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AMS Meeting Page 2006

Second Call for Papers (April 14, 2006)

This is an updated announcement for a symposium featuring chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora), to be held on Monday, July 31, in Seattle during the joint annual meetings of the American Malacological Society (AMS) and Western Society of Malacologists (WSM). More information on the meetings is now posted soon at the above linked AMS site under the coordination of the current AMS/WSM President Dr. Roland C. Anderson. The main venue for the meeting will be the University of Washington and reasonably-priced housing can now be reserved at either the University dormitories (including meal plan options) or the University Inn Motel. The opening night reception will be in the Burke Museum , located on campus, and the ending banquet will be at the university’s University Club, also on campus. Thursday 3 August will be devoted to meeting-wide field trips, and I have agreed to co-lead one of these trips, available to anyone at the meeting who registers for this trip, tentatively with stops at least at Deception Pass and an intertidal site near Anacortes. I am also willing to try to organize an informal field trip for participants of the chiton symposium just before the meeting, when the tides are better. Contact me if you are interested. See here for how to apply for a Washington State Scientific Collecting Permit.

The symposium will feature: 1) A morning session devoted to presentations by invited speakers; 2) An afternoon session with invited or other contributed papers related to any aspect of research on chitons; 3) A special section of the poster session devoted to chitons, with invited or other contributions; 4) A special display of fossil (Ordovician) chitons; 5) A dinner following the symposium open to anyone with an interest in chitons. Please email or call me with other ideas you might have. A listing of featured speakers will soon be posted but I am sure you will find it to be a highly diverse program of cutting-edge research on chitons, including world authorities and future stars of chitonology. I am very excited about the speakers who have committed to come, including leading practitioners of paleontology, phylogeography, systematics, morphology, biomineralization, and ecology.

I am starting to send out official invitations on my University's letterhead to help you pursue funding locally. So far, I have been offered very limited funds in support of the symposium so I cannot promise much in the way of covering travel costs, but please send any suggestions for possible funding sources my way and I will pursue them. Participants in the symposium have been offered single-day meeting registration costs to be waived but will have to pay the full registration fees if attending the entire meeting.

There is still a possibility that the contributions to our symposium will be published together in a single issue of the American Malacological Bulletin, similar to the volume that was published in association with the 1987 AMU symposium organized by Bob Bullock on the "Biology of the Polyplacophora" in Key West, Florida [Amer. Malacol. Bull. 6(1), 1988]. I do not have any further information on this possibility but I assume it is still an option that we have. I will send a questionaire to all participants once the schedule is further along.

Seattle is a beautiful place, especially that time of year, and I am proud that it is my hometown, and the "U Dub" is my alma mater. Several West Coast chiton enthusiasts have offered to help me organize this meeting and I expect the symposium will attract a very interesting mixture of scientists or students whose research involves living or fossil chitons as well as amateurs who are understandably passionate about chitons.

I am looking forward to this meeting very much and hope to see you there,

Doug Eernisse

Mailing address:
Department of Biological Science
California State University
Fullerton, CA 92834-6850
USA

Phone: (714) 278-3749

deernisse @ fullerton.edu
http://biology.fullerton.edu/deernisse/

For further general information on the AMS/WSM joint meeting 2006 please contact AMS and WSM President:

Dr. Roland C. Anderson
1483 Alaskan Way
Seattle, WA 98101 USAPh: 206-386-4346
Roland.anderson @ seattle.gov

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