Shell counting day

Shell counting day 19 March 2022

Saturday 19 March 2022 is THAT day again. Already for the fifth time, you can gather shells on the “Grote Schelpenteldag”., admire them, and try to figure out the story behind your find.

At the same time, you help science a little bit.. In each of the ten coastal towns, shell savvy people will help you at the counting posts between 10h and 16h with the collecting and identification of your one hundred shells.

And if hundreds of enthousiasts do so, we can all learn a lot again about these fantastic sea creatures. Experienced or not,, everyone can become a (sea)scientist for a day!

Further information and subscription to the news letter can be found on www.groteschelpenteldag.be or Grote Schelpenteldag 2022 | Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (vliz.be)

Monthly meeting 13 February 2022

Monthly meeting 13 February

Our next meeting will again be a meeting in real life! We are looking forward to welcoming you at the SAC (Linkeroever, Antwerp) on Sunday 13 February.

Goran Vertriest will present the third part of his overview of Strombidae, including a big surprise in this popular family.

Hope to see you all then!!

New Gloria Maris

The new Gloria Maris (vol. 60(4)) has arrived !

There he is, there he is ! … Rik Desadeleer once said … well … here he is … the 4th issue of Gloria Maris of 2021 (volume 60) is a fact, and is once again filled with nice and valuable articles.

Would you also like to publish something? Something for the second part, maybe (Life of the Society)? Don’t hesitate to send it to one of the Board members!

Meanwhile our online database with the content of Gloria Maris from 1986 untill today has been updated and uploaded – with a big Thank You to Christel Segers for the fast action !

Website update – user accounts

Website update – user accounts

Short message to warn you that we’re currently working on the website as where user accounts are concerned.

This includes a. o. the updating of accounts and profiles, which could mean that you receive anemail from our website. You don’t have to do anything for this yourself. You can just delete the email without further actions.

Your webmaster.

Monthly meeting 12 Decemnber 2021 – ONLINE

Monthly meeting 12 Decemnber 2021 – ONLINE

Due to more severe Corona measures, we are unfortunately forced tocancel the physical meeting of Sunday 12 December, and to replace it by an online event.

The planned quiz will take place, yet – like last year – online.

We’ll start as usual at 10 a. m.. In case you didn’t receive the link via the usual mailing list, just let us know and we’ll take care of it.

Hopefully we’ll see each other again at SAC next month !

Fossils show 7 november 2021

Fossils show 7 november 2021

Feel like doing something different on Sunday? Don’t hesitate to pass by at the “free” fossil show in Herselt. Where? => More info can be found on the attached flyer or on https://paleotime.eu/index_nl.html.

Monthly meeting October 2021

Monthly meeting 17 october 2021

Don’t forget:

The next monthly meeting will be held on 17 October (and not on 10 October due to the Antwerp 10 Miles race).

Roland Houart was able to free up his agenda for us, and will take us to: “Muricidae: A cosmopolitic family!”.

See you then!