Annual Meeting
October 8-12, 2012, San Diego, CA

NEW: Save the Date. The AESE annual meeting returns to the Hacienda Hotel in Old Town, San Diego. The field trip will include the Roadside Geology of Sunrise Highway in the Laguna Mountains and a visit to the Anza-Borrego Desert, where the Galleto Meadows "Sky Art" installation will be toured. More details to follow soon.

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• President Carole Ziegler explains plans for the Annual Meeting, October 8-12 in San Diego, CA, and describes other association priorities now being addressed.
• Paleontologists are used to digging deep for dinosaur remains-but scientists had to go no farther than the basement of London's Natural History Museum to discover a new dinosaur species: Spinops sternbergorum.
• At the other end of the spectrum a teensy-weensy frog is discovered. The world's tiniest known vertebrate species is a tiny frog measuring an average of less than 0.3 inches (7.7 millimeters) long.
• A treasure trove of fossils collected by Charles Darwin has been released from hiding. Learn more about how this discovery came to light.
• The American Geological Institute is now the American Geosciences Institute. A corresponding updated logo is intended to "capture the full breadth of the geosciences while also conveying a sense of convergence to represent how the AGI federation brings all parts of the geosciences together ."
• Pub Crawl surveys PARKScience, published by the National Park Service; Cambridge University's Bluesci; and Yale Scientific Magazine.
• Tome Time reviewer explains why "Anyone who loves the flow of language and who has not yet read How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One should purchase a copy immediately."