1. Welcome to Chicago!

2. Overall Goals of the Meeting Orientation How this all works Who does what Collecting, specimen tracking, shipping Protocols Specimen preservation, documentation Products Outreach deliverables, first papers Species list Choosing exemplars, ranking What we do next

3. Today’s Schedule (Sunday) 8:30 – meet at West Door a.m. – orientation, protocols, proposal reviews 12:00 – lunch / Jochen Gerber (shipping) p.m. – species list 6:30 – dinner

4. 3 Grants, 15 Participants Morphology Rüdiger Bieler Ellen Strong - stomachs Liz Harper - anomalos John Taylor – shell + lucinoids Tom Waller – pectinoids + paleo Gerhard Haszprunar – mantle John Healy – sperm (Paula Mikkelsen – gills/labial palps w/ RB) Molecules Gonzalo Giribet Tim Collins – heterodonts John Zardus – protobranchs + development Dan Graf – unionoids Outreach Paula Mikkelsen Rob Ross – informal education Sarah Chicone – evolution exhibit Deirdre Gonsalves- Jackson – undergrad curriculum + students, postdocs, webmaster TBD

5. Websites Google group: http://groups.google.comhttp://groups.google.com FMNH internal server: http://nas1/dept/zoology/bivatolhttp://nas1/dept/zoology/bivatol username bivatol password b1v@t0l! AToL project pages: http://www.phylo.org/links/tolhttp://www.phylo.org/links/tol Mesquite: http://mesquiteproject.org/mesquite/mesquite.htmlhttp://mesquiteproject.org/mesquite/mesquite.html CIPRES: http://www.phylo.orghttp://www.phylo.org MARBEF: http://www.marbef.org/data/erms.phphttp://www.marbef.org/data/erms.php Malacolog: http://www.malacolog.org/http://www.malacolog.org/ CLEMAM: http://www.somali.asso.fr/clemam/index.clemam.html http://www.somali.asso.fr/clemam/index.clemam.html OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database: http://data.acnatsci.org/obis/ http://data.acnatsci.org/obis/ Encyclopedia of Life: http://www.eol.orghttp://www.eol.org

6. Proposed Timetable

7. Management Plan Flow-Chart

8. Today’s Schedule (Monday) 9:00 – meet at West Door a.m. – protocols, characters, web resources 12:00 – lunch / Lance Grande 1:00 – BioSync/EOL – Mark Westneat 1:30-3:30 – free time, exhibits/collections p.m. – species list (continued), more characters 7:30 – dinner / + Jablonski/Kidwell

9. Today’s Schedule (Tuesday) 8:30 – meet at West Door a.m. – outreach overview 9:00 – Elizabeth Babcock / Harris Loan tour 11:00 – group photo 12:00 – spare time + lunch 1:00 – Deborah Bekken (FM sponsored programs) 1:30 – Janeen Jones (specimen tracking) 2:00 – Petra Sierwald (onupid AToL website) p.m. – next meeting, group field trip, first deliverables 4:00-5:00 – spare time 7:00 – dinner / + grad students

10. Outreach Overview Teaching Evolution using Bivalves Teacher Friendly Guide to Evolution Using Bivalves (TFGEB) + educator boxes (K-12) Evolution on the Half-Shell 101 (undergrad) Evolution on the Half-Shell: The Exhibit (public) 1.diversity 2.fossil record 5.patterns of change 6.evolution continues 3.characters 4.phylogenetics

11. Advisory Board Elizabeth Babcock (Director of Education & Library Collections, FMNH) Susan Cook (Education Director, Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education) Judy Scotchmoor (Asst Director of Education and Public Programs, UC Berkeley) Kathleen Kraft (Exhibits Projects Director, ScienceCenter, Ithaca, NY) Laurel Southard and Robert Suran (Cornell University Institute for Biology Teachers)

12. Traveling Exhibit Venues Field Museum of Natural History Harvard Museum of Natural History National Museum of Natural History Frank H. McClung Museum (U of TN) Delaware Museum of Natural History Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum

13. Today’s Schedule (Wednesday) 8:30 – meet at West Door a.m. – evolutionary concepts 10:30 – what’s in the box? discussion including Elizabeth Babcock 12:00 – lunch p.m. – exhibit content discussion 2:00 – tour of Evolving Planet exhibit (Todd Tubutis) – meet at entrance to exhibit 5:00 – Holiday Party