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25th Annual CHAMPLAIN VALLEY
GEM, MINERAL & FOSSIL SHOW

2004 Schedule of Speakers

Saturday, July 24  
1:05 PM Woody Thompson, Maine Geological Survey
“Tourmaline Mining and Recent Mineral Discoveries in Maine”"
2:05 PM Steve Chamberlain, Syracuse University
“The Tourmalines of New York State”
3:05 PM Tom Rich, A. W. Chesterton
“The Mysteries of Dinosaur Eggs”
Sunday, July 25  
11:05 AM Steve Chamberlain, Syracuse University
“Road-cut Occurrences in St. Lawrence County, New York”
12:05 PM Woody Thompson, Maine Geological Survey
“Tourmaline Mining and Recent Mineral Discoveries in Maine”
1:05 PM Tom Rich, A. W. Chesterton
“Gold Mining the Witswatersrand of South Africa”

We have an exciting slate of speakers lined up for our lectures at the Show!
Here are brief bios for each of them:

Woody Thompson
is a geologist with the Maine Geological Survey specializing in Quaternary and glacial geology. He is a co-author of A Collector’s Guide to Maine Mineral Localities, and has authored or co-authored several chapters in volume 2 of Vandall King’s book Mineralogy of Maine. He has organized the Maine Mineral Symposium and helped spearhead the drive to establish the Newry Mineral Park.

Steven Chamberlain
is a Professor at the Institute for Sensory Research, Department of Bioengineering and Neuroscience, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University. His research interests focus on invertebrate visual anatomy, brain–to–eye communication in horseshoe crabs, and vision at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. He is an active mineral collector with an extensive collection of minerals from New York State.

Tom Rich
is the Chemical Technology Manager for A. W. Chesterton in Groveland, Massachusetts, with degrees in aeronautical engineering, chemistry, chemical industrial engineering, geology, and business administration. He has his own business preparing and restoring fossils. He has collected trilobites, minerals, fossils, and mining antiques throughout the world. His trilobite collection alone is in excess of 500 specimens.

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