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Top Ten Signs You Might Be A Geologist
Read more: Top Ten Signs You Might Be A Geologist10. You have ever had to respond “yes” to the question, “What have you gotin here, rocks?” 9. You have ever taken a 22-passenger van over “roads” that were reallyintended only for cattle 8. You have ever found yourself trying to explain to airport security thata rock hammer isn’t really a weapon 7. Your rock garden is located inside your house 6. You have ever hung a picture using a Brunton as a level, and your rock hammer as your hammer Click here for reasons 5-1.
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Earth Science Animations
Read more: Earth Science AnimationsTeaching resources and animations from federal organizations about science and earth science.
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Exploring Earth Visualizations
Read more: Exploring Earth VisualizationsChock full of interesting information…. Exploring Earth Visualizations
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Web Sites About Archaeology
Read more: Web Sites About ArchaeologyInteresting sites about archaeology: Archaeology for Kids: http://www.mrdonn.org/index.html
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Field Study Scholarship
Read more: Field Study ScholarshipFrom National Association of Geoloscience Teachers: Each year, NAGT makes several $500 awards to undergraduate students to facilitate their study of field geoscience. These awards, previously given to students who attend a traditional summer field camp, are now available for students attending field-based courses at any time of year…. applications due by February 16, 2009
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Do You Know Any Remarkable Creatures?
Read more: Do You Know Any Remarkable Creatures?Interesting interview by Diane Rehm of Tracy Chevalier the author of the new book, “Remarkable Creatures“. It is a book about the life and times of Mary Anning, a world-renowned 19th-century paleontologist. And interview of the same author by Leonard Lopate too. Later in the January, Leonard Lopate interviewed a renowned paleontologist Peter Ward, who explained why he thinks only one of the Earth’s mass extinctions was caused by outside forces.
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Color of a Dinosaur
Read more: Color of a DinosaurVia National Geographic: …In a report released online today by the journal Nature, an international team of paleontologists and experts in scanning electron micrography infer that this dinosaur had reddish orange feathers running along its back and a striped tail….
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What Are Your Memories of ESCONI?
Read more: What Are Your Memories of ESCONI?On this anniversary year, it would be fun to have people share their memories of ESCONI. You can send your thoughts to the email of the ESCONI web administrator, who will post to the web site – diannal20@yahoo.com You can send photographs too!
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Request for Volunteers for Earth Day
Read more: Request for Volunteers for Earth DayThe Forest Preserve District of Will County is presenting its annual Earth Day Celebration on April 24th, 2010 at Plum Creek Nature Center in Beecher, IL. and has asked for our club to participate. This year’s theme is “Soil”. If you are interested in participating, please contact John Good.
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South-Central Ontario Fossils
Read more: South-Central Ontario FossilsNorthumberland News of Canada reports on a new fossil book,”South-Central Ontario Fossils“.
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Read Any Good Earth Science Books Lately?
Read more: Read Any Good Earth Science Books Lately?I just finished Snowball Earth and would recommend it. The book is about the “… controversial hypothesis asserts that about 600 million years ago, the entire planet was encased in ice that was thicker and lasted millennia longer than in any previously recognized ice age. Instantaneously in geologic time, the hypothesis continues, the planet moved from temperatures averaging minus 40 degrees centigrade to sweltering heat unlike anything seen since…”
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British Geology Viewer
Read more: British Geology ViewerThis simple Geology of Britain viewer helps you explore the geology around Britain. Pan and zoom to where you are interested, click on an area of interest and reveal the rocks beneath.
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Breathing Similar to Birds
Read more: Breathing Similar to BirdsVia Physorg.com: …University of Utah scientists discovered that air flows in one direction as it loops through the lungs of alligators, just as it does in birds. The study suggests this breathing method may have helped the dinosaurs’ ancestors dominate Earth after the planet’s worst mass extinction 251 million years ago…
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Are You Using the Browser IE 6 or 7?
Read more: Are You Using the Browser IE 6 or 7?If you are using the Internet Explorer 6 or 7 browser, you may want to update to IE8. IE6 & IE7 browsers are the least secure of the IE browsers – in fact, some say, running IE6 and IE7 is like hanging a sign on your back that says kick me (with a virus).
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Abstracts from 30th New Mexico Mineral Symposium
Read more: Abstracts from 30th New Mexico Mineral SymposiumMany interesting articles from their annual meeting in November.
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Field Trip & Archaeology Study Group Meeting This Saturday
Read more: Field Trip & Archaeology Study Group Meeting This SaturdayField Trip to Chicago Academy of Sciences Museum Collections (CAS) (part of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum). Saturday, 1/23, 10 -11 a.m. To make reservation, please contact Joe Kubal at (630) 983-6159 or e-mail at SMKubal0712@aol.com. Archaeology Study Group Meeting. Saturday, 1/23, 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K. Rm 131.
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Interactive Climate Wizard
Read more: Interactive Climate WizardVia Geology.com – from University of Washington – Climate Wizard, a tool meant for scientists and non-scientists alike, is being demonstrated by The Nature Conservancy in Copenhagen, Denmark, in conjunction with the climate summit underway there. It also is the subject of a presentation Tuesday, Dec. 15, at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco and a paper just released online by the Public Library of Science’s PLoS ONE with Evan Girvetz as lead presenter and lead author. Girvetz worked on Climate Wizard during postdoctoral work at the University of Washington’s School of Forest Resources and just accepted a…
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Soil Lessons for K-12
Read more: Soil Lessons for K-12Soil Science of America offers lessons in soil.
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Geologists Love Beer
Read more: Geologists Love BeerVia Wired: Fact: Geologists love beer. There is abundant proof of this here at the American Geophysical Union meeting, the largest collection of earth scientists in the world…. So the real question is why the bond between geologists and beer is so strong. I decided to do some research this week to get to the bottom of the phenomenon. So, beer in hand, I asked a sampling of the 16,000 or so geologists, geophysicists, hydrologists and atmospheric scientists at the meeting and got some very interesting responses. (Full disclosure: I am also a geologist, and I like beer.) The most popular theory was that…
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- Trilobite Tuesday #50: Penn Dixie: Dig With the Experts 2026 – June 13th and 14th, 2026
The Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Center are holding their annual “Dig With the Experts” event on June 13th and 14th, 2026. Details can be found be found on their website. We’ve featured a few trilobites from Penn Dixie for Fossil Friday. I went there a few years ago and had a great time. If you love trilobites, don’t miss this event!
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| Friday, May 2nd | Field Trip to Danville, IL. Details here. |
| Friday, May 8th | General Meeting – 8:00 PM via Zoom. Thomas Loebel will present “Seeing Beneath the Ground: Geophysics and Archaeological Explorations in Illinois”. |
| Saturday, May 9th | Junior Study Group Meeting – 2:00 PM, in person at the College of DuPage Technical Education Center (TEC) Building – Room 1038A (Map). “The Rock Cycle and Sedimentation” Specifics of this meeting are available from Scott Galloway, 630-670-2591, gallowayscottf@gmail.com. |
| Saturday, May 16th | Paleontology Study Group – 7:30 PM via Zoom. John Catalani will present “An Ordovician Konzentrat Lagerstätte: The Dixon Mifflin Residuum Fauna”. |
| Saturday, May 23rd | CGMA Show, Kane County Fairgrounds |
| Sunday, May 24th | CGMA Show, Kane County Fairgrounds |
| Saturday, May 30th | Field Trip to Braceville, IL. Details here. |
| Sunday, May 31st | Field Trip to Braceville, IL. Details here. |
| No meeting this month | Mineralogy Study Group |