The New York Entomological Society, Inc.

Incorporating the Brooklyn Entomological Society

American Museum of Natural History

Central Park West at 79^th Street

New York, New York 10024

Phone: 212.769.5613 Fax: 212.769.5277

Email: nyes@amnh.org Web: www.nyentsoc.org

Speaker: Jessica Ware, Ph.D.

Division of Invertebrate Zoology, AMNH

Presentation:

Catching Dragons & Damsels: Studying Odonata

Jessica Ware earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada, and her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2008, where she studied the systematics and behavior of Odonata. She focused on two important aspects of their lives: flying and mating. Based at the AMNH since the fall of 2008, Jessica has been David Grimaldi's postdoc where her postdoctoral work focuses on the systematics of lower termites. She begins a tenure track faculty position at Rutgers Newark this September, in the Ecology and Evolution cluster of the Federated Biology Department.

Where: People Center (enter 77^th Street)

Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Dinner: 9:00PM – City Grill - 269 Columbus Avenue

Society meetings are always open to the public with no admission charge