Monday
14 May 2012 9:30–3:30
Bight ’08 Syllidae Part Deux
at the CSD lab.
Ron will have specimens of Bight ’08 Syllidae available for examination. He will provide a handout of the species list so attendees can pick taxa of their choosing to examine. Ron invites others to bring their own voucher materials for ID confirmation or sharing to the meeting. Publications with new name changes at the generic level continue to be released and Ron will have the most recent papers on the family available for review.
Monday
11 June 2012 9:30–3:30
Polychaetes
at NHMLAC (Education Classroom, Second Floor).
We will be reviewing Travisia species (T. brevis, T. gigas, T. pupa), Brada pilosa vs. B. pluribranchiata and one polychaete additional group from the attached sheet. Our intent is to review and standardize the character states use to discriminate them. Please bring voucher specimens as well as the electronic files, published literature, and other printed materials you use to identify these species. Our original speaker, Charlotte Watson, will be visiting NHMLAC in July now and will not present her work on Chrysopetalidae.
July 2012
No Meeting.
Summer Vacation: There is no July meeting due to local POTW sampling efforts involving many members throughout the month. Vacation at SEA.
Monday
27 August 2012 9:30–3:30
Polychaetes
at NHMLAC (Education Classroom, Second Floor).
Dr. Vasily Radashevsky will be visiting NHMLAC. He is a world expert on the polychaete family Spionidae. He will present on his current research interests. In addition, if anyone has problems in a particular area of spionid taxonomy, we will ask him to address it. Please post to the SCAMIT mailing list or send an email directly to Leslie or myself with suggested spionid topic (I suggest Polydora complex species). If there are no particular spionid issues to address, we will review one of the Bight ’08 problem areas. Vasily’s visit is late in August, so we may hold two meetings that month if another topic and presenter are available earlier in the month.
September 2012
No meeting scheduled yet.
We should move to a non-polychaete group for this meeting and need someone to step forward with a topic.
October 2012
Date TBD
Sponges
at NHMLAC.
Dr. Dave Elvin, 2nd co-author of the Sponges of California, will be visiting the museum to review material in its sponge collection. Please check the website he prepared covering the material in that publication at www.sanctuarysimon.org/casponges/programfiles/WCSDBK000.php. An interactive key and photos can be found on the website. Dave is preparing a similar website covering the sponges of Oregon. The exact meeting content will be determined prior to the meeting, but a talk on his Oregon work, a sponge workshop, or computer session demonstrating the California and/or Oregon program (if it's far enough along) are all possibilities.
Questions? Contact: Leslie Harris at lharris@nhm.org or Larry Lovell at llovell@lacsd.org.
June 24–27 2012
Western Society of Malacologists and International Workshop on Opisthobranchs — Joint Meeting 2012
at University of California, Santa Cruz
For details, see the
WSM website.
Deadline for registration and abstracts: June 1, 2012.
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