Fossil Identification

Have you found a fossil or an artifact and are curious about its possible origins? Join us on Thursday, June 10 between 6pm and 8pm for a fossil identification event with our special guest, Dr. Charles (Eddie) Herdendorf, Academy Professor in the School of Earth Sciences at the Ohio State University and former director of the Franz Theodore Stone Laboratory at Put-in-Bay. 

This event is open to all ages! Each registered attendee will be allotted ten minutes and may bring up to five specimens for identification.

Registration is required and spaces are limited. Register online or call the library at 440-988-4230. 

Dr. Charles E. Herdendorf is Academy Professor of Geological Sciences in the School of Earth Sciences and Academy Professor of Limnology & Oceanography in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, & Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University. Dr. Herdendorf was the founding director of the Center for Lake Erie Area Research (CLEAR) and the Ohio Sea Grant College Program. From 1973 to 1988 he also directed the Franz Theodore Stone Laboratory, Ohio’s biological field station on Lake Erie at Put-in-Bay. He was instrumental in establishing of the Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, the Peachman Lake Erie Shipwreck Research Center of the Great Lakes Historical Society, and the Maritime Archaeology Survey Team (MAST). He continues to give guest lectures at Franz Theodore Stone Laboratory of The Ohio State University and the Environmental Studies Program of Oberlin College, as well as presentations at various educational, historical and scientific organizations.