Entomological Collections Network

Here is the current list of speakers and titles...this is not the final program, but a draft.  You may download and print a copy of this draft (you must scroll down to the end of the page where you can click on the file itself) ... but please note that it may change prior to the meeting itself.   The final program will be available later this month:

Entomological Collections Network - Annual Meeting

December 11 & 12, 2010

Town and Country Resort and Conference Center, San Diego, CA

Program of Events

Saturday, December 11, 2010

7:30 am                        Registration and Coffee

8:30 am                        Welcome and Introduction

8:45 am             Barbara Sharanowski

University of Manitoba

Introducing the Wallis-Roughley Museum of Entomology (University of Manitoba): the largest insect museum in Western Canada 

9:05 am             Andrew Austin¹ & Mark Harvey²

¹The University of Adelaide, ²Western Australian Museum

Universities, Museums and Private Industry: a unique partnership

in collection-based taxonomic research

 9:25 am             Peter DeVries

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Biodiversity Informatics on the Semantic Web

9:45 am             Robert S. Anderson¹ & John T. Longino²

¹Canadian Museum of Nature, ²The Evergreen State College

From field data to data fields: How Project LLAMA does it

10:05 – 10:20am            Coffee Break

10:20 am             Lynn Kimsey

University of California Davis

The Trials and Travails of Curating Alcohol Collections

10:40 am              Jenna Castle

University of California Santa Barbara / San Diego Natural History Museum

All Dried Up:  A case study of rehydration techniques and the

Clipperton Island collection at the SDNHM

11:00 am             Eugenio H. Nearns, Nathan P. Lord & Kelly B. Miller

Department of Biology, Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131

Systematics in the 21^st Century - Developing Lucid Keys to

 Enhance Taxonomy

11:40 – 1:00 pm            Lunch

1:00 pm             Digitization Symposium Introduction – Andy Deans

1:05 pm             Derek Sikes

University of Alaska Museum

Digitization of the University of Alaska Museum Insect Collection

1:25 pm             Randall T. Schuh

American Museum of Natural History

Web-based data capture: an update from the AMNH 

1:45 pm             Lawrence Gall & Leonard Munstermann

Yale University, Peabody Museum

Digitizing the Yale collections: it takes a village

2:05 pm             Patricia Gentili-Poole

Smithsonian Institution

Lepidoptera Types Digitization at the NMNH-Smithsonian

Institution

2:25 pm             Morris, Paul J.^1,2, Eastwood, Rod², Ford, Linda S.², Haley, Brendan², Pierce, Naomi E.²

                                    ¹Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Ave, Cambridge MA 02138

²The Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

Innovative workflows for efficient data capture in an entomological

collection: The MCZ Lepidoptera Rapid Data Capture Project

2:45 – 3:00 pm            Coffee Break

3:00 pm             Michael Wall

San Diego Natural History Museum

Not another fricking database!?!

3:20 pm             Piotr Nasrecki

Museum of Comparative Zoology – Harvard University

Digital type specimens – where are we 15 years later?

3:40 pm             Colin Favret¹ & Gary L. Miller²

¹AphidNet, LLC, ²Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA

Digitizing Insect Specimens on Microscope Slides

4:00 pm             Norm Johnson & Luciana Musetti

Ohio State University

Applications of digitized specimen records

4:20 pm            Andrew R. Deans & Matthew A. Bertone

North Carolina State University Insect Museum

Utility (and shortcomings) of high resolution drawer imaging for

remote curation and outreach

4:40 – 5:00 pm             Symposium Discussion & Concluding Remarks

6:00 – 9:00 pm             ECN Dinner & Mixer

Sunday, December 12, 2010

8:30 am                         Coffee

9:00 am                         Introduction

9:10 am             Gail E. Kampmeier

Illinois Natural History Survey

Echoes from TDWG 2010

9:30 am             Frank Krell

Denver Museum of Nature & Science

ZooBank Progress Report

9:50 am             Mary Liz Jameson

Wichita State University

Transforming Biodiversity Science with The Biofinity Project

10:10 -10:30 am             Coffee Break

10:30 am             Doug Yanega¹ & John Ascher²

¹University of California Riverside, ²American Museum of Natural History

DBCNet ("Digital Bee Collection Network")

11:10 am             Max Barclay

                        British Museum of Natural History

11:30 am                         Meeting Conclusion and Discussion

11:45 am                         Business Meeting