Social event at the Hawaiʻi State Museum of Natural and Cultural History
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Join us on the evening of Tuesday June 11th 2019, for a private reception at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaiʻi State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu.

The reception will take place in the great hall and will include light snacks, desserts, and beverages. Delegates will get an opportunity to visit the planetarium and partake in a guided tour through the primary exhibits of the museum. In addition, we are thrilled that we will have two of the Museum’s top scientist Ken Hayes and Norine Yeung, who will talk with us about their research in invasion biology and biodiversity conservation.

​Ken Hayes is the Director of the Pacific Center for Molecular Biodiversity (PCMB) at Bishop Museum, Honolulu, and a Research Collaborator at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Ken did his Ph.D. at the University of Hawaii Manoa, followed by postdoctoral research at the Smithsonian Institution. Prior to joining the Bishop Museum, he was an Assistant Professor of invertebrate evolutionary biology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. While his research is global in scope, the bulk of his work is carried out in Hawaii and South America, primarily involving aquatic and terrestrial snails. His research foci span the topics of invasion biology, evolution on tropical islands, biodiversity conservation, and evolutionary and ecological genomics. His taxonomic expertise is in Hawaiian land snails and apple snails, which includes the notorious invasive pests Pomacea canaliculata and Pomacea maculata.
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​Norine Yeung is the Malacology Researcher at the Bishop Museum and is interested in understanding patterns of tropical diversity, focused on phylogeography, systematics and conservation. She is using historic and recently collected museum specimens to assess the systematics of native and non-native Hawaiian land snails. Prior to her current research in malacology, Nori received her PhD at the University of Hawaii studying the systematics, population genetic structure, and feeding ecology (using stable isotopes) of a pantropical seabird, Gygis alba. She also holds affiliate positions at the University of Hawaii and National Museum of Natural History.