Tag: presentation
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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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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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Zoom Link: ESCONI September 2020 Paleo Meeting – September 19, 2020 – Brag Night!
September 19, 2020, Paleontology Study Group Meeting John A. Catalani We are going to have a Paleo Study Group meeting on Saturday Sept. 19 beginning at 7:30 p.m on Zoom. The plan is to have members present their fossil finds collected since the last “Brag Night” meeting of Sept. 2019. It would be best to…
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Reminder: ESCONI September 2020 Paleo Meeting – September 19, 2020 – Brag Night!
September 19, 2020, Paleontology Study Group Meeting John A. Catalani We are going to have a Paleo Study Group meeting on Saturday Sept. 19 beginning at 7:30 p.m on Zoom. The plan is to have members present their fossil finds collected since the last “Brag Night” meeting of Sept. 2019. It would be best to…
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ESCONI September 2020 General Meeting – September 11th, 2020 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “Carboniferous Fossils Reveal How Fishes Evolve, and How They Don’t”
Reconstruction of Mazon Creek by John Megahan The speaker at our September 11th, 2020 general meeting will be Dr. Lauren Sallan from the University of Pennsylvania. Her presentation will be done via Zoom and will start at 9:00 PM. Dr. Sallan received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2012. She was a…
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ESCONI September 2020 Paleo Meeting – September 19, 2020 – Brag Night!
September 19, 2020, Paleontology Study Group Meeting John A. Catalani We are going to have a Paleo Study Group meeting on Saturday Sept. 19 beginning at 7:30 p.m on Zoom. The plan is to have members present their fossil finds collected since the last “Brag Night” meeting of Sept. 2019. It would be best to…
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Reminder: ESCONI General Meeting for February 14th, 2020 “Worked Stones and Gold of the Ancient Tayrona of Santa Marta, Colombia” by Ellen Steinberg, Ph.D
The program at our February 14th, 2020 meeting will be presented by Ellen Steinberg, Ph.D. The title of her talk is “Worked Stones and Gold of the Ancient Tayrona of Santa Marta, Colombia”.
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Reminder: ESCONI January 2020 General Meeting Michelle Wenz – “Earth’s Inner Workings Revealed through Mineral Inclusions in Diamond” on January 10, 2020
Electron microscope images of diamonds from the Juína area of Brazil.Credit…Suzette Timmerman The speaker at our January 10, 2020 meeting will be Michelle Wenz, a PhD student from Northwestern University. The title of her talk is “Earth’s Inner Workings Revealed through Mineral Inclusions in Diamond”. She is working on an suite of superdeep diamonds from…
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ESCONI January 2020 General Meeting Michelle Wenz – Super Deep Diamonds from Juina, Brazil on January 10, 2020
Electron microscope images of diamonds from the Juína area of Brazil.Credit…Suzette Timmerman The speaker at our January 10, 2020 meeting will be Michelle Wenz, a PhD student from Northwestern University. She is working on an suite of superdeep diamonds from Juina, Brazil, many of which appear to have come from the 400-700 km depth range.…
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ESCONI November Paleontology Study Group Meeting – Saturday, November, 16th, 2019 at 7:30 PM.
The November Paleontology Study Group Meeting will be Saturday, November, 16th, 2019 at 7:30 PM. The topic is "Pontiac Crinoids". The presentation is by ESCONI Member Tom Williams. Come on out!
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ESCONI November General Meeting – ESCONI 70th Birthday Celebration Pictures
The November General Meeting last Friday, November 8th, 2019 was a great time! We have a very large turnout and had to expand into the neighboring room. There were two speakers, Keith Robitschek and Paul Mayer. Keith did a presentation that discussed the history of ESCONI from 1949 to the present, while Paul spoke about…
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ESCONI December 2019 Speaker is Dr. Thomas Cullen “Microsites to Macroinferences: a Multi-Scale Approach to Analyzing Dinosaur Paleoecology”
Dr. Thomas Cullen, Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at the Field Museum. The title of his talk is: “Microsites to Macroinferences: a Multi-Scale Approach to Analyzing Dinosaur Paleoecology”.
