From g.read from niwa.co.nz Tue Nov 6 15:41:58 2007 From: g.read from niwa.co.nz (Geoff Read) Date: Tue Nov 6 15:45:07 2007 Subject: [Annelida] Marine Invert systematist (AMNH) Message-ID: <4730D196.7090508@niwa.co.nz> FYI. Forwarded from another list. I cannot see this position on their website job page yet - http://www.amnh.org/museum/welcome/jobpostings.html MARINE INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATIST The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is seeking a scientist to fill a tenure track position in the field of invertebrate systematics, with emphasis on living marine taxa, beginning July 2008. The successful candidate will be appointed at the rank of assistant curator with salary commensurate with experience and accomplishment. Candidates will be expected to develop an externally funded research program in systematics and/or phylogenetics of invertebrates including field work and the use of diverse character systems (such as development) and ability to oversee relevant segments of museum collections and staff. Areas of taxon research focus can include any metazoan marine invertebrate group. Applicants must have a strong commitment to the use and continued development of museum collections as a complement to their research programs. Application materials should include: curriculum vitae, statement of research interests and goals, teaching statement for graduate instruction in the AMNH Richard Gilder Graduate School, and copies of publications relevant to the application, and names and contact information of at least three individuals able to comment on the capabilities of the candidate. The deadline for submission of application materials is December 14, 2007. Interviews will be conducted by early 2008 in conformance with AMNH recruitment and conflict of interest policies. Materials should be sent to Chair, Marine Invertebrate Search, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, The American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024. Alternatively application materials may be directed to egaughan@amnh.org . *Closing date for submission of materials is December 14, 2007. Electronic submissions encouraged and preferred.* From kfitzhug from nhm.org Wed Nov 7 13:19:16 2007 From: kfitzhug from nhm.org (J. Kirk Fitzhugh) Date: Wed Nov 7 18:02:57 2007 Subject: [Annelida] Polychaete life history Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/annelida/attachments/20071107/92b2bc59/attachment.html From omtr from mta.ca Thu Nov 15 12:55:27 2007 From: omtr from mta.ca (Ombor) Date: Thu Nov 15 13:50:57 2007 Subject: [Annelida] Diplocardia and worm grunting Message-ID: <1195149327.473c880fc9c6e@webmail.mta.ca> Hi there! I was wondering if anyone had any information on how and where I can obtain worms from the genus Diplocardia. These worms have an interesting response to vibration that is exploited using worm grunting or worm fiddling techniques in the South- Eastern U.S. I'm trying to study this phenomenon, but I can't find any sources for these worms! Does anybody know where I can get a few Diplocardia worms? It would be a HUGE help to me!! You can email me at omtr@mta.ca if you have any information. Thanks for your time and help! Ombor Mitra From g.read from niwa.co.nz Thu Nov 15 16:20:06 2007 From: g.read from niwa.co.nz (Geoff Read) Date: Thu Nov 15 16:26:34 2007 Subject: [Annelida] Fwd: Treadwell's papers etc Message-ID: <473CB806.205@niwa.co.nz> FYI -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Treadwell's papers etc Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:42:05 +0100 From: Helmut Zibrowius To: gread@actrix.gen.nz I noticed (late? plenty of people did it before me?) that the series published by the American Museum of Natural History (including American Museum Novitates) are online this includes also the (bad) papers by Treadwell, see an example here http://digitallibrary.amnh.org American Museum Novitates etc you may be interested to check this and spread the information more widely via ANNELIDA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Dasychonopsis.