Herp Group - Monday October 6

[Jimmy A Mcguire]

Hello everyone,

Herp Group convenes again tomorrow evening (Oct 6) when Casey Moss speaks about “Discovery and rediscovery: Salamanders of the family Plethodontidae”. Although Casey claims no professional affiliations, he routinely conducts research and publishes on herps (especially plethodontid salamanders) of the western U.S., often with herpetologists familiar to the Herp Group community such as Elizabeth Jockusch, Bob Hansen, Robert Fisher, and Jon Richmond. From his CV: 

"Casey Moss is a biologist with 8 years’ experience conducting special status-species surveys, habitat assessments, biological monitoring, and maintaining compliance with state and federal permits. Casey has conducted protocol surveys and biological monitoring for special-status plants, amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish, and mammals. Casey coordinates with agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), U.S. Forest Service (Forest Service), U.S. Geological Survey, University of Connecticut, and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in Berkeley on independent research projects focused on plethodontid salamanders. Casey provides expertise on species’ ecology to direct conservation actions and help implement best management practices.”

Come to Herp Group Monday to hear about his research surveying rare and elusive salamanders of our region.

Here's the zoom info (same all semester)

https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96256299162?pwd=MHTBYxq7XZzojXbeobQCClsofeqZVD.1

Meeting ID: 962 5629 9162
Passcode: 790998

As usual "doors" open at 5pm, with the event starting around 5:15pm. We will go for dinner with the speaker after the talk. Hope to see you there!

Sept 8	Audra Barrios, Executive Director, Things That Creep (https://www.thingsthatcreep.org/) Title: Conservation through science education
Sept 22	Jeff Alvarez, The Wildlife Project and President of the Western Section of The Wildlife Society Title: Natural history notes: connecting dots and filling gaps
Oct 6	Casey Moss, Endemic Environmental, Sacramento CA Title: Discovery and Rediscovery: Salamanders of the Family Plethodontidae
Oct 20	Tiffany May, San Francisco Zoo/San Francisco State University Title: Survival, Behavior, and Predation at ‘Toad Island’ in Yosemite National Park
Nov 3	Hale Garcia-Dean (M.S.), Sonoma State University Title: Patterns of dispersal and short-term survivorship in post-metamorphic California Red-legged Frogs (Ranadraytonii)
Nov 17	No meeting
Dec 1	Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda, Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley; Stanford University Title: TBD

Jimmy A McGuire
Professor, Department of Integrative Biology
Curator of Herpetology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
3101 Valley Life Sciences Building
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-3160
Phone: (510) 316-6201
Fax: (510) 643-8238
http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/mcguire/
email: mcguirej at Berkeley.edu