Contact Tiffany Adrain, Collections Manager (tel: 319 335 1822), for Outreach Services: school visits and activities, interest group tours, and fossil identification; and scientific research loans and visits. For meteorite enquiries please contact Ray Anderson. All other enquires can be directed to the Geoscience Department, 121 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, (tel: 319 335 1818).

Virtual Exhibitions

Iowa's Fossil Hunters!
a new web site celebrating the Iowans
who built the UI's fossil collection

Fossils in My Back Yard

Calvin Photographic Collection

Events and News:

Iowa City Darwin Day 2012!

Darwin Day 2012
Englert Theatre presents

Canadian rap artist Baba Brinkman's Rap Guide to Evolution

Click here for Darwin Day 2012 schedule

Friday February 10th to
Sunday February 12th, 2012
University of Iowa Biology Building East,
Museum of Natural History,
and Iowa City's Englert Theatre

Events include guest speakers Ellen Ketterson (Indiana University), Scott Edwards (Harvard University) and
Philip Currie (University of Alberta);
a birthday party for Charles Darwin and
a free showing of the film "Creation."

Mid America Paleontology Society meeting

The February 11th meeting of the Mid America Paleontology Society is joining in the Darwin Day Festivities!

Guest speaker: Julia McHugh, UI Geoscience Ph.D student, "Amphibian evolution as a window to terrestrial ecosystems during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction." UI Museum of Natural History Macbride Auditorium, 2pm, Saturday Feb 11th.

All events are free and open to the public.

Links:
University of Iowa Department of Geoscience Museum of Natural History University of Iowa Collections Coalition
NMITA: Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America Mid America Paleontology Society Cedar Valley Rocks and Minerals Society Eastern Iowa Paleontology Project

page last updated 2/07/2012 by TSA