2018 Tate Conference June 1-3

[Tate Museum]

Hello Fossil Fans-

What are you guys doing on the first weekend of June?

I am here to invite you all to the annual Tate Conference happening at the Tate Geological Museum in Casper, Wyoming in June.  

 

We have 13 paleobotanists coming to town for a day of talks (sat June 2) and two days of field trips. 

 

Field trips are to

1) a Cretaceous plant site near Worland, WY called Big Cedar Ridge which preserves plant in 3d in situ condition... Pretty Cool.  

and

2) a coal mine in Gillette, WY to collect Paleocene leaves.

 

Here is the link for more info and for registration info:

https://www.caspercollege.edu/tate-geological-museum/events/conference

 

The Fossil Forum member jpc will be MC and guy-who-does-all-sorts-of-things.

 

Hope to see a few of you there.   

 

 

 

The talks are as such: 

 

•Sarah Allen, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

"Reconstructing the paleoecology and paleoclimatology of an early Eocene site in southwestern Wyoming using plant fossils."

 

•Keith Berry, Hoehne Schools

"Rediscovering the Vermejo and Raton Megafloras 100 Years after W.T. Lee and F.H. Knowlton."

 

•Karen Chin, University of Colorado

"Direct evidence of herbivory by non-avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous."

 

•Regan Dunn, Field Museum

"Forest Canopy Response to Greenhouse Warming at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum."

 

•Patricia Gensel, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

"It (almost) all happened in the Devonian-  a current view of early land plants."

 

•Andrew Leslie, Brown University

"The Mesozoic roots of modern conifer cones."

 

•Steve Manchester, Florida Museum of Natural History 

"The inside story on Paleocene fruits and seeds:  new discoveries from micro-CT scanning of fossiliferous sediments from the Fort Union Formation in central Wyoming."

 

•Ian Miller, Denver Museum of Nature and Science

"The Campanian Vegetation of Laramidia."

 

•Mike Rischbieter, Presbyterian College

"The palynology and paleobotany of the lower Permian Alfredo Wagner locality in Santa  Catarina State, Brazil."

 

•Lauren Azevedo Schmidt, University of Wyoming

"The effects of climate variables on plant and insect herbivore communities across the

Paleocene Eocene boundary, Hanna Basin WY."

 

•Selena Y. Smith, University of Michigan

"Dead plants tell no lies: fossil insights about the evolution of monocot flowering plants."

 

•Elisabeth Wheeler, North Carolina State University

"The inside story on Yellowstone’s spectacular fossil forests

Or

Yellowstone. Not just geysers and grizzlies – fantastic fossil forests."

Plus a couple of posters 

Beth Southwell, Laramie, Wyoming and Brent Breithaupt, BLM Wyoming State Office

"The 19th Century Discovery of Fossil Cycads, Morrison Formation, Carbon County, Wyoming."

 

Matthew Parker,Casper College and J-P Cavigelli, Tate Geological Museum

"Fossil Plant specimens in the Tate Museum Collections."

[Tidgy's Dad]

Sounds great! 

Would love to attend, but not possible just now, I'm afraid.

Hope it's a success, I'm sure it will be! 

[Sagebrush Steve]

I’d love to attend but that’s the weekend my son is getting married in Portugal.  Casper is on my list of places to visit, so maybe I will get out there later this year.  Wish you much success with the conference!

[jpc]

Yes, Indeed.  I will be on hand leading the field trips and the talks.  I'm hoping some Colorado and Montana and South Dakota and Nebraska and Massachusetts folks might want to come by and join us.  It is always a good time (Biased opinion, as I have only organized this conference since 2005). 

[Tate Museum]

Thought I would bump this to the top.  The Tate Conference is only two weeks away and like I said, I would love to see a few Fossil Forumers show up. 

 

(Sagebrush Steve... have a great trip to Portugal.)