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http://www.mdwfp.com/museum.aspx
The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science is proud to host the 7th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Vertebrate Paleontology, which will be held here at MMNS in LeFleur’s Bluff State Park, Jackson, Mississippi, October 9-11, 2014.
Deadline for abstract submission is Friday, September 5th! Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and follow the style and formatting in the 2011 SeAVP Abstracts and Program. Once compiled, the A&P will be e-mailed to registrants. To keep meeting costs at a minimum (and with the recent adoption of our parent agency’s paperless effort), the Museum will not provide a hard copy of the A&P, so please print it out before you arrive if you prefer to have a paper copy in hand.
The working schedule follows below. All fees except for the Thursday night reception can be paid upon arrival or at the at the time of the activity. We encourage you to reserve your place at the reception by Friday, August 15th as we need to provide the caterer with a minimum head count, which must meet or exceed 20 people to book these services.
Thursday – October 9th, 2014 – Cost is $50 for reception attendees (includes museum admission). For those not attending the evening reception, the cost is $6 (museum daily adm price) payable upon entering facility (or via preregistration).
· 1-5:PM Arrival, registration/orientation, and self-guided tours of the exhibits (museum volunteers will be on hand to receive and register meeting attendees)
· 3:40-4:35 Tour of natural history collections
· 5:PM Museum closes
· 6-8:PM Reception dinner & plenary (see below)
Friday – October 10th, 2014 – Cost is $12.00 for the day—the $6 adm fee is paid at the front desk and $6 for breakfast appetizers (pastries & fruit) and coffee will be paid to a meeting assistant near the entrance to the Rottwein Theater (meeting room, to the left of the main entrance).
· 8:AM-8:20 Registration/orientation, coffee/pastries/fruit, etc. (Note: This facility does not open until 8:AM.)
· 8:20-8:40 Welcome & opening remarks
· 8:40-11:40 Morning oral session – 20 min talks (incl 5 min Q&A), total of 8 talks (with 20 min break)
· 12:30 Posters go up
· 1:PM-4:00 Afternoon oral session – 20 min talks (incl 5 min Q&A), total of 8 talks (with 20 min break)
· 4:PM-4:45 Poster Session
· 5:PM Museum closes!
· Note: Additional rooms of varying sizes are available for simultaneous sessions if there are more than 16 oral presentations confirmed before the Sept 15 deadline.
· Places to dine in Jackson, Mississippi.
· The Best of Jackson’s “Watering Holes.”
· As this is SeAVP’s Lucky #7 annual meeting, feel free to spend any money you saved with our low meeting costs at Vicksburg’s casinos, which are less than an hour away.
Saturday – 9:AM October 11th, 2014 – Field Trips (three choices). Permissions for access to the self-guided field trips (3 & 4) are not required; the landowners in each case allow unlimited access (within reason) for prospecting or study. Field Trip option #s 1, 2, and 4 are FREE. For those interested in doing field trip #1 and were unable to attend the Thursday collections tour, we’ll offer a second tour of the collections at 8:AM Saturday.

1. Lower Oligocene marine section at the Smith County Lime Pit (Bay Springs, Miss.) – Guided tour. We will have two museum vans available to conduct people to the site, which is a gated quarry. For those headed east after the meeting (the locality is 70 mins east of Jackson), feel free to follow us in your own vehicle. The expedition will depart the museum at 9:15. Please enter at the employee entrance (32/19.426, -90/9.496).
   
2. (An as yet to be determined Alabama location, most probably marine Upper Cretaceous) – Guided tour. Details to come!
   
3. Upper Cretaceous Coon Creek beds (earliest Maastrichtian) at Blue Springs, Miss. – An unguided tour (ask for directions) to a very accessible roadside borrow pit—an unprecedented exposure of the Coon Creek marine sandy clays near New Albany, Mississippi. No special equipment required, although the outcrop is sufficiently muddy after a rain.
   
4. Upper Cretaceous Coffee Sand (Middle Campanian) at Twenty Mile Creek – An unguided tour (ask for directions) to a creek bed near Baldwyn, Miss., that contains an exposure of marine sand rich with shark teeth and other marine vertebrates. Prepare to get your feet wet and bring a sieve.
   

