Florida United Malacologists 2019

8:30-9:10              Register/ Check-in

9:10-9:20              Welcome

9:20-9:40              Florida United Malacologists (FUM) at 10

Alan Gettleman

9:40-10:00           Childhood on the Rocks

William F. Keegan

10:00-10:20         Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction and Pre-Columbian Shellfish

Gathering on a Barrier Island along South Florida’s Atlantic Coast

Arlene Fradkin

10:20-10:40         Decline of reef resilience and ecosystem services in one of the last

“pristine” oyster habitats of North America

Gregory Herbert, Stephen Hesterberg, Thomas Pluckhahn, and Ryan Harke

10:40-11:00         COFFEE BREAK

11:00-11:20         Fossil cassids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the upper Eocene

Ocala Limestone of Florida

Shamindri Tennakoon*, Roger W. Portell, Michal Kowalewski, Elizabeth Petsios, and Carrie  L. Tyler

11:20-11:40         Florida’s Cenozoic Cephalopods: Occurrences and Preservation of

the genus Aturia

Carmi Milagros Thompson, William H. Dean, Roger W. Portell

11:40-12:00         So—You Think You Want to Write a Shell Book

Carole P. Marshall

12:00-1:00           LUNCH

1:00-1:20              “When Junonias Attack!”

Rebecca Mensch and José Leal

1:20-1:40              Investigating the Association of Arca zebra and Hard Corals in the

Gulf of Mexico

Abigail Bridges and Gregory Herbert

1:40-2:00              Investigating Temporal and Spatial Biodiversity of Mollusks on the

Western Shelf of Florida Using Taphonomic Grading

                                Nicole Seiden and Dr. Gregory Herbert

2:00-2:20              The Response of the Wakulla River Molluscan Communities to

Hurricane Michael:  Climatic Impacts and Invasive Species

Kristopher Kusnerik*, Guy Means, Ryan Means, Roger Portell, and Michal Kowalewski

2:20-2:40              COFFEE BREAK

2:40-3:00              The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum Digital Imaging

Project

José H. Leal

3:00-3:20              Examining 3D radula morphology and function in drilling and non-

drilling gastropods using synchrotron radiation x-ray microtomography

Stephen Hill*, Jen A. Bright, and Gregory S. Herbert

3:20-3:40              Heterobranch homoplasy: skeneid and tornid imposture

Harry G. Lee

3:40-4:00              How has the Hawaiian endemic land snail genus Auriculella fared

after a century of obscurity during an extinction crisis?

                                John Slapcinsky, Kenneth A. Hayes, and Norine W. Yeung

4:00-6:00              Collection Tour

6:00-8:00              Dinner- location to be determined