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Contact Information:
Jim Brace-Thompson
7319 Eisenhower Street
Ventura, CA 93003
(805) 659-3577
Email:jbraceth roadrunner.com
Federation Offices Held:
 | 2008
 | AFMS Juniors Program Chair |
| AFMS Juniors Program CFMS |
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| 2007
| AFMS Juniors Program Chair |
| AFMS Juniors Program CFMS |
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| 2006
| AFMS Juniors Program Chair |
| AFMS Juniors Program CFMS |
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| 2005
| AFMS Juniors Program Chair |
| AFMS Juniors Program CFMS |
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| 2004
| AFMS Juniors Program Chair |
| AFMS Juniors Program CFMS |
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| 2003
| AFMS Juniors Program Chair |
| AFMS Juniors Program CFMS |
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| 2002
| AFMS Juniors Program CFMS |
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| 2001
| AFMS Juniors Program CFMS |
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| 2000
| AFMS Juniors Program CFMS |
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| 1999
| AFMS Juniors Program CFMS |
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| 1998
| AFMS Juniors Program CFMS |
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Local Club or Society Information:
I am a member of the following:
| Ventura Gem & Mineral Society (the club I'm currently most active
with; we moved from Monterey to Ventura in 1998) |
| Carmel Valley Gem & Mineral Society (President, 1994-1998;
previously served as Show Chair and as Vice President) |
| Fossils for Fun Society |
| Mid-America Paleontology Society |
| Monterey Bay Paleontological Society |
Rockhounding Interests:
My rockhounding interests are varied. Primarily, I'm a fossil
collector (fossils of all sorts, but especially fossil fish and shark teeth,
insects, echinoderms, plants, and microfossils), and I focus mostly on
self-collected fossils. I like field collecting and reading about the
history of paleontology and have published articles on classic
fossil-collecting sites in the CFMS Newsletter, Rock & Gem magazine, and
the annual Expo Digest of the Mid-America Paleontology Society. In
addition to fossils themselves, I collect books on fossils and paleontology.
I also engage in limited mineral collecting and have increasingly focused on
thumb-nail minerals (the older I get, the more I look for ways to save
space!). I'm just beginning to make baby steps into lapidary arts with
tumbling and cabbing of materials I've collected on the beaches and in the
deserts of California (mostly agate, jasper, and jade).
Personal Information:
I'm married to Nancy Brace-Thompson, and we have two kids, Hannah and Alex.
I work for Sage Publications, Inc., in Thousand Oaks, California, as an
acquisitions editor of scholarly books, reference works, and textbooks in the
fields of psychology, family studies, and gerontology. Previously, I worked
for 14 years in marketing and editorial with Brooks/Cole Publishing Company in
Pacific Grove, California. My job takes me around the country to attend
academic conventions and to talk with prospective authors at colleges and
universities. Whenever one of these trips includes a Saturday night
stay-over, I always try to squeeze in some fossil collecting, and thus my
collection includes self-collected specimens from most states in the U.S.
I've lived in the following states and thus have a fair number of fossils from
each: Illinois, Maryland, Nebraska, Massachusetts, Maine, and
California. After taking a few geology courses at the University of
Maryland in 1976, I earned a B.A. in English and German from Johns Hopkins
University in 1980 and a Master's degree in English from the University of
Massachusetts in 1984 before starting a career in publishing.
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