TSA2006schedule

Posted on: Friday, November 30th, 2007

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Thursday, August 10

08:00-03:00 TSA & TFWTSG meetings

05:00 - Icebreaker courtesy of Reptiles Magazine

Icebreaker presentations:

A survey of early European chelonian images
Rick Schaffer & Chuck Schaffer

John L. Behler: A tribute and retrospective
Chuck Schaffer with a lot of help from my friends

08:00 - Video Presentations:

The Alligator Snapping Turtle Film Festival
(courtesy of Peter Pritchard)

Something nobody else has
by Barry Bratter and Lou Aber, funded by Louisiana Foundation for the Humanities.

The Alligator Snapping Turtle
by NHK Television (Japan), in Japanese.

Friday, August 11
08:00 - Opening Remarks – Rick Hudson/TSA & Anders Rhodin/TFWTSG

08:15-12:15 - International Conservation/Field Research: Asia , SE Asia, South Pacific

08:15 - Keynote – Dr. Ed Moll

10:00-10:30 - Break & Posters – Silent Auction Begins – Vendors Tables Open

12:15-01:15 - Lunch

12:30 - Meeting: Taxon Management Group Coordinator Meeting – Bill Zeigler

01:15-06:15 - Macrochelys Session

03:00-03:30 and 05:15-05:45 - Break & Posters – Silent Auction– Vendors Tables

Book signing of the revised and updated Alligator Snapping Turtle book by Peter Pritchard. The book has several new sections – accounts of “how we made the film,” and republication of reviews of the book and responses to reviewers; an updated extended bibliography; summaries of the major scientific discoveries included within those bibliography items; a summary of current protective status, state by state, etc.

07:00 - Buses leave hotel

08:00 - Barbeque at the St. Louis Zoo

08:30 - TMG/TMP Awards - Bill Zeigler

09:00 - Barbeque Speech: Australian barbeque locations and what lives in the streams- John Cann

Saturday, August 12

08:00 - Opening Remarks -

08:15-12:15 - The John L. Behler Tribute Session

10:00-10:30 - Break & Posters – Silent Auction– Vendors Tables
John L. Behler: A tribute and retrospective by Chuck Schaffer with a lot of help from my friends

12:15-01:15 - Lunch

01:15-05:15 - International Conservation/Field Research: North America, Central and South America; Middle East

03:00-03:30 - Break & Posters – Silent Auction Closes– Vendors Tables

05:30-05:45 - Buses leave hotel

05:45 - Arrive at the Zoo for cocktails, dinner to follow

06:00-10:00 - Banquet at the St. Louis Zoo

07:00 - Banquet Speech: Research and Collections at the Chelonian Research Institute- Peter C. H. Pritchard
08:00 - Live Auction

Sunday, August 13

08:00 - Opening Remarks -

08:15-10:00 - International Conservation/Field Research: Australia

10:00-10:30 - Break & Posters –Vendors Tables

10:30-02-30 - Captive Husbandry & Veterinary Management

12:15-01:15 - Lunch

12:15 - Meeting: Biomaterials - Cathi Lehn

02:30-05:15 - Graduate Research *****

03:00-03:30 - Break & Posters –Vendors Tables

IUCN/Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group Open Meeting

07:00 - Informal social