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2005 Earth Science Week Activities
in Houston
October 8 - 15, 2005
“Geoscientists Explore Our Earth”
Family Earth Science Festival
Houston Museum of Natural Science, Saturday, October 8,
2005, noon- 4:00 p.m.
Join us for the Family Earth Science Festival at the Houston Museum
of Natural Science’s Weiss Energy Hall. The festival will
include an energy passport contest, hands-on demonstrations, special
presentations, Boy Scout badge activities, and programs. We will
have an opening ceremony for Houston’s Earth Science Week
in the museum at 1:00pm. Please join us as a visitor or a volunteer,
and bring your family and friends! Please visit the museums website
at www.hgms.org for more information
or contact Inda Immega at immega@swbell.net
or Martha McRae at mmcrae1@houston.rr.com
Classroom Connections- Art & Essay Contest, October
8, 2005
By popular demand we are offering our second annual art & essay
contest. This contest is for K-5 and 6-8th graders (respectively)
from classrooms around Houston. The theme of the contests will be
the national theme “Geoscientists Explore Our Earth”.
A firm deadline for submission will be September 24th in order for
us to process the entries and select winners. First, second, third,
and honorable mention winners will be selected from each category
and will be awarded a prize and certificate at the Family Earth
Science Festival on October 8. For more information, please contact
Jennifer Burton at jennifer_burton@anadarko.com
To learn more about national contests please review the links below:
Earth Science Week kits which include posters,
are available from the AGI at http://www.earthsciweek.org/index.html.
National contests for students, teachers, and the general
public are outlined on http://www.earthsciweek.org/index.html
as well.
Come join us on a fieldtrip!
Fossils at Whiskey Bridge, Saturday, October 15, 2005, 11:00
a.m.-3:00 p.m.
An ever popular venue, On Saturday we will be looking for fossils
at the Stone City bluffs on the Brazos River, popularly known as
the Whiskey Bridge outcrop. It's located on the south bank of the
Brazos River at the Highway 21 bridge, southwest of Bryan / College
Station. It is a fabulous place to see and collect Eocene fossils
from the green glauconite sand. The Eocene Crockett Formation was
deposited on the outer continental shelf in about 300 feet of water
and has a very diverse fauna included in the sediments. Snails and
bivalves are very common. You are likely to find corals, bryozoans,
worms, crab claws, shark teeth, otoliths (fish ear bones). The outcrop
area is huge.
There is plenty of parking on the south side of the bridge; the
HGS will be set up on the west side of Highway 21. We will have
people at the top to give you an idea of what you are going to see
and people on the outcrop to explain what you are seeing. Plan to
arrive any time between 11 and 2; groups will be organized continuously
and we'll be there until 3pm.
For more details conatct: Earth Science Week chair Martha
McRae at mmcrae1@houston.rr.com
or co-chair jennifer_burton@anadarko.com.
We need volunteers for all of these events, if you or someone you
know may be interested in helping please contact us. Museum Day
always needs volunteer docents to help with set-up, break-down,
and with assisting visitors on their questions about logistics and
most importantly the geology they are experiencing. The end of week
fieldtrip is always a huge draw and we need volunteer paleontology
lovers to help the public locate and understand the fossils and
strata they are seeing. Don’t worry! We will help you with
the background information. It is truly rewarding, come on out!!!
For more information, visit the Houston
Geological Society website at http://www.hgs.org/en/cev/?458.
ESW field participants stretch across the outdoor
museum of the Stone City bluffs for explorations in paleoecology.
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