The 30th annual Tate Conference will be held Friday May 29 through Sunday May 31, 2026.  The theme this year:

Twilight of the Dinosaurs: 

Terrestrial Life in the Cretaceous

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

Speakers    (This list will be updated as the program fills in)

Cary Woodruff, Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science

Anton Wroblewski, University of Wyoming

Brayden Green, University of Wyoming

Joel Caruthers, Appalachian State University

Rachel Stevens-Stark, University of Wyoming

Registration 

Registration is not active yet.  To register click here (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 deadline is [To Be Announced].  

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 working on field trips.

One will be to the type Lance Formation area in eastern Wyoming.  We will visit sites that have been worked on by Tate Museum crews for years.  This is less of a collecting trip, but rather a show and tell.  There will be time for prospecting.

On our field trips we usually allow personal collecting and/or collecting for your institution, but the Tate Museum and the landowner would have first rights of refusal for any fairly complete or unusual specimens found.

Details to follow.

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)