2008
Saturday, December 6: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Friday-Sunday, November 14-16: Caving and camping trip to Iowa and Wisconsin
Saturday, October 11: A fossil collecting trip to Graf, Iowa and southwestern Wisconsin.
Saturday, May 3 : Visit to northeastern Illinois. We stopped at a fossil shop in Evanston and collected Mazon Creek fossils at a state park.
Saturday, April 26: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago - Behind the scenes tour of paleontology and anthropology collections
Saturday, March 8: Milwaukee Public Museum
Saturday-Sunday, March 1-2: PaleoFest at the Burpee Museum in Rockford, IL featuring paleontological lectures, activites, and a walkthrough of the museum.
2007
Saturday, December 8th: Cave of the Mounds tour
Saturday, October 6th: Collecting trip to a quarry near Fennimore, in southwestern Wisconsin. We will collect fossils of marine creatures from the Ordovician Period, 450 million years ago, including trilobites, nautiloids, crinoids, and brachiopods. Not sure what those are? Come to the October 2nd meeting to find out!
