Part of Kenai Peninsula College‘s KPC Showcase series, this talk was given on 19.Feb.2016. URI below.
First Alaskan records and a significant northern range extension for two species of Diplura (Diplura, Campodeidae)
Appearing in the journal ZooKeys on 15.Feb.2016, this article includes an introductory review of soil microarthropod research in Alaska.
http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=6404
Sikes DS, Allen RT (2016) First Alaskan records and a significant northern range extension for two species of Diplura (Diplura, Campodeidae). ZooKeys 563: 147-157. doi:10.3897/zookeys.563.6404
Presentations and posters from the 9th annual meeting
Presentations, posters, and audio from the 9th annual meeting are now available via the links below.
CAPS program in Alaska
Jacque Shade, Alaska DNR (audio)
Inventorying arthropods on Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge by next generation sequencing
Matt Bowser, USFWS; Kristin DuBour, USFWS; Beth Schulz, USFS; John Hanson, Research and Testing Laboratory (audio)
What is pestering Alaska?
Ken Perry, Paratex (audio)
Response of arthropod communities to shrub expansion in Western Alaska
Molly McDermott, IAB, UAF (audio)
An update on the Kenelm W. Phillip Lepidoptera collection at the University of Alaska Museum
Kathryn Daly, UAF, UAM (audio)
Building a DNA barcode library of Alaskan non-marine arthropods
Derek S. Sikes, UAF, UAM; Casey Bickford; Sarah Meierotto; Kyndall Hildebrandt (audio)
Highlights from the FHP program in Alaska
John Lundquist, USFS; Steve Swenson, USFS; Garret Dubois, USFS (audio)
Soil mites of interior Alaska
Robin Andrews, IAB, UAF
A preliminary morphological and molecular phylogeny of the rove beetle genus Phlaeopterus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini)
Logan Mullen, UAF, UAM; Derek S. Sikes, UAF, UAM
Post-fire succession of ant communities in boreal Alaska
Alexandria Wenninger, UAF; Diane Wagner, UAF
Great Summer Positions with the Forest Service
US Forest Service Forest Health Protection is currently advertising three seasonal technician positions at two grade levels in Juneau, Anchorage and Fairbanks on USAJobs. This is an exciting opportunity for anyone interested in entomology and/or enjoys working in the field! The positions are only open until Thursday, Feb 4th:
GS4 level: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/427778900
GS5 level: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/427786100
Ninth Annual Meeting, January 29-30
The ninth annual meeting of the Alaska Entomological Society will take place on January 29-30 in Anchorage. Presentations and the business meeting be on Saturday, January 30 at the Anchorage UAF Cooperative Extension Service office (map). Please see the agenda.
The evening social will be at the Elim Cafe from 5:30-7:30 on the evening of the 29th.
New and poorly known Holarctic species of Boletina Staeger, 1840 (Diptera, Mycetophilidae)
The article appeared in Biodiversity Data Journal on 18.Jan.2016.
Arthropod-related posts from the 16th annual Alaska Invasive Species Workshop
Crayfish inventory on Kodiak Island
Blythe Brown, Kodiak Soil & Water Conservation District
Invasive forest insects in Alaska: Where are they now?
Jason Moan, Alaska Division of Forestry
ADN: Alaska’s late butterfly king leaves one more contribution: State’s first guide
Zaz Hollander wrote a nice article (URI below) for the Alaska Dispatch News on Ken Philip and his newly available book, Butterflies of Alaska, A Field Guide.
Climate oscillations, glacial refugia, and dispersal ability: factors influencing the genetic structure of the least salmonfly, Pteronarcella badia (Plecoptera), in Western North America
The article appeared in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. See the URI below.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0553-4
Sproul et al. 2015, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 A map showing the distribution of sample localities for P. badia across portions western North America. Clade membership (as identified in Fig. 4) for all specimens at a given locality is represented by color. Clade names are abbreviated as follows. Widespread (WS), Northern Rockies (NR), Western Great Basin (WGB), Pacific Northwest (PNW), Old Rio Grande (ORG), and Old Colorado Plateau (OCP)
Polar Biology: Thermal biology and immersion tolerance of the Beringian pseudoscorpion Wyochernes asiaticus
The abstract for the article is available via the URI below.