ASIH 1997 Joint Meetings

Workshops

For further information, contact the organizers whose name and address follow the titles.

• "Preservation and Curation of Early Life History Stages of Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles," (ASIH, AFS-ELHS) organized by Alexandra M. Snyder, MSB Division of Fishes, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, (505) 277-6005, amsnyder@unm.edu; and Darrel E. Snyder, Larval Fish Laboratory, Fisheries and Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, desnyder@picea.cnr.colostate.edu.
• "Nomenclature for Novices," (ASIH) an introduction to the rules of zoological nomenclature, with practical advice on how to avoid the most common mistakes. In order to prepare for the workshop, we NEED to know who is planning to attend. Please contact Carl Ferraris (see contact info below) before May 15 and indicate your intention to join. If you know of someone who is planning to attend, please make sure they are aware of this. Remember that the workshop is scheduled for Thursday, June 26, the day before the first day of papers, and will run from 8 to 4 in room 219 of Loew Hall (sector O-11 of North Central Campus map).

  Organized by Carl Ferraris, Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118, (415) 750-7050, ferraris@cas.calacademy.org, and Aaron Bauer.

• "ASIH Student Workshop: Communicating with the Press and Public," (ASIH) a panel-discussion/audience-participation workshop, sponsored by the Committee on Graduate Student Participation, concentrating on how biologists should communicate with the press without compromising their credibility, organized by Humberto Wong, Department of Biology, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA 92515, (909) 785-2345, humbwong@lasierra.edu; and Bradford Hollingsworth, Department of Natural Science, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350, (909) 785-2345, bholling@lasierra.edu. The workshop will be held on Friday, June 27th, from 12:00-1:30 in the HUB Auditorium.
• "Larval Fish Identification," (AFS-ELHS) bring your weird unknown larval fishes and get help in identifying them, organized by Morgan S. Busby, National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Bin C15700, Building 4, Seattle, WA 98115-0070, (206) 526 4113, mbusby@afsc.noaa.gov. The workshop will be held on Monday, June 30th, from 12:00-1:30 in room 124 of the Fisheries Teaching and Research (FTR) Building.

• "Application-Specific Computer Image Analysis Workshops," (AFS-ELHS) questions and answers from experienced users of OPTIMAS, and other image analysis software, hands on sessions; organized by Darrel Snyder, Larval Fish Laboratory, Fisheries and Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, desnyder@picea.cnr.colostate.edu. The workshop topics are as follows:

  1. "Age, growth, and related work on otoliths;" organized by Pete Hagen, peterh@adfg.state.ak.us
  2. "Mass collection processing (semi) automated counting and measuring of batches of specimens (hopefully including means to handle curved and bent specimens)."
  3. "Taxonomy from utilities for descriptive analysis of specimens to (semi) automated identification via pattern recognition or other procedures."
• "AES Student Workshop: How to Publish a Paper," (AES) organized by Allen Henningsen, National Aquarium, Pier 3, 501 E Pratt St., Baltimore, MD 21202, ahenning@umabnet.ab.umd.edu. The workshop will be held on Saturday, June 28th, from 12:00-1:30 in room 239 of Savery Hall.