September 2010Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - MINERAL GENERAL MEETING: 7:30 to 9:30 pm. Downstairs at Brighton Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Ave. We'll be having a Show & Tell/Swap/Sale, so start thinking about what you'd like to bring, or just come and enjoy the specimens that will be on hand. Items from the Coffee collection will be for sale. Door prizes & refreshments. Visitors welcome. Stay tuned for more info. http://www.rasny.org/mineral |
October 2010Friday, October 8, 2010 - EXTRA MINERAL
MEETING: 7:30 to 9:30 pm. Meeting place to be determined.
James Tovey of TOVECO, Alstead, NH will be speaking about
his beryl mine there. He will have aquamarine, smoky quartz and other
specimens, as well as cabochons, beads, faceted stones and finished
jewelry originating from the mineral material in his mine. Refreshments.
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Saturday 06 RAS Fall Paper Session & Larry King Memorial Lecture — 9:00 a.m., at the Center for Integrated Manufacturing at Rochester Institute of Technology. More information. |
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January 2010 Sat 09 LIFE SCIENCES HERBARIUM — 10:00 AM-1:00 PM Life Sciences section will hold a workshop at the RAS Herbarium, located in the basement of the Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC). No experience needed! Plan to come and help with this valuable collection - and learn about plants in the process. Lunch is served in the RMSC Cafe until 2 pm. If you plan to attend, please send an RSVP to Elizabeth Pixley. Then, at RMSC, go to the front desk and ask staff person there to call ext. 368, the phone in the Herbarium. For more information, contact Elizabeth Pixley, herbarium curator (334-0977 or epixley@rochester.rr.com). Fri 15 RAS BULLETIN Deadline for events and articles
the February, 2010 issue. To submit articles, contact the editor at
editor@rasny.org. Sun 17 WINTERFEST 11:00 AM-4:00 PM East Lodge, Mendon Ponds
Park. Outdoor activities and exhibits. All sections welcome. For more
information please visit www.mendonpondswinterfest.org or contact section
presidents. Tue 19 MINERAL GENERAL MEETING — 7:30 PM. at Brighton Town Hall,
2300 Elmwood Ave., in the Downstairs Meeting Room. John Swierkos, Jr.,
Dolomite Group Geologist & Environmental Coordinator, will speak
on Mining at Penfield & Walworth Quarries. For information, call
Bill Pinch at 248-3333 or check the Mineral Section
Web page. Wed 20 LIFE SCIENCES HERBARIUM — 1:00-4:00 PM Life Sciences section
will hold a workshop at the RAS Herbarium, located in the basement of
the Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC). See similar January
09 event for details. Wed 27 RAS BOARD MEETING 7:00 PM Brighton Town Hall 2300 Elmwood Ave. in the downstairs conference room. Everyone is welcome. |
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Tuesday February 02 – Fossil Section Meeting. 7:30 PM in the Downstairs Meeting Room of the Brighton Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Avenue. "Ordovician of the Cincinnati Arch and adventures at the North American Paleontological Convention," John Handley/Fossil Section. Visitors are welcome. Please contact John Handley at fossil@rasny.org or 585-802-8567 for more information. Fri 5 – ASTRONOMY GENERAL MEETING – 7:30
PM, RIT Gosnell Hall A-300 Lecture Hall. RIT Professor Michael Richmond
will present the latest updates from the Kepler mission. For information,
contact Lori Englund at 334-5744, or <lenglund@frontiernet.net>
or visit www.rochesterastronomy.org.
