Date: Sunday, October 22nd, 2017
Meeting Location and Time: Helmcken Road Park and Ride; 09:00 AM.
Safety and Equipment: This is the site of a former excavation, so you should expect to be walking on rocks and boulders that can be slippery and treacherous.
Equipment: Fossils are found in the rock and concretions, so a good hammer or sledge, chisel, and protective eyewear are required.
Please see the email to Society members for a good description of the location and what you may expect to find.
The planned speaker has become unavailable, so with regret this month’s meeting is cancelled.
Field trip planned for October 22; see that post please.
Date: Saturday, Sep 23
Meeting Location and Time: Helmcken Road Park and Ride; 08:00 AM) Arrange car-pooling.
Safety and Equipment:
Members may refer to the email from Tom Cockburn regarding the Sep 20 monthly meeting for more details.
Sep 20, 7:30 pm, Room A120, Cornett Building, UVic.
Welcome back from the summer to all member and guests. There will be no speaker at this meeting, so plenty of time to talk up and show off your summer collecting finds.
VicPS Annual Memberships expired on Dec. 31, 2016. New and renewal membership fees (Regular $30, Patron $100) should be brought to the general meeting or mailed to Scott MacPhail at 1504 Shorncliffe Road, Victoria, BC, V8P 2T4.
Tom Cockburn will bring used Geological Survey of Canada pogo sticks, a field instrument used to measure stratigraphy, that were offered earlier. These sticks are not in perfect condition and some repairs may be necessary.
A field trip is planned for Sep 23 2017.
The lack of a speaker forces the cancellation of this month’s meeting that had been planned for this week. Apologies.
There will be a field trip this month. Please see details in the email sent to all society members by Tom Cockburn.
Date: Sunday, June 25
Meeting Location and Time: Helmcken Road Park and Ride, 08:00 AM to sign-in and arrange car-pooling. Please do offer your driver gas money. If you have not yet filled in a BCPA waiver this year you will need to do so before joining the field trip.
Safety and Equipment:
The weather forecasts call for sun, but this is the west coast so you should prepare for anything from blazing sun to torrential downpours.
There will be a field trip this month. Please see details in the email sent to all society members by Tom Cockburn.
Unfortunately, there will be no monthly meeting on May 17 due to lack of a speaker.
Date: Saturday, May 27th (note that this is NOT the Saturday following the Monthly Meeting)
Meeting Location and Time: Helmcken Road Park and Ride; 07:00 AM) Arrange car-pooling.
Safety and Equipment:
April 19, 2017 7:30 pm, Room A120, Cornett Building, UVic.
Speaker: Gary Kaiser, RBCM research Associate and VicPS member.
Topic: Why dinosaurs got small: how biology of the dinosaur-bird lineage made them such a huge success for several hundred million years. For all of that time, both dinosaurs and birds have depended on a hard shelled egg for reproduction. The shell imposes a strict budget on the development of the hatchling and has led to important changes in the skeleton and behaviour of modern birds.
