Regular Monthly Meeting for November for DPS (Wed, November 11, 2026)

Thu, 12 Nov 2026 01:00:00 GMT

Attention! Attention! DPS November meeting will be at the Arlington Gem & Mineral Club

1408 Gibbins Rd.

Arlington, TX 76011

The November DPS Meeting location has changed

· Dallas Paleontological Society November 11^th meeting is at the Arlington Gem and Mineral Club. Social time starts at 7:00PM then the meeting starts at 7:30PM.
· Important - Parking will be behind the Dar El-Salam Islamic Center, 500W. Road to Six Flags St. Arlington, TX 76011.
There is a sidewalk through the hedges to the Arlington Gem and Mineral Club building.
· Please save parking spaces at the Club building for the our limited mobility people.

The Dallas Paleontological Society will meet on Wednesday, November 11, 7:30 PM at the Arlington Gem and Mineral Club. The presentation will be

“Using Fossil Wood to Reconstruct Past Cretaceous Forests”.

The presenter is Dr. Lisa Boucher.

Dr. Lisa Boucher is Curator-in-Charge of the Non-vertebrate Paleontology collections and Associate Professor of Practice in the Earth and Planetary Sciences at UT-Austin. She is paleobotanist specializing in Cretaceous macroflora and has collected fossils in several regions in the U.S. as well as conducting field research in Antarctica and Madagascar. Prior to her position at NPL, Lisa served as a Research Fellow and Lecturer with the College of Natural Sciences at UT-Austin and was an Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and a postdoc with the Smithsonian Institution. She earned a doctorate in plant biology from Ohio State University and a bachelor’s degree in biology from Cornell University.

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Regular Monthly Meeting for November for DPS (Wed, November 11, 2026)