Texas
Herpetological Society
Fall
Symposium
SWTSU
San
Marcos
October
10th and 11th, 2003
The Biology department of Texas State University| San
Marcos will be hosting the Texas Herpetological Symposium this
fall. Please see http://www.kingsnake.com/ths/
for additional updates and information. The meeting will take place on the 10th
and 11th of October with an opening social on Friday evening, the 10th,
at Aquarena Center beginning at 7pm. Dress is casual.
Presentations will begin the morning of the 11th at 8:45,
with registration commencing at 8 a.m. in room 116 of the Science building
(Biology). Coffee
and doughnuts will be available at registration. We will take a lunch break from noon until 1:30 and papers
will continue until 5:00 pm. A
short meeting for THS members will begin immediately after the last
presentation.
The
Saturday night banquet meal will be catered by Fuschak's BBQ on the banks of the
San Marcos river at 7:00 pm in Pavilion A of Rio Vista Park.
Bring your flashlights, if the weather is mild who knows what we might
find.
Please fill out and send the
Symposium registration and banquet dinner reservation form to David Haynes so
that it arrives by October 9th. Last minute dinner reservations
can be taken at registration Saturday morning but the caterer will appreciate an
advance head count so please send in your reservation form.
A program of speakers for
the day will be handed out at registration.
It will also be posted at our web site as soon as it is available.
The symposium title will be:
The missing pieces: rare or seldom reported aspects of herptiles
and herptofaunal communities
The symposium topics will include
presentations on endangered or rare species, individual populations, reptile
ecology, or herptofaunal communities for areas that have been seldom reported in
the literature. For example, herptofaunal array studies (drift fence
surveys) have been only rarely conducted on the edges of the Texas Hill
country or The ecology of juvenile Houston toads remains quite unknown.
We would request articles that
provide new information, syntheses, or techniques to be submitted for
consideration as 12 minute presentations with 3 minutes for questions. All
papers presented must include an electronically submitted abstract for
consideration. Julie Norman will be assembling the abstracts, please
send them to her at her email pwnorm@ntws.net.
The abstracts should be no more than 200 words in length and be provided as
Microsoft Word or Wordperfect formatted files.
When submitting the abstract, speakers should also indicate their media
needs. We can provide slide
projectors and powerpoint equipment (Mac OSX, MSOffice 2002 and XP, Office 2000)
as required. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting.
For directions to
the social mixer Friday evening at 7:00 at Aquarena Center see http://maps.yahoo.com/dd_result?ed=v8f7UuV.winxr_D5Jcle9hE2tTB7p6TmnLWpO2GDVMmGbQ--&csz=Austin%2C+TX&country=us&tcsz=San+Marcos%2C+TX&tcountry=us
for driving directions. Or alternatively :
Starting in AUSTIN,
TX take I-35 SOUTH - go 27.0 mi
Take the (TX-82-LOOP)/AQUARENA
SPRINGS DR exit, exit #206 - go 0.1 mi
Turn left
on N I-35 - go 0.6 mi
Continue on a local
road - go 0.1 mi
Continue on AQUARENA
SPRINGS DR - go 1.2 mi
Arrive at AQUARENA
SPRINGS DR, SAN MARCOS
The room for 8:00
a.m. registration and presentations on Saturday the 11th is 116 in the Biology building, see http://maps.yahoo.com/dd_result?ed=.nTmNeV.winzlMOKgVyzTEyQRhxzH1f6vpXncQ--&csz=Austin%2C+TX&country=us&tcsz=San+Marcos%2C+TX&tcountry=us&terr=3003
for directions or :
Starting in AUSTIN,
TX take I-35 SOUTH - go 27.0 mi
Take the (TX-82-LOOP)/AQUARENA
SPRINGS DR exit, exit #206 - go 0.1 mi
Turn left on N I-35 - go 0.6 mi
Continue on a local
road - go 0.1 mi
Continue on AQUARENA
SPRINGS DR - go 1.3 mi
Bear left
on UNIVERSITY DR - go 0.5 mi
Continue on PAT
GARRISON ST - go 0.1 mi
Turn right
on N COMANCHE ST - go 0.2 mi
Arrive at VISTA
ST, SAN MARCOS
You make a final
left onto Vista (off of Comanche and seemingly into a walkway overpass wall but
there really is a street through
that concrete wall) and then right into the biology parking lot.
Hotels that are
available in the area are:
Amerihost Inn
4210
Ih-35 South
San Marcos, Texas US 78666
Toll-Free Reservation: 1-800-523-8460
Comfort
Inn
1611 N
Interstate 35
San Marcos, Texas US 78666
Toll-Free Reservation: 1-800-523-8460
Days Inn
1005 I35
North
San Marcos, Texas US 78666
Toll-Free Reservation: 1-800-523-8460
La
Quinta Inn
1619
I-35 North
San Marcos, Texas US 78666
Toll-Free Reservation: 1-800-523-8460
Super 8
1429 I
35 North
San Marcos, Texas US 78666
Toll-Free Reservation: 1-800-523-8460
I want to thank Dr.
Francis Rose and Dr. Michael Forstner for making all of the arrangements for
this years THS Fall Symposium. I’d
also like to thank all who are presenting papers and the Wildlife Society for
volunteering to help with the meeting.