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The
Explorers Club is an international multidisciplinary
professional society dedicated to the advancement of field research and
the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore. Since
its inception in 1904, the Club has served as a meeting point and
unifying force for explorers and scientists worldwide.
The Club provides
assistance in expedition planning, awards fieldwork grants to
scientists, writers, and photographers, and at our famed annual
dinners, honors accomplishments in exploration. But probably the most
powerful resource available to those who join the Club is fellowship
with other members--a global network of expertise, experience,
technology, industry, and support. The Explorers Club actively
encourages public interest in exploration and the sciences through its
public lectures program, publications, travel program, and other
events. The Club also maintains Research Collections, including a
library and map room, to preserve the history of the Club and to assist
those interested and engaged in exploration and scientific research.
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Chapter
Meetings:
November 11th,
2011 Meeting:
Our speaker will be: Arthur E.
Bogan, Ph.D. FLS
The November meeting
of The Greater Piedmont Chapter of The
Explorers Club will be Friday,
November 11th. Our speaker will be Arthur E. Bogan, and the
topic will be "Freshwater
Mussels: mother nature’s filtering system". See below
for more information on the topic and our speaker.
We will meet at noon
in The Capital City Club. This is on the
25th floor of the Capital Center at the corner of Main and Gervais
Street, and
Assembly and Gervais Street in Columbia, SC. There is a parking garage
behind
the Capital Center off Lady Street. Please bring your parking garage
ticket
into the club to have it stamped for 1 free hour of parking. Cost for
the lunch
is $20.00. Remember that The Capital City Club dress policy prohibits
blue
jeans and denims, shorts, tennis shoes and flip-flops. Gentlemen must
wear a
collared shirt. Please email your attendance plans (by Wed. November
9th) to David Brinkman at dobrink@gmail.com .
More about the topic and our speaker:
Freshwater Mussels: mother
nature’s filtering system:
Freshwater
mussels of north America are one of the most endangered groups of
animals in the world.
Dr. Bogan's talk will cover his fieldwork in Thailand, Vietnam, China,
and work in museums in about 10 countries of western Europe, Egypt and
the US.
Dr.
Arthur E. Bogan is with the North Carolina State Museum of Natural
Sciences in Raleigh, NC. His current research is in exploring the
phylogenetic relationships, evolution and zoogeography of the six
modern families of unionoid freshwater mussels of the world using a
variety of data sets. His work goes toward
developing a better understanding of the distribution and evolution of
all bivalves living in freshwater.
Dr. Bogan has numerous publications including “Freshwater mussels of
Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee”
which includes 900+ pages and 766 maps, photographs, line drawings and
lithographs.
Dr.
Bogan has held the following Adjunct and Research positions:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology University of
Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL. 1999, and 2008.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, North Carolina
State University, Raleigh, NC. March 1, 1999 to present.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Population Health and
Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, NC. 2001 to present.
Professor Invité (Invited Professor) Laboratorie de Biologie des
Invertébrés Marins et Malacologie, Muséum National d'Histoire
Naturelle, Paris, France. September, 2001. [Curation of the Asian
freshwater bivalves (Unionoidea)].
Adjunct Professor, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering,
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 1 January 1, 2009 to
December 31, 2011.
Research Associate, Invertebrate Section, Carnegie Museum of Natural
History, Pittsburgh, PA. July 1992 to present.
Research Associate, Mollusk Section, American Museum of Natural
History, New York, NY. 1999 to June 30, 2009.
MONTHLY
MEETINGS, GREATER PIEDMONT CHAPTER
The Greater Piedmont Chapter holds luncheon meetings on the second
Friday of each month at 12 noon at the Capital City Club in
Columbia, SC. Cost for lunch is $20.00. Please
email your attendance plans to David Brinkman at
dobrink@gmail.com .
Often people show up who have not made reservations. We try to make
sure there is more seating than reservations, but please notify us in
advance to be assured a place. If you are bringing any guests, please
email David their name(s). We like to record who attended each meeting.
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