Tag: presentation
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Friday Lecture: Meteorites & Impact Events
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
Saturday and Sunday – ESCONI Mazon Creek fossil collecting trip in Braceville. Collecting Mazon Creek Fossils on private propertyMeet at 8:00 A.M. Saturday at the BP Amoco in Coal City. No Age Limit. Hard Hats not required. Take I-55 to Exit 236 (Coal City). Take a right onto Highway 113 (Division Street). Go west to…
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Dino Lecture Tonight 5-7 pm by Tyler Keillor in Wauconda
From Fossils to Fish: How does a Paleoartist transform a fossilized dinosaur skull into a fleshed-out life reconstruction? What are the reasons for depicting an extinct animal in a particular way, and what lines of scientific evidence are there to support the subjective, artistic choices used in the creation of a sculpture? Using a slideshow…
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Got These Mazon Fossils? Please Bring to Paleo Meeting
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 poop, Dasyleptus;…
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Jim Daly’s Presentation on Mineralogy Terminology
Last night, at the Mineralogy Study Group meeting, Jim Daly gave an informative presentation, Mineralogy Terminology. Here are the handouts (.doc) and the slides(.ppt). On the left is the slide displaying the optical property, shiller, as seen in this specimen of Aventurine. (photo by Jim Daly).
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Saturday, 4/9, Mineralogy and Micromount Meeting 7:30 pm
Mineralogy and Micromount Study Group. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 1630 pm1. Talking about mineral structures and classifications.
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Friday – General Meeting – “Tyrannosaur Research”
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”.
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Events for Weekend 2/18 – 2/20, 2011
Fri. 2/18 – Physics Family Science Night, Elgin Public Museum, Elgin, 6-8 PM; Fee: $2 per person, no registration required. Sat. 2/19 – Opening of new exhibit at Burpee Museum in Rockford IL – Giants! African Dinosaurs. Sat. 2/19 – Rock & Mineral Identification, Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art, Elmhurst, 8 yrs to adult, 10:30…
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Events This Week Jan. 10 – 16, 2011
Fri. 1/14 General Meeting, 8:00 p.m. College of Dupage Building K, Room #131. John Ruskamp will speak on: Trans-Cultural Diffusion in North American Native Rock Writing: This dual topic lecture presents images of a previously unidentified solar “sun dagger” shrine in Eastern Arizona, the native folklore associated with it, and explores the possibility that it…
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Events for Weekend and Week Ahead
Sat. 12/11 Mineralogy Holiday Meeting and Famous Mineral Identification Contest (with fabulous prizes). 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131.
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Events This Weekend
Friday, Oct 22, ESCONI Board Meeting, 7:30 College of Dupage, Building K, Rm. 161. (note room change) Saturday, Oct 23, Archaeology Study Group Meeting. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K. Rm 161. (note room change)
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ESCONI This Weekend
Saturday, Oct. 16, Paleontology Study Group Meeting. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. (note room change)
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ESCONI Events This Weekend
Friday, Oct. 8, 8:00 p.m.– ESCONI General Meeting. Speaker: Paul Mayer, Invertebrate Collections Manager at the Field Museum. His talk will be entitled “The Milwaukee Formation: Rocks, Fossils, and Storms.” The lecture will focus on some deep tunnel cores drilled to a depth of over 800 feet in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In particular, he will talk…
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Local events of interest this weekend, 2010
Friday, September 17, 7:00 pm – Elgin Public Museum, Elgin, IL, Lecture – “Archaeology of Disaster.” Fire, flood, famine, war, plague, earthquake . . . All major disasters leave distinctive signatures in the archaeological record. From the New Madrid quakes of 1811 and 1812 that changed the very course of the Mississippi River, to the…
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Many Upcoming Events!
