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DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE
REPORTS
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No. 3, July 2, 2016
20
th
International Congress of Arachnology
GENERAL INFORMATION
Oral Presentations.
Each speaker (except plenary/
keynote speakers) will have 15 minutes total including
questions and discussion. We have two to three concur-
rent sessions. Speakers will be asked to step off the stage
at the 15 minute mark in order for us to stay on schedule
and allow audience members to attend talks in concur-
rent sessions.
Please prepare your presentation in MS Office
PowerPoint for Windows (preferably) and download it
to a USB memory stick. Presentation volunteers will be
available to assist presenters to download presentations
no later than the break prior to their session. Earlier is
better.
Posters.
Poster boards are situated in the Grand Lobby
of the Green Center. Posters should be no more than
4 ft x 4 ft (1.2 m x 1.2 m) in size. Poster presenters
may hang posters during the afternoon of July 3
rd
.
Poster Session I presenters should be standing by their
posters no later than 7 p.m. July 3
rd
. Poster Session II
presenters should be standing by their posters no later
than 7 p.m. July 5
th
.
Student Awards.
Awards for best student oral presen-
tations and best student poster presentations will be
given during the banquet the evening of July 8th at the
Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS). For both
oral and poster presentations, awards will be given in
the categories of Systematics, Ecology, & Biogeogra-
phy; Morphology, Physiology, & Silk; and Behavior &
Ecology.
Venue and Town.
Maps of the Colorado School of Mines
(CSM) campus and the town of Golden can be found in
your welcome material. Most events will be held on the
CSM campus except where noted in the program. The
organizers encourage you to explore downtown Golden,
enjoy a stroll along the banks of Clear Creek, and sample
the many restaurants and bars in town. During your free
time, wander through the Pioneer “village” along Clear
Creek, see the exhibits at the Foothills Art Center, or go on
a Coors Brewery Tour.
Golden Ticket.
The Golden Ticket in your welcome
package is accepted in restaurants and stores with
a Golden Ticket in the window. Do not scratch off the
magic window until you are ready to pay your bill.
Vendors & Special Book Signing Event.
We are
pleased to welcome BioQuip and Cricket Science as
our guest vendors. Vendor tables will be in the Grand
Lobby of the Green Center July 3
rd
, 4
th
, and 5
th
. On July
4th from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. the following book authors
will be at the BioQuip table to sign their books: Richard
Bradley –
Common Spiders of North America
; Rainer
Foelix –
Biology of Spiders
; Heather Proctor –
Mites:
Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour
; Justin Schmidt –
The Sting of the Wild
; and Richard Vetter –
The Brown
Recluse Spider
. If you have your own copy of any
of these tomes, bring them to the meeting to get the
author’s signature and if you do not, BioQuip will have
some copies of all these books available for purchase.
Stop by the BioQuip table before heading over to the 4
th
of July barbeque!
Group & Committee Meetings.
Please refer to the
schedule for the times and locations of the following
meetings: IUCN pre-congress workshop ( June 30
th
–
July 2
nd
); Student Competition Judges meetings ( July
3
rd
and 8
th
); dinner for those interested in morphology,
histology, and fine structure organized by Damien
Laudier ( July 3
rd
); AAS Executive Committee meeting
( July 3
rd
); students & early career social event ( July
3
rd
); Journal of Arachnology Editors’ meeting ( July
5
th
); AAS Business Meeting and promotion of the 2017
AAS meeting in Mexico ( July 7
th
); ISA Business Meeting
and promotion of the 2019 ICA meeting in New Zealand
( July 8
th
).
Arachnid Collecting.
Permits are required to collect
arachnids in County, State, and National Parks. No
permits are required to collect arachnids in National
Forests. Collecting is permitted in the high elevation
areas (Loveland Pass and Berthoud Pass) where mid-
congress excursion participants will travel but is not
permitted at Rocky Mountain Arsenal where those
excursion participants will travel to see bison and