PROGRAM SCHEDULE
The meeting program includes scientific talk sessions, a poster session, a keynote presentation on mollusk conservation, an auction, and a field trip to Santa Catalina Island.
Thursday, June 23
Note: the day’s events will be held in Room C333 of the C Building at Pasadena City College.
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM: Registration and opening reception
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM: Introduction and announcements
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM: Douglas J. Eernisse: Presentation and discussion on specimen photography
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM: BREAK
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11:30 AM – Noon: Discussion on specimen photography continued.
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Noon – 1:30 PM: LUNCH (there are many restaurants within walking distance of PCC.)
1:30 PM – 1:40 PM: Opening remarks for main talk sessions
1:40 PM – 2:00 PM: Hans Bertsch, L. T. Groves, & J. Vendetti: Ladies of the Seas: Feminine Eponyms Honoring Western Society of Malacologists Members.
2:00 PM – 2:20 PM: Rachel Collin, A. de Leon, M. Madrid, & D. Vrdoljak: Diversity and Population connectivity of Atlantid Gastropods in the Tropical Eastern Pacific.
2:20 PM – 2:40 PM: D. W. Behrens, Karin Fletcher, A. Hermosillo, & G. C. Jensen: Nudibranchs & Sea Slugs of the Eastern Pacific: Eastern Pacific Nudibranchs Updated.
2:40 PM – 3:00 PM: BREAK
3:00 PM – 3:20 PM: Esteban Fernando Félix Pico & E. M. Ramírez-Rodríguez: Fishery management of the Pacific Calico scallop (Argopecten ventricosus) and spasmodic stocks pulse of abundance in Magdalena Bay, Mexico.
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3:20 PM – 3:40 PM: Patrick Krug, S. A. Caplins, A. A. Valdés, D. J. Eernisse, & K. M. Kocot: Phylogenomic resolution of the panpulmonate radiation: new insight into the evolution of air breathing.
3:40 PM – 4:00 PM: Douglas J. Eernisse: Hoof limpets (Hipponicidae) in California and beyond: DNA helps resolve relationships.
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Special Presentation by Hans Bertsch: A Natural and Cultural History of Mollusks and Indigenous Peoples of the Californias, Arizona y Sonora.
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM: POSTER SESSION in Room C333, including:
Wendy Enright: Impact of the pelagic red crab Pleuroncodes planipes (Decapoda, Munididae) on benthic molluscan communities off San Diego, southern California.
Patrick I. LaFollete, C. Patron, & D. J. Eernisse: We were not first: news that a eulimid snail parasitic on brittlestars in Southern California was discovered 50 years ago.
Samantha Nambu & D. J. Eernisse: Hoof limpet under-rock bliss in LA: A brooder, her harem of males, and their crawl-away snail hatchlings.
Rebecca Wilcox: Shaw’s Cove: An ecosystem at a glance.
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM: WSM Executive Board Meeting and dinner near PCC (all past presidents welcome)
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Friday, June 24
Note: the day’s events until 4PM (Keynote presentation) will be held in Room C333 of the C Building. The Keynote presentation, panel discussion, and auction will be held at the Circadian Conference Hall next to the cafeteria, north of the CC Building (Creveling).
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9:00 AM – 9:30 AM: Registration and reception
Invasive Mollusk Special Session
9:30 – 9:40 AM: Jann Vendetti: Introduction to the Invasive Mollusk Special Session
9:40-10:00 AM: Salvador Robb-Chavez, S. M. Bollens, G. Rollwagen-Bollens, & T. Counihan: Broadscale distribution, abundance and habitat associations of the Asian clam (Corbicula fluminea) in the lower Columbia River, USA.
10:00 – 10:20 AM: Norine W. Yeung, J. R. Kim, & K. A. Hayes: Hawaii’s Non-Marine Gastropod Invasion Stories: Frustrating Cryptic Species Complexes, Unknown Species Identifications, and New Introductions.
10:20 – 10:40 AM: Emile Fiesler: Introduced terrestrial molluscs of Southern California.
10:40 – 11:00 AM: BREAK
11:00 – 11:20 AM: Casey H. Richart, D. K. Howe, D. R. Denver, & R. J. Mc Donnell: Mortality of Deroceras reticulatum and Annual Ryegrass crop protection conferred by three species of Phasmarhabditis nematodes.
11:20 – 11:40 AM: Lindsey T. Groves: Here to stay? A review of introduced freshwater mollusks in southern California.
11:40 AM – Noon: Fares Alzahrani, C. H. Richart, & R. J. Mc Donnell: Toxicity of essential oils to the pest slug, Arion circumscriptus, in laboratory bioassays.
