Patricia Dines, Community Action Publications
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From: Hormone Mimics Discussion,
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To: Patricia Dines, 73652,1202
Date: Fri, Apr 10, 1998, 4:30 PM
Subject: Midwest Declining Amphibians Conference summary
From: Doris Cellarius <doris.cellarius@sfsierra.sierraclub.org>
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MIDWEST DECLINING AMPHIBIANS CONFERENCE A HOPPING SUCCESS
About 300 people attended the two day Midwest Declining Amphibians
Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, hosted by the Milwaukee Public
Museum on March 20-21, 1998. This was a joint meeting of the Central and
Great Lakes Division Working Groups, of the Declining Amphibian Populations
Task Force. The conference was organized by Gary Casper, chair of the Great
Lakes Working Group, with assistance from Christopher Phillips (chair of
the Central Division Working Group), and Michael Lannoo (US DAPTF
Coordinator). There were 42 papers presented, and a panel discussion on
amphibian malformities. Topics included survey and monitoring reports,
population biology and ecology, and malformity causes and statistics.
Abstracts are available through the Great Lakes Declining Amphibians web
site at
http://www.mpm.edu/collect/vertzo/herp/Daptf/daptf.html
Publication of a proceedings is being investigated.
The new research presented by scientists investigating potential causes
of frog deformities attracted national attention, including network
television. There is increasing evidence implicating pesticides as causal
agents, with retinoids or retinoid-like compounds suspect. The evidence now
suggests that of the three leading hypotheses, chemical contaminants should
now be considered the most likely (more so than either parasites or UV
light). Reporters and camera crews from NBC Nightly News (Chicago), ABC
(New York), National Public Radio (WUWM), Outdoor Wisconsin, the Green Bay
Press-Gazette, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinal, and the Washington Post attended. The conference was also covered
by CNN.
The mix of scientists, natural resource managers, and students attending
came from as far away as Maryland, California and Guatemala. Participating
agencies included seven state DNRs, the US Environmental Protection Agency,
the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the Illinois Natural History
Survey, the US Geological Survey, the Salk Institute, many universities and
colleges, the Nature Conservancy, the National Wildlife Health Center, the
US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
the Patuxtent Wildlife Research Center, the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences, and the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research
Center.
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Gary S. Casper
http://www.mpm.edu/collect/garyc.html
Wisconsin Herpetology Homepage
http://www.mpm.edu/collect/vertzo/herp/atlas/welcome.html
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please direct correspondance for Gary S. Casper to:
Vertebrate Zoology Section, Milwaukee Public Museum
800 W. Wells St., Milwaukee, WI 53233
voice (414)278-2766 fax (414)278-6100 E-mail gsc@uwm.edu
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