Programme for the 2020 Coleopterists Day

The 17th annual Coleopterists Day is being held at Oxford University Museum of Natural History on Saturday 8th February 2020, in collaboration with British Entomological & Natural History Society (BENHS) and Biological Records Centre (BRC).

Programme (download PDF version):Aphodius pedellus - dung beetle

  • 10.00 – Arrival tea / coffee / biscuits – Annexe – Pemberley Books stall
  • 10.30 – Welcome & Housekeeping – Lecture Theatre 
  • 10.35 – Keiron Derek Brown - FSC BioLinks project update
  • 10.45 – Mike Cox – Apteropeda
  • 11.05 – Peter Holland – A genome project for every species?
  • 11.25 – Andrew Salisbury – Tales of RHS enquiries

--- short break ---

  • 12.00 – Peter Brown - Global Red-Listing of Insects: Ladybirds as a case study
  • 12.20 - Mary-Emma Smith – The problem with pedellus (photo of Aphodius pedellus on right by Darren Mann)
  • 12.40 - Keith Alexander & Jon Cole - BENHS Saproxylics Group

--- 12.50 – 14.00 – Lunch (Museum café, local pub or bring your own - Annexe) ---

  • 13.45 - Zoë Simmons – NLHF HOPE for the Future project overview – Westwood Room
  • 14.15 – A scheme of schemes! – Annexe
    • Martin Harvey - UK Beetle Recording website and sharing records via iRecord
    • Chris Foster - Ground Beetle Recording Scheme workshop/ advice session
    • Michael Geiser - Chrysomelidae Recording Scheme workshop/ advice session

Hope Entomological Collections open 13.00 – 16.00 - For collections use contact Amoret Spooner.

Hope Entomological Library open 12.30 – 16.00 - Please contact Danielle Czerkaszyn with your library requests in advance, as there will not be a librarian working on the day to assist.

No booking needed, unless access is required for a specific collection/ archive.

THERE IS NO PUBLIC PARKING AT THE MUSEUM

For general enquiries please contact contact Amoret Spooner.

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Diary date for 2021: the 18th Coleopterists Day will be on 6 February 2021!