Entire cost per person for the whole event is $62.00 (professional or student; Thurs = $50, Fri = $12). If you choose not to attend the reception, then the cost would be $18.00 for all other activities (Thurs = $6, Fri = $12).
Lodging & Map
Cabot Lodge @ Millsaps College – Located on State St (the main N-S artery through the city of Jackson) this hotel is only 0.9 mi from the Museum of Natural Science. $109/single and $114/double, plus tax.
Map of Jackson (with additional lodging) – If Cabot Lodge is too pricey, there are a variety of other hotels along I-20, I-55, and Hwy 25 (Lakeland Drive). As you zoom in on this map, note that the Museum is located at the west entrance to LeFleur’s Bluff State Park on Museum Blvd (formerly Highland Dr).
Thursday Night Reception
To the reception cost we are adding expenses for a keg of beer and several bottles of wine. IMPORTANT! Re the Thursday PM reception, the museum is located within a gated park controlled by a separate division of MDWFP. To keep facility-use costs down, reception attendees need to enter through the secure employee entrance (see attached map: 32/19.426, -90/9.496). As this entrance is gated and key-card access only, we will have it manned with volunteers who will open the gate for reception attendees, directing them where to park and enter the building. If you are not attending the reception, please use the main entrance and exit the facility by 5:PM.
Reception MENU
Southwestern cheese cakes with tostadas
Beef tenderloin with blue cheese biscuits
Shrimp cocktail on kabobs
Chicken Alfredo
Monterey Jack and corn salsa
Open face Roma tomatoes sandwiches
Mini tacos
Chocolate bread pudding with Carmel and chocolate sauce
Lemonade and tea
Preregistration. You will be need only pre-register for the Thursday reception ($50, incl museum admission), but you can remit the cost for the entire event ($68) if you wish. Make your personal check out to yours truly (George Phillips, and please write SeAVP in Memo) and send to the address below. And remember the August 15th deadline to reserve your place at the Thursday night Reception!
Bring your reprints, separates, and other publications!
As SeAVP had no budget for this year’s meeting (for which we’ve made accommodations), I thought we’d raise money for the next meeting (or other SeAVP expenses) by providing tables where reprints, separates, individual journal issues, and other lighter paleontological fare can be offered for resale to interested parties at the meeting. I was thinking in terms of 25c, 50c, and$1.00 categories for such items. Also, if anyone has any more substantial paleo literature—such as recent, pricier titles or antique books or partial journal sets—that they’d like to contribute, we can offer such ‘weightier’ items up for bid in a silent auction. I plan on contributing painted casts of a few MMNS specimens (individual bones and teeth) to the silent auction; feel free to do similarly.
Previous Meetings
SeAVP 2013 (#6)
SeAVP 2012 (#5) – Appalachian State University – Boone, North Carolina
SeAVP 2011 (#4) – Florida Museum of Natural History – Gainesville, Florida
SeAVP 2010 (#3) – South Carolina State Museum – Columbia, South Carolina
SeAVP 2009 (#2) – Virginia Museum of Natural History – Martinsville, Virginia
SeAVP 2008 (#1) – ETSU Natural History Museum & Gray Fossil Site – Johnson City, Tennessee

http://www.mdwfp.com/museum.aspx
The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science is proud to host the 7th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Vertebrate Paleontology, which will be held here at MMNS in LeFleur’s Bluff State Park, Jackson, Mississippi, October 9-11, 2014.
Deadline for abstract submission is Friday, September 5th! Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and follow the style and formatting in the 2011 SeAVP Abstracts and Program. Once compiled, the A&P will be e-mailed to registrants. To keep meeting costs at a minimum (and with the recent adoption of our parent agency’s paperless effort), the Museum will not provide a hard copy of the A&P, so please print it out before you arrive if you prefer to have a paper copy in hand.
The working schedule follows below. All fees except for the Thursday night reception can be paid upon arrival or at the at the time of the activity. We encourage you to reserve your place at the reception by Friday, August 15th as we need to provide the caterer with a minimum head count, which must meet or exceed 20 people to book these services.
Thursday – October 9th, 2014 – Cost is $50 for reception attendees (includes museum admission). For those not attending the evening reception, the cost is $6 (museum daily adm price) payable upon entering facility (or via preregistration).
· 1-5:PM Arrival, registration/orientation, and self-guided tours of the exhibits (museum volunteers will be on hand to receive and register meeting attendees)
· 3:40-4:35 Tour of natural history collections
· 5:PM Museum closes
· 6-8:PM Reception dinner & plenary (see below)
Friday – October 10th, 2014 – Cost is $12.00 for the day—the $6 adm fee is paid at the front desk and $6 for breakfast appetizers (pastries & fruit) and coffee will be paid to a meeting assistant near the entrance to the Rottwein Theater (meeting room, to the left of the main entrance).
· 8:AM-8:20 Registration/orientation, coffee/pastries/fruit, etc. (Note: This facility does not open until 8:AM.)
· 8:20-8:40 Welcome & opening remarks
· 8:40-11:40 Morning oral session – 20 min talks (incl 5 min Q&A), total of 8 talks (with 20 min break)
· 12:30 Posters go up
· 1:PM-4:00 Afternoon oral session – 20 min talks (incl 5 min Q&A), total of 8 talks (with 20 min break)
· 4:PM-4:45 Poster Session
· 5:PM Museum closes!
· Note: Additional rooms of varying sizes are available for simultaneous sessions if there are more than 16 oral presentations confirmed before the Sept 15 deadline.
· Places to dine in Jackson, Mississippi.
· The Best of Jackson’s “Watering Holes.”
· As this is SeAVP’s Lucky #7 annual meeting, feel free to spend any money you saved with our low meeting costs at Vicksburg’s casinos, which are less than an hour away.
Saturday – 9:AM October 11th, 2014 – Field Trips (three choices). Permissions for access to the self-guided field trips (3 & 4) are not required; the landowners in each case allow unlimited access (within reason) for prospecting or study. Field Trip option #s 1, 2, and 4 are FREE. For those interested in doing field trip #1 and were unable to attend the Thursday collections tour, we’ll offer a second tour of the collections at 8:AM Saturday.