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 167827 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/annelida/attachments/20071116/452620fc/Dasychonopsis.pdf From g.read from niwa.co.nz Mon Nov 19 16:48:49 2007 From: g.read from niwa.co.nz (Geoff Read) Date: Mon Nov 19 16:53:16 2007 Subject: [Annelida] JMBA2 Biodiversity Records Message-ID: <474204C1.1020204@niwa.co.nz> Hi all, I had to dig to find out anything about this publication. Is that the way it should be? JMBA2 Biodiversity Records is apparently an online-only open-access publication of the UK Marine Biological Association, peer-reviewed, which may have started in 2005. It's poorly linked and the table of contents is visible online only to subscribers to the Journal of the Marine Biological association of the United Kingdom as published by Cambridge.org. For the rest of us JMBAUK only publishes a list of the papers for the year in the last issue of the printed volume. JMBA2 Biodiversity Records is indexed by Zoological Record (only to 2006 yet) but probably almost no one else. All in all it's at the moment rather off the radar as a place to publish, and possibly certain very short papers end up there at the suggestion of the JMBA editors? This link gives only the current year: http://www.mba.ac.uk/jmba/jmba2biodiversityrecords.php but access to prior papers by publication number (if you know it) is of the form: http://www.mba.ac.uk/jmba/jmba2biodiversityrecords.php?5660 I noticed three polychaete items: Hughes, D. J. ; Crawford, M. 2006: A new record of the vestimentiferan Lamellibrachia sp. (Polychaeta: Siboglinidae) from a deep shipwreck in the eastern Mediterranean. . JMBA2 Biodiversity Records 5198: El Haddad, M.; Capaccioni Azzati, R. ; Garc?a-Carrascosa, A. M. 2007: Branchiomma luctuosum (Polychaeta: Sabellidae): a non-indigenous species at Valencia Port (western Mediterranean Sea, Spain). JMBA2 Biodiversity Records 5660: 1-8. Worsfold, T. M. 2006: British records of the interstitial polychaete Stygocapitella subterranea (Annelida: Parergodrilidae). JMBA2 Biodiversity Records. 5429: 1-3. Enjoy. Geoff -- Geoff Read http://www.annelida.net/ http://www.niwascience.co.nz/ncabb/ From g.read from niwa.co.nz Tue Nov 20 21:14:00 2007 From: g.read from niwa.co.nz (Geoff Read) Date: Tue Nov 20 21:15:38 2007 Subject: [Annelida] Fwd: Streblospio benedicti polychaete help Message-ID: <47439468.8010304@niwa.co.nz> Non-progressing posting - forwarded by moderator. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: S. benedicti polychaete help Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:04:25 -0500 From: LaTrisha Allen To: CC: Dear all, My name is LaTrisha Allen. I am a graduate student of Dr. Dionne Hoskins at Savannah State University. I was suggested by Dr. L. Levin to write to this mailing bulletin. I am writing you in regards of the polychaete,/ Streblospio benedicti/. I want to compare their LC50 to that of the amphipod,/ Leptocheirus plumulosus/ after being exposed to PBDE-47 as well as examining the sediment of local areas to see if these areas are near the LC50 levels. My problem has been that I have not been able to find a facility that cultures/ Streblospio benedicti/. Is there anyone who would be willing to donate a starter culture or suggests someone who might be culturing at the present time? If not, is anyone willing to give advice on how to culture these polychaetes from field collection or discuss how they collected them from the field? Did you have to use a boat to collect your polychaetes or were you able to walk into the marsh to sample? What equipment did you use to collect them? Any advice that I receive would be very grateful. I thank you in advance. Sincerely, LaTrisha Allen Savannah State University P.O. Box 20228 Savannah, GA 31404 Phone & Fax: (912) 353.3249 email: latrisha_allen@hotmail.com ** From WARDL from si.edu Wed Nov 21 11:25:48 2007 From: WARDL from si.edu (Ward, Linda) Date: Wed Nov 21 11:54:11 2007 Subject: [Annelida] closing of Invertebrate Collection for 2008 Message-ID: <707264088F25964398B036DDCEB1C0F003E95DB5@SI-ECL01.US.SINET.SI.EDU> NOTICE OF CLOSING OF LOANS AND SHIPPING Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History Department of Invertebrate Zoology: January 1 - December 31, 2008 The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, is in the process of moving its entire fluid collections to a new off-site collection storage facility called the Museum Support Center (MSC), Maryland, about 8 miles away from the downtown Washington DC Natural History Building. All the staff in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology are involved in this complex move which is now in its first stages for the invertebrate collections. This is to inform you that the entire