Date/Time
Date(s) – 10/30/2016
11:30 am – 4:00 pm
Location
NYMS Headquarters
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Derek Yoost presents: The Big – The Very Small
This lecture takes a unique approach: the audience participates, guessing fossil objects identifications, while only seeing very small magnified sections. Images taken using a cell phone camera with a common hand lens, show that some fossils have amazing detail. Derek Yoost will bring the fossil specimens imaged in his Power Point lecture, for audience inspection.
Derek Yoost’s passion for fossil collecting started at 10 years of age and has never stopped. At the age of 14, Yoost worked in a rock shop (Jim’s Gems) in Wayne, NJ, where he began to glean his vast knowledge of collecting and lapidary. For the past 30 years, Yoost’s collection has grown to include fossil amber, fish, reptiles, and mammals that are unique to New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Yoost also collects local minerals from New Jersey, shells, bones, meteorites and other natural history items and artifacts. He maintains a website at www.njfossils.net , about his favorite fossil collecting site, Big Brook, in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
In Yoost’s own words: “To date, I would guess that my favorite fossil that I found is the insect (a blood sucking Midge that may have fed on dinosaurs) that I found in Cretaceous aged sediment in Sayreville NJ. It was new to science and was eventually named after me (Culicoides yoosti).” “This hobby has brought me to many interesting localities and fascinating people.