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Brownbag Lectures: Global Diversity of Freshwater Mussels: The Mussel Project: 11 Years and Counting
- Location: ISM Research & Collections Center, Springfield
- Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Presented by Kevin S. Cummings, Illinois Natural History Survey
"MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE ONE MOLLUSK AT A TIME"
The MUSSEL Project (*MUSSELp*, for short) is an on-going study aimed at the global revision of the classification of the Unionoida, otherwise known as freshwater mussels. The two principle investigators, Daniel L. Graf (University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point) and Kevin S. Cummings Illinois Natural History Survey), combine their efforts to maintain an efficient malacological strike force equally capable of working in remote collection localities or urban mollusk collections. Toward this end, we are compiling an exhaustive database of all Recent unionoid species and genera described to-date. This database will eventually serve as the basis for a universal synthesis and revision of freshwater mussel taxonomy. We will present some of our results to date and talk about our efforts collecting freshwater mussels in the Congo and Zambezi rivers of Africa and the Amazon River in Peru.
One of our Brownbag Lectures
Weekly lectures held at the Museum's Research and Collections Center. Lectures are usually held during lunchtime on Wednesday. The RCC is located at 1011 E. Ash Street in Springfield. Access to the building is from 10 ½ Street (between Ash and Laurel Streets), where there is ample visitor parking in the west parking lot. For more information, please call 217-785-0037. Brown Bag Lectures are free and open to the public. Also, if you want to be informed of upcoming lectures by email, you can sign up for the brownbag announcement list.
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