Tag: calendar
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Events for 2nd half of October, 2011
Sat. 10/22 Archaeology Study Group. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. Floyd Rogers will present on Flintnapping. Attend this session to learn how to make arrowheads. Fri. 10/28 Board Meeting. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. Also, the Burpee Museum in Rockford just opened with their new Ice Age…
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Events for 1st half of October
Wed. 10/12 Fri 10/14 National Fossil Day! General Meeting: 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. Paul Mayer, The Field Museum, will be presenting on the Geology of the Grand Canyon. Sat. 10/15 Paleontology Study Group. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. Celebrate National Fossil Day with us!…
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Events for the Last Couple Weeks of Sept. 2011
Wed. 9/21 – Celebrate Illinois Archaeology Awareness Month & Help with an Archaeological Excavation at Garfield Farm Museum To register, see the dig, or to financially contribute to the effort, contact the museum at 630 584-8485, e-mail info@garfieldfarm.org or write to Box 403 La Fox, IL 60147. Fri. 9/23 – Board Meeting. 7:30 p.m. College of…
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Event This Week Ending 9/12/11
Fri, 9/9 General Meeting: 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. Scott Williams of Burpee Museum, will be presenting on tyrannosaurid forelimb allometry. Sat, 9/10 Mineralogy and Micromount Study Group. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage,Building K, Rm 161. Topic: Flourescents, including a Show and Tell.
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Events This Week Ending Sunday 6/12
Friday, 6/10 – General Meeting – Lecture: Dr. James St. John, Ohio State University at Newark will present a program on Introduction to Meteorites and Impact Events. This will give an overview of what rocks from space look like, what their mineral contents are, their ages, their origins, and their beauty. Various rocks resulting from…
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Events This Week Ending Sunday 5/15
Fri. 5/13 am Fri. 5/13 pm Fossil Field Trip, St. Paul, Indiana – meet at the quarry office by 7:45 am (6:45 am Chicago time). Normal safety equipment is needed – hard hat, protective boots, eye protection. To get to the office take I65 south around Indianapolis to 174. Exit and…
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Activities for Week 4/18 – 4/24, 2011
Fri. 4/22 Board Meeting. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. Sat. 4/23 No Archeaology Study Group Meeting – see 4/30 field trip.
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Events This Week, April 11- 17, 2011
Sat. 4/16 Paleontology Study Group. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. Topic: The Paleontology of Pets (Dogs, Cats, Guinea Pigs) by David Carlson, ESCONI member. Also, will be photographing Mazon Creek specimens. Looking for the following: Didontaogaster; tummy tooth worms, Paucijaculum; arrow worms, Eurypterids, Amynilyspes; pill millipedes, Etacystis; H, Shark poop: spiral…
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Events This Week, 4/4 – 4/11, 2011
Tues, 4/5 Field Museum Lecture – Extreme Cave Diving: Exploring the Blue Holes of the Bahamas, 7:30 Fri, 4/8 ESCONI General Meeting. 8:00 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. Thomas Carr from the Dinosaur Discovery Museum will speak on “Tyrannosaur research and the bird evolution gallery at the Dinosaur Discovery Museum”. Sat. 4/9…
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Events This Week, 3/28 – 4/3, 2011
Mon, 3/28 Friday, 4/1 Safety Training6:30 – 9:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. Cost: $10 for all, additional $7 for the book (if you don’t have the book that you purchased last year) payable at the door to John McArdle. John McArdle of ZRS (Zoological Research Services) is approved…
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Events This Week 3/21 – 27, 2011
Fri. 3/25 Board Meeting. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131. Sat. 3/26 Archaeology Study Group. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131.
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Events This Week 3/7-13
Saturday, 3/12 – Chicago Rocks & Mineral Society’s 62nd Annual Silent Auction, Saturday, March 12, 6 to 9 p.m. St. Peter’s United Church of Christ, 8013 Laramie Ave., Across from the Skokie Public Library at Oakton Saturday 3/12 – Mineralogy and Micromounting Study Group 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131. Ground Water Awareness Week.
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Events This Week 2/21 – 2/27, 2011
Fri. 2/25 Board Meeting. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131. Sat. 2/26 Work Day at the warehouse at 9:00 am on Saturday February 26. Call John Good for directions. Archaeology Study Group Meeting. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131.
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Events This Week 2/7 – 2/13, 2011
Friday, 2/11 – ESCONI General Meeting. 8:00 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131. Virginia Naples will speak on the La Brea Tar Pits. Saturday, 2/12 – Rob Sula will lead a tour and discussion of the Dinosaur and Dinosaur Eggs exhibit at the Aurora SciTech Hands on Museum at 2:00 pm. Saturday, 2/12…
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Events this Weekend 1/22 – 23, 2011
Sat. 1/22 Basic Beading Stringing, Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art, Elmhurst, 12 yrs to adult, 1 pm and 2:30 pm. Reservations required: (630) 833-1616. Sat. 1/22 Archaeology Study Group Meeting, 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131. Continuation of Discussion of 1421: When China Discovered Ameria.
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Calendar of Events for 2011
(Dates subject change) January 2011 Sat. 1/8 Mineralogy and Micromount Study Group Meeting, 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131. Mineral Agate video. Fri. 1/14 General Meeting, 8:00 p.m. College of Dupage Building K, Room #131. 2012…John Ruskamp will speak on: Trans-Cultural Diffusion in North American Native Rock Writing This dual topic lecture…
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Many ESCONI Events This Weekend
General Meeting. Friday, 9/10, 8:00 p.m. Speaker: Dale Gnidovec, curator of Ohio State University’s Orton Geological Museum, who will speak on: The Magnificent Morrison – a historic look at this Late Jurassic rock unit that has produced so many familiar dinosaurs – Allosaurus, Apatosaurus (“Brontosaurus”), Diplodocus, Stegosaurus – from such famous sites as Dinosaur National…
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2009 Calendar for Reference
January 2009 Friday, 1/9 General Meeting, 8:00 pm in Room 131 of Building K at the College of Dupage. Scot Williams, Burpee Museum Collections Manager, will present “Burpee Museum Discoveries”. Saturday,1/10 Mineralogy Meeting, 7:30 pm at College of DuPage Bldg. K, Rm 131. We will be watching a video about minerals. Saturday, 1/17 Paleontology…
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ESCONI Events for December, 2008
ESCONI HOLIDAY PARTY AND DECEMBER GENERAL MEETING FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008 5:30 to 7:30 pmCharlie’s Ale House301 East Loop RoadWheaton, IL 60187http://www.charliesalehouse.com(630) 510-3141 The restaurant is on the north side of Butterfield Road (Route 56) and east of Naperville Road and the Danada Square East Shopping Center. PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING CHANGES: Beyond the change…
