A day of talks, exhibits, and discussion, including a tour of the mollusc collection.
Conch Soc regional meeting 19th November 10.30-4pm
Upper Botany Meeting Space
Access to the meeting will be through the front museum doors. The visitors car park will be open and a token may be purchased in the Museum shop. Turn right in the Main Hall, past the café and someone will be there to greet you and let you through the large gallery doors.
10.30 Arrival and coffee
10.55 Welcome
11.00-11.20 Grips, Ditches, Mountains and Valleys: Surveying “Living Landscapes” for non-marine molluscs in Gwent. Imogen Cavadino.
11.20-11.40 Identifying common estuarine bivalves post-larvae: Progress on developing an identification tool. Tim Whitton
11.40-12.00 The Ted Phorson collection. Theo Tamblyn
12.00-12.20 Invaders, parasites, and fossil footprints: transforming and sustaining the Museum’s slugs and snails service. Ben Rowson
12.30-2.00 LUNCH - Bring a packed lunch or eat in town.
There are several pubs very close to the Museum and cafés etc. along the main shopping street just a five-minute walk away. The Museum restaurant will be open serving sandwiches, soups, hot meals and cakes. Why not take a wander around our new exhibition on worms all things wormlike (includes some molluscs!!) - Wriggle!
2.00-2.50 Posters and exhibitors. There will be several posters on display from members of staff and associates on current research and our collections.
If anyone else would like to display a poster or some specimens please let us know by 16th November so we can accommodate you.
2.50-3.30 Tour around Mollusca collections. Jen Gallichan & Harriet Wood
3.30-4.00 Bring a shell to compare with those in our collections.
If anyone has any specimens that they are unsure of then bring them along this afternoon and one of our curators will assist you in comparing it with our collections to get an identification.
Full details will be posted on the website in due course.
Anna Holmes, Harriet Wood, Jen Gallichan, and Ben Rowson (primary contact: Anna.Holmes@museumwales.ac.uk ).