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generally meets the third Wednesday of each month, August through May. For Fall 2024, we are meeting at Boal Hall (Boalsburg Fire Hall, 113 East Pine St., Boalsburg PA 16827). Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/gtHjdzUgXbN9b5J8A All are welcome to attend our meetings! Parents must provide supervision of minors. Mineral collectors and rockhounds, earth scientists and dinosaur lovers will all enjoy our activities. |
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October 16th meeting: by Dr. Chris Widga, Director, Penn State EMS Museum and Art Gallery Boal Hall (Boalsburg Fire Hall), 113 East Pine St, Boalsburg PA 16827 Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/gtHjdzUgXbN9b5J8A 7:45 to 8:00 p.m.: Announcements, door prizes, sales about 8:00 p.m.: featured program The event has free admission, free refreshments and free parking (lot just east of Fire Hall along East Pine St.), and is open to all; parents/guardians must provide supervision of minors.
The American Mastodon, as a concept and an organism, has deep roots in the science of paleontology and our national identity. This presentation will explore the importance of this iconic
animal to the founding fathers and the impact of new science on our understanding of America's first well-known megaherbivore. Some online presentations of interest: -------------------------- From NMS:Videos of many of our programs since 2020 are available here. -------------------------- From other sources: Jeri Jones' Zoom Rock Room: Weekly Zoom geology presentations, mostly related to Pennsylvania. Go to http://jonesgeo.com/ and in the top menu click on 'Zoom Rock Room', where you can register to be included. The staff of the Penn State Earth & Mineral Sciences Museum and Art Gallery maintains a Facebook page. They also have videos on YouTube: Museum Gallery Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jJ4NR4ICoc National Fossil Day October 16, 2024 Earth Science Week October 13-19 The National Park Service's National Fossil Day will be Wednesday, October 16, in the middle of Earth Science Week, October 13 - 19, 2024, celebrating the theme "Earth Science Everywhere." Educational materials are available. Videos of the 2020 Dallas Mineral Collecting Symposium are still available by following the links at https://www.dallassymposium.org/2020-dmcs/. VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS, TOURS, GALLERIES, COURSES, MORE! With thanks for many of these to AFMS April 2020 Newsletter and Three Rivers Gem & Mineral Society of Fort Wayne Indiana's The Strata Data newsletter. Smithsonian Scroll down to see the tips before starting a tour. Yale - Peabody Museum of Natural History Via Rock & Gem magazine web site (thanks go to them); scroll down to find the image that links to the tour. South Dakota School of Mines & Technology - Mosasaur at Museum of Geology Scroll down to 'YouTube Playlist" Houston Museum of Natural Science Dinosaurs! Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks & Minerals Society of Mineral Museum Professionals (SMMP) Curator's Pick Gallery Curators choose their favorite specimens. Hosted by Mindat. SMMP Wulfenite Gallery Geology of the National Parks Penn State GEOSC 10 virtual field trips American Southwest Virtual Museum Virtual Museum of Minerals and Molecules Click on Displays at upper right Davidson Institute of Science Education, of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, has links to several more museum virtual tours worldwide, including natural history museums. Podcast of GEOL-101 type lectures (podcasts #1 to 28). Videos linked from the web site also; all by Nick Zentner of Central Washington University. For additional current news see our NMS Bulletin (link at top of sidebar at left). |
 NMS has in stock T-shirts in Galapagos blue, Texas orange (both shown here) and royal blue. 
A station at our Minerals Junior Education Day 
2020: CELESTINE: Pennsylvania State Mineral?See also Nov. 2020 Bulletin. 
Collecting crystals in a quarry 
We have NMS posters for sale! |
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