AMS 2026 Program & EVENTs

A full schedule of contributed talks, posters, symposia sessions, and workshops will be posted once abstract submission and program assembly are complete.

Meeting Schedule Overview

Monday 15 June: AMS Council Meeting; Registration; Welcome Reception

Tuesday 16 June: Keynote Speaker; Symposium on Indigenous Mollusc Research, Uses, and Relationships; Contributed talks; Evening poster reception with drinks and appetizers

Wednesday 17 June: Presidential Symposium on Evolution, ecology, and conservation of Pacific Island Land Snails; Contributed talks; Evening Student Awards Fundraising Auction with drinks and appetizers

Thursday 18 June: Symposium on Captive Breeding of Imperiled and Economically-Important Molluscs; Contributed talks; Evening: buses depart from Centennial Hall for Awards Banquet at the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY

Friday 19 June: Field Trip: Central NY Geology, Conservation, and Journey Through Devonian Seas

Details on Symposia, Workshops, Field Trip

Presidential Symposium

• Evolution, ecology and conservation of Pacific island land snails

Contributed Symposia

• Captive Breeding of Imperiled and Economically-Important Molluscs

This symposium focuses on the roles of captive breeding in molluscan conservation, drawing from both conservation and commercial rearing programs. We will emphasize knowledge exchange, capacity building, and cross-sector collaboration. SUNY-ESF also hosts the endangered Chittenango ovate amber snail conservation program, which includes a large captive breeding effort and wild translocations.

• Indigenous Mollusc Research, Uses, and Relationships

This symposium will explore traditional and contemporary Indigenous relationships with molluscs, including cultural uses, restoration efforts, conservation practices, and co-management approaches. SUNY-ESF is home to the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

Workshop

• Land snail identification through dissection (including Succineidae)

Instructor: Dr. Morgan Bullis
USDA APHIS
Hands-on training in anatomical dissection for terrestrial gastropod identification.

Optional Field Trip (Friday 19 June)

• Central NY Geology, Conservation, and Journey Through Devonian Seas

We will spend the morning viewing beautiful Chittenango Falls and learning about land snail conservation through partnerships, including NY State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Then we will go fossil collecting, led by our resident invertebrate paleontologists.

• Chittenango Falls State Park and the imperiled Chittenango ovate amber snail

Marvelous Mollusks: Chittenango land snails

Chittenango Falls State Park

• Journey through Devonian seas: Invertebrate fossil collecting at local sites

Find your own fossil cephalopods, bivalves, gastropods, trilobites, and more!

Awards Banquet Tour

On the evening of Thursday 18 June, Awards Banquet participants will also have the opportunity to tour exhibits at Ithaca’s Museum of the Earth (part of the Paleontological Research Institution), including:

• Marvelous Mollusks: The Secret World of Shells exhibition at the Museum of the Earth

Online exhibition pages: Marvelous Mollusks