Welcome to Chicago!

Overall Goals of the Meeting

• OrientationHow this all works Who does whatCollecting, specimen tracking, shipping

• ProtocolsSpecimen preservation, documentation

• Products Outreach deliverables, first papers

• Species listChoosing exemplars, ranking

• What we do next

Today’s Schedule (Sunday)

• 8:30 – meet at West Door

• a.m. – orientation, protocols, proposal reviews

• 12:00 – lunch / Jochen Gerber (shipping)

• p.m. – species list

• 6:30 – dinner

3 Grants, 15 ParticipantsMorphology

Rüdiger Bieler

Ellen Strong - stomachs

Liz Harper - anomalos

John Taylor – shell + lucinoids

Tom Waller – pectinoids + paleo

Gerhard Haszprunar – mantle

John Healy – sperm

(Paula Mikkelsen – gills/labial palps w/ RB)

Molecules

Gonzalo Giribet

Tim Collins – heterodonts

John Zardus – protobranchs + development

Dan Graf – unionoids

Outreach

Paula Mikkelsen

Rob Ross – informal education

Sarah Chicone – evolution exhibit

Deirdre Gonsalves-Jackson – undergrad curriculum

+ students, postdocs, webmaster TBD

Websites• Google group: http://groups.google.com• FMNH internal server: http://nas1/dept/zoology/bivatol

username bivatolpassword b1v@t0l!

• AToL project pages: http://www.phylo.org/links/tol • Mesquite: http://mesquiteproject.org/mesquite/mesquite.html CIPRES: http://www.phylo.org MARBEF: http://www.marbef.org/data/erms.php Malacolog: http://www.malacolog.org/ CLEMAM:

http://www.somali.asso.fr/clemam/index.clemam.html OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database:

http://data.acnatsci.org/obis/ Encyclopedia of Life: http://www.eol.org

Proposed Timetable

Management Plan Flow-Chart

Today’s Schedule (Monday)

• 9:00 – meet at West Door

• a.m. – protocols, characters, web resources

• 12:00 – lunch / Lance Grande

• 1:00 – BioSync/EOL – Mark Westneat

• 1:30-3:30 – free time, exhibits/collections

• p.m. – species list (continued), more characters

• 7:30 – dinner / + Jablonski/Kidwell

Today’s Schedule (Tuesday)

• 8:30 – meet at West Door

• a.m. – outreach overview

• 9:00 – Elizabeth Babcock / Harris Loan tour

• 11:00 – group photo

• 12:00 – spare time + lunch

• 1:00 – Deborah Bekken (FM sponsored programs)

• 1:30 – Janeen Jones (specimen tracking)

• 2:00 – Petra Sierwald (onupid AToL website)

• p.m. – next meeting, group field trip, first deliverables

• 4:00-5:00 – spare time

• 7:00 – dinner / + grad students

Outreach Overview

Teaching Evolution using Bivalves

• Teacher Friendly Guide to Evolution Using Bivalves (TFGEB) + educator boxes (K-12)

• Evolution on the Half-Shell 101 (undergrad)

• Evolution on the Half-Shell: The Exhibit (public)1. diversity

2. fossil record

5. patterns of change

6. evolution continues

3. characters

4. phylogenetics

Advisory Board

• Elizabeth Babcock (Director of Education & Library Collections, FMNH)

• Susan Cook (Education Director, Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education)

• Judy Scotchmoor (Asst Director of Education and Public Programs, UC Berkeley)

• Kathleen Kraft (Exhibits Projects Director, ScienceCenter, Ithaca, NY)

• Laurel Southard and Robert Suran (Cornell University Institute for Biology Teachers)

Traveling Exhibit Venues

• Field Museum of Natural History

• Harvard Museum of Natural History

• National Museum of Natural History

• Frank H. McClung Museum (U of TN)

• Delaware Museum of Natural History

• Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum

Today’s Schedule (Wednesday)

• 8:30 – meet at West Door

• a.m. – evolutionary concepts

• 10:30 – what’s in the box? discussion including Elizabeth Babcock

• 12:00 – lunch

• p.m. – exhibit content discussion

• 2:00 – tour of Evolving Planet exhibit (Todd Tubutis) – meet at entrance to exhibit

• 5:00 – Holiday Party