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| May 15th meeting.
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| PGS May 15th meeting will present Dr. Ted Daeschler, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Zoology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will speak on "Great Steps in the History of Life: The Origin of Limbed Vertebrates"
Dr Ted Daeschler will speak on recent discoveries regarding the origin of limbed vertebrates (tetrapods) including important new material from Late Devonian strata of north-central Pennsylvania and Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. The "fish-tetrapod" transition, as it is traditionally called, is no longer an evolutionary leap between free-swimming lobe-finned fish and lumbering early tetrapods. A series of fossil intermediates now illustrate the sequence of changes over million of years in the transformation from finned to limbed members of the tetrapod stem lineage. The interpretation of geological data and the range of fossils associated with the transition have also refined our understanding of the environmental settings that were the crucible of early tetrapod evolution.
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See our Speaker's abstract and biography for more information.
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| Upcoming
PGS Meetings |
May 15th, 2013 - Dr. Ted Daeschler, paleontologist at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, 'Great Steps in the History of Life: The Origin of Limbed Vertebrates'
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September 18, 2013 - Dr. Allen Dennis from the University of South Carolina will be our September speaker regarding Appalachian tectonics. |
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| Come join us at our PGS Meetings |
| Our meetings start at 6:00 pm with a social hour, dinner is served at
7:00 pm and the presentation begins at 8:00 pm. Dinner will cost
$25.00/person, dinner for students is $5.00; checks preferred.
For this month's meeting, reservations should be emailed to Steve McGuire at
smcguire@chesterengineers.com, please title as "PGS
Dinner Reservation", by noon, Monday, May 13th. If you are unable to use
email, call (412) 809-6723 and leave your name and number of reservations
needed. Meeting will be held at the Foster’s Restaurant, Foster Plaza
Building 10, 680 Andersen Dr, Greentree.
See map for our meeting place. Suggested attire is business
casual. Students and guests are welcome, you need not be a member
to attend our meetings and its okay to just drop by for the speaker
presentation at 8 pm.
Directions:
From Pittsburgh: Parkway West to Green
Tree-Crafton Exit. Bear left at exit and left again onto Mansfield Avenue
West. Follow Mansfield West to the 2nd traffic light. Turn right onto
Holiday Drive and proceed up the hill to Foster Plaza Building 10.
From Airport and I 79: Parkway West towards Pittsburgh, exit at Green
Tree-Mt. Lebanon Exit. Turn left onto Greentree Road, make left at 1st
traffic light onto Mansfield Avenue West. Follow Mansfield West to the 2nd
traffic light. Turn right onto Holiday Drive and proceed up the hill to
Foster Plaza Building 10.
Or go to
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&sll=40.440676,-80.007248&sspn=0.127773,0.22007&q=foster%27s+restaurant+and+catering&near=pittsburgh+pa&latlng=40440556,-79996111,5411451826638810477
for a map. |
| If you want to prepay your dinner by PayPal, click on the button below. |
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Attention PG's! Attend our dinner and meeting to receive a continuing education credit. |
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| The PGS is proud to be an affiliated society with the AAPG . |
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