June 2010
We are having our traditional summer field trip/picnic with the Kentucky Paleontological Society. This will be a joint field trip with our nearest neighbor paleo club, the Kentucky Paleo Society to a favorite locality, Bardstown, KY.
This Saturday – July 10 – the Dry Dredgers and the Kentucky Paleontological Society will meet in Bardstown for the annual picnic/field trip. The event begins at 11:00 AM at My Old Ketucky Home State Park.To get there, take Bluegrass Parkway west from Lexington to Exit 25 and head north on US 150. Turn left at the McDonald’s near the park . The picnic area is on the left side of the road, about one-quarter mile past the McDonald’s. The plan is to eat around noon and heading out to collect about 1:00 PM. KPS will provide the meat – hot dogs and hamburgers, buns, plates, napkins and cups. Please bring your own drinks. (No alcoholic beverages are allowed in the park.) Also bring a side dish.
After eating, we will head on to outcrops with Ordovician corals and other marine fossils and to an outcrop with Silurian trilobites. You must have eye protection, a chisel, and a sledgehammer to collect the Silurian trilobites.
See you there!
THINK SAFETY!!!
JULY PICNIC AND FIELD TRIP ANNOUNCEMENT
WHAT: Collect Ordovician and Silurian marine fossils after picnic
WHERE: Meet at the Picnic Grounds adjacent to My Old Kentucky Home State Park.
(See article above for details)
WHEN: Saturday, July 10, 11:00 AM (be on time!)
ITEMS YOU MAY NEED:
Drinks
Side Dish
Sturdy shoes and clothes that can get dirty
Geology hammer
Sledgehammer and chisel if collecting trilobites
Safety glasses
Containers for specimens
Everyone please remember to think of safety!
See pictures of our picnic with the KPS last year.
Click here for pictures of previous beginners classes and general meetings.
The selection committee for the Dry Dredger's Paul Sanders Awards has announced two recipients of the awards for 2009 - 2010, Thomas Schramm and Rene A. Shroat-Lewis.
Schramm is working on a master’s degree in geology at the University of Cincinnati. His research topic is: "Stratigraphic refinement of the Cincinnatian, Maysvillian stage: Establishing regional correlations based on a fine scale sequence stratigraphic framework."
"The Maysvillian Stage is in need of further stratigraphic refinement,” he writes, “necessary to facilitate high-resolution paleontological investigations. The specific goals of this project are: A) to further refine the Maysvillian stratigraphic framework using sequence-stratigraphic methods B) identify different scales of sedimentary cyclicity within this interval; and C) test for correlations between patterns of sea level change, Magnetic Susceptibility (MS), and Milankovitch driven climatic oscillations."
Shroat-Lewis is working on a doctoral degree at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in Geology/Paleontology. Her research topic is: “Paleoecologic Comparison of Three Cincinnatian (Upper Ordovician) Obrution Surfaces.” "In the study, I will compare ecological parameters of three district surfaces to identify the range of interaction between edrioasteroids and their environment," she wrote. Each award recipient will receive up to $750 for reimbursement of expenses incurred in performing their research.
The Paul Sanders selection committee consisted of five professional paleontologists and four knowledgeable amateurs members of the Dry Dredgers.
For more information on the Paul Sanders Fund, click here.
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