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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The SPNHC booth will be exhibited at two upcoming conferences, and I’m hoping that some of you who are attending might volunteer a little time to stand at the booth to talk to visitors about SPNHC and encourage them to join.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The booth will be at <o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><![endif]>the <b>Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 72nd Annual Meeting</b>, October 17-20, 2012, at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, NC, USA.
<b>There is one free Exhibits-only registration available.</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><![endif]>the <b>Geological Society of America Annual Meeting</b>, November 4-7, 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina.
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you haven’t seen the booth yet, follow this link for a photo:
<a href="http://www.spnhc.org/media/assets/spnhc_booth.jpg">http://www.spnhc.org/media/assets/spnhc_booth.jpg</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please let me know (<a href="mailto:tiffany-adrain@uiowa.edu">tiffany-adrain@uiowa.edu</a>) if you can help promote SPNHC at either of these meetings!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tiffany<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(SPNHC Membership Committee Chair)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tiffany Adrain<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Collections Manager, Paleontology Repository<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor, Museum Studies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Geoscience<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The University of Iowa<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">121 Trowbridge Hall<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Iowa City, IA 52242<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">phone: 319 335 1822<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">fax: 319 335 1821<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">website: <a href="http://geoscience.clas.uiowa.edu/paleo/">http://geoscience.clas.uiowa.edu/paleo/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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