AMS 2023 Program & Abstracts

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Overview:

1 August: AMS council meeting (3 pm in 328 Mary Harmon Bryant Hall); welcome reception (6 pm in the Great Hall of the Alabama Museum of Natural History / Smith Hall)

2 August: President’s symposium “Freshwater Mollusk Diversity in a Biodiversity Hotspot”; contributed talks; poster session (all in Bryant Conference Center Rast A+B and Registration Lobby); student & postdoc mixer (Black Warrior Brewing Company)

3 August: Concurrent sessions of contributed talks (Bryant Conference Center Rast A/B); Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) committee-organized inclusive fieldwork panel (12 pm in Bryant Conference Center Rast B); group photo (4 pm in the Bryant Confernece Center Registration Lobby); AMS Auction (5 pm in the Bryant Conference Center Birmingham/Central)

4 August: Concurrent sessions (2-3) of contributed talks (Bryant Conference Center Rast A/B); lunchtime student-mentor networking program; AMS business meeting (4 pm in Rast B); Banquet (6 pm in the Alabama Museum of Natural History Great Hall).

5 August: Field trip to see some of Alabama’s 204 species of freshwater snails and 180 species of freshwater mussels. We plan to start the morning with a visit to the Alabama Aquatic Biodiversity Center (AABC) where attendees will learn about freshwater mussel propagation and likely get to see several federally protected species. Following the AABC visit, we will cool down in the afternoon along the shoals of the Cahaba River at Living River snorkeling and looking at several native mollusks including >10 mussel and >20 snail species.