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AGENDA Annual Meeting 2000
Penticton Trade & Convention Centre, Penticton, British Columbia
September 22-25, 2000
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| Thursday September 21 |
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| 1900 - 2130 | Closed meeting of Board of Directors |
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| Friday September 22 |
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| 0730 - 0845 | Registration |
| 0845 - 0915 | Welcome to Annual Meeting of CARCNET
Larry Halverson, Christine Bishop |
| 0915 - 1000 | Introduction to the South Okanagan
Guest speakers |
| 1000 - 1030 | Break |
| 1030 - 1200 | Volunteer Monitoring Symposium
Brian Craig, Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network
Presentations by Laura Friis, Lisa Takats, Andy Didiuk, Diana Teal, Christine
Bishop |
| 1200 - 1400 | Lunch/discussion group meetings |
| 1400 - 1415 | Designing a long-term aquatic-breeding amphibian monitoring program for a forestry company
Elke Wind |
| 1415 - 1430 | The snake fauna of British Columbia - what we know, in general
Patrick T. Gregory |
| 1430 - 1445 | A review of the status of herptile management in Ontario's National Parks
Freya Nales |
| 1445 - 1500 | Three patterns of seasonal movement among Eastern Ontario Rana
Frederick W. Schueler |
| 1500 - 1515 | Phylogeographic analysis of Ambystoma macrodactylum: post-glacial tracks and resultant genetic diversity
M.D. Thompson and A.P. Russell |
| 1515 - 1545 | Break |
| 1545 - 1600 | Variation in spatial and temporal dynamics between sub-populations of marbled salamanders (Ambystoma opacum) at the northern limits of their distribution
Christopher L. Jenkins |
| 1600 - 1615 | Environment Canada's South Okanagan - Similkameen Conservation Program and First Step Projects under the Habitat Stewardship Program
Christine Bishop |
| 1615 - 1630 | Amphibians associated with forest streams of the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, central Alberta.
C. E. Stevens and C. A. Paszkowski |
| 1630 - 1645 | Interactions between amphibians and fish in Alberta's boreal forest: influence of fish on amphibian abundance
Brian Eaton, Cynthia Paszkowski, William Tonn, and Tracy Gartner |
| 1645 - 1700 | Behavioral response of larval Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa) and red-legged frog (Rana aurora) to the presence of larval odonates (Aeshna palmata)
Heidy Peterson and John S. Richardson |
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| 1930 | Evening Mixer
Hillside Estate winery
Great Canadian Herp Quiz
Christine Bishop and Martin Ouellet |
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| Saturday September 23 |
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| 0900 - 1000 | KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Wetland loss and connectivity and the conservation of reptiles and amphibians in North America
James P. Gibbs |
| 1000 - 1030 | Break |
| 1030 - 1200 | Wastelands no more: conserving wetlands for herpetofauna
Elke Wind
Clayoquot Sound amphibian inventory
Barbara Beasley
Patterns of forest harvesting and the protection of amphibian habitat in the
western boreal forest
C. A. Paszkowski & B. R. Eaton
The tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum melanostictum) in BC: an
amphibian in an endangered desert environment
John S. Richardson and Walter Klenner
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| 1200 - 1400 | Lunch / Important Reptile and Amphibian Area discussions |
| 1400 - 1415 | The effect of lindane on tadpole growth and development: an outdoor microcosm study
K.C. Serben and D.J. Forsyth |
| 1415 - 1430 | Multiple stressor effects in amphibians: herbicide/pH interaction
Andrea N. Edginton |
| 1430 - 1445 | The environmental estrogen octylphenol (OP) and UV-B radiation disrupts normal somatic development and hypothalamic gene expression in the
leopard frog (Rana pipiens)
D. Crump, D. Lean and V. L. Trudeau |
| 1445 - 1500 | Tolerance of the green anole (Anolis carolinensis) to ultraviolet radiation-induced immunosuppression
R. B. Cope and D. L. Fabacher |
1500 - 1515 | Group photograph with Ogopogo |
| 1515 - 1545 | Break |
| 1545 - 1600 | Sensitization-dependent skin swelling responses to topical 2,4-dinitro-1-fluorobenzene in the green anole (Anolis carolinensis; Polychridae)
Rhian B Cope |
| 1600 - 1615 | Assessing the survivorship and occurrence of deformities in the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina serpentina, along a gradient of industrially contaminated sites
Sara L. Ashpole, C.A. Bishop, R.J. Brooks |
| 1615 - 1630 | Bacterial and fungal disease in adult anurans of Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario
Sarah J. Swanson, Phil Byrnne and Ronald J. Brooks |
| 1630 - 1645 | Traumatic injuries in spiny softshell turtles (Apalone spinifera) from the Lake Champlain basin
Blessures traumatiques chez la tortue-molle à épines (Apalone spinifera) dans le bassin du Lac Champlain
Patrick Galois and Martin Ouellet |
| 1645 - 1700 | Dystrophic calcification in the tail fins of northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens) tadpoles raised in an outdoor enclosure in eastern Ontario
Tana McDaniel, Philip Byrne, Doug Campbell, Christine Bishop |
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| Sunday September 24 |
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| 0900 - 1000 | KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Beyond the pond: terrestrial and landscape ecology of aquatic-breeding
amphibians
Betsie B. Rothermel and Raymond D. Semlitsch |
| 1000 - 1030 | Break |
| 1030 - 1045 | Status of the northern leopard frog in the Creston Valley Wildlife
Management Area, British Columbia
Heather L. Waye |
| 1045 - 1100 | Status, biology and recovery planning activities for the Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa)
Russ Haycock |
| 1100 - 1115 | Risk assessment for conservation under ecological uncertainty: a case study using tailed frogs in B.C.
Glenn Sutherland |
| 1115 - 1130 | Northern Ontario Ducks Unlimited marshes: refugia for leopard frogs?
Frederick W. Schueler and Aleta Karstad |
| 1130 - 1230 | Poster Session |
| 1230 - 1400 | Lunch Break |
| 1400 - 1415 | The BC Wildlife Federation's wetland education projects
Patrick McGuiness |
| 1415 - 1430 | Vancouver Island Highway Project impacts on amphibians and potentialmitigation.
Don Blood |
| 1430 - 1445 | Effects of clear-cut timber harvest on movement patterns of tailed frogs in southwestern British Columbia
Brent M.Matsuda and John S. Richardson |
1445 - 1500 | The proximate response of terrestrial salamanders to forest harvesting
Katherine A. Maxcy |
| 1500 - 1515 | Conservation efforts on the western rattlesnake and Great Basin gopher snake in the Thompson-Nicola region of British Columbia
Karl W. Larsen, Nadine Bertram, and John Surgenor |
| 1515 - 1545 | Break |
| 1545 - 1700 | CARCNET Business meeting
Presentations:
* Scholarship award for amphibian conservation research. Digital Frog
International and CARCNET ($500.00)
* Best Student Paper award at the conference. CARCNET ($250.00) |
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| | Monday, September 25 |
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| 0800 - 1700 | FIELD TRIP: SOUTH OKANAGAN AND SIMILKAMEEN VALLEYS
Meet at Sandman Inn for departure.
Visit White Lake (home to tiger salamanders), the Vaseux Lake Wildlife Refuge
(home to many reptile species such as painted turtles, racers, gopher snakes,
rattlesnakes, and the elusive night snake, as well as birds, bats, mountain sheep and
others), wildlife management areas and ecological reserves, and even a winery.
Detailed itinerary at registration.
Bring sturdy shoes, long pants, binoculars, drinking water, and a camera! |
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