Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods)

Volume 18 No. 2, Fall 1999


 

Selected Future Conferences

 

General information and editorial notes

News and Notes

Summary of the Scientific Committee Meeting
Biodiversity Diversity
Canadian National Collection of Insects on the Web
Membership of the Scientific Committee

The Northern Forestry Centre Insect Museum

Project Update: Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands

The Nature Discovery Fund

The Quiz Page

Recent Publications

Selected Future Conferences

Challenge Question

Answers to Faunal Quiz

Quips and Quotes

Requests for Material or Information Invited

Requests for Cooperation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ENTOMOLOGICAL CONFERENCES


Entomological Society of Canada

1999, 26-29 Sept. Saskatoon, SK (with Entomological Society of Saskatchewan); Dr. Dwayne Hegedus, Organizing Committee Chair (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 107 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0X2; hegedusd@em.agr.ca) or Dr. Cedric Gillott (Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, 112 Science Place, Saskatoon SK, S7N 5E2; gillott@duke.usask.ca)


2000, 2-7 Dec. Montréal, QC (with Societé d’entomologie du Québec and the Entomological Society of America)
Entomological Society of America 1999, 12-16 Dec. Atlanta, GA ESA, 9301 Annapolis Rd., Lanham, MD 20706-3115; meet@entsoc.org


2000, 2-7 Dec Montréal, QC (joint meeting with ESC, see above)


2001, 9-13 Dec. San Diego, CA ESA, see above


2002, 10-15 Dec. Philadelphia, PA ESA, see above


10th Auchenorrhyncha Congress

1999, 6-11 Sept. Cardiff, UK Su Hayward-Lewis, Conference Co-ordinator, Cardiff University, Southgate House, Bevan Place, PO Box 533, Cardiff CF4 3XZ, UK; auchen@cardiff.ac.uk


2nd International Lepidopterist Conference of Africa

1999, 4-6 Nov. Capetown, South Africa Jenny Heath, 209 Ringwood Dr., Pinelands, 7405 South Africa; aheath@mweb.co.za

XXI International Congress of  Entomology

2000, 20-26 Aug. Iguassu Falls, Brazil. details from
http://www.embrapa.br/ice/


COLLECTIONS / MUSEUMS / SYSTEMATICS


15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections

2000, 10-14 July Halifax, NS Iris Hardy, GSC (Atlantic), 1 Challenger Drive, P.O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 4A2; hardy@agc.bio.ns.ca; http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/spnhc/annconf.htm

Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB) Symposia - Annual Meeting

2000 Bloomington, Indiana, USA. David Mindell; mindell@umich.edu


OTHER SUBJECTS (especially those relevant to survey projects)


Australasian Conference on Grassland Invertebrate Ecology

1999, 21 Sept. - 1 Oct. Perth, Western Australia John Matthiessen, CSIRO Entomology, Private bag, PO Wembly, Western Australia 6014;
johnm@ccmar.csiro.au

7th Triennial International Symposium on Insect/Invertebrate and Plant Cold Hardiness

2000, 28 May - 2 June Victoria, BC. R.A. Ring, Biology Dept., University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 3N5; raring@uvic.ca


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