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generally meets the third Wednesday of each month, August through May. January - April 2026: Meetings at Boal Hall (Boalsburg Fire Hall, 113 East Pine St., Boalsburg PA 16827). Google Map: Boal Hall May 2026: TBA All are welcome to attend our meetings! Parents must provide supervision of minors. Mineral collectors and rockhounds, earth scientists and dinosaur lovers will all enjoy our activities. |
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March 18th meeting: by Al Guiseppe, P.G., Pennsylvania Bureau of Geological Survey Boal Hall (Boalsburg Fire Hall), 113 East Pine St, Boalsburg PA 16827 Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/gtHjdzUgXbN9b5J8A 7:45 to 8:00 p.m.: Announcements, door prizes, sales about 8:00 p.m.: featured program The event has free admission, free refreshments and free parking (lot just east of Fire Hall along East Pine St.), and is open to all; parents/guardians must provide supervision of minors. Bring your friends and share an interesting evening. The Pennsylvania Geological Survey is conducting integrated geologic mapping in the Catawissa quadrangle of Columbia County, Pennsylvania to better understand the region’s bedrock, surface materials, and landscape processes. What began as a traditional bedrock mapping project expanded into a collaborative effort that combines surficial geology, lidar-derived hydrography, top-of-bedrock modeling, and landslide investigations. This presentation will highlight how modern GIS tools and field observations work together to reveal new details about rock exposures, stream systems, and geomorphology. Examples will show how mapping different datasets simultaneously improves geologic interpretation and helps identify locations where bedrock units are exposed at the surface. The talk will provide an accessible overview of how the geological survey use both fieldwork and digital methods to better understand Pennsylvania’s geology and support future research and resource exploration. Some online presentations of interest: -------------------------- From NMS: Videos of many of our programs since 2020 are available here. -------------------------- From other sources: Jeri Jones' Zoom Rock Room: Weekly Zoom geology presentations, mostly related to Pennsylvania. https://www.youtube.com/@jerijones4202. The staff of the Penn State Earth & Mineral Sciences Museum and Art Gallery maintains a Facebook page. They also have videos on YouTube: Museum Gallery Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jJ4NR4ICoc National Fossil Day October 15, 2025 Earth Science Week October 12-18 The National Park Service's National Fossil Day will be Wednesday, October 15, in the middle of Earth Science Week, October 12 - 18, 2025, celebrating the theme "Energy Resources for Our Future." Educational materials are available. Videos of the 2020 Dallas Mineral Collecting Symposium are still available by following the links at https://www.dallassymposium.org/2020-dmcs/. VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS, TOURS, GALLERIES, COURSES, MORE! With thanks for many of these to AFMS April 2020 Newsletter and Three Rivers Gem & Mineral Society of Fort Wayne Indiana's The Strata Data newsletter. Smithsonian Scroll down to see the tips before starting a tour. Yale - Peabody Museum of Natural History Via Rock & Gem magazine web site (thanks go to them); scroll down to find the image that links to the tour. South Dakota School of Mines & Technology - Mosasaur at Museum of Geology Scroll down to 'YouTube Playlist" Houston Museum of Natural Science Dinosaurs! Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks & Minerals Society of Mineral Museum Professionals (SMMP) Curator's Pick Gallery Curators choose their favorite specimens. Hosted by Mindat. SMMP Wulfenite Gallery Geology of the National Parks Penn State GEOSC 10 virtual field trips American Southwest Virtual Museum Virtual Museum of Minerals and Molecules Click on Displays at upper right Davidson Institute of Science Education, of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, has links to several more museum virtual tours worldwide, including natural history museums. Podcast of GEOL-101 type lectures (podcasts #1 to 28). Videos linked from the web site also; all by Nick Zentner of Central Washington University. For additional current news see our NMS Bulletin (link at top of sidebar at left). |
 NMS has in stock T-shirts in Galapagos blue, Texas orange (both shown here) and royal blue. 
A station at our Minerals Junior Education Day 
2020: CELESTINE: Pennsylvania State Mineral?See also Nov. 2020 Bulletin. 
Collecting crystals in a quarry 
We have NMS posters for sale! |
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