Tag: Juniors
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ESCONI Events January 2023
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Fri, Jan 13th ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “New evidence for large ornithomimosaurs in the Southeastern US and the biogeography of Cretaceous ostrich–mimic dinosaurs” by Thomas Cullen from Carlton University in Ottawa, Canada Zoom link Sat, Jan 14th ESCONI Junior Meeting…
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ESCONI Board Members for 2023
PRESIDENT: Keith Robitschek 1ST. VICE PRESIDENT: Katherine Howard 2ND. VICE PRESIDENT: Irene Broede RECORDING SECRETARY: Valerie Anderson TREASURER: Andrew Jansen PUBLICITY: Chris Berg LIBRARIAN: Andrew Jansen CURATOR: Chris Cozart HISTORIAN: Richard Holm Assistant Field Trip Chairman: Dave Carlson Assistant Field Trip Chairman: John Catalani EDITOR: Don Cronauer CIRCULATION: Rose Jansen PAST PRESIDENT: Jeff Lord MEMBERSHIP: Rose Jansen SHOW CHAIRMAN: Dave Carlson…
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ESCONI Events December 2022
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Fri, Dec 2nd ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “The early diversification of birds: evidence from the Jehol avifauna” by Dr. Jingmai O’Connor from the Field Museum Zoom link Sat, Dec 10th ESCONI Holiday Lunch – 12:00 PM at Warren’s Ale House…
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ESCONI Events November 2022
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Fri, Nov 11th ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “A Sea Without Fish, Ordovician Fossils of the Cincinnati Region” by Dr. David Meyer from the University of Cincinnati Zoom link Sat, Nov 12th ESCONI Junior Meeting – 7:00 PM at College of…
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ESCONI Events October 2022
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Mazon Creek Open House October 15, 2022 A free 1-day conference devoted to Mazon Creek and related topics Displays of Mazon Creek fossils Mazon Creek fossil identification Mazon Creek books for sale More details here. Zoom Link Admission is free and lectures will be…
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ESCONI Events September 2022
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Fri, Sept 9th ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “Paleozoic fishes of the Illinois Basin” by Dr. Ryan Shell Zoom link Sat, Sept 10th ESCONI Junior Meeting – 7:00 PM at College of DuPage – Topic: "Updating our Mazon Creek Collection and…
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Illinois Now Has an Official State Rock. Here’s What It Is
NBC5 Chicago has a story about the new Illinois state symbol. The Tully Monster is the Illinois State Fossil and we have Fluorite as the State Mineral, now Dolostone is the State Rock. Governor Pritzker signed the bill yesterday – June 6th, 2022! We posted back in 2021 that the Pleasantdale Middle School in Burr…
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ESCONI Events June 2022
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Fri, June 10th ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “Off-Axis Seamount Investigations at Siqueiros: The OASIS Expedition” by Dr. Patricia Gregg, University of Illinois. This meeting will be held via Zoom. Zoom link Sat, June 11th ESCONI Junior Meeting – 7:00 PM…
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ESCONI Juniors Rock, Mineral, and Fossil Exhibition – May 14, 2022 at 7:00 PM
Announcing the ESCONI Juniors Rock, Mineral, and Fossil Exhibition All Are Welcome! This is an exhibition show to be held during the regularly scheduled time for the Juniors meeting on Saturday, May 14 from 7:00 to 8:00pm. Setup for the Junior exhibitors is from 6:30 to 7:00pm. Breakdown of exhibits is from 8:00 to 8:30pm. Mark…
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ESCONI Events May 2022
Welcome back! Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Sat, May 7th ESCONI Field Trip to the Vulcan DeKalb Quarry for Ordovician Fossils See details here. Fri, May 13th ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “Dinosaurs of Appalachia” by Chase Brownstein, Research Associate at the Stamford (CT) Museum and Nature…
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ESCONI Events April 2022
Welcome back! Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Fri, Apr 8th ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “Devonian plants from the famous Red Hill location” by Dr. Walt Cressler of West Chester University in Pennsylvania. This meeting will be hybrid with both Zoom and in person available at…
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ESCONI Events March 2022
Welcome back! Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Sat, Mar 19th ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the DuPage County Fairgrounds (Map) Details here. Show flyer. Sun, Mar 20th ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the…
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ESCONI February 2022 Juniors Study Group Meeting (In-Person at COD) Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022 at 7:00 PM
s Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois Juniors Group Meeting In-Person at College of DuPage Does Your Child Love Fossils? At the next in-person Juniors meeting, ESCONI’s Scott Galloway and the Juniors will be picking at soft slabs of rock and dislodging Sylvania Ohio fossils, and they will be doing this hands-on activity in…
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ESCONI Events February 2022
