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Fifth Biennial Conference: Spatial & Temporal Issues in Taxonomy

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September 20-23, 2004
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beckman Institute and Siebel Center

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Monday, September 20
(travel day: arrive in Champaign-Urbana by 4:00pm; hotel check-in 3 PM)
2:00 - 7:30pm Registration - pick up name badge, program, and other items to orient you for the conference venue and environs
2400D Lounge Siebel Center
2:00 - 5:30pm Poster Setup - set up physical posters
2400D Lounge Siebel Center
2:00 - 7:30pm Macro/Micro Photography Demonstrations -
featuring GT Entovision and Microptics
2405 & 2407 Siebel Center
3:00 - 7:30pm View Physical and Electronic Posters - talk with authors of physical and electronic posters
2400D Lounge & 2405 Siebel Center
4:00 - 5:30pm Advanced Digital Imaging
Roy Larimer, Microptics
2405 Siebel Center
5:30 - 7:30pm Entovision Welcoming Reception - featuring hors d'oeuvres, wine, beer, & soft drinks sufficient for a light dinner
2400D Lounge Siebel Center
7:30 - 8:00pm Welcome
Michael Irwin and Mary Colreavy, Australian Biological Resources Study
1404 Siebel Center
8:00 - 9:00pm Keynote Address: The Power of Place: Informing Conservation with Spatial Biodiversity Data
Bruce Stein, Vice President for Programs, NatureServe, Arlington, VA
1404 Siebel Center

Tuesday, September 21
7:30am - 8:00am Registration - for those who missed registration on Monday
Beckman Institute outside Auditorium (1025)
8:00 - 8:30am Opening Session - Orientation & Welcome by Michael Irwin (UIUC, organizer), Jim Rodman/Jim Woolley (NSF-PEET), Dick Warner (ACES), Fred Delcomyn (SIB), Dave Thomas (INHS), Wes Jarrell (NRES)
1025 Beckman Institute
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8:30 - noonSymposium I: Assessing Spatial Biogeography
1025 Beckman Institute
8:30 - 9:15am Historical Biogeography: The geographical dimension of evolution - Prof. Crisci is the leading authority in the discipline of historical biogeography and in methodologies for its analysis. See also workshops on methodologies in historical biogeography
Jorge Crisci
9:15 - 10:00am Global Biotic Patterns through Time & Space
Dov Sax is a pioneering classical biogeographer who specializes in invasive biota and in using specimen locality data to help define global patterns of diversity.
10:00 - 10:30amBreak
10:30 - 11:15am Biogeographic Patterns of Hosts and their Ectoparasites
Jason Weckstein & Kevin Johnson
11:15am - NoonWeb-Enabling Tools for Biogeography
John Pickering
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Noon - 1:30pmBuffet Lunch
1005 Beckman Institute
1:00 - 3:00pmWorkshop: Spatial Analysis I: GIS Inquiry
Lan Mu
2405 Siebel Center
1:00 - 3:00pm Workshop: Interactive Keys - Building interactive keys with Lucid.
Peter Cranston & David Yeates,
3401 Siebel Center
1:00 - 3:00pm Workshop: Computer Illustration (1) - back by popular demand, those registering for this module must also sign up for Computer Illustration (2).  You will need to bring your own computer with Adobe® Illustrator and Photoshop.
J. Marie Metz
3403 Siebel Center
1:00 - 3:00pmWorkshop/Demonstration: Online Database Toolbox
John Pickering
3405 Siebel Center
  --------rotating demonstrations (3 groups of 5-7)------------
1:00 - 3:00pm Demonstration: Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope - suitable for photographing type specimens
Scott Robinson
B606L Beckman Institute
1:00 - 3:00pm Demonstration: The CUBE Virtual Reality
Hank Kaczmarski
B650 Beckman Institute
1:00 - 3:00pm Demonstration: Siebel Center Tour - about the facility (Kathleen Zanotti) and presentation by the database/mining group.
Siebel Center NW Lounge area on Ground Floor
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3:00 - 3:30pm Break
2400D Lounge Siebel Center
3:30 - 5:30pm Workshop: Selected Methods in Historical Biogeography & Cophylogenetics
Jorge Crisci (organizer), Frederico Ocampo, Kevin Johnson
2405 Siebel Center
3:30 - 5:30pmWorkshop: Online Publishing
Jim Whitfield, Peter Cranston
3401 Siebel Center
3:30 - 5:30pm Workshop: Computer Illustration (2) - Computer Illustration (1) is a prerequisite for this session.
J. Marie Metz
3403 Siebel Center
3:30 - 5:30pmWorkshop: Nomenclatural Codes
- questions answered about both the Zoological (ICZN) and Botanical (ICBN) Codes of Nomenclature.
Janine Caira (organizer), F. Christian Thompson, Frank Barrie
3405 Siebel Center
  --------rotating demonstrations (3 groups of 5-7)------------
3:30 - 5:00pmDemonstration: Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope
Scott Robinson
B606L Beckman Institute
3:30 - 5:00pmDemonstration: The CUBE Virtual Reality
Hank Kaczmarski
B650 Beckman Institute
3:30 - 5:00pmDemonstration: Siebel Center Tour - about the facility (Kathleen Zanotti) and presentation by the database/mining group.
Siebel Center NW Lounge area on Ground Floor
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EveningFree Time/Dinner on your own or with colleagues from UIUC, INHS

