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  ESCONI PAST FIELD TRIPS - 2000 FALL

SEPT 24, 2000 (Sunday)  Braceville, Illinois  - Collecting Mazon Creek Fossils

Meet at 10:00 A.M. Sunday  at Casey's in Coal City.    

Pictures from Field Trips (All pictures by John Good unless otherwise indicated)

Braceville 9-23-00 

Braceville 9-24-00  Collecting Mazon Creek Fossils

Braceville 9-24-00 #2

Braceville 9-24-00  Collecting Mazon Creek Fossils

OCT 21, 2000   Mazon Creek Open House

                         Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford, IL

                         12:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. 

 

Featured speakers include George Langford III, Dr. Merrill Foster, and Dr. Jamila Kukalova-Peck.  Events include fossil identification, university and private displays, silent auction and book sales.  Burpee Museum is known for its unique Mazon Creek Diorama.

 

Burpee Mazon Creek Display

 

Burpee Museum Mazon Creek Display

NOV. 5, 2000 (Sunday) Field Museum 9:00 A.M.

Indoor field trip to see SUE at the Field Museum as well as a behind the scenes tour of the Fossil Preparation Labs.  We will have a guided tour with Darin Croft, Post Doctoral Research Associate, and Jim Holstein, Fossil Preparator and Manager of the Madagascar Dinosaur Project.

ESCONI and SUE at the Field Museum

ESCONI and SUE at the Field Museum (Picture by Floyd Rogers)

ESCONI and SUE at the Field Museum #2

ESCONI and SUE at the Field Museum  

ESCONI Inside SUE Preperation Lab

ESCONI in the SUE Fossil Preparation Lab at the Field Museum


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