Welcome back! Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Fri, Feb 11th ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “Before Yellowstone: Native American Archaeology in the First National Park” by Dr. Douglas MacDonald from the University of Montana. Zoom link Sat, Feb 12th ESCONI Junior Meeting – 7:00 PM at…
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ESCONI Events January 2022
Welcome back! Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Sat, Jan 8th ESCONI Junior Meeting – 7:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “Rocking on the Computer” Specifics of this meeting are available from Scott Galloway, 630-670-2591, gallowayscottf@gmail.com. Contact Scott to get the Zoom link to attend the virtual meeting and find out…
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ESCONI Events December 2021
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Friday, Dec 3rd ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “The Life and Death of the Herrin Peat Swamp – Whys, Whens, and Hows” by Scott Elrick, Head of the Coal, Bedrock and Industrial Minerals Section of ISGS. Zoom link ESCONI Junior…
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ESCONI Events November 2021
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Friday, Nov 12th ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: Yellowstone Volcanology and the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory by Stacy Henderson from Montana State. Zoom link Saturday, Nov 13th ESCONI Junior Meeting 7:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “More on Identifying Rocks and Minerals” Specifics…
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ESCONI Events October 2021
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Saturday, Oct 2nd ESCONI Field Trip to a Rockford Quarry 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM – Details are here. Friday, Oct 8th ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “Hell Creek Amber: Paleontology’s New Frontier in the Western Interior” by Stew Cook, Paleo Prep…
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ESCONI Events September 2021
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Friday, Sep 10th ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “Exploring evolutionary patterns and processes in trilobites” by Dr. Mark Webster from the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. Zoom link Saturday, Sep 11th ESCONI Junior Meeting 7:00 PM Zoom…
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ESCONI Events July 2021
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Mon, July 12th ESCONI Junior Field Trip to a Dave's "Down to Earth" Rock Shop in Evanston, IL 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM – Details are here. Sat, July 17th ESCONI Field Trip to Rockford, IL Gravel Pit 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM –…
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ESCONI July 2021 Junior Field Trip – Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shop July 12th, 2021 10 AM
Hello juniors families, I am planning a field trip, for juniors families only, on July 12th. To start the morning out we will meet at a Home Depot in Evanston, IL at 10:00. There we will have a scavenger hunt to determine what items, for sale in the store, are made of rocks and…
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ESCONI Events June 2021
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Sat, June 5th ESCONI Field Trip to a Danville, IL Shale Pile 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM – Details are here. Fri, June 11th ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “The Glasford Structure (Peoria County, Illinois): A Marine Target Impact Crater with…
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ESCONI Events May 2021
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Sat, May 8th ESCONI Junior Meeting 7:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “Careers in Earth Sciences” Specifics of this meeting are available from Scott Galloway, 630-670-2591, gallowayscottf@gmail.com. Contact Scott to get the Zoom link to attend the virtual meeting and find out how to join…
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ESCONI Events April 2021
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Fri, Apr 9th ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 PM Zoom – Topic: “Pits, Posts, and Palisades: The Archaeology of the 17th-century Plymouth Colony Settlement on Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts.” by Dr. David Landon from the University of Massachusetts Boston. Zoom Link Sat, Apr 10th ESCONI…
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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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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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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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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 Board Members for 2022
PRESIDENT: Keith Robitschek 1ST. VICE PRESIDENT: Dave Carlson 2ND. VICE PRESIDENT: Irene Broede RECORDING SECRETARY: Valerie Anderson TREASURER: Andrew Jansen PUBLICITY: Chris Berg LIBRARIAN: Andrew Jansen CURATOR: Chris Cozart HISTORIAN: Richard Holm Assistant Field Trip Chairman: Dave Carlson Assistant Field Trip Chairman: John Catalani EDITOR: Don Cronauer CIRCULATION: Rose Jansen PAST PRESIDENT: Jeff Lord MEMBERSHIP: Rose Jansen SHOW…
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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…