Sat 06 – LIFE SCIENCES GENERAL MEETING – 3:00 PM - 10:00 PM at Karen Wolf's home. 1397 Five Mile Line Road (come anytime, leave anytime) bring a dish/snack to pass; Section will supply sandwich makings and drinks. We will have a late afternoon luncheon for afternoon attendees and early evening meal for later in the day attendees. We will have Herbarium samples and other materials on display and discuss the many things the Life Science section and RAS are involved with and could be involved with Bring your thoughts and ideas for field trips and meeting topics. For more information and to let me know how many will attend, contact Karen 670-9709. Fri 12 – ASTRONOMY LECTURE – 7:30 PM, RIT Gosnell Hall A-300 Lecture Hall. "Deep Sky Filters" Frank Bov. Frank will discuss the use of filters for viewing nebulas. For more information, contact Lori Englund at 334-5744. Mon 15 - Fri 19 ASTRONOMY EXHIBIT – 12:00 PM -
4:00 PM at the Strasenburgh Planetarium. ASRAS members will be in the
lobby presenting astronomy topics. For more information, contact Carol
Latta at 230-9548 or <cosmos@rochester.rr.com>. Mon 15 – RAS BULLETIN DEADLINE Tue 16 – MINERAL GENERAL MEETING — 7:30 PM. at Brighton Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Ave., in the Downstairs Meeting Room. Dr. Asish Basu, U of R Professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences Dept., will speak on Eruption of Nyiragongo Volcano in the African Rift Valley. For information, contact Nancy McCann at <mineralvp@rasny.org> or check the Mineral Section Web page. Sat 20 – LIFE SCIENCES HERBARIUM – 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Life Sciences section will hold a workshop at the RAS Herbarium, located in the basement of the Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC). No experience needed! Plan to come and help with this valuable collection - and learn about plants in the process. Lunch is served in the RMSC Cafe until 2 pm. If you plan to attend the workshop, please send an RSVP to Elizabeth Pixley. Then, at RMSC, go to the front desk and ask staff person there to call ext. 368, the phone in the Herbarium. For more information, contact Elizabeth Pixley, herbarium curator (334-0977 or epixley@rochester.rr.com). Wed 24 – RAS BOARD MEETING – 7:00 PM Brighton Town
Hall 2300 Elmwood Ave. in the downstairs conference room. Everyone
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Tuesday March 02 – Fossil Section Meeting. 7:30 PM in the Downstairs
Meeting Room of the Brighton Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Avenue. "People
and geology of the Govi Altai region of southern Mongolia with a focus
on Silurian-Devonian strata and fossils," Professor D. Jeffrey
Over, SUNY Geneseo. Visitors are welcome. Please contact John Handley
at fossil@rasny.org or 585-802-8567 for more information. Thursday 04 – ANTHROPOLOGY LECTURE – 7:30 pm, Memorial Art
Gallery. We will join the AIA for their Lecture by Dr. Martha E. Morgan
college of Liberal Arts, RIT. "The multivocality of Maghribi
metallurgy: Reconstructing the meaning of metals in Islamic North Africa"
For more information contact Karen Wolf, 670-9709. Friday 05 – ASTRONOMY GENERAL MEETING – 7:30 PM, RIT Gosnell
Hall A-300 Lecture Hall. The main speaker will be Dr. Alice Quillen,
internationally known astronomer at UR. For more information, contact
Lori Englund at 334-5744, or <lenglund@frontiernet.net> or visit
www.rochesterastronomy.org. Friday 12 – ASTRONOMY WINTER LECTURE – 7:30 PM, RIT Gosnell
Hall A-300 Lecture Hall. ASRAS member Uwe Unrath will speak on "The
Lifecycle of Stars". For more information, contact Lori Englund
at 334-5744, or <lenglund@frontiernet.net> or visit www.rochesterastronomy.org. Monday 15 – RAS NEWSLETTER DEADLINE – Deadline for events
and articles the April, 2010 issue. To submit articles, contact the
editor at editor@rasny.org. Tuesday 16 – MINERAL GENERAL MEETING – 7:30 PM. at Brighton
Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Ave., in the Downstairs Meeting Room. Daniel
Robertson, member and MCC Professor, Chemistry & Geosciences Dept.,
will speak on Green Minerals. For more information, call Nancy
McCann at 395-1713 or <mineralvp@rasny.org> or check the Mineral
Section Web page <www.rasny.org/mineral>. Wednesday 17 – RMSC SHULTZ LECTURE – 7:30 PM Rochester Museum
and Science Center Karl Gebhardt, Ph.D.: Walk Softly When Exploring
the Dark Side of the Universe: Black Holes, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy.