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Reminder: ESCONI October Paleontology Study Group Meeting October 19th, 2019 – Waves, Winds, and Tides: Fossil Collecting on the West Dorset Coast of Southern England
Waves, Winds, and Tides: Fossil Collecting on the West Dorset Coast of Southern England. Presentation by: Andrew Young, with Marie Angkuw, Jann Bergsten, Rhonda Gates, and Deborah Lovely. For the last several years, a group of ESCONI members have traveled to England in winter to collect fossils on its famous Jurassic Coast. Contrary to the…
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ESCONI October Paleontology Study Group Meeting October 19th, 2019 – Waves, Winds, and Tides: Fossil Collecting on the West Dorset Coast of Southern England
Waves, Winds, and Tides: Fossil Collecting on the West Dorset Coast of Southern England. Presentation by: Andrew Young, with Marie Angkuw, Jann Bergsten, Rhonda Gates, and Deborah Lovely. For the last several years, a group of ESCONI members have traveled to England in winter to collect fossils on its famous Jurassic Coast. Contrary to the…
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Reminder: ESCONI September General Meeting on September 13th, 2019 at 8:00 PM
The speaker at our September 13, 2019 meeting will be Dr. Ashley Klymiuk, Collections Manager, Paleobotany, at the Field Museum. The topic of her talk will be “Fossils from the Fifth Kingdom: from moulds to mycorrhizae”. Come on out… it should be very interesting! Here is a link to a ScienceDaily article about some of…
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ESCONI September General Meeting on September 13th, 2019 at 8:00 PM
The speaker at our September 13, 2019 meeting will be Dr. Ashley Klymiuk, Collections Manager, Paleobotany, at the Field Museum. The topic of her talk will be fossil fungi. Come on out… it should be very interesting! Dr. Az Klymiuk is a Métis Canadian botanist, mycologist, and paleontologist. Her research comprises comparative plant anatomy of…
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ESCONI June General Meeting on June 14th, 2019 at 8:00 PM – The 1883 Diamond Mine Disaster – Photos
Here are some photos from the June 2019 General Meeting. The presentation was given by Michele Micetich. Her program is about the Diamond Mine Disaster that occurred in 1883 at the Diamond No. 2 mine near Coal City, IL. Michele is curator of the Carbon Hill School Museum in Carbon Hill, IL. You can learn more…
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ESCONI June General Meeting on June 14th, 2019 at 8:00 PM – The 1883 Diamond Mine Disaster
The speaker at our June 14, 2019 meeting will be Michele Micetich. Her program is on the Diamond Mine Disaster that occurred in 1883 at the Diamond No. 2 mine near Coal City. Michele is curator of the Carbon Hill School Museum in Carbon Hill, IL. It a great place to learn what life was…
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Dickson Mounds hosts Rocks, Minerals, Fossils Program For Kids On June 8th, 2019 From 1-3 PM
The Illinois State Museum has a program called "Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils" at the Dickson Mounds on June 8th, 2019. You can find more details here. Saturday, June 8, 2019 – 1:00pm to 3:00pm Location: Dickson Mounds, Lewistown Event Audience: Family, Child Fee: Free, Donations Appreciated Learn about a variety of rocks, minerals, and fossils…
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Reminder: ESCONI Paleontology Study Group Meeting on May 18th – “The Bundenbach Fauna”
The May Paleontology Study Group Meeting will feature a presentation on the “The Bundenbach Fauna” by ESCONI member Tom Williams. There will some interesting fossils to see. The lower Devonian Lagerstatte of the Hunsruck Slate is known for some amazing specimens. See you there!
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ESCONI May General Meeting on May 10th, 2019 – “Like the Back of My Hand: The Evolution of Dorso-ventral Asymmetry During the Fin-to-Limb Transition”
The speaker at our May 10th meeting will be Dr. Thomas Stewart. Dr. Stewart is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Dr. Neil Shubin at the University of Chicago. He will be speaking about his project with Dr. Shubin on the evolution of pectoral fins in tetrapodomorph fishes. His talk is entitled “Like the…
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Reminder: ESCONI Paleontology Study Group Meeting on April 20th – Assembling a Systematic Collection: Field Work in Action
The topic for the April 2019 ESCONI Paleontology Study Group Meeting will be "Assembling a Systematic Collection: Field Work in Action". It will be given by ESCONI member and Paleontology Study Group leader John Cataloni. This is an enlarged version of the program that he gave at this year's MAPS EXPO. Come on out and…
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ESCONI Paleontology Study Group Meeting on April 20th – Assembling a Systematic Collection: Field Work in Action
The topic for the April 2019 ESCONI Paleontology Study Group Meeting will be “Assembling a Systematic Collection: Field Work in Action”. It will be given by ESCONI member and Paleontology Study Group leader John Cataloni. This is an enlarged version of the program that he gave at this year’s MAPS EXPO. Come on out and…
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ESCONI General Meeting on April 12th, 2019 – “Geology of the Illinois Valley”
The speaker at our April meeting will be Mike Phillips, Geology Professor at Illinois Valley Community College in Oglesby, IL. The title of his program is “Geology of the Illinois Valley”.
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Reminder: ESCONI Paleontology Study Group Meeting, Saturday, February 16rd, 2019, 7:30 PM
The ESCONI Paleontology Study Group Meeting for February is on February 16th, 2019 at 7:30 PM. The topic is the movie “Dinosaur 13”, which is about the discovery of Sue the T-rex at the Field Museum. We might also review the Sue talk/discussion from January. Come on out and join us for some good discussion!…
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Reminder: ESCONI General Meeting on Friday, February 8th, 2019 – “People, Places and Prehistory: Reconstructing the Prehistoric Environment”
The title of the program at our February meeting is “People, Places and Prehistory: Reconstructing the Prehistoric Environment”, by Dr. Clare Tolmie of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey. Don’t miss it!
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ESCONI General Meeting on Friday, February 8th, 2019 – “People, Places and Prehistory: Reconstructing the Prehistoric Environment”
The title of the program at our February meeting is “People, Places and Prehistory: Reconstructing the Prehistoric Environment”, by Dr. Clare Tolmie of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey. Don’t miss it!
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Reminder: ESCONI General Meeting on January 11th, 2019
The speaker at our January ESCONI general meeting will be Dr. Philip Carpenter from NIU. The topic of his talk is Northern Illinois earthquakes, and the recent induced seismicity in Oklahoma and Kansas.
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ESCONI General Meeting on January 11th, 2019
The speaker at our January ESCONI general meeting will be Dr. Philip Carpenter from NIU. The topic of his talk is Northern Illinois earthquakes, and the recent induced seismicity in Oklahoma and Kansas.
