Huntsville Gem and Mineral Society
Programs and Meetings
2007 Monthly Meeting Programs
January 22, 2007
 Steve Seibert, Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge
Key Cave, Fern Cave, and Saunta Cave National
Wildlife Refuges
February 26, 2007
 School Daze with Rocks and Minerals
March 26, 2007
 J. C. Caudle, J. Caudle Jewelry Design (Scottsboro, AL)
Creative Jewelry Design, Capitalizing on Local Materials
April 23, 2007
 Annual HGMS Auction
May 21, 2007
Bill Friday and Lowell Zoller, Huntsville Gem and
Mineral Society
Union Chapel Mine Fossil Track Site
June, 2006
 Annual HGMS Picnic and Rock Swap
July 23, 2007
 Alice Ruf, Huntsville Land Trust
Overview of the Huntsville Land Trust with emphasis on
the Three Caves Property
August 27, 2007
 Donald Wilcox, Flint Knapping
September 24, 2007
 Van King, Alabama Archaeological Society - Huntsville
Piltdown to Gray Ghost, Determining if an Artifact is
Real or Fake
October 22, 2007
 Jim Lacefield, Lost Worlds in North Alabama Rocks
November 26, 2007
 Lowell Zoller, Huntsville Gem and Mineral Society
Fire and Ice, Volcanoes and Glaciers, and the effects of
global warming
December, 2007
 Annual Christmas Dinner at 6:30
Programs
Newsletter
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June 2009 (381 KB)
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April 2009 (304 KB)
March 2009 (748 KB)
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December 2008 (484 KB)
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June 2008 (365 KB)
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December 2007 (422 KB)
November 2007 (867 KB)
October 2007 (2.28 MB)
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June 2007 (510 KB)
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March 2007 (1.55 MB)
February 2007 (529 KB)
January 2007 (1.76 MB)
December 2006 (602 KB)
2006 Monthly Meeting Programs
January 23, 2006
 Greg Mestler, Birmingham Paleontological Society
An Overview of Paleontology in Alabama and a Brief
History of the Birmingham Paleontological Society
February 27, 2006
 Dr. Mark Puckett, The University of North Alabama
Geologic Adventures in Cuba
March 27, 2006
 Dr. Robert Hoover, NASA- Marshall Space Flight Center
Life in the Cosmos: Looking for Life in All the Wrong
Places
April 24, 2006
 Annual HGMS Auction
May 22, 2006
 Dr. John Christy, The University of Alabama at Huntsville
Search for Global Climate Change
June 17, 2006
 Annual HGMS Picnic and Rock Swap
July 24, 2006
 38th Annual HGMS Show Planning
August 28, 2006
 Bill Varnedoe
Karst and Limestone Terranes
September 25, 2006
 Libby Strickland
Geology, History, and Conservation Progress in the
Paint Rock River Valley
October 23, 2006
 Bob Neuschafer, Huntsville Gem and Mineral Society
Rockhounding in Australia
November 27, 2006
 Lowell Zoller, Huntsville Gem and Mineral Society
Geology of the British Isles
December 11, 2006
 Annual Christmas Dinner
2008 Monthly Meeting Programs
January 28, 2008
 Lowell Zoller, Huntsville Gem and Mineral Society
A Geologic History of Alabama
February 25, 2008
 National Geographic Video
Splendid Stones
March 24, 2008
 NOVA Video
The Perfect Pearl
April 28, 2008
 Annual HGMS Auction
May 26, 2008
 TBA
June, 2008
 Annual HGMS Picnic and Rock Swap
July 28, 2008
 TBA
August 25, 2008
 TBA
September 22, 2008
 TBA
October 27, 2008
 TBA
November, 2008
 TBA
December, 2008
 Annual Christmas Dinner at 6:30
2009 Monthly Meeting Programs
January 26, 2009
 Lowell Zoller, Huntsville Gem and Mineral Society
Rock ID (Part 1 - Igneous)
February 23, 2009
 Jack Bergstresser
Tannehill and the rise of the iron and steel industry in
Alabama
March 23, 2009
 Richard Hoover
Life in the Cosmos
April, 2009
 Annual HGMS Auction
May 25, 2009
 Dewey Moss
Know your Paint Rock Agates
June, 2009
 Annual HGMS Picnic and Rock Swap
July 27, 2009
 Geologcal Survey
Seismic Alabama
August 24, 2009
 Jane Russell, et al.
City School's EarthScope Program
September 28, 2009
 Read Klos
Gems: Synthetics and Simulants
October 26, 2009
 TBA
November 23, 2009
 Myra Soraczak
What can Scanning Electron Microscopy tell us?
December, 2008
 Annual Christmas Dinner
2010 Monthly Meeting Programs
January 25, 2010
 Ed Kiker
The Art of Scrimshaw
February 2010
 TBA
March 2010
 TBA
April, 2010
 Annual HGMS Auction
May 2010
 TBA
June, 2010
 Annual HGMS Picnic and Rock Swap
July 2010
 TBA
August 2010
 TBA
September 2010
 TBA
October 2010
 TBA
November 2010
 TBA
December, 2008
 Annual Christmas Dinner