Admission charge. Order tickets at (585) 697-1942. Wednesday 24 – RAS BOARD MEETING – 7:00 PM Brighton Town
Hall 2300 Elmwood Ave. in the downstairs conference room. Everyone is
welcome. Wednesday 24 – LIFE SCIENCES HERBARIUM – 10:00AM - 2:00 PM Life Sciences section will hold a workshop at the RAS Herbarium, located in the basement of the Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC). If you plan to attend the workshop, please send an RSVP to Elizabeth Pixley. Then, at RMSC, go to the front desk and ask staff person there to call ext. 368, the phone in the Herbarium. For more information, contact Elizabeth Pixley, herbarium curator (334-0977 or epixley@rochester.rr.com). |
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Friday April 02 ASTRONOMY GENERAL MEETING Friday April 09 ASTRONOMY STAR PARTY Saturday April 10 Fossil Section FIELD TRIP The first trip is scheduled for Saturday, April 10th and we will be going to the Niagara Gorge at Lewiston and a nearby reef site with Professor Gordon Baird. Contact Terry Carter or call Terry at 585-467-0135 for more information. Thursday April 15 – Beginning of the 37th Rochester Mineralogical Symposium. The Thursday evening program is open all RAS members free of charge. You must sign in at the Registration Table. Opening speaker will be Dr. Georg Gebhard talking about Collecting at Classic European Localities. 8:00 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel Rochester Airport, 175 Jefferson Road, Rochester, NY 14623. Thursday April 15 RAS Bulletin DEADLINE Thursday -Sunday April 15-18 ROCHESTER MINERALOGICAL SYMPOSIUM Saturday April 17 Fossil Section FIELD TRIP Murder Creek / Eleven Mile Creek / Alexander Town Park (probably two out of those three) with Professor Gordon Baird. Contact Terry Carter or call Terry at 585-467-0135 for more information. Saturday April 17 - MINERAL SECTION FIELD TRIP – Crystal Grove Diamond (Herkimer quartz crystals) Mine & Campground, 161 County Highway 114, St. Johnsville, NY 13452. For more info: www.crystalgrove.com. Contact Valerie Polachak for more info & carpooling: valp@rochester.rr.com Saturday April 17 HERBARIUM Workshop Saturday April 24 – LIFE SCIENCES FIELD TRIP – 10:00 AM Webster Arboretium, Schlegel Road, Webster. We will view early bulbs and young leaves/buds/needles on trees and bushes. Meet at Webster Arboretum or at Karen Wolf's home to car pool at around 9:30. 1397 Five Mile Line Road, Penfield. For more information, contact Karen at 670-9709. Sunday April 25 - MINERAL SECTION FIELD TRIP – Marmora Quarry (Aecon Corp.), Stirling-Marmora Rd., Marmora Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada with Buffalo Geological Society. 9am - 4pm. For minerals found at this site: www.mindat.org/loc-15212.html For more info: mineraltrips@rasny.org (Note, a passport or enhanced driver's license is required.) Tuesday April 27 – ASTRONOMY LECTURE -- 8:00 PM,
RIT Gosnell Hall A-300 Lecture Hall. "The Hubble Enigma and
The Life Cycle of the Universe" by Ingo Leubner, ASRAS. For
information, visit www.rochesterastronomy.org.
Please Note: The date listed in the April
RAS Bulletin for this lecture is incorrect. Friday April 30 – Annual RAS Spring Lecture- 7:30 p.m. in the Main Auditorium of the Brighton Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Avenue. The lecture will be given by RAS Fellow, Dr. Steven Chamberlain on the interesting color-change specimens of the mineral Diaspore that he has been studying. Dr. Chamberalin recently published an article in a recent issue of the Mineral Section's newsletter on this mineral, and it is now available as either an HTML or a PDF file. |
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Frida May 07 ASTRONOMY GENERAL MEETING –
7:30 PM, RIT Gosnell Hall A-300 Lecture Hall. Bob
Piekiel from Marcellus NY will talk about "The History of Celestron
and the development of the Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope."
For information, contact Lori Englund at 334-5744, or <lenglund@frontiernet.net>
or visit www.rochesterastronomy.org. Friday May 07 FOSSIL MEETING – 7:30 PM. Multi-Purpose Room, Brighton Recreation Center (now called Brighton Senior Center) off Winton Rd., "The Devonian did not go out quietly," Professor Gordon Baird, SUNY Fredonia. Visitors welcome. Please e-mail John Handley or call John at 585-802-8567 for more information. Tuesday May 11 LIFE SCIENCES GENERAL MEETING – 6:00 PM. Karen Wolf's home 1397 Five Mile Line Road Penfield. Dish to pass dinner and preparing of the makings for the SED annual salad of edible weeds (plus lettuce and cabbage). Join us for this fun, working and educational meeting. We pick sheep sorrel, mints, oregano, chickweed, grape leaves etc, strip leaves from the stems and chop or cut for the salad. And how can I forget the violets! Karen Wolf 670-9709. Wednesday & Thursday May 12,13. SCIENCE EXPLORATION DAYS
– 9:30
AM to 1:00 PM both days and 7:00 to 9:00 PM Wednesday at St. John Fisher
College. Set up Tuesday evening and Wednesday and Thursday mornings.