1. Lower Oligocene marine section at the Smith County Lime Pit (Bay Springs, Miss.) – Guided tour. We will have two museum vans available to conduct people to the site, which is a gated quarry. For those headed east after the meeting (the locality is 70 mins east of Jackson), feel free to follow us in your own vehicle. The expedition will depart the museum at 9:15. Please enter at the employee entrance (32/19.426, -90/9.496).
   
2. (An as yet to be determined Alabama location, most probably marine Upper Cretaceous) – Guided tour. Details to come!
   
3. Upper Cretaceous Coon Creek beds (earliest Maastrichtian) at Blue Springs, Miss. – An unguided tour (ask for directions) to a very accessible roadside borrow pit—an unprecedented exposure of the Coon Creek marine sandy clays near New Albany, Mississippi. No special equipment required, although the outcrop is sufficiently muddy after a rain.
   
4. Upper Cretaceous Coffee Sand (Middle Campanian) at Twenty Mile Creek – An unguided tour (ask for directions) to a creek bed near Baldwyn, Miss., that contains an exposure of marine sand rich with shark teeth and other marine vertebrates. Prepare to get your feet wet and bring a sieve.
   

Entire cost per person for the whole event is $62.00 (professional or student; Thurs = $50, Fri = $12). If you choose not to attend the reception, then the cost would be $18.00 for all other activities (Thurs = $6, Fri = $12).
Lodging & Map
Cabot Lodge @ Millsaps College – Located on State St (the main N-S artery through the city of Jackson) this hotel is only 0.9 mi from the Museum of Natural Science. $109/single and $114/double, plus tax.
Map of Jackson (with additional lodging) – If Cabot Lodge is too pricey, there are a variety of other hotels along I-20, I-55, and Hwy 25 (Lakeland Drive). As you zoom in on this map, note that the Museum is located at the west entrance to LeFleur’s Bluff State Park on Museum Blvd (formerly Highland Dr).
Thursday Night Reception
To the reception cost we are adding expenses for a keg of beer and several bottles of wine. IMPORTANT! Re the Thursday PM reception, the museum is located within a gated park controlled by a separate division of MDWFP. To keep facility-use costs down, reception attendees need to enter through the secure employee entrance (see attached map: 32/19.426, -90/9.496). As this entrance is gated and key-card access only, we will have it manned with volunteers who will open the gate for reception attendees, directing them where to park and enter the building. If you are not attending the reception, please use the main entrance and exit the facility by 5:PM.
Reception MENU
Southwestern cheese cakes with tostadas
Beef tenderloin with blue cheese biscuits
Shrimp cocktail on kabobs
Chicken Alfredo
Monterey Jack and corn salsa
Open face Roma tomatoes sandwiches
Mini tacos
Chocolate bread pudding with Carmel and chocolate sauce
Lemonade and tea
Preregistration. You will be need only pre-register for the Thursday reception ($50, incl museum admission), but you can remit the cost for the entire event ($68) if you wish. Make your personal check out to yours truly (George Phillips, and please write SeAVP in Memo) and send to the address below. And remember the August 15th deadline to reserve your place at the Thursday night Reception!
Bring your reprints, separates, and other publications!
As SeAVP had no budget for this year’s meeting (for which we’ve made accommodations), I thought we’d raise money for the next meeting (or other SeAVP expenses) by providing tables where reprints, separates, individual journal issues, and other lighter paleontological fare can be offered for resale to interested parties at the meeting. I was thinking in terms of 25c, 50c, and$1.00 categories for such items. Also, if anyone has any more substantial paleo literature—such as recent, pricier titles or antique books or partial journal sets—that they’d like to contribute, we can offer such ‘weightier’ items up for bid in a silent auction. I plan on contributing painted casts of a few MMNS specimens (individual bones and teeth) to the silent auction; feel free to do similarly.
Previous Meetings
SeAVP 2013 (#6)
SeAVP 2012 (#5) – Appalachian State University – Boone, North Carolina
SeAVP 2011 (#4) – Florida Museum of Natural History – Gainesville, Florida
SeAVP 2010 (#3) – South Carolina State Museum – Columbia, South Carolina
SeAVP 2009 (#2) – Virginia Museum of Natural History – Martinsville, Virginia
SeAVP 2008 (#1) – ETSU Natural History Museum & Gray Fossil Site – Johnson City, Tennessee