Canadian Insect Collections
– Their Role in Support of
National and International Biodiversity Research
Symposium
Coordinator: Steve Marshall
8:40 — 11:15
S. A. Marshall |
Introduction |
08:40 |
R. Anderson |
The Insect Collection at the Canadian Museum of Nature. |
08:45 |
L. Packer |
A perspective from 'small' university collections. |
09:00 |
D. C. Currie |
The curator’s quandary: exhibits and public programs versus collections and research. |
09:15 |
F. Sperling, |
Institutional Museums and the Alberta Lepidopterists' Guild. |
09:30 |
J. Fernandez-Triana |
The collections of microgastrine wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) in Canada: importance, present situation and future opportunities. |
09:45 |
Coffee break |
|
10:00 |
D. McAlpine |
The Dragonhunter Expeditions: Using insect inventories to introduce university students to museum biodiversity research. |
10:15 |
R. Cannings |
Some biodiversity studies in British Columbia insect collections. |
10:30 |
T. A. Wheeler |
Insect collections and community ecology research: the interface between systematics and ecology. |
10:45 |
A. M. R. Bennett |
The Canadian National Collection and AAFC. |
11:00 |
