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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

Monday, 12 April 2010 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Polychaete literature review meeting at NHMLAC

May be changed to Bight ’08 review if additional problem taxa remain (or an additional Bight ’08 review meeting in April might be scheduled.

Monday, 24 May 2010 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Barcoding taxonomic workshop at LACSD

We will be lab processing specimens for use in building the DNA barcode library of Southern California benthic invertebrates. This will be a fun day with sorting, taxonomy, photography, DNA processing, voucher vialing, and data entry happening on two parallel production setups. Come one, come all!!!

Monday, 14 June 2010 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Photo Image II workshop at City of San Diego

Hands-on opportunity to work with CSD equipment. continuation of image production and editing techniques. Co-Lead by Dan Ituarte and Nick Haring.

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

Meetings of Interest

7–8 May 2010
Southern California Academy of Sciences

The SCAS Annual Meeting will be May 7–8, 2010 at California State University, Los Angeles, CA: http://scas.jsd.claremont.edu

20–26 June 2010
10th International Polychaete Conference

The 10th IPC meeting will be in Lecce, Italy: http://www.polychaeta.it

27 June – 1 July 2010
Western Society of Malacologists and American Society of Malacologists

The 43rd Annual Meeting of the WSM will be held jointly with the 76th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Malacologists at San Diego State University: http://biology.fullerton.edu/wsm/conferences.html

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