Entomological Collections Network

Tentative Schedule for ECN 2009, Indianapolis, IN

Saturday, 12 Dec (Room 204, Second Floor (Convention Center))

Morning Session – Collections

8-9:00am Registration, coffee.

9:00am Deans, A. (NCSU) ‘Past, present and future of the NCSU Entomology Collection’.

9:20am Song, H. (BYU) ‘Introducing Korean National Institute of Biological Resources.’

9:40am Johnson, N. (OSU) ‘Facility improvement and status of the C.A. Triplehorn Insect Collection at The Ohio State University’.

10:00am Miller, J., Emmel, T. (McGuire Center) ‘Fundraising and collection support in difficult economic time’. 

10:20-10:40 Coffee Break

10:40am Triapitsyn, S. (UCR) ‘Remediation and curation of the University of California, Riverside collection of Aphelinidae and Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) on slides: problems and solutions’.

11:00am Brown, R. (Mississippi Entomological Museum) ‘Collection and Web Resources of the Mississippi Entomological Museum’.

11:20am Solodovnikov, A. (NHMD) ‘Beetle and other entomological collections at the Natural History Museum of Denmark: an update’. 

11:40 Morning session wrap up; questions, further announcements.

12-1:00pm Lunch

Afternoon Session – Current status of systematic entomological journals

1:00pm Austin, A. (Univ. of Adelaide) Invertebrate Systematics.

1:15pm Cranston, P. (UCD) Systematic Entomology.

1:30pm Miller, J. (The Netherlands) ZooKeys.

1:45pm Gates, M. & Kula, R. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.

2:00pm Krogmann, L. (State M. of Stuttgart) Invertebrate Systematics and Evolution.

2:15pm Buffington, M. (SEL) Zootaxa.

2:30pm Cheung, D. (Univ of Guelph) Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification.

2:45-3:15 Panel Discussion of editors.

3:15-3:45 Coffee break.

3:45pm Hevel, G. (SI) ‘Backyard biodiversity: new species, new state records, new invasive species’.

4:00pm Solis, A. (SEL) ‘U.S. Federal government scientific collections and systematics of invasive species’.

4:30pm Keynote speaker: Jonathan Coddington, ADRC, USNM: Future directions of the USNM and the future of biological collections.

5:15pm Afternoon session wrap-up, discussion.

6:30pm Dinner. - Grand Central Station ABCD, First Floor (Crowne Plaza Hotel)

Sunday, 12 Dec. (Room 204, Second Floor (Convention Center))

8-9:00am Coffee.

9:00am Cook, J. (Sam Houston Univ.) Systematics at the National Science Foundation: Current Trends and a New Program.

9:20am Woolley, J. (TAMU) ‘CollectionsWeb: building a community of natural history collections in the US, an annual update’.

9:30-10:10am Species names for fun and profit?

9:30am Polaszek, A., Yanega, D. (NHM, UC Riverside) Pros and cons of selling patronyms.  Format: tag-team presentation and open discussion.

10:10am Coffee break.

10:30am Kampmeier, G. (Field Museum) Darwin Core Ratified in the Year of Darwin.

10:45am Smith, A. & Cognato, A. (Univ. of MI) Implementation of Specify for databasing the A.J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection.

11:00am Dikow, T. (Field Museum) LifeDesk: Managing and sharing biodiversity research on the web.

11:15am-Noon: Forum

Morita S. and Buffington, M.: The Ecology of Entomological Researchers: limited meme flow between ecologists and taxonomists.

11:15am Introduction (Morita, S.)

11:20-12:00: Panel discussion.  Members (more TBA): Coddington, J., Austin, A.

12:00 Closing remarks.