Wednesday, September 22
8:00 - 9:30am Presentations: Illinois: Epic Landscape and Communicating Nature
Michael Jeffords, Susan Post
1025 Beckman Institute
9:45am - Noon Bus travel to prairie (including box lunch)
Noon - 3:00pm Explore/Guided tours of Illinois prairie
Michael Jeffords, Ken Robertson, & INHS biologists
3:00 - 4:30pm Bus travel to Allerton Park (snack included)
4:30 - 6:00pm Explore Allerton Park
Allerton Park
6:00 - 7:30pm Microptics Cookout
Patio at Allerton House
7:30 - 7:35pm Introduction of Keynote Speaker
James Rodman
7:35 - 8:30pm Keynote Address: Spatial Data and Ecological Inquiry
May Berenbaum
Allerton House Patio
8:45 - 9:30pm Returnto Champaign-Urbana

Thursday, September 23
8:00 - 10:00am Symposium: Spatial Aspects of Databasing
Extending PEET taxon data into the  geographic sphere, with emphasis on data sharing and networking, taking anemones and  therevids as case studies. Find out how to extend from the taxonomic inventory, which is what PEETers build, to demonstrate where geographic information can be put and has been put. For the marine environment, Issues  of finding station information and sources of such information for the marine and terrestrial environments.  Finally, the power of metadatabases (not metadata!) -- Hexacoral is part of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System, which allows us to find out what occurs with anemones and to use other organisms to predict anemone occurrences.
Daphne Fautin, Barbara Stein, R. Buddemeier
1025 Beckman Institute
10:00 - 10:30am Break
10:30am - 12:30pm Debate on Genetic Barcoding - in what will be undoubtedly one of the highlights of this meeting, this session will be broken into 4 parts:
-Introduction to subject and panel members
-The case for (Paul Hebert)
-The case against (Kip Will)
-Set questions from student panel
-Audience questions/comments/concluding remarks and audience vote!
Vince Smith (moderator), Kip Will, Paul Hebert
1025 Beckman Institute
12:30 - 1:30pm Lunch
1005 Beckman Institute
1:30 - 3:30pm
Workshop: Selected Methods in Historical Biogeography & Cophylogenetics - If you missed it on Tuesday, here's your chance to catch this important workshop by leaders in the field.
Jorge Crisci, Frederico Ocampo, Kevin Johnson
2405 Siebel Center
1:30 - 3:30pm Workshop: PEET Database Mania
Gail Kampmeier, organizer
3403 Siebel Center
1:30 - 3:30pm Workshop: Interactive Keys - if you missed the earlier workshop, this is your chance to learn more about Lucid!
Peter Cranston & David Yeates
3405 Siebel Center
  --------rotating demonstrations (3 groups of 5-7)---------
1:30 - 3:30pm Demonstration: Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope
Scott Robinson
B606L Beckman Institute
1:30 - 3:30pm Demonstration: The CUBE Virtual Reality
Hank Kaczmarksi
B650 Beckman Institute
1:30 - 3:30pm Demonstration: Siebel Center Tour - about the facility (Kathleen Zanotti) and presentation by the database/mining group.
Siebel Center NW Lounge area on Ground Floor
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3:30 - 4:00pm Break
2400D Lounge Siebel Center
4:00 - 5:00pm Mini-Discussion: Supertrees: Uses & Misuses
Christine Lambkin, David Yeates, Brian Wiegmann
3401 Siebel Center
4:00 - 5:00pm Mini-Discussion: Database Integration
David Reed & Vince Smith
3403 Siebel Center
4:00 - 5:00pm Mini-Discussion: Approaches to Phylogenetic Biogeography
Jorge Crisci
3405 Siebel Center
5:00 - 6:00pm Assembly: Wrap-up Session
Mike Irwin
2405 Siebel Center
Evening Free Time/Dinner on your own or with colleagues from UIUC, INHS


Last updated 10-Sept-2004
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