tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76761223546959314002011-07-31T06:22:25.137-04:00Fly BitesBlog of the <a href="http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/research/tabanid/">Tabanid PEET</a> project.gkampnoreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7676122354695931400.post-28468246139239977032011-01-18T10:49:00.000-05:002011-01-18T10:49:18.579-05:00Keith Bayless Places Runner-up!Congratulations to Tabanid PEET student, Keith Bayless, for placing runner-up in the competition for the President's Prize at the 2010 Entomological Society of America meeting in San Diego, CA! He competed against other M.S. and Ph.D. graduate students in the "Taxonomy, Classifications, and Revisions" section in a talk entitled "Resolving conflict and outgroup sampling in the diachlorine grade;gkampnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7676122354695931400.post-18970778526533455402010-08-11T17:12:00.000-04:002010-08-11T17:12:48.721-04:00Tabanid PEET Group at ICD7The Tabanid PEET group is gathered in San José Costa Rica for the 7th International Congress of Dipterology. Team members gave talks in the symposium "Phylogeny and taxonomy within the "orthorrhaphous" Brachycera" on Tuesday, highlighting progress in the Tabanid PEET project.
The team celebrated a successful day:
(l-r: )M. Turcatel, G. Kampmeier, K. Bayless, D. Yeates, B. Wiegmann, B. Lessard,gkampnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7676122354695931400.post-15358065370362646282010-05-01T08:40:00.007-04:002010-05-01T08:57:36.860-04:00Diminutive horse fly sought: Microtabanus pygmaeusMost horse flies noticed by humans would never be characterized as "diminutive" and if they were considered "rare," it might be more a cause for celebration than searching. But searching for live or recently collected specimens of Microtabanus pygmaeus (even the name emphasizes just how small this fly is considered among the general population of horse flies), is part of the quest of Keith gkampnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7676122354695931400.post-7445026209350961402009-07-14T14:07:00.011-04:002009-07-14T14:39:11.658-04:00Participate in the Public Review of the Darwin Core StandardOpen Invitation: We invite all who may contribute and/or consume biodiversity information to examine the proposed Darwin Core Standard during the Public Review period from 11th July through at least 10th August 2009.
TDWG is pleased to announce the commencement of the Public Review of Darwin Core - a standard for sharing biodiversity information. You will find the proposed standard is a livinggkampnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7676122354695931400.post-73077857563334567262009-06-01T11:12:00.008-04:002009-06-02T12:02:10.413-04:00Tabanid PEET working group meetingThe Tabanid PEET group gathered in Raleigh, NC 25-27 May 2009 for a working group meeting, with a concentration on databasing, planning for the future, and introducing Daniela Elena Ramirez as one of the newest students on the project. The meeting was joined by F. Chris Thompson to talk about integration of the tabanid names and the BDWD.
The group (l-r: Gail Kampmeier, Keith Bayless, Shelah gkampnoreply@blogger.com0