From Michelle: I thought it would be great to pass the word around about the 2nd annual Fossil Preparation and Collections Symposium, being hosted at the Tate Museum [...]]]> I am posting this at Michelle Pinsdorf’s request. There will be several people from here going, and again we should be able to provide transportation.

From Michelle: I thought it would be great to pass the word around about the 2nd annual Fossil Preparation and Collections Symposium, being hosted at the Tate Museum in Casper this summer. The conference runs from June 5-7th, is nice and close by, offers discounts on hotel rooms, and has a sliding scale of registration fees depending on the days and activities one wants to participate in.

The website for the symposium is here: http://www.caspercollege.edu/tate/index.html
(click the “Activities” tab and then click the “Annual Summer Conference” bar), while the schedule of events and speakers is here: http://www.caspercollege.edu/tate/downloads/2009_tateconf_schedule.pdf
and the registration form is here: http://www.caspercollege.edu/tate/downloads/2009_tate_registration.pdf

I’d very much like to go, and would be happy to make plans with others to split driving, rooms, etc., so I think this might be a good thing to announce in class and/or just around the department in general, before everyone goes everywhere for the summer.