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Upcoming SCAMIT Meetings

Monday 9 January 2012 9:30–3:30
Vertebrate and invertebrate collecting and diving adventures in the Pacific Northwest at the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium.

Author Andy Lamb, formerly at the Vancouver Aquarium will present (see flyer). Trawl QA protocols discussion. Joint SCAMIT and SCAITE meeting.

Monday 13 February 2012 9:30–3:30
SCB isopod review at City of San Diego Environmental Monitoring Lab.

Dr. Tim Stebbins will lead a review of the isopod fauna reported from the Southern California Bight. He will present images and discuss aspects of isopod taxonomy and ecology. This will be the first of several review meetings on isopods planned by Tim.

Note that the next three meetings occur in a two-day period at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. There are three presenters in the Santa Barbara area, so a two day meeting was arranged rather that two single day meetings requiring travel to Santa Barbara twice. If you need a recommendation for accommodations, contact Paul Valentich Scott at pvscott@sbnature2.org.

Monday 19 March 2012 9:30–3:30
Panamic bivalves at Santa Barbara Natural History Museum.

Paul Valentich Scott will lead a day long presentation and discussion of the soon to be released Panamic Bivalve book. Paul will discuss the highlights of the book, especially the generic revisions. These revisions will require updates to name usage as presented in Edition 6 of the SCAMIT Species List which will be reflected in Edition 7 to be released July 1, 2012. I am sure that specimens illustrating the character states that define these generic changes will be available for examination in the afternoon.

Tuesday 20 March 2012 9:00–12:00
NEP gorgonian fauna at Santa Barbara Natural History Museum.

Dr. Beth Horvath, Westmont College and a research associate at SBMNH, will present her research on NEP gorgonian fauna. You may recall that she described a new species, Leptogorgia filicrispa, in the Proc. Bio. Soc. Wash. earlier this year. This would be a great opportunity to bring specimens of Thesea sp A and B for examination and discussion.

Tuesday 20 March 2012 1:00–4:00
Bight ’98, ’03, and ’08 Phoronida at Santa Barbara Natural History Museum.

Dr. Eric Hochberg will present the results of his work on Bight ’98, ’03, and ’08 Phoronida materials. Eric has been stock-piling them for several years to get enough good specimens!! Eric will enlighten us on the character states and techniques he used to identify them and get us beyond generic level for some of the more common species.

Questions? Contact: Leslie Harris at lharris@nhm.org or Larry Lovell at llovell@lacsd.org.

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