invertebrate collections of both fluid and dry specimens will be closed for loans from January 1 to December 31, 2008. Until December 31, 2007, we will attempt to process incoming critical loan requests when staff are available, and if the requested collections are accessible. If you are planning a visit to the Museum during 2008, please make sure to contact your sponsor to obtain the latest information on appropriate dates in order to ensure availability of specimens that you may need to examine. Portions of the fluid collections will not be accessible at times, and there may be no staff to assist visitors to the dry collections. We thank you in advance for your understanding, and apologize for the inconvenience our loan program shutdown may cause. We will re-open our loan program as soon as possible, and will do our best to provide collection access to visitors during the move. We will continue to process incoming types and other critical specimens needed for completing manuscripts. As a result of the move we will finally be able to correct some long standing collection arrangement problems for improved access, and will be able to decompress the collections to provide internal growth space. The new storage facility offers state-of the-art environmental controls and life safety systems providing much-improved storage for the collections. The new facility will also offer well equipped labs for visiting scientists. We take this opportunity to extend an invitation for you to visit us at the Museum Support Center after we complete the move of the fluid collections. Many thanks for your continued interest in our collections. Dr. Rafael Lemaitre, Chair, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, P.O. BOX 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA; e-mail: lemaitrer@si.edu Feel free to contact Kristian Fauchald (Fauchald@si.edu) or Linda Ward (wardl@si.edu) for further details about the annelid collections. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/annelida/attachments/20071121/83c453c8/attachment.html From g.read from niwa.co.nz Thu Nov 22 16:35:52 2007 From: g.read from niwa.co.nz (Geoff Read) Date: Thu Nov 22 16:39:10 2007 Subject: [Annelida] Kenneth Ernest Lee (1927-2007) Message-ID: <4745F638.5050901@niwa.co.nz> Death notice Ken Lee, earthworm ecologist and taxonomist, New Zealand and Australia. Born: 7 May 1927, Wanganui, New Zealand Died: 14 January 2007, Adelaide, South Australia. Obituary: Yeates, G. ; Churchman, J. 2007: Ken Lee (1927–2007). Biology and Fertility of Soils 43: 501-502. www.springerlink.com/index/K2244083443L6887.pdf doi 10.1007/s00374-007-0201-2 Born in Wanganui, Ken Lee joined DSIR Soil Bureau in 1948. Over the next 10 years he compiled a monographic study of New Zealand earthworms [Lee, K. E. 1959: The earthworm fauna of New Zealand. DSIR bulletin 130: 1-486]. He also studied the ecology of other soil animals. In 1965 he moved to CSIRO, Adelaide , Australia in 1965 initially working on termites [Lee, K. E. ; Wood, T. G. 1971: Termites and soils. London, New York,. Academic Press]. His 1985 book "Earthworms: their ecology and relationships with soils and land use" remains the definitive work, successor to Charles Darwin's 1881 book. Ken is internationally acknowledged for his work in soil zoology and soil science. (Source: Gregor Yeates) From barbara.mikac from cim.irb.hr Mon Nov 26 08:17:44 2007 From: barbara.mikac from cim.irb.hr (Barbara Mikac) Date: Mon Nov 26 13:42:23 2007 Subject: [Annelida] Koh papers needed Message-ID: <34829.161.53.224.190.1196083064.squirrel@www.cim.irb.hr> Dear colleagues, I would kindly ask you if somebody could send me pdf formats of the following papers: Koh B.S., Bhaud M. (2001) Description of Owenia gomsoni n. sp. (Oweniidae, Annelida Polychaeta) from the Yellow Sea and evidence that Owenia fusiformis is not a cosmopolitan species. Vie et Milieu, 51(1–2), 77–86. Koh B.S., Bhaud M. (2003) Identification of differentiating criteria between populations of Owenia fusiformis (Annelida Polychaeta) from different origins. Vie et Milieu, 53(2/3), 64–95. and Koh B.S., Bhaud M.R., Jirkov I.A. (2003) Two new species of Owenia (Annelida: Polychaeta) in the northern part of the North Atlantic Ocean and remarks on previously erected species from the same area. Sarsia, 88, 175–188. Many thanks! Barbara ______ Barbara Mikac, M.Sc. Marine Research Centre Rudjer Boskovic Institute G. Paliaga 5 52210 Rovinj Croatia