To the FWGNA group,

There's still time to register for the meeting of the North American Benthological Association meeting (Athens, Ga, May 27 - June 1) and/or the meeting of the American Malacological Society (Ann Arbor, Mi, June 25 - 29).

The NABS meeting will be huge (533 abstracts, 51 oral sessions, 24 poster sessions) and will include just a sprinkling of presentations nominally on freshwater snails.  There's a session next Wednesday the 28th on Mobile Basin Mollusks that features a couple snail papers, and several of our members are collaborating on a mollusk inventory of the Duck River being presented Thursday.  See the web site:
http://www.benthos.org/Meeting/index.htm

The AMS is a much smaller meeting, with a higher density of papers directly relevant to FWGNA interests.  I counted about a dozen freshwater snail papers on the menu, including a bunch in the special session honoring Jack Burch Saturday June 28.  Schedule, abstracts, and registration info are available at:
http://www.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/mollusks/ams/ [Link removed 09/06]

See you there?
Rob