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Biogeography And Distribution Of European Land And Freshwater Molluscs

IOBC Subgroup Meeting On Integrated Control Of Slugs And Other Soil Pests

Biology & Evolution Of The Bivalvia

Sixth International Littorinid Symposium

Young Malacologists Forum

Molluscs 2000


27 & 28 February 1999

The Malacological Society of London

BIOGEOGRAPHY AND DISTRIBUTION OF EUROPEAN LAND AND FRESHWATER MOLLUSCS

National Museum & Galleries of Wales, Cardiff

This meeting provides an opportunity for British and European malacologists to review current biogeographical projects and methods. Patterns of distribution are being used to determine phylogenetic relationships, and interpretation of fossil deposits on a European basis allows faunal change to be identified. A long tradition of mapping the distribution of land and freshwater molluscs in Europe has led to national Atlases for several countries and new projects have been launched in others. However, much of the thrust for mapping is now directed towards Conservation. Data from these studies have formed the basis for species' inclusion on, e.g., the European Habitats & Species Directive, national and local Red Data Lists and Biodiversity Action Plans. The criteria for these conservation categories often require a much more detailed assessment and interpretation of distributions, and refinement of the methods used to gather data, than those employed in traditional mapping.

Programme:

Speakers are: Robert Cameron (Sheffield), Beata Pokryszko (Wroclaw), Rich Meyrick (Cambridge), Tony Frias Martins (Azores), Mary Seddon (Cardiff), Angus Davison (Nottingham), Kurt Jordaens (Antwerp) Ted von Proschwitz (Gøteborg), David Aldridge (Cambridge), Ian Killeen (Felixstowe) Evelyn Moorkens (Dublin), Eva Sharland (Cardiff), and Tony Wardhaugh (Middlesborough). The meeting will include a tour of the Mollusca Section and there will be opportunities for participants to use the collections and library.

Travel: Cardiff has major road and rail links with London and other cities. The Museum is located in Cathays Park, approximately 20 minutes walk from the station. Car parking is available for delegates at the back of the Museum (cost £1.20/day). Cardiff Airport has direct links with most British and many European city airports; there is a frequent city hopper link with Amsterdam.

Accommodation: There is a wide choice of reasonably priced accommodation within 15-20 minute walk of the city centre, particularly in the Cathedral Road area. A brochure will be sent to those who request it when registering.

Meals: Teas, coffee and buffet lunches (£7.50/day) will be provided in the Museum. A supper for Saturday evening (cost £17.50) has been arrangsed at a local Chinese restaurant.

Registration: There will be no conference fee, but participants requiring meals must e-mail Ian by Monday 15th February.

Organiser: Ian Killeen, 163 High Road West, Felixstowe, Suffolk IP11 9BD, U.K.

Tel: 01394 274618 Email: ian...@malacserv.demon.co.uk


Saturday 27 February 1999

The Malacological Society of London

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

1.45 p.m. National Museum and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff


15-16 March 1999

IOBC SUBGROUP MEETING ON: INTEGRATED CONTROL OF SLUGS AND OTHER SOIL PESTS

Research Institute for Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Ackerstrasse, CH-5070 Frick, Switzerland

Contact: The local organiser, Dr Bernhard Speiser, at the address above, or email Spei...@FIBL.CH ,or the Subgroup Convenor, Dr David Glen, IACR Long Ashton Research Station, Long Ashton, Bristol BS18 9AF, UK.
Email: Davi...@BBSRC.AC.UK


14-17 September 1999

The Malacological Society of London

BIOLOGY & EVOLUTION OF THE BIVALVIA: Earth Sciences, Cambridge University

Organised by Liz Harper (Cambridge University), John Taylor (Natural History Museum, London) and Alistair Crame (British Antarctic Survey).

New discoveries and developments in bivalve biology and palaeobiology make this an opportune time for a meeting to bring together zoologists and palaeobiologists. These developments include molecular phylogenies, the description of new Lower Palaeozoic faunas, the continuing discovery of chemosymbiotic associations and the location of diverse faunas in the deep sea, hydrothermal vents, cold seeps and submarine caves. The use of novel techniques has transformed understanding of feeding, reproductive, burrowing and shell mineralization processes. Bivalves, moreover, have an enormous economic importance, both as food and as highly successful, but unwanted alien invaders. Additionally bivalves are being widely used as biomonitors and freshwater bivalves are increasingly under threat of extinction. The long and rich fossil record of bivalves is being used in major studies of evolutionary rates, history of predation and global biogeographic changes in response to climatic fluctuations.

