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:
- Safety:This is a quarry site that has been converted into a motocross track. Awareness of motorbikes operating nearby is essential.
- Equipment: Fossils are found in the rock and concretions. A good hammer, chisel, and protective eyewear are required.
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:
- Safety: We will be visiting an intertidal site, so you should expect to be walking on rocks that can be slippery and treacherous. Expect to be around water.
- Equipment: Fossils may be found in exposed rock and in concretions, so a good hammer or sledge, chisel, and protective eyewear are required.
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:
- Safety: We will be visiting an intertidal site, so you should expect to be walking on rocks that can be slippery and treacherous.
- Equipment: At some sites the fossils are only found in concretions, so a good hammer or sledge and protective eyewear are required. At other sites the fossils are found in the rock, so a small chisel is helpful.
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.