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September Meeting
Our September Club Meeting will be on Sept. 27th. It will be from 1-3 in the downstairs classroom.
We had 23 NPA members out in the field this year for our June field season reboot. This was a big undertaking for the new Field trip team - so thank you Jim & Larry.
Between both outings we visited 14 fossil sites representing many different geological timeframes. We collected shrimp claws, crabs, clams, teredo wood, crinoids, brachiopods, horn coral, ammonites, insects of many types, plants, big and small trilobites, multiple types of Cretaceous gastropods, Blue Forest petrified wood, Eocene fossil fish, and of course, a few gorgeous rocks. At the Sept meeting we’ll recap our finds and learn a little about the fossils at those sites. If you went on the trips please send photos to us at info@northwestpaleo.org. Members who didn’t attend the NPA trips are invited to bring their summer field trip show and tell too. And we will have at least one surprise guest for dinosaur field season updates!
Summer Field Trips
NPA summer field trips will include local Washington sites and farther afield into Utah and Wyoming. See more info…
May Meeting - New Date
The May Meeting will be held on May 31st at the Burke Museum. And…
Stonerose Member Weekend, Republic WA
Join the scientists and crew at Stonerose Interpretive Center and Eocene Fossil Site for their annual pre-season dig at Boot Hill plus lectures and camaraderie. Member weekend attendees visit the site before it is seasonally open to the public. You get to take home extra fossils and meet the scientists who are researching there. More details to come.
March Members Meeting
T-Rex Update and Secrets of the Hell Creek Project with Dr. David DeMar Jr. and Michael Holland, plus member show and tell!
January Members Meeting
January will be a special meeting with two great speakers on the topic of discoveries in Paleobotany. Dr. Caroline A. E. Stromberg (UW) and Dr. Patricio Emmanuel Santamarina will join us. More on this special meeting coming soon.
November Members Meeting
Dr. Christian Sidor, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Assoc Director of Research and Collections, Burke Museum, UW Professor, will present “Triassic Tour: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and so much more” featuring his current research.
September Members Meeting
Join us in the 3rd Floor meeting area adjacent to the lab for a presentation by Jennifer Wells, Burke Museum Assoc, on the UW’s Prosperous Prospecting Field Season in Hell Creek, MT.