REPUBLIC - Stonerose Interpretive Center and Eocene Fossil Site will host several scientists June 15-30.
     The public is invited to visit Stonerose and meet some of the scientists who are studying Republic fossils, a center announcement said. The presentations and booking signing are free and open the public.
     Kathleen Pigg, Arizona State University, and Melanie Devore, Georgia College and State University, will arrive June 15 and stay through June 23. They are working on describing the rose family in more detail.
     They will examine and collect specimens for future research, the announcement said.
     Devore will give a presentation at 6:30 p.m. June 20 in the Northern Inn conference room on "Living the Life Aquatic" to highlight the aquatic fossil plants found in Republic.
     Bruce Archibald, a paleoentomologist from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C., will arrive in Republic on June 25 to continue research on the unbiased insect collection.
     Insect specimens have been collected over the last two years by members of the Northwest Paleontological Association and other amateur collectors to compile the collection of more than 1,000 specimens.
     NPA members will assist Archibald with collecting and recording the specimens.
     He will give an informal talk about the importance of the collection at 6:30 p.m. June 27 at the Northern Inn, the announcement said. He also will touch on some of the significant specimens found since the project began in 2006.
     "Collecting with the Curator Seminar" will be hosted by Caroline Stromberg from the Burke Museum of Natural History, Seattle, on June 27. She will collect fossils with a group of amateurs who won the trip during the Burke Museum's annual fund-raiser, the announcement said.
     "Crusin' the Fossil Freeway" authors Kirk Johnson and Ray Troll will be at Stonerose at 6:30 p.m. June 29 to sign copies of their book.
     Johnson, vice president and chief curator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, visited Republic often with Wes Wehr.
     Troll is a well-known Northwest artist who specializes in images of fish and watery critters, Stonerose officials said.
     The Stonerose Interpretive Center has copies of the book, a companion map and other books by both authors.
     More information is available at www.stonerosefossil.org.