Alumni Days Celebration

ISU Geology Field Station, Shell, Wyoming
July 7 – 9, 2007

Saturday, July 7
Morning: Welcoming and arrival

11 am: Geology excursion to Hunt Mountain (Bighorn Mountains)

Picnic lunch at noon at Hunt Mountain (bring sack lunches from the field station)

Fossil collecting in the Ordovician Bighorn Dolomite (corals, brachiopods, gastropods, trilobites) and enjoyment of mountain wildflowers

6 pm: Supper (location to be announced) with program to follow at the Shell Community Center (2 mi. from the field station)

Sunday, July 8
8 am: Breakfast at the field station

9:30 am: Geology excursion to Coyote Basin

Noon: Buffet style lunch at the field station

1:30 pm: Geology excursion to Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite (www.wy.blm.gov/rgdt and www.geosciences.com/rgdttracksite.htm)

6 pm: Supper at the field station

Monday, July 9
8: am Breakfast at the field station

Fond farewells!

AREA ATTRACTIONS
Shell Falls (5 miles from ISU Field Station) and Burgess Junction in the Bighorn Mountains, www.fs.fed.us/r2/bighorn/contact/viscenters/

Greybull Museum, 325 Greybull Avenue, http://wyshs.org/mus-greybull.htm

The Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody has five museums under one roof: Buffalo Bill Museum, Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Plains Indian Museum, Cody Firearms Museum, and Draper Museum of Natural History, www.bbhc.org/home/index.cfm

Dinorama (casts of dinosaur fossils excavated from Howe Quarry) at Dirty Annie's (store & gas station 1 mi. from the field station), www.geo-sciences.com/center.htm