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DEADLINE TO RSVP IS MONDAY DECEMBER 13TH AT 5PM!!!!!!!! ALL PARTICIPANTS: PLEASE REMEMBER TO USE THE CAS STAFF ENTRANCE ON MIDDLE DRIVE The Bay Area Biosystematists presents: An evening of paleontology and systematic Featuring Dr. Cindy Looy UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology "Mr Potato Head's identity crisis and other taxonomical issues in paleobotany" And Dr. Ivo Duijnstee Dept of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University "Fixing inadequacies of morphology-based paleontological taxonomy" Dr. Looy is a plant ecologist who investigates the response of Paleozoic plants and plant communities to environmental change during periods of mass extinction and deglaciation, and the possible evolutionary consequences http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/looy/ Dr. Duijnstee teaches biological topics for geology students and vice versa. His research focus is the paleoecology of foraminifera, single-celled marine organisms whose shells easily fossilize. Please join us Tuesday, December 14th, 2010 At the California Academy of Sciences Dinner and social hour begin at 5:30 pm $12/person ALL YOU CAN EAT AND DRINK Delicious food!! Thirst quenching beers and healthy sodas!! Evening presentation begins at 7:00 pm RSVP REQUIRED FOR DINNER OR TALK Please rsvp to Healy Hamilton, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> IMPORTANT DETAILS: Please use the business/staff entrance on Middle Drive Dinner and evening presentations will take place in 3rd floor Education Classroom CAS staff will escort all BABS guests from business entrance to and from 3rd floor THANK YOU! The details: Parking Free parking may be available on the street on Middle Drive, along the back side of the Academy. If no parking is available on Middle Drive, parking is available in the Music Concourse Garage. Access to the South Entrance (closest to the Academy) is at Music Concourse Drive and Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive inside the park (these directions have been provided below). If you prefer, access to the North Entrance is available at Fulton Street at 10th Avenue. Directions to the Staff and Business Entry from the Music Concourse Garage Exit the garage from the southwest corner doors (the doors furthest away from the de Young Museum). Follow the path uphill, walking past Shakespeare Garden on your left. At the end of the path, you will reach Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive; turn left. At the next intersection you will encounter Middle Drive; turn left. The Academy loading dock will be on your left. Proceed down Middle Drive, to the Pedestrian Bridge. Driving Directions to the Music Concourse Garage (South Entrance) >From the North Bay/Golden Gate Bridge >From the Golden Gate Bridge Toll Plaza take the 19th Avenue/Park Presidio >Boulevard exit and proceed through the tunnel onto Park Presidio Boulevard. >Stay in the right lanes as you pass through Golden Gate Park onto 19th Avenue, >where no left turns are allowed. Turn right onto Kirkham Street, right onto >20th Avenue, and right onto Judah Street. Take Judah Street to 8th Avenue, >turn right onto 8th Avenue, go one block and turn right onto Kirkham, then one >more block and turn right onto 9th Avenue. (You cannot turn left off of >Judah, so you must make these three right turns to get onto 9th Avenue.) Take >9th Avenue across Lincoln Way to enter Golden Gate Park, where 9th Avenue >turns into Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. Turn right onto Music Concourse >Drive. The garage entrance will be on your right. >From the South Bay/I-280 North >From Daly City, take Route 1 North toward 19th Avenue/Golden Gate Bridge. >Drive approximately five miles on 19th Avenue just into Golden Gate Park and >take the first right onto Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. Turn left onto Music >Concourse Drive. The garage entrance will be on your right. >From the East Bay/I-80 West Continue on I-80 through San Francisco for about one mile and then bear right, following signs for Golden Gate Bridge/US101 North. Follow signs for Octavia Street and Fell Street; freeway ends at Market Street. Cross Market Street and go four blocks, making a left turn onto Fell Street. Go 1.5 miles on Fell Street. Upon approaching Golden Gate Park, bear left onto Kezar Drive, which becomes Lincoln Way. Proceed along Lincoln Way to 9th Avenue, turning right onto 9th Avenue/Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. Turn right onto Music Concourse Drive. The garage entrance will be on your right. Fees and Hours The Music Concourse Garage is open 7 days a week from 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. year-round. The parking rate is $2.50 per hour.
