OdonataCentralDSA Annual Meeting
2010 Dragonfly Society of the Americas
Annual Meeting, Orono, Maine. Dates: June 24-27, 2010
Boreal peatlands and crystalline rivers will be our playgrounds when the annual meeting of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas convenes in Orono, Maine, from June 24-27, 2010.
This region of Maine, well charted during the Maine Dragonfly and Damselfly Survey, offers an abundance of bogs and fens, rivers and streams in some of Northeast’s wildest country.
Next year’s event will feature some of these northern or regional specialties during the main meeting or during pre- and post-meeting excursions:
- Six species of Ophiogomphus (Snaketails), including O. anomalus (Extra-striped Snaketail) and O. howei (Pygmy Snaketail);
- Neurocordulia michaeli (Broad-tailed Shadowdragon);
- Eight or more species of Somatochlora (Striped Emeralds), including S. franklini (Delicate Emerald), S. kennedyi (Kennedy’s Emerald), S. minor (Ocellated Emerald) and S. brevicincta (Quebec Emerald);
- Coenagrion interrogatum (Subarctic Bluet), Enallagma pictum (Scarlet Bluet), Nehalennia gracilis (Sphagnum Sprite), among many others.
Our meeting dates coincide with a period of peak Odonata abundance in Maine. So you’ll be busy.
Meeting headquarters will be the Best Western Black Bear Inn & Conference Center in Orono, Maine (207.866.7120 or http://tinyurl.com/mr45sl. We have a block of rooms reserved at $69.95 per night plus tax for single or double occupancy. When you reserve your rooms, ask for the Dragonfly Society of the Americas rate. We are also investigating alternative lodging and camping nearby.
Options for pre- and post-meeting trips include northward for boreal species, such as S. brevicincta (Quebec Emerald) and Leucorrhinia patricia (Canada Whiteface) and south for coastal plain species such as Enallagma laterale (New England Bluet) and E. pictum (Scarlet Bluet). Details will follow on these outings.
Orono is 11 miles from Bangor International Airport in Bangor, Maine, and 130 miles from the Portland International Jetport in Portland, Maine.
A web site with meeting information is at www.wingsenvironmental.com/dsa. It will be continually updated leading up to the meeting.
