2021 General Meeting – January 8th, 2021 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “New discoveries at the Burgess Shale”
The speaker at our January 2021 meeting via Zoom will be Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron from the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). Dr. Caron studies the Burgess Shale, the Cambrian Explosion, and the origin of animals. The title of his program is “New discoveries at the Burgess Shale”. Join us via Zoom…
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Field Museum: SUE Science Saturdays: Prehistoric Party January 23rd. 2021 10am-12pm
The Field Museum is having a Prehistoric Party on January 23rd, 2021 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM. All there details are here. Join them and help them through this tough year! And, get your paleontology fix for the New Year! Be a scientist for the day with SUE the T. rex and Field Museum experts. You…
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ESCONI Events January 2021
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Fri, Jan 8th ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “New discoveries at the Burgess Shale” by Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron from theUniversity of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). Zoom link Sat, Jan 9th ESCONI Junior Meeting 7:00 PM Zoom – Topic:…
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ESCONI January 2021 General Meeting – January 8th, 2021 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “New discoveries at the Burgess Shale”
The speaker at our January 2021 meeting via Zoom will be Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron from the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). Dr. Caron studies the Burgess Shale, the Cambrian Explosion, and the origin of animals. The title of his program is “New discoveries at the Burgess Shale”. Here’s a link to…
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Zoom Link: ESCONI December 2020 General Meeting – December 4th, 2020 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “What Genetics Tells Us About the Peopling of the Americas”
The title for our Dec 4th program is “What Genetics Tells Us About the Peopling of the Americas” by Dr. Jennifer Raff, of the University of Kansas. Dr. Raff’s research includes ancient DNA, anthropological genetics, human evolution and population history, migration, bioarchaeology, and scientific literacy. You can find more about her on her page at…
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Video: ESCONI October 2020 General Meeting – “The Blue Forest of Ancient Lake Gosiute”
At the October 2020 General Meeting, we had Mike Viney speak about the petrified wood of the Blue Forest in Wyoming. The Zoom meeting video has been processed and is now available for viewing. After the presentation, Mike sent a pdf with many of his slides (RBlueForestOfAncientLakeGosiute). Mike is a Teacher in Residence at Colorado…
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ESCONI December 2020 General Meeting – December 4th, 2020 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “What Genetics Tells Us About the Peopling of the Americas”
The title for our Dec 4th program is “What Genetics Tells Us About the Peopling of the Americas” by Dr. Jennifer Raff, of the University of Kansas. Dr. Raff’s research includes ancient DNA, anthropological genetics, human evolution and population history, migration, bioarchaeology, and scientific literacy. You can find more about her on her page at…
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ESCONI Events December 2020
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Fri, Dec 4th ESCONI General Meeting 7:30 PM Zoom – Open Chat Time Wear your ugly holiday sweater! Zoom link. Fri, Dec 4th ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “What Genetics Tells Us About the Peopling of the Americas” by Dr. Jennifer…
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NYT: Burning Fossil Fuels Helped Drive Earth’s Most Massive Extinction
The New York Times Trilobites column has a story about the Permian Mass Extinction event. A paper published in the journal Geology adds more evidence to the theory that this mass extinction was driven by volcanic eruptions through ancient oil and coal deposits in Siberia. The study looked at chemical traces in the rocks in…
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Reminder: ESCONI November 2020 General Meeting – November 13th, 2020 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “New Tetrapod Discoveries from Mazon Creek”
Our speaker via Zoom in November is Dr. Arjan Mann. Arjan recently received his PhD from Carleton University in Toronto. He is transitioning to a postdoc position at Harvard. Arjan co-authored articles naming two new species of microsaurs called Diabloroter and Infernovenator. The title of his talk is “New Tetrapod Discoveries from Mazon Creek”. Zoom…
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ESCONI Events November 2020
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Fri, Nov 13th ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “New Tetrapod Discoveries from Mazon Creek” by Arjan Mann from Harvard University. Zoom link Sat, Nov 14th ESCONI Junior Meeting 7:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “It looks like wood, but it’s actually rock.” …
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ESCONI November 2020 General Meeting – November 13th, 2020 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “New Tetrapod Discoveries from Mazon Creek”
Our speaker via Zoom in November is Dr. Arjan Mann. Arjan recently received his PhD from Carleton University in Toronto. He is transitioning to a postdoc position at Harvard. Arjan co-authored articles naming two new species of microsaurs called Diabloroter and Infernovenator. The title of his talk is “New Tetrapod Discoveries from Mazon Creek”. Here’s…
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Happy National Fossil Day 2020!!!
Happy National Fossil Day 2020!!! National Fossil Day is run by the National Park Service as part of Earth Science Week. Details for NFD are here, while you can find more about Earth Science Week here. During 2020 we celebrate the 11th Anniversary of National Fossil Day! Join paleontologists, educators, and students in fossil-related events…
