As those of you who follow me on Twitter have probably already noticed, this week I’m at the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, an annual meeting of fish and reptile researchers that includes the American Elasmobranch Society. It’s a great way to meet up…
Today was the fourth and last day of presentations for this year’s AES. The real shark week ended with a bang, featuring this year’s only concurrent pair of shark sessions. As a result, I definitely missed some talks I wanted to see in order to…
Day 3 of AES included pretty much all the talks up for the Gruber award, an award given to the best student presentation. Holy crap there were some good talks today. My talk was among them, and having seen my competition, I will gracefully concede…
Here it is, the first official recap post of this year’s AES. I lack both a smartphone and the Twitter vigor of Dave, so I generally throw all the things that piqued my interest into one big post at the end of the day. It’ll…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year again, time for the annual American Elasmobranch Society (AES) conference. This annual gathering of shark and ray nerds is always a highlight of my summer, and posting highlights from the presentations is an annual tradition. Keep checking…
Now that I’ve gotten your attention with that cringeworthy pun in the title, I’d like to put up a quick post on my overall thoughts on AES 2012 and the host city. This took a couple days due to a cancelled flight in Philadelphia and…
The last day of AES talks wrapped up today. It’s always a little melancholy to see this conference end, but one must get back to real life sometime. Here are the highlights from Day 4.
Lots of cool talks today as this conference continues to be very good at keeping me busy. Check below the jump for the rundown on what I found interesting.
What a busy day. I’ve only got a little bit of time to get this up before I have to head over to the poster session, and I saw a lot of very good talks today. Keep following #AES2012 on Twitter to keep up with…
AES has officially begun! The first day of the World Congress of Herpetology (referred to as “AES” from here on out, because that’s the part I care about, no disrespect to the scalies) kicked off with free breakfast, which was appropriately mobbed by the attendees. …