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Welcome to the Western Interior Paleontological Society

DON'T FORGET
Save some of your fossils for the grab bags.
SEE THESE GREAT INTERVIEWS WITH BOB BAKKER AND JACK HORNER

Bob Bakker

Jack Horner

If you are not a member and are visiting this web site, we hope that you will join us. Come to some of our meetings and visit with our members. We have excellent speakers, presentations, and socializing starting at 7 pm most first Mondays of the month (September to May) in Ricketson Auditorium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

The doors to the west entrance of the museum will be opened until 7:30. After that they will be locked. These doors have to be guarded while they are unlocked so a WIPS volunteer will be watching the entrance until the program begins. No food or beverages are allowed in this atrium.

For book and literature reviews, articles about paleontology and more, join WIPS and get a subscription to our newsletter, Trilobite Tales

Monday, May 5th

Tom Nolan & Bob Atkinson

The use of Linear Collapsible Foam for Molding Fossil Footprints in the Field, a poster presented at the Fossil Preparation and Collections Symposium, Petrified Forest, Az. The first annual Fossil Preparation and Collections Symposium was held from April 10 – 12 2008.and was attended by preparers from small museums in the west to the Field Museum and the American Museum. Topics discussed ranged from lessons on adhesives and consolidants, Radon gas problems in the lab and collections areas, and certification programs. The first day’s activities were a tour of the Petrified Forest and Painted Desert with a side trip to the fossil location of several early Triassic vertebrate sites. The second day was presentations and posters where the topics above were discussed. Afterwards was a one hour poster session (there were only two posters). Bob and I presented our poster (it will be on display at the meeting) which was very successful with everyone wanting to know where to get the foam and if it could be used under various conditions. The third day was workshops on casting and molding, Publishing, 3-dementional imaging. And metal welding and shaping for mounting specimens. We will present our poster, take you on the tour of the park and discuss some of the pertinent topics and workshops. I hope you will join us.