INTERNATIONAL HERPETOLOGICAL SYMPOSIUM New Orleans, Louisiana Thursday, August 1, 2013 OPENING REMARKS & INTRODUCTIONS 9:00 – 9:15 AM Ken Foose, IHS President 9:15 - 10:00 am KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Charlie Painter 10:00 - 10:45 am Fred Caporaso PhD - “Galápagos Tortoise Update: Lonesome George is Gone, but Sound Science and Serendipity May Spell Recovery for These Gentle Giants!” 10:45 - 11:15 am Tell Hicks - “An Amazon Cruise” 11:15 - 12:00 pm Fred Antonio - “A Comprehensive Strategy for the Conservation of the Eastern Indigo Snake (Drymarchon couperi)“ 12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch Break 1:30 - 2:15 pm Dan Krull - “Citizen Science: A Volunteer Army” 2:15 - 2:45 pm Randal Berry - “Reptile Dealers Past and Present“ 2:45 - 3:15 pm Ari Flagle - “The Valley of the Black Python” 3:15 - 3:30 pm Afternoon Break 3:30 - 4:30 pm Danté Fenolio - “Hiking the Black Forest” 4:30 - 5:00 pm Steve Reichling - “Returning the Louisiana Pine Snake to Restored Habitat” 5:00 - 5:30 pm Kelly Bradley - “Conservation of the Anegada Iguana, Cyclura pinguis” 5:45 pm – Buses Leave for the Audubon Zoo in Front of the Hotel 6:00 until 8:00 pm – Dinner & Behind the Scenes Tour of Audubon Zoo Friday, August 2, 2013 9:15 - 9:45 am Mark D. Finke - “Nutrient Content of Commercial Feeder Insects and Methods for Enhancing Their Nutritional Value” 9:45 - 10:30 am Peter Pritchard - TBA 10:30 - 11:00 am Quetzal Dwyer - “Outdoor Husbandry and Reproduction of Reptiles at Parque Reptilandia in Costa Rica” 11:00 - 11:15 am Morning Break 11:15 - 11:45 am Marie Rush - “Five Years in the Field with the Grenada Bank Treeboa: A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Species” 11:45 - 12:15 pm Tom Crutchfield - “Crocodiles 101” 12:15 - 12:30 pm David Hedrick - “Ectotherm Information System: Smartphones as a Zoo Collection Management Tool” 12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch Break 2:00 - 2:30 pm Emmanuel Van Heygen - “A Reptile Adventure in Sri Lanka” 2:30 - 3:30 pm Robyn Markland, Chad Brown, Brian Barczyk - “The Evolution of the Reptile Business” 3:30 - 4:00 pm Rick Schaffer - “Diet in the Asian Giant Tortoise: Examining the Roles of Visual and Olfactory Cues in Food Selection of Manouria emys” 4:00 - 4:30 pm Kristen Wiley - “Surprisingly Stupid: A Critical Look at Television’s Portrayal of Herps and Herpers” 4:30 - 4:45 pm Afternoon Break 4:45 - 5:15 pm Chawna Schuett - “Captive Propagation and Egg Incubation of the Ozark Hellbender at the Saint Louis Zoo” 5:15 - 5:45 pm Ed Pirog - “Notes on the Captive Husbandry of the Chaco Tortoise (Chelonoidis chilensis)“ 5:45 - 6:00 pm Eric Fann - “The Natural History, Present Population, and Habitat Range of Tennessee’s Venomous Snakes“ 6:00 - 6:30 pm Jennifer Stabile - “Captive Conservation of the Mona Coqui (Eleutherodactylus monensis)” 6:30 - 7:00 pm Visit the vendor room and enjoy a drink in the hospitality room! Saturday, August 3, 2013 9:15 - 10:00 am John Cann - TBA 10:00 - 10:15 am Louis Porras - “SSAR: A World Leader in Herpetology” 10:15 - 10:45 am John H. Tashjian and Peter Tashjian - “Scientific Nomenclature” 10:45 - 11:15 am Daniel Parker - “The Box Turtles of the genus Terrapene” 11:15 - 11:30 am Morning Break 11:30 - 12:00 pm Phil Goss - “Us vs. T.H.E.M. - The Anti-Pet Agenda” 12:00 - 12:30 pm Mark Wolfson - “How and Why to Put on a Reptile Show” 12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch Break 2:00 - 2:30 pm Chuck Schaffer - “Creatures of the Black Lagoons: An Expedition on Brazil’s Rio Negro” 2:30 - 3:30 pm Sean Bush - TBA 3:30 - 4:00 pm Elsburgh Clarke - TBA 4:00 - 4:30 pm John Mendrolla - TBA 4:30 - 4:45 pm Afternoon Break 4:45 - 5:15 pm Doug Hotle - “Albuquerque BioPark’s Native Species Recovery Program” 5:15 - 5:45 pm Jerrod Tynes - “The Aggregative Behavior of Naive Rat Snakes (Scotophis), Corn Snakes (Pantherophis) and their Hybrids (Scotophis + Pantherophis)” 5:45 - 6:15 pm Vince Scheidt - “Searching for the Giant Black Chuckwallas of Baja California, Mexico” 6:15 pm David Grow - Presentation of the Joe Laszlo Award Closing Remarks - Ken Foose, IHS President * Please come be a part of the largest reptile and amphibian gathering of the year - This is our 36th year and we want you to be a part of it! internationalherpetologicalsymposium to register and for more information.
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