All RAS Sections will be participating. Volunteer with
your Section to help. See the article on page 1 of the RAS
Bulletin
for more information or contact Karen Wolf at (585) 670-9709. Friday May 14 ASTRONOMY STAR PARTY –
9:45 - 11:00 PM at Mendon Ponds scout camping area
on Hopkins Point road. No need to bring equipment or a deep understanding;
just come and enjoy the views. Dress very warm as evenings may be very
chilly! For information, contact Jim Seidewand at 723-6225. Tuesday, May 18 - MINERAL MEETING – 7:30 p.m. at Brighton Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Ave., in the Downstairs Meeting Room. Donald Lapham of the Buffalo Geological Society will give a talk entitled “Mineral Collecting at the Tucson Show.” Members are encouraged to bring specimens to show that they have purchased at the Tucson Show, the Symposium, or other recent show. Door prizes & refreshments. Visitors welcome. For more information, call Nancy McCann at 395-1713 or <mineralvp@rasny.org> or check the Mineral Section Web page </mineral>. Tuesday May 18 RAS NEWSLETTER DEADLINE – Deadline for events and articles the June-July, 2010 issue. Wednesday 19 HERBARIUM WORKSHOP –
Life Sciences section will hold a workshop at the
RAS Herbarium, located in the basement of the Rochester Museum and Science
Center (RMSC). No experience needed! Plan to come and help with
this valuable collection - and learn about plants in the process.
Lunch is served in the RMSC Cafe until 2 pm. If you plan to attend
the workshop, please send an RSVP to Elizabeth Pixley. Then, at RMSC,
go to the front desk and ask staff person there to call ext. 368, the
phone in the Herbarium. For more information, contact Elizabeth Pixley,
herbarium curator (334-0977 or epixley@rochester.rr.com).
Wednesday May 19 RAS BOARD MEETING –
7:00 PM Brighton Town Hall 2300 Elmwood Ave. in the
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June 2010 Saturday 05 FOSSIL FIELD
TRIP –
Jaycox Run, Livingston County. Friday 11 ASTRONOMY
STAR PARTY –
10:00 PM - 11:00 PM at Northampton Park Ski Lodge parking lot on Hubbell
Road. No
need to bring equipment or a deep understanding; just come and enjoy
the views. Dress very warm as evenings may be very chilly! For information,
contact Jim Seidewand at 723-6225. Saturday 12 ADK OUTDOOR
EXPO –
9:00 AM -
4:00 PM at Mendon Ponds Park Beach Area.
Saturday 12 HERBARIUM – 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM - Life Sciences Section will hold a workshop at the RAS Herbarium, located in the basement of the Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC). No experience needed! Plan to come and help with this valuable collection - and learn about plants in the process. Lunch is served in the RMSC Cafe until 2 pm. If you plan to attend the workshop, please send an RSVP to Elizabeth Pixley. Then, at RMSC, go to the front desk and ask staff person there to call ext. 368, the phone in the Herbarium. For more information, contact Elizabeth Pixley, herbarium curator (334-0977 or epixley@rochester.rr.com). Tuesday 15 RAS BULLETIN
DEADLINE Wednesday 16 RAS BOARD
MEETING Saturday 19 LIFE SCIENCES
FIELD TRIP –
10:00 AM. Meet at Karen Wolf's home 1397 Five Mile
Line Road to car pool to one or more of several newly discovered (to
me) hiking trails around North Pond Park in Webster. There are several
kinds of habitats for a wide range of flora and fauna. Join me for an
adventure to see what we can discover. Karen Wolf 670-9709. Rain date
June 20 at 2 pm. Saturday 26 FOSSIL FIELD TRIP –
Lang's Quarry. |
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Friday-Saturday 9-10 ASTRONOMY ROCHESTAR FEST –
8:00 PM on Friday, Noon on Saturday at the Wolk Observatory/Farrash
Center for Observational Astronomy in Ionia, NY. For information, contact
Lori Englund at 334-5744. Saturday July 17 Fossil Field Trip –
Eleven Mile Creek; we will be collecting along a
section of the creek that the club has not visited before. Members
contact Terry Carter for details. tcarter1@rochester.rr.com
or call Terry at 585-467-0135. |
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Saturday August 7 Fossil Field Trip –
Alden North; a new site near Alden that the club
has not visited before. Members contact Terry Carter for
details. tcarter1@rochester.rr.com
or call Terry at 585-467-0135. |