We are keen not to prescribe set topics for papers, although inevitably themed sessions will emerge. Rather, we welcome papers and posters on all aspects of bivalve zoology and palaeontology. All titles of oral presentations and posters must be submitted to the organisers by 31 May 1999. We aim to produce a major publication to record the proceedings and hope that most speakers will offer their papers for peer review.

Accommodation & Events: Study bedrooms have been reserved at Gonville and Caius College on a B & B basis. A number of receptions and a Banquet are planned. There will also be a free half-day to enjoy the historic city of Cambridge.

Registration: £100 (sterling). £90 for members and £50 for students. The deadline is 31st May 1999. Registration forms and full first circular are available from Liz Harper (Dept of Earth Sciences, Downing St, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ. Fax: 1223 333450, email emh...@cus.cam.ac.uk). Further details will also be available in a second circular to all who have registered, and on The Society's website at http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/~es0mda/msl1.shtml


24-31 July 1999

SIXTH INTERNATIONAL LITTORINID SYMPOSIUM

Hofstra University Marine Laboratory, Priory Bay, Jamaica

Participants are invited to give oral papers on any aspect of the biology of littorinid snails and on other intertidal gastropod species. Special symposia can be arranged. Past meetings have attracted about 50 international participants. Accommodation will be at Hofstra University Marine Laboratory at Priory Bay.

Meals and lodgings for participants and accompanying family members will be provided at the Laboratory. The Laboratory and associated hotel living quarters occupy a compound of several acres on the sea front at Priory Bay. It has classrooms, laboratories, boats, running sea water holding tanks, a library and some standard laboratory equipment. Several marine habitats are within short walking distance of the laboratory: an extensive limestone platform rocky shore with at least 7 species of littorinids, turtle grass beds, reefs and a small mangal. The symposium is being planned to allow participants time during the afternoons to examine and collect in these habitats. Excursions to several different shores are planned, and also to the Blue Mountains, Ocho Rios and Dunn's River Falls. The organizers have arranged for any interested participants to be able to spend all or a portion of the week following the symposium at the laboratory (1-7 July 1999) to carry out research on local fauna.

Contact either Robert F. McMahon (r.mc...@uta.edu) or Joseph C. Britton (jbri...@fastlane.net).


Late November 1999

The Malacological Society of London

YOUNG MALACOLOGISTS' FORUM

Natural History Museum, London

The third in this successful series of informal annual meetings where young researchers can meet with other malacologists to present and discuss some of their data and compare notes on methods and problems.

Attendance is open to all, but speakers will normally be restricted to research students working towards MSc and PhD qualifications, and young post-doctoral researchers in any field concerning Mollusca, be it palaeontological, ecological, physiological, molecular, systematic or morphological.

If you are interested in taking part please contact: Alex Ball, EM Unit, The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD. Tel +171 938 8973. Email: a.b...@nhm.ac.uk


4-8 December 2000

Malacological Society of Australasia

MOLLUSCS 2000: UNDERSTANDING MOLLUSCAN BIODIVERSITY IN OUR REGION INTO THE 21st CENTURY

The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

A meeting bringing together people working on molluscs in the Australasian and Indo-west Pacific regions. A major focus will be to investigate new and improved ways of sharing and disseminating information and data throughout the region. There will be 3 symposia - taxonomy/systematics, ecology /genetics, interactions with Man - and an open session. Accommodation will be in college-style residences and motels.

Contact: the Organisers, Dr W Ponder, Department of Malacology, Australian Museum, 6 College St, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia. Phone: (02) 9320 6120, fax (02) 9320 6050. Email: wins...@amsg.austmus.gov.au or Dr M G Chapman, Inst. Marine Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney N S W 2006, Australia. Phone 61 2 9351 4778, Fax 61 2 9351 6713. Email: gee...@bio.usyd.edu.au

 


 

 

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