12:00 – 1:00 pm Registration

2:15 – 2:30 pm Break for Coffee and Cookies

2:30 – 4:10 pm Oral Presentations Session I

2:30 – 2:50 pm The ecological responses of stream salamanders to land use activities in the watershed areas in Piedmont and Blue Ridge ecoregions, USA: An ongoing project. Authors: Thilina Surasinghe and Robert Baldwin

2:50 – 3:10 pm Amphibian Populations as Potential Resources for Drug Development. Authors: Thomas F. Laughlin and Zulfigar Ahmad

3:10 – 3:30 pm Non-breeding Habitat Usage of Tiger Salamanders, Ambystoma tigrinum, at Henderson Island, Douglas Lake, Tennessee. Authors: Christopher S. Ogle and Thomas F. Laughlin

3:30 – 3:50 pm Update on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Conservation and Trade Management of Freshwater and Terrestrial Turtle in the United States Workshop. Author: R. L. Pete Wyatt

3:50 – 4:10 pm A History of the Tennessee Herpetological Society. Author: Lisa Powers

4:15 – 5:30 pm THS Board Meeting – open to all members

5:45 – 6:45 pm Dinner

6:45 – 8:15 pm Chad Lewis Scholarship Fund Auction - Please make plans to attend this hilarious and very educational benefit auction!

9:00 – 10:00 am Oral Presentations Session II

9:00 – 9:20 am The Amphibians of Tennessee, a new book from the University of Tennessee Press. Authors: R. Graham Reynolds and Matthew L. Niemiller

9:20 – 9:40 am Herpetofauna of the Cedar Glades and Associated Habitats of the Inner Central Basin of Middle Tennessee. Authors: Matthew L. Niemiller, R. Graham Reynolds, Brad M. Glorioso, Jeremy Spiess, and Brian T. Miller

9:40 – 10:00 am Size and Growth in Two Populations of Black Kingsnakes, Lampropeltis nigra, in East Tennessee. Authors: Ted M. Faust and Sean M. Blomquist

10:00 – 11:00 am Poster Presentations + Refreshments

Distribution of the Black Mountain dusky salamander on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. Author: Katrina Smith and Sean Blomquist

Conservation Genetics of a Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw 1802), Ambystomatidae) Population in Hamilton County, Tennessee. Author: Daniel S. Armstrong and Thomas Wilson

Teaching Herpetology in the Neotropics: A Pedagogical Model. Author: Gregory J. McConnell

Predicting the Effects of Long-term Sedimentation on Native Aquatic Salamanders and Fish: An Application of RUSLE to Forest of Tennessee under Three Management Systems. Authors: Sean M. Blomquist, Karen O. Lannom, and Joseph A. Daraio

Long-Term Nest Site Fidelity in Green Salamanders, Aneides aeneus. Author: Paul V. Cupp, Jr.

11:00 – 12:15 pm Oral Presentations Session III

11:00 – 11:20 am Thermal Ecology of Hibernation in the Midland Watersnake, Nerodia sipedon. Authors: Jerrod D. Shipman and Vince A. Cobb

11:20 – 11:40 am Using a PCR-based analysis to answer the question “Is the Chytrid fungus killing frogs?” Authors: Heather Barker and Adam Rollins

11:40 – Noon The Amphibians and Reptiles of Cheatham Wildlife Management Area, Cheatham County, Tennessee. Authors: Terry Hopkins and A. Floyd Scott

Noon – 12:20 Genetic Structure of Yonahlossee Salamander (Plethodon yonahlossee) Populations. Authors: Joshua Rudd and Thomas F.

12:20 Dismiss