The 29th annual Tate Conference will be held Friday May 30 through Sunday June 1, 2025.  The theme this year:

From mollusks to mosasaurs: Cretaceous marine paleontology

The Tate Conference features a day of speakers and two days of field trips.  Saturday(?) evening includes a dinner and Keynote Speaker.

This year’s Keynote is Josh Slattery of University of Wyoming, who will speak about ammonites (title of presentation to follow).

Speakers

(Talk titles to follow)

Shaedon Kennedy, Casper College

topic: The Kronosaurus skelton at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology

Robin O’Keefe, Marshall University

topic: The Pinto Elasmosaur

Registration 

To register click on the link below, but not yet.  We are not doing online registration, so print the form, fill it out and send it to:

Tate Museum
125 College Drive
Casper, WY 82601

Registration form will be available here.

Registration deadline is TBD.  

The Ramkota Hotel in Casper is the host hotel.  The Keynote Dinner will be held there.  They also have a shuttle available to bring folks to the Casper College campus, as long as there is no airport shuttle at that time.  The number is 307-266-6000.

The Fujita Family Stipend–

Casper College graduate and Tate Museum intern, Lisa Fujita, started this fund in honor of her family to help pay for conference registration for interested Casper College students.  We are accepting donations to keep this fund and its cause going; feel free to donate to this fund on the registration form.  We have also been known to pass the hat during the conference to keep CC students attending.   : )

Field Trips–

Note: Field trips are open to conference attendees only.

We are still organizing the field trips.  There may be a two-day field trip, or the more traditional Friday and Sunday field trips.  Stay Tuned.

Field trips require some walking on natural terrain, and are therefore not wheelchair friendly.    

If you have any questions, please contact JP Cavigelli by email or by phone 307-268-3008.

Lodging

We will have blocks of rooms reserved at the Ramkota Hotel for the pre-tax price of $89.  Give them a call to reserve one of these rooms and make sure to tell them you are with the Tate Geological Museum group.  Rooms need to be reserved before May 6th to get this group rate.

The Ramkota offers both airport pickup and shuttles around town, including to the Tate Museum.

Ramkota Hotel and Conference Center – Casper
800 N. Poplar
Casper, WY 82601

Ramkota: (307-266-6000)