World-wide Web Meeting on Amphibian Monitoring and Deformed Frogs

     

     The North American Amphibian Monitoring Program,   3rd Annual Meeting 
     and Summary of the WORKSHOP ON CENTRAL NORTH AMERICAN AMPHIBIAN 
     DEFORMITIES
     
     A meeting to present, evaluate, and discuss amphibian deformities and 
     monitoring techniques  for North America. 
     
     Location: The meeting site will be Planet-wide, located on the 
     Internet via the World Wide Web at the following mirrored locations: 
     
     USGS/Biological Resources Division - Patuxent Wildlife Research 
     Center
     (Formerly National Biological Service)  
     http://www.im.nbs.gov/naamp3/naamp3.html Environmental Protection 
     Agency - New England http://www.epa.gov/region01/naamp3/naamp3.html 
     USGS/Biological Resources Division - Northern Prairie Science 
     Center 
     (Formerly National Biological Service)  
     http://www.npsc.nbs.gov/naamp3/naamp3.html 
     
     Starting Date: 14 NOVEMBER 1996, The above sites will open at 0:00 
     hours Eastern USA Time Zone on the 14th to become the entrance page 
     for the meeting. 
     
     Registration Fee: None! 
     
     Housing Fee: None! 
     
     Sessions: Papers will be presented as web documents, complete with 
     graphics, tables, and E-mail links to the authors. Participants can 
     query authors directly using simple online electronic forms. These 
     electronic forms post the question (after a moderators review) back to 
     the document and sends E-mail back to the author. The author answers 
     the question and both the original and the answer are posted back at 
     the bottom of the paper within a day of the author's reply. 
     
     Meeting participants can watch the meeting evolve over a period of 
     several weeks as questions, answers, and rebuttals are posted. The 
     meeting will remain active at all 3 sites for a period of 3 months and 
     will remain indefinitely at the NBS-Inventory and Monitoring site as 
     an archive of the meeting. 
     
     The meeting will include over 40 papers including topics on:
     
     ***New Techniques***Evaluations and Validations of Proposed 
     Techniques***International Models***Reports on Calling 
     Surveys***Request for Information on Deformed Frogs***Forum on the 
     NAAMP Process***Summaries of the Most Recent Reports on Deformed Frogs
     
     Field Trips: Once you have finished with the meeting relax by visiting 
     our amphibian related eateries, bars, exotic dancers, poetry, and take 
     part in a global amphibian collecting trip.
     
     For More Meeting Information Contact:
     
     On Monitoring:
     Sam Droege
     USGS/NBS
     Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
     12100 Laurel, MD 20708 USA
     frog@nbs.gov
     301-497-5840
     
     Deformed Frogs:
     Joe Tietge
     US Environmental Protection Agency
     Mid-Continent Ecology Division
     6201 Congdon Blvd
     Duluth, MN 55804
     epajet@du4500.dul.epa.gov
     218-720-5635