Noon – 1:30PM: LUNCH
Mollusk Conservation Special Session
1:30 PM – 1:40 PM: Kenneth Hayes: Introduction to the Mollusk Conservation Special Session
1:40 PM – 2:00 PM: Kenneth Hayes, K. M. Bustamente, D. R. Sischo, & N. W. Yeung: Reassessing the conservation and taxonomic status of Hawaii’s Lymnaeidae: Understudied, underestimated, and endangered.
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2:00 PM – 2:20 PM: Eric Ostrowski, A. C. Bird, & D. J. Eernisse: Do new higher resolution maps of southern California kelp forests improve our Habitat suitability Models of Pinto Abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana)?
2:20 PM – 2:40 PM: Mariah S. Scott: The cost of adaptations: Rate of parental growth of the poecilogonous species Alderia willowi (Gastropoda: Sacoglossa: Limapontiidae), as a function of producing lecithotrophic versus planktotrophic eggs.
2:40 PM – 3:00 PM: BREAK
3:00 PM – 3:20 PM: Norine Yeung, D. R. Sischo, G. Blanchet, K. M. Bustamente, C. E. Hee, Jan Kealoha, T. Maruno, S. Stiefel, K. L. Troumbley, & K. A. Hayes: Reducing the rate of extinctions: Hawaiian land snail conservation efforts from rediscovering species to manning the lifeboats.
3:20 PM – 3:40 PM: John Slapcinsky, C. Earl, K. A. Hayes, & N. W. Yeung: Pacific Island Land Snail Biodiversity Repository (PILSBRY); documenting an imperiled fauna.
3:40 PM – 4:00 PM: BREAK
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Note: at this time we will move to the Circadian Conference Hall north of the CC Building (Creveling) for the remainder of the afternoon.
Keynote Presentation
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Keynote Presentation, Kenneth Hayes: Molluscan Conservation in the Anthropocene.
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5:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Panel discussion on Molluscan conservation
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM: WSM Fundraising Auction (Auctioneer: Hans Bertsch) and hors d’ oeuvres.
A wide variety of items of malacological interest will be available at the auction. Shells will not be allowed for reasons of conservation. Proceeds from the auction will go to the Western Society of Malacologists, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charity.
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SATURDAY, June 25
Note: the day’s events will be held in Room C333 of the C Building at Pasadena City College.
LouElla Saul Memorial Session
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9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Registration and opening reception
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10:00 AM – 10:15 AM: Lindsey T. Groves, Overview of the career of LouElla R. Saul and her numerous contributions to the study of west coast fossil mollusks.
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM: Richard L. Squires: Overview of the career of LouElla R. Saul and her numerous contributions to the study of west coast fossil mollusks [continued].
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM: Judith T. Smith: How old is Baja California Sur’s Salada Formation and why is this important?
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM: N. Scott Rugh: New fossil records of the bivalve genera Acesta (Family Limidae) and Malletia (Family Malletiidae) for the Eocene of San Diego County, California.
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: BREAK
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM: Richard L. Squires: Shallow-marine thermophilic gastropod and bivalve genera endemic to the northeast Pacific during the latest Cretaceous and Paleogene time.
11:45 AM – 12:00 AM: Jann E. Vendetti & C. C. Visaggi: Eponyms of women among Cretaceous mollusks of California: The special case of LouElla Saul.
12:00 AM – 1:30 PM: GROUP PHOTO, LUNCH
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM: George L. Kennedy: Taxonomic notes on faunal and floral assemblages of the San Diego middle Eocene.
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1:45 PM – 2:00 PM: Todd A. Wirths & N. S. Rugh: First report of megafossils from the Tourmaline Surfing Park outcrop of the Eocene Mount Soledad Formation, La Jolla, California.
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM: Bruce Runnegar: Hypercalcification in Permian circumpolar seas: Not what you expect.
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM: Chris S. Shi & A. J.W. Hendy: Pleistocene fossil assemblages from Ponte Vista, San Pedro, California: Contributions from mitigation paleontology.
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM: Lindsey T. Groves & R. L. Squires: Revision of northeast Pacific Paleogene cypraeoidean gastropods, including recognition of three new species: Implications for paleobiogeographic distribution and faunal turnover.
2:45 – 3:00 PM: BREAK
3:00 PM – 4:30PM: Western Society of Malacologists Business Meeting (all WSM members are invited).
5:00 PM – 7:00PM: Informal group dinner at Teddy's Tacos in Pasadena (menu and prices can be found here).
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