Upcoming Meetings

From March 7, 1994 (update #20)

Army Corps of Engineers The third annual workshop on the biology, ecology and control of zebra mussels at public facilities will be conducted at the Radisson Hotel in Denver, Colo., May 10 -12, 1994. Workshop co-sponsors include USCOE, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Tennessee Valley Authority, Bureau of Reclamation, and the American Water Works Association Research Foundation.

Exhibition fees are $100 per exhibit space. For further conference information, contact Larry Sanders at (601) 634-2976.

American Society of Zoologists A special symposium on zebra mussel biology will be held at the annual meeting of the American Society of Zoologists in St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 5 8, 1995. The full-day session will allow experts to review the biology of zebra mussels in North America and develop a series of review papers for publication. University of Texas-Arlington's Robert McMahon and Wayne State University's Jeffrey Ram are organizing the meeting.

The organizers anticipate that other papers on zebra mussel biology will be included in "satellite" sessions associated with the symposium. Unconfirmed at press time, the conference's abstract deadline will most likely be sometime in August. Anyone interested can contact the symposium's organizers for further information. McMahon can be reached at (817) 273-2412; Ram at (313) 577-1558.

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The Zebra Mussel Update was a 4- to 8-page quarterly national newsletter published by the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute from May 1990 through May 1997. The ZMU documented the spread of the zebra mussel -- an exotic nuisance mussel -- through North America's freshwater environments, especially the Great Lakes, and on efforts to control it.