27th Annual CHAMPLAIN VALLEY
GEM, MINERAL & FOSSIL SHOW
2006 Schedule of Speakers
| Saturday, July 29 |
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| 1:05 PM |
NOVA video on amber by Sir David Attenborough
“Jewel of the Earth” |
| 2:05 PM |
Steve Chamberlain
“The Minerals in Fossils” |
| 3:05 PM |
Tom Rich
“Fossil Collecting in Morocco ” |
| Sunday, July 30 |
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| 11:05 AM |
Steve Chamberlain
“Disposing of Your Collection” |
| 12:05 PM |
Tom Rich
“Fossil Markets in Morocco” |
| 1:20 PM |
NOVA video on amber by Sir David Attenborough
“Jewel of the Earth” |
We have an exciting slate of speakers
lined up for our lectures at the Show! Here
are brief bios for both of them: |
| Dr. Steve Chamberlain is a specialist
in the minerals of New York State. He recently retired
from a 30-year career as a university professor. In retirement he is
serving as the Coordinator of the Center for Mineralogy at the New York State
Museum. Current mineral research interests include pursuing new mineral
species in NYS and studying organic origins of quartz. Curatorial activities
have centered on the Ken Hollmann Collection, the Ron Waddell Collection, and
the Oren Root Collection. Steve is also the Science Editor of The Hosta
Journal of the American Hosta Society. He has produced and registered
48 new hosta cultivars and is currently involved is a wide-ranging study of
hosta pollen using scanning electron microscopy. |
| 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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