The Biological Survey organized a symposium at the 2011 Joint Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Canada and the Acadian Entomological Society held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on November 6 – 9.
The presentations given are listed below. Thanks to the authors for allowing us to provide links to their presentations.
How To Complete A Biological Survey of Canada – Felix Sperling (University of Alberta), Dave McCorquodale (Cape Breton University), and Donna Giberson (University of Prince Edward Island)
Biomonitoring 2.0: Generating And Harnessing Data On An Epic Scale for Ecosystem Assessment – Donald Baird (Environment Canada at Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick)
Take Care Of The Zeros And The Numbers Will Take Care Of Themselves – Robert Branton (Ocean Tracking Network, Dalhousie University)
Canadensys – Mobilizing Biodiversity Data Across Canada – Peter Desmet (University of Montreal)
The Biological Survey Of Canada: An Outsider’s Wish List – Dezene Huber (University of Northern British Columbia)
The Maritimes Butterfly Atlas – A Citizen Science Case Study – John Klymco (Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre)
Biodiversity For Everyone: Perspectives On Accessibility -Barb Sharanowski (University of Manitoba)
Demand Driven Biodiversity Data. Towards Expanded Investments In Data Publication And Development in Canada – Doug Hyde (NatureServe Canada)
Will Biodiversity Research Become Extinct In The 21st Century? – Chris Majka (Nova Scotia Museum)
Names Are The Key To The Big New Biology: A Bottom-Up Solution To Creating A Macroscope – David Shorthouse (Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA)
COSEWIC And Insect Biodiversity Surveys – Lawrence Packer (York University)
The Biological Survey of Canada 
If folks would like a version more conducive to copy/paste/reuse, mine can also be had at http://www.slideshare.net/dshorthouse/bsc-shorthouse-esc-2011
First of all I want to take the opportunity to wish all BSC people and associated researchers a great 2012. Although things don’t look too good for Science these days, one can always wish that this year sees an improvement in the BSC -and increased participation from the taxonomic community! I for one should apologize for not being more involved with this blog… but will try to change that.
Now, back to the last post. Thank you very much for sharing so many interesting presentations! I have been briefly browsing some of them, and expect to see most of them before the day ends.
We certainly need to share more information like that, and I hope this year more posts like those can be read.
I also took a brief look at previous posts, and realized that sadly there is not much participation -nor feedback. I don’t blame the blog itself but the potential users (starting with me).
Please, KEEP POSTING, keep bringing topics and proposals, keep PESTERING the taxonomic community (and all potential readers of this blog) until -hopefully!- we can all get this ball rolling.
I promise to be back, and soon. Some of the presentations that you are sharing today deserve to be discussed and explored further.
Thank you very much,
Jose