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UM Student Research Awards
2009 - Congratulations to this year's student research award winners:

  • Erin MEYER (University of California Berkeley): Phylogeography, habitat modelling, and conservation of Cittarium pica (Vetigastropoda: Trochoidea) in the Lesser Antilles.
  • Gleisse NUNES (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro): Environmental factors influencing patterns of land snail diversity and elevational distribution in a protected forest on Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro state, southeastern Brazil.
Research results will be reported in the UM Newsletter.

The next deadline for research award applications is 31 May 2009.
Download the Student Awards application form here [doc]

Eligibility: awards are made only to current members of Unitas Malacologica who are studying for a higher-level degree (usually a PhD or MSc project). You may join as a member at the time of your application (fees: EUR 16 per year, for 3-year membership). Applications from students who are not members and not accompanied by an application for membership, will not be considered.
Download the Membership application form here [rtf]

For more information, contact the UM Secretary, Dai Herbert (dherbert@nmsa.org.za)

Publications
Many malacological journals have published special thematic issues arising from the UM World Congresses of Malacology. We will try to make this list complete!

Proceedings of the WCM 2007 Symposium Molluscs as Models in Evolutionary Biology. M. Glaubrecht & T. von Rintelen (Eds). 2009. American Malacological Bulletin Volume 27 Issue 1-2 [link to journal]

Proceedings of the WCM 2007 Symposium Molluscan Models: Advancing Our Understanding of the Eye. J.M. Serb (Ed). 2008. American Malacological Bulletin Volume 26 Issue 1-2 [link to journal]

Proceedings of the WCM 2007 Symposium Micromolluscs: Methodological Challenges, Exiting Results. D.L. Geiger & B. Ruthensteiner (Eds). 2008. Zoosymposia Volume 1. [link to publisher]

Proceedings of the WCM 2004 Symposium Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca. W.F. Ponder and D.R. Lindberg (Eds). 2008. University of California Press. 488 pp. [link to publisher] - [supplementary data]

Newsletter Publications
UM Newsletter published at 8-month intervals [newsletter]

Worldwide mollusc species database
A text published in UNITAS Newsletter 10 (July 1996)

Tentacle
UNITAS previously funded the printing of "Tentacle", now a web-based publication, the Newsletter of the IUCN Mollusc Specialist Group.