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5th Edition!

The long awaited 5th Edition of A Taxonomic Listing of Macro- and Megainvertebrates from Infaunal & Epibenthic Monitoring Programs in the Southern California Bight has now been released and is available here for downloading!

The 5th Edition expands on prior editions by the addition of newly reported taxa from publicly owned wastewater treatment works monitoring programs and the Southern California Bight 2003 Regional Monitoring Project (Bight ’03). The inclusion of records from Bight ’03 expands the list’s coverage to depths of 1000 m in nearshore basins and megainvertebrates from trawls to depths of 500 m in the Bight. Geographic coverage begins at Point Conception, includes Southern California bays and harbors, six of the eight Channel Islands, and the Mexican coastal shelf south to Bahía Todos Santos to a depth of 1000m.

The Listing is in Portable Document Format (PDF) and is approximately 1.6 MB long. Once downloaded, the PDF document may be viewed, searched and/or printed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader or other PDF readers.

Upcoming SCAMIT Meetings

No July SCAMIT meeting

Monday 2 August 2010 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Corrected time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Taxonomic Database Group meeting at SCCWRP medium conference room.

Please contact Larry Lovell with agenda suggestions and recommendations.

Monday 23 August 2010 9:30 AM
Bight ’08 Infaunal QA resolution meeting at LACSD labs.

Specific labs will be directly involved, but all interested parties are invited to attend to see the resolution process and those taxa reviewed will likely be those that are more problematic. Cheryl Brantley will be sending out more specific information towards the end of July, and will discuss the Bight QA resolution schedules for September and October as well.

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

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Thanks to the scanning efforts of Rick Rowe and the Orange County Sanitation District, and PDF processing by Cheryl Brantley, our collection of newsletters is extending back further and further in time. You're welcome to visit the latest newsletter, as well as journey into the past.

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