Regular Monthly Meeting for May

Fossil Traveling Roadshow

Do you often not attend our meetings because it is just too far?  We hope that you will brave the traffic and join us some time (or more frequently).  And if you live in the mid-cities, Fort Worth, or farther west or south, our next meeting will be much closer to you!  We hope to see you at the clubhouse and workshop of the Arlington Gem and Mineral Club, at 1408 Gibbins Rd. Arlington, TX 76011.  It is conveniently located just south of I-30, Between Cooper and Center Streets.

The meeting is at the normal day and time, on Wednesday, May 13th, at 7PM Central daylight savings time.  Dr. Christopher McCauley, Adjunct Professor at UT Arlington will speak on “Early Paleozoic Microfossils from the Arbuckle Mountains of Southern Oklahoma”.  The Arlington Gem and Mineral Club is a very active group with many classes on the lapidary arts (making jewelry from rocks, minerals, and yes, fossils).   Come early and see their educational displays and artistic projects.

Chris McCauley earned a BA in Philosophy in 2011 from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana (a location well known for spectacular crinoid fossils).  He then earned a BS in Geology in 2018 from the University of Texas at Arlington, and continued there for his Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences in 2025.  His thesis advisors were Drs. Merlynd and Galina Nestell, and he was awarded a DPS scholarship for his research “Taxonomy of Late Silurian (Ludlow, Přídolí) and earliest Devonian (Lochkovian) agglutinated foraminifera from the Arbuckle Mountains Area, South-Central Oklahoma”.  He has published three papers, with two more in the works, and given five oral presentations at conferences on this research.  He is working as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at UTA, as well as the Department of Chemistry, Geosciences, and Physics, Tarleton State University at Fort Worth.

DPS meetings are always free and open to the public, and anyone interested in fossils is invited.  Members can bring snacks and food to share.  Everyone can bring fossils for identification or to show off.  In light of this month’s talk, bring agglutinated foraminifera.  Just kidding to see if you would actually read this far.  Bring any fossils you want! The meeting will be streamed on Zoom at:  https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83096250920.  If the link does not work, start Zoom and enter the meeting ID of 830 9625 0920.

We hope you can come to our May meeting.

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