September 2012Saturday, Sept. 15th & Sunday, Sept. 16th - Mineral Section Outreach Event – Greentopia Ecofest, “Kids Zone” at High Falls area, Rochester. The hours we will greet the public are Saturday, 10:00am – 6:00pm & Sunday, 1:00-5:00pm. Volunteers are needed! Please contact mineralpres(at)rasny.org or 585-395-1713. Tuesday, September 18th - MINERAL MEETING – Annual Show & Tell/Swap & Sale! 7:30 – 9:30pm, Upstairs Auditorium (note room change), Brighton Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Ave., Rochester, NY 14618. Members can show and tell what they collected or purchased over the summer, and sell or swap items they would like to get rid of. Also for sale will be numerous specimens donated to the club at very reasonable prices, plus some giveaways. Come early to set up your items. Refreshments. Visitors welcome. For more info, please contact Stephen Busschaert at mineralvp(at)rasny.org or 585-288-5683. |
October 2012October, Saturdays - Astronomy, Observing at the Strasenburgh Planetarium Friday 5 - Astronomy, General Meeting, 7:30 p.m., RIT, Gosnell
Hall, Room A300 Tuesday 09 FOSSIL MEETING 7:30 PM in the Downstairs Meeting Room of the Brighton Town Hall. 2300 Elmwood Ave. Harry deLahunta to speak on “Geology of the Grand Canyon, a Rafting Adventure.” Contact Joanne Rinehart Ford at ideasdreams1(at)gmail.com for more information. Tuesday, 16th - Mineral Section MONTHLY MEETING - 7:30 - 9:30pm, Downstairs Meeting Room, Brighton Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Ave., Rochester, NY 14618. David Joyce will speak about his," Collecting Trip at the British Columbia Engineer Mine." Visitors welcome. Refreshments. Club members only for the sale. For more info, please contact Stephen Busschaert at mineralvp(at)rasny.org or 585-288-5683. Friday 19 - Astronomy, Public Star Party, 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. In October we are back at Northampton Park. ASRAS members will be available for conversations about equipment and astronomy while the skies darken. If it's clear, why not stop out and have a peek? The main targets of the party will be dimmer, deep sky objects like star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. Contact Jim Seidewand, 703-9876. Saturday, 20th, 10-6pm & Sunday, October 21st 10-5pm.- 43nd Annual Rochester Gem, Mineral Jewelry & Fossil Show, at Minett Hall, at the Fair & Expo Center on the Monroe County Fairgrounds, corner of Calkins and East Henrietta Roads. Co-sponsored by the Mineral Section and the Rochester Lapidary Society. Sunday 28, 2012 - Astronomy Section - Annual Halloween Party at
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Friday 2 - Astronomy, General Meeting, 7:30 p.m. RIT, Gosnell
Hall, Room A300 Friday 09 FOSSIL MEETING 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. at the RMSC for
a behind the scenes tour of Sue, the largest, most extensive and best
preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found. Our tour will
be led by George McIntosh, Director of Collections at RMSC. Contact
Joanne Rinehart Ford at ideasdreams1(at)gmail.com
for more information. Saturday 10 – Fall
Paper Session, St. John Fisher College, Wegman's
School of Nursing (WSON, Building 33) Tuesday, November 20th – MONTHLY
MEETING of the Mineral Section 7:30 – 9:30 PM at Brighton
Town Hall, Downstairs Meeting Room, 2300 Elmwood Ave., Rochester, NY
14618. Vandall Kind will speak about "Maine Tourmaline." |
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Tuesday 04 FOSSIL MEETING 7:30 PM in the Downstairs Meeting Room of the Brighton Town Hall. 2300 Elmwood Ave. This will be our annual Show and Tell and Pizza Party. Bring your favorite fossil(s) that you collected over the summer and/or any that you would like help in identifying. Good fossil books and other fossil related items are also welcome. Visitors welcome. Refreshments. Contact Joanne Rinehart Ford at ideasdreams1(at)gmail.com for more information. Saturday, 8th – MINERAL Annual Holiday Dinner Meeting. 6:30 p.m. at St. Lewis Church, 64 South Main Street, Pittsford, NY 14534. Bring a dish to add to the buffet, and Mineral Section will provide turkey and ham, place settings & drinks. Save the date for this wonderful family event. Our schduled speaker this year is Dr. David Bailey from Hamilton College who will give a talk called "Minerals Along the Erie Canal. " |
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Tuesday 05th - FOSSIL MEETING 7:30 PM in the Downstairs Meeting Room of the Brighton Town Hall. 2300 Elmwood Ave. Penny Higgins, from the University of Rochester, will give a talk on "Hot times at the beginning of the Eocene (55 million years ago)". Visitors welcome. Refreshments. Contact Joanne Rinehart Ford at ideasdreams1@gmail.com for more information. Tuesday, 19th - MINERAL MEETING. 7:00 - 9:30pm at Brighton Town Hall, Downstairs Meeting Room, 2300 Elmwood Ave., Rochester, NY 14618. Richard Batt, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Earth Sciences & Science Education Dept., Buffalo State College, will speak on "Geology of Iceland." Door prizes and refreshments. Visitors welcome. For more info, contact mineralvp(at)rasny.org or 585-288-5683. |
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Tuesday 05th - FOSSIL MEETING 7:30 PM in the Downstairs Meeting Room of the Brighton Town Hall. 2300 Elmwood Ave. Dan Bishuk will talk on ‘Diversity of Paleosols, Sedimentary Structures, Fossils, and Trace Fossils in Coastal Deposits of the Upper Devonian Sonyea Group’. Visitors welcome. Refreshments. Contact Joanne Rinehart Ford at ideasdreams1@gmail.com for more information. Tuesday, 19th - MINERAL MEETING 7:00 - 9:30pm at Brighton Town Hall, Downstairs Meeting Room, 2300 Elmwood Ave., Rochester, NY 14618. Program to be announced; check back for updates. Van King will return and give a talk titled "Stacking mineral photographs taken in both white light and ultraviolet light." Stacking refers to using computer software to combine a series of identical photos that were focused at different levels such that the entire specimen is in focus. Door prizes and refreshments. Visitors welcome. For more info, contact mineralvp(at)rasny.org or 585-288-5683.
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Thursday April 18 - Sunday 21 - 40th
Rochester Mineralogical Symposium: Thursday evening lecture is free
for all RAS members. 8:00 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel, 175 Jefferson
Road, Rochester (Henrietta), NY 14623. The speaker will be Kevin
Downey - Mineralization in Caves Part I. |
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