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Links

  • Interactive Photographic Index to the Steven C. Minkin Paleozoic Footprint Site (maintained by Dr. Ron Buta):  a newly updated collection of photos from the Minkin site that are much easier to view: Steven C. Minkin Trackway Photographic Index

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  • Trace Fossils of the Crescent Valley Mine- a large collection of vertebrate tracks amassed by Dr. Ron Buta in his visits to this surface coal mine located very close to the underground coal mine which was the source of the vertebrate tracks described in the 1930 Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History by Aldrich and Jones: http://kudzu.astr.ua.edu/cvm2/cvm-database2.html.  

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  • Alabama Museum of Natural History: The AMNH sponsors a great program of family friendly weekend field trips throughout the year to various sites focusing on geology, paleontology, ecology and other areas.  The AMNH has an immense paleo research collection accumulated over the past 100 years (including what may be the largest mosasaur collection in the world) and is always looking for volunteers to help with cleaning and cataloguing specimens.  In addition, for the past 30 years the AMNH has conducted a several week-long summer Expedition, usually focused on archaeology or paleontology in which participants  camp in the field and work with experts to uncover the remote history of human activities in Alabama or the much more ancient fossil inhabitants of the State. Here is a link to the Museum's collections webpage:   https://collections.museums.ua.edu/paleontology-collection/.

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  • WANT TO HELP SUPPORT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA’S PALEO PROGRAM?  Consider making your tax deductible contribution to the Alabama Museum of Natural History’s Paleo Collections Enhancement Fund. Your money will be earmarked to help modernize the paleo collections, for example by buying archival shelving and preservation materials, supporting creation of an online image database and more.  Select the link below to make your tax deductible contribution.  No contribution is too small!   JUST CLICK THIS LINK: AMNH Paleo Collections Enhancement Fund

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  • McWane Science Center:  In addition to its world class interactive exhibits on the other sciences and its eye-popping IMAX Theatre, the McWane Center has a spectacular fossil exhibit, with lifesize replicas of dinosaurs including several whose remains have been found in Alabama, as well as the actual fossil remains of other fossil creatures that once inhabited the State such as a virtually complete mosasaur (a giant marine Cretaceous reptile related to snakes and lizards) and a giant ground sloth: http://mcwane.org.  This is the link to McWane’s extensive new collection section with images of specimens in their collection: http://luna.mcwane.org/luna/servlet .   Also, here is a link to the Director of Collections Jun Ebersole's publications: https://www.mcwane.org/collection/professional-resources/. 

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  • Elevation Science Institute (formerly Bighorn Basin Paleontological Institute): Prescott Atkinson, your Vice President, Carl Sloan, your Secretary, and members Marc Harvey and Ron Buta participated in their fourth weeklong dig in July 2022 with Elevation Science excavating Jurassic age dinosaurs in the Bighorn Basin in Montana.  This experience is open to anyone- it would be a particularly great adventure for a parent/child pair (for kids as young as 10-12 years). For further information see the Elevation Science website: at this link: http://www.elevationscience.org/ and also take a look at videos from their youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtcST0REv0zZNihyI9SnkvQ .  If you would like to provide support for the BBPI, every time you shop on Amazon, be sure to use the Smile.Amazon.com web address shown below, and with every purchase Amazon makes a donation to the BBPI - at no extra cost to you!  It’s the easiest way to support this great organization. https://smile.amazon.com/ch/81-3350752 

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  • Oceans of Kansas:  Mike Everhart’s spectacular website on the Cretaceous world, focusing on the western interior sea previously occupying present day Kansas, USA: www.oceansofkansas.com 

 

In Memoriam: 

Frank David Lueth November 5, 1940-July 7, 2007.  

For those of you who knew him, this youtube photographic tribute to David created by his daughter

is a wonderful memory of one of our departed friends:  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6euSPzoVLk

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