January Meeting recap and what’s next
Our January Meeting coincided with Fossil Finders at the Burke Museum and we were again excited to share Judith and present some special fossils provided by the Museum for the event. Jase did a great job manning the table with a touchable Triceratops frill and Allosaurus skull cast and more. Our 3D printed trilobites with our QR code were again a big hit. (Thank you Rick).
For the meeting, we had a jam packed agenda including two Paleobotanists sharing their research on how flowering plants evolved and how grasses evolved and spread. As part of a shortened club meeting, Jim introduced several proposed field trip plans for 1-2 day local fossil finding, and some options for a one week or longer trip to Utah and Wyoming. We know that attendance was lower at this meeting due to the NFC Championship game, and Jim & Larry hope to get your input at the March meeting. There are so many fun options and we hope everyone will be able to make at least one field trip this year.
We shared some goals for the club for 2026 and one is to have an Education Outreach committee that would coordinate with Vince to take Judith to the community, rock clubs and schools. We are looking for a committee Chair who will lead this, and some committee members who are interested in helping out. Please let us know if you are interested. For more information about Judith see the education page on this site.
We unfortunately ran out of time to have member show and tell and will definitely make that a priority for the next meeting in March. What do you have in your collection that you’d be willing to bring? Were you out on a dig or fossil hunt recently? Please bring your stories and photos to the March meeting. Well be talkin’ dinos and hope to see you then!
Judith the Ceratopsian visiting the Burke for Fossil Finders. While Judith is a cast, the touchable Triceratops frill (front) would be similar to her actual bones.
Dr. Stromberg presents her team’s research with surprising facts about grasses
Dr. Santamaria visits with us from Argentina via zoom to share his work in Paleopalynology