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A growing membership roster helps draw support from government and industry. We need to be able to demonstrate that there is an active interest in Earth science education and outreach if we want to people to help us to achieve our goals!
Quicklinks: | Membership Benefits | Cost of Membership | Where Do My Membership Dues Go? | How to Become a Friend |
Student Membership
Regular Membership
Membership dues go directly to the basic operations of the museum, including materials for new displays, pay for tour guides, and catering for museum events (including members' events).
Step One: Print the membership form. You can download it as a PDF here: Friend of the PME membership form.
Step Two: Fill out the membership form. You must include your mailing address if you want to receive the newsletter. The e-mail address is optional, but membership should be aware that invitations to events occasionally go out exclusively by e-mail and therefore those not supplying an e-mail address risk missing invitations.
Step Three: Mail the membership form and dues to the museum. Our preferred method of payment is by cheque; we take no responsibility for cash sent through the mail. Dues and forms should be mailed to the following address:
The Pacific Museum of the Earth
Univeristy of British Columbia
Earth and Ocean Sciences -- Main Building
6339 Stores Road
Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4
Canada
*You will receive a receipt for your membership and for any accompanying donation through the mail.
Our first featured exhibit is our Lambeousaurus skeleton. Vertebrate
fossils are extremely rare in British Columbia. Only a few are known,
and none are part of a complete skeleton. Our neighbouring province of
Alberta, however, is rich in fossils, including dinosaurs. This
specimen was found and excavated in Alberta by Charles H. Sternberg and
his sons. It was prepared at the National Museum of Canada and
presented to UBC in 1950.
Lambeosaurs are a type of duckbilled dinosaurs. Duckbills are also
called hadrosaurs. Hadrosaurs were the most common large herbivores in
many North American Late Cretaceous ecosystems. The Lambeosaurs are
characterized by the fact that their crests are hollow. The purpose of
the crest is still in dispute; evidence exists for theories as wide
ranging as the ideas that it was for sexual display or that it was used
as a resonating chamber to make low-frequency calls.
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