Friday, 9/10, 8:00 p.m., General Meeting, College of Dupage Building K, Room #131, Dale Gnidovec, curator of Ohio State University‘s Orton Geological Museum will speak on the Morrison formation. Saturday, 9/11, 9:00 a.m., Work day at the storage facility in preparation for the ESCONI Flea Market on October 2. Contact John Good at 630-483-2363 to…
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This Weekend
Friday, 6/11 – ESCONI General Meeting. James St. John, from Ohio State University at Newark, will be speaking on “Weird Fossils & Fossil Oddities” at the ESCONI General Meeting at 8:00 p.m. College of Dupage Building K, Room #131. Saturday, 6/12 – Mineralogy & Micromount Study Group Meeting. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K,…
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Speaker Announced for Sept: Dale Gnidovec
Dale Gnidovec, curator of Ohio State University‘s Orton Geological Museum, will be speaking at the first fall ESCONI General Meeting on Friday, SEPTEMBER 10th. He will be speaking about: The Magnificent Morrison – a historic look at this Late Jurassic rock unit that has produced so many familiar dinosaurs – Allosaurus, Apatosaurus (“Brontosaurus”), Diplodocus, Stegosaurus…
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Paleontology Meeting: Sat. Jan. 16th – Shrimp
Paleontology Study Group Meeting, Saturday, Jan 16th, 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131. Bring your Mazon Creek shrimp specimens to be photographed for possible inclusion in new reference book!
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Mineral – Micromount Meeting: Sat., 12/12, 7:30 p.m.
Mineral – Micromount Study Group Meeting, 7:30 pm, Saturday, 12/12, College of Dupage, Building K – Rm 131. Bring three minerals and four labels for the identification contest – fabulous prizes for all! John’s Ice Cream will be served.
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Paleontology Meeting: Sat. 11/21 – Arthropods
Paleontology Meeting, 7:30 pm, College of Dupage, Building K – Rm 131, Devonian Period Paleontology. Bring your Mazon Creek arthropods, excluding shrimp and including insects and millipedes.
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Meetings This Weekend
Friday, 11/13, General Meeting, 8:00 pm, College of Dupage, Rm K 131, Speaker: Dr. David Malone speaking on Exploring for Manto-Style Pb-Zn-Ag Deposits in the Forty-Mile Range, East Central Alaska Saturday, 11/14, Mineralogy Meeting, 7:30 pm, College of Dupage, Building K – Rm 131. Micromineralogy of the Upper Pennisula, explanation of how to create a…
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Presentation by Jack Wittry
Thanks to Andy Jansen for putting Jack’s slides from his talk last week into a file format that could be easily downloaded. Click here to download (.pdf) (only 5 MB). This document will also be kept on the Mazon Creek Reference page.
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Micro Meeting Cracks Geodes
Saturday night the Micromineral groups was busy cracking geodes using a pipe cutter. This method worked well because the pipe cutter cut the geode into two halves – instead of many pieces. Many of the geodes fluoresced – mostly the Mexican geode brought by Kathy. (see below)
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Reminder for General Meeting
The General Meeting will still be held in Building K, Room 131, but there will be no water in the building that night.
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General Meeting: Friday, Sept. 11, Jack Wittry speaker
Time to mark your calendars…. the next ESCONI general meeting will be Friday, September 11 at 8:00 pm, College of Dupage, Building K, Room #131. Jack Wittry will speak on, “Antediluvian Phytology Illustrated by a Collection of the Fossil Remains of Plants Peculiar to the Coal Formation of Mazon Creek.”
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Mineral – Micromount Study Group Meeting on Geodes, June 13th
On Saturday, June 13, 7:30 p.m. at College of Dupage, Building K, Room 131, David Bergmann will bring his geodes splitter as part of the discussion of Illinois geodes.
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General Meeting – Friday, June 12, Dr. Bob Martin: “From Primate Ancestry to Human Origins”
Friday, June 12, 8:00 p.m. at College of Dupage, Building K, Room 131, Dr. Bob Martin, from the Field Museum will speak on “From Primate Ancestry to Human Origins.”
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General Meeting – Friday May 8: Dr. Zanno “Resurrecting Dinosaurs”
On Friday, May 8, at 8 pm at the College of DuPage Building K, Room #131, Dr. Lindsay Zanno will speak on, “Resurrecting Dinosaurs – How new science is bringing ancient beasts to life.” All are welcome! Photo Credit: TOM TAYLOR/UTAH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH From Burpee Museum: Lindsay E. Zanno earned…
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MicroMineral Meeting: Mineral Oddities, Sat. 4/11, 7:30 pm
MicroMineral Meeting, Mineral Oddities in Honor of the Tuscon Gem Show 2009, 7:30 pm, College of Dupage, Building K – Rm 131. Bring your mineral oddities.
