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I was invited to set up an educational booth at the Cranbrook Rock & Lapidary Club's Mineral, Fossil & Gem Show in October. It was a huge hit with the local collectors and members of the public. I was able to chat with a diversity of people ranging from families to fanatics and even some familiar faces from social media swung by to say hi. I am excited for the next event and will definitely be spending more time in Cranbrook. Such a welcoming community of fossil hunters and great number of Cambrian sites. Here are some photos of my table display. I wanted to spice things up and add fossils from around the world for this event as well as feature some of my current work.

A few weeks ago I, along with the Vancouver Paleontological Society hosted a large table display at the annual BC Rock and Gem Show in Chilliwack! Every year I am invited to educate the public at this three day event. British Columbia's lower mainland lacks museums that have local fossils on display which is very unfortunate due to the high diversity of important and spectacular fossil sites in the area! I make sure to cover as much as I can at these shows and events, especially on the Burgess Shale (since it is so incredible and most people don't even know the site is in our Provence). This year was special as I was a part of the research and naming of Hainosaurus boubker, a new species of mosasaur most of you are now familiar with! I had the chance to share it at the show and really thank all the amazing people that have helped bring it to life! Our study was funded by the Association of Applied Paleontological Sciences’ Charles H. Sternberg Scholarship for vertebrate fossil research and without their support, our study would not have been possible! Huge thank you to the members of the AAPS! Photo 1: Multiple table booth with parts of my personal collection which I have geared over the years to be presentable to the public for education! Photo 2: Dan Bowden, Brennan Martens and John Fam of the VanPS along with a life sized Hainosaurus boubker banner! Photo 3: I am setting up a Burgess Shale themed section of table containing specimens from Utah and China! Photo 4: John Fam, Dan Bowden and Brennan Martens with John Fam's two display cases filled with fossils (ammonites, decapods, bivalves) from Vancouver Island Photo 5: My two display cases with Burgess Shale themed plushies and a special Hainosaurus boubker feature highlighting the many artists and collaborators involved with the project!

Took this picture about a year ago. I was exploring the shoreline on Denman Island. Group I was with was calling me back to leave when I saw this between some boulders. Snapped a few pictures because I thought it looked interesting. Wasn't sure if this could be a fossil, or maybe a concretion? Didn't have time to measure or get any closer for better photos, but it was thicker than a forearm and around the same length. Anyway, this is something I found online about the area if its useful. "Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group of southwest British Columbia is a >4 km-thick succession consisting mostly of deep marine siliciclastics deposited directly on the Insular Superterrane. " https://fossilhuntress.blogspot.com/2019/09/denman-island-concretion.html Any help is appreciated, always interested in learning something new Thanks, Jenaya

I have heard all about the form for years and recently even more so, enough to finally make the decision to join! I am so glad to have finally committed! ( thanks to @Praefectus) I grew up fossil hunting in British Columbia, Canada and have been mentored by many amazing people as a part of the Vancouver Paleontological Society. I am now a student at the UofA pursuing my PhD. I have collected hundreds of thousands of fossils from a diverse amount of sites ranging from Cambrian to Eocene in age! I specialize in Burgess Shale material as well as various sites specific to BC. I'm hoping to share all my amazing finds with this wonderful community as well as my expansive knowledge of the region!

Hello, first post here! I found this strange object at low tide on the shore of the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada, just near the Agassiz bridge. I have no idea what it might be, but it appears to be at least partially composed of some sort of mineralized strands with what might have once been mud stuck into the crevices. It has been thoroughly cleaned, so everything you see here is rock, not dirt.