Paleonet: AMS/WSM 2010 Meeting and Abstract Announcement

[Lindsey Groves]

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The 76th Annual Meeting of the American Malacological Society
The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Western Society of Malacologists
 
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           26-30 June 2010, San Diego, CA

                  AMS/WSM 2010

         *** Submission Deadline: 3 May 2010 ***
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    <http://malacological.org/ams_wsm_2010/registration.php>
<http://malacological.org/ams_wsm_2010/registration.php>  
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                Call for Abstracts

As the current Presidents of AMS and WSM, it is our pleasure to announce
the upcoming joint 76th Annual Meeting of the American Malacological
Society and 43rd Annual Meeting of the Western Society of Malacologists
to be held on the campus of San Diego State University (
http://www.as.sdsu.edu/aztec/forms/SDSU_Campus_Map-Parking.pdf 
<http://www.as.sdsu.edu/aztec/forms/SDSU_Campus_Map-Parking.pdf>
<http://www.as.sdsu.edu/aztec/forms/SDSU_Campus_Map-Parking.pdf>  for
map), in San Diego, California. The meeting will kick off in style with
a welcome reception on the evening of Saturday, June 26th, with
scientific sessions held from Sunday (June 27th) to noon on Wednesday
(June 30th). Stay the following day, Thursday, July 1st, for organized
or informal excursions in the San Diego area. We encourage you to
register by MAY 3 for a 25% savings!

Venue. - We are fortunate to have reserved our meeting site at San Diego
State University. The new SDSU Aztec Conference Center is attractive and
easily accessible by car or via public transportation. SDSU has both new
suites and somewhat less expensive older dorms, but both are affordable.
We have negotiated a great rate for on-campus residents that includes
all meals in a modern dining cafeteria. It is very nice! We encourage
meeting attendees to select this option in order to promote interactions
between meeting participants, but there are also many hotels within
fairly close proximity of the meeting site, and non-resident attendees
can choose whether to purchase an optional lunch plan during
registration, or to plan to forage on their own in a variety of other
restaurants or fast food options near the conference center. Public
transit options include a new trolley stop, which is immediately
adjacent to the conference center or a brief walk across a footbridge
from the dorms. The trolley connects directly to the downtown train
station and airport (search in Google maps for SDSU Transit Center, San
Diego), and provides easy access to the outstanding selection of
restaurants and bars in famous Old Town, and in the Gaslamp Quarter in
downtown San Diego, about 29 minutes by trolley. The meeting will be
affordable for students and close to world-class ocean beaches and other
well known attractions that make San Diego such a popular destination to
visit.

Sessions. - Scientific sessions are historically great at joint AMS/WSM
West Coast meetings.

--Dr. Peter Marko (Assistant Professor, Clemson University) and Dr. Alan
Kohn (Professor Emeritus, University of Washington) are organizing an
AMS-sponsored symposium on "Biogeography of the Pacific". An impressive
line-up of speakers has been confirmed, and these include Dr. Thomas
Duda, Dr. Suzanne Williams, Dr. Christine Parent, Dr. Cynthia
Trowbridge, Dr. David Jacobs, and Dr. Alan Kohn. These leading
scientists have agreed to present their research on Pacific molluscan
biogeography on June 29. This symposium and associated contributed paper
and poster sessions are expected to be a memorable highlight of the
meeting. Please check the corresponding box on the abstract submission
form if you would like to present a contributed paper or poster in a
session associated with this symposium.

--Dr. Jennifer Burnaford (Assistant Professor, Cal State Fullerton) is
organizing a complementary special session on invasive molluscs, with
eight confirmed speakers and opportunity for other relevant contributed
papers or posters.  Please note when you submit your abstract if you
would like your contributed paper to be included as part of this session
(contact Dr. Burnaford directly at: jburnaford at fullerton.edu ).

--Dr. Eric Gonzales (Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley) will present
a timely Student Workshop, "Genomic Tools for Molluscan Ecology and
Evolution."

--Lindsey Groves (Dept. Malacology, LACMNH) will be organizing a session
on Molluscan Paleontology 2010. Papers with a paleobiogeographic
emphasis are particularly encouraged. Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic
are all welcome.  Please contact Lindsey Groves at lgroves at nhm.org if
you are planning to submit an abstract for the Molluscan Paleontology
session.

--Registration/housing details are on the meeting website at:   
<http://malacological.org/ams_wsm_2010/registration.php>
<http://malacological.org/ams_wsm_2010/registration.php>  
 
Other events include ever-popular auction, banquet, reprint sales, and
other fun activities. Please plan to attend and spread the word. Contact
us if you would like to ship donations for the auction. Help us to make
this joint meeting a success by planning to attend, responding when the
call for contributed talks and posters is announced, getting involved,
and especially encouraging students and colleagues, including those from
Latin American countries, to participate. If you have any questions,
please feel free to contact the meeting organizers, Dr. Douglas J.
Eernisse at deernisse at fullerton.edu for AMS, or Dr. George L. Kennedy at
gkennedy at bfsa-ca.com for WSM.

See you in San Diego!

Doug Eernisse, AMS, and George Kennedy, WSM

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