SCHEDULE FOR THE 2002 JOINT MEETING OF HERPETOLOGISTS AND ICTHYOLOGISTS
The schedule for the 2002 joint meeting of herpetologists and ichthyologists in Kansas City is now available at the following link:
http://www.asih.org/meetings/2002/2002Meeting.html
We look forward to seeing you in Kansas City.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FOR 2002 MEETING OF ICHTHYOLOGISTS AND HERPETOLOGISTS - KANSAS CITY IS EXTENDED TO 11 MARCH 2002
Because of the technical difficulties associated with the submission of abstracts, the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 11 March 2002. If you have heard from the Secretary's office confirming receipt of your abstract, you can disregard this message.
The "resubmission" form on the web is not compatible with Internet Explorer 6.0. You must use an older version of Internet Explorer or use Netscape as your web browser. Go to the NEW submission site: http://www.fiu.edu/~asih. Reload the page. Please enter the proper data in the proper fields. Check to see that the data are correct and go to the bottom of the page and hit submit. If you were successful, you will get a message back that says "Thank you for submitting your proposal". You will get a message from the ASIH secretary's office within 2 business days informing you that your abstract has been received.
If you only have access to Internet Explorer 6.0, please follow the instructions on page 12 of the call for papers for submitting abstracts by email. Please do not send attachments. Each line of the email corresponds to the information we need. We will enter your data into the database. You will receive an email from the ASIH secretary's office within 2 business days.
If you have questions, please contact Mo Donnelly, ASIH Secretary (asih@fiu.edu).
We apologize for all of the problems you have had with abstract submission and we look forward to receiving your abstract soon.
Mo Donnelly ASIH Secretary
The meeting abstract submission site is functional and is accepting abstracts. If you experience problems with http://www.fiu.edu/~asih try using Nescape as your browser. Reload the page and when you are sure all information is correct hit the submit button at the very bottom of the page.
Please be sure to include your email address so we can contact you.
When the form is submitted, you will get a message saying: Thank you for submitting your abstract. You will get an email message from the Miami office confirming date of receipt of your abstract.
I apologize for all the problems associated with abstract submission and look forward to seeing you in Kansas City.
U.S. National Science Foundation Funding Opportunity for ASSEMBLING THE TREE OF LIFE (electronic solicitation NSF 02-074 for Fiscal Year 2002)
A flood of new information, from whole-genome sequences to inventories of earth's biota, is transforming 21st century biology. Along with comparative data on morphology, fossils, development, behavior, and interactions of all forms of life on earth, these new data streams make even more critical the need for an organizing framework for information retrieval, analysis, and prediction. Phylogeny, the genealogical map for all lineages of life on earth, provides an overall framework to facilitate information retrieval and biological prediction. Currently, single investigators or small teams of researchers are studying the evolutionary pathways of heredity within particular phyla or domains. Assembly of a framework phylogeny, or Tree of Life, for all 1.7 million described species requires a greatly magnified effort by large teams working across institutions and disciplines. This is the overall goal of the Assembling the Tree of Life activity. The National Science Foundation invites research proposals from multidisciplinary teams to conduct creative and innovative research that will resolve phylogenetic relationships for large groups of organisms on the Tree of Life. Teams of investigators also will be supported for projects in data acquisition, analysis, algorithm development and dissemination in computational phylogenetics and phyloinformatics.
Please see the Program Solicitation (NSF 02-074) soon to be posted on the NSF website (www.nsf.gov in the Documents Online section) for description of the activity and guidance on proposal preparation; note the deadline of May 17, 2002 and the optional Letter of Intent requested by March 29, 2002.
Dear ASIH Member,
Due to unforseen technical problems with a server at FIU, the abstracts submitted to the website are lost in cyberspace. Regrettably, all abstracts need to be resubmitted as soon as possible. The new site is live and ready to receive your abstract. The new abstract submission form can be found at: http://www.fiu.edu/~asih. The new form indicates that you are sending a new submission. You will receive a message back from the ASIH office in Miami confirming receipt of your abstract within 48 hours. After the program planning meeting in mid-March 2002, the schedule for the meeting will be posted on the web.
Please use the format described in the call for papers when you resubmit your abstract.
The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 2 March 2002. Revised content of the abstracts will be accepted at least through 9 March 2002. Please continue to check the meeting website (http://www.asih.org/meetings/meetings.html andhttp://www.dce.ksu.edu/dce/cl/2002jointmeeting/) for details concerning our upcoming meeting.
I apologize for this inconvenience and I look forward to seeing you in Kansas City.
Sincerely,
The 2002 meeting will be held from 3--8 July 2002 in Kansas City. The website for the meeting is: http://www.dce.ksu.edu/dce/cl/2002jointmeeting/ The website for abstract submission is: http://www.fiu.edu/~asih Abstracts are due by 15 February 2002. If you want to give a power point presentation, you will have to bring a projector. Rental of power point projectors would have greatly increased registration costs so we decided not to rent them and hold costs down. We look forward to seeing everyone in Kansas City.
The position of Ichthyological Information Coordinator has been filled. Mollie Cashner is the new coordinator and the ASIH thanks her for volunteering to fill this important outreach position for the society.
The ASIH is searching for a new Ichthyological Information Coordinator (IIC). Steve Norris has done this job for many years but now must step down. The IIC answers "fish" questions for the ASIH. The requests for information come to Secretary Donnelly and she passes them to the coordinator. Most of our requests for information come electronically but there are occassional written requests. If you are interested in filling this important outreach post, please contact Mo Donnelly (donnelly@fiu.edu).
New ASIH travel reimbursement form. (PDF)
Abstracts from the 2001 meeting are posted on the website. Please visit the "meetings" link and go to the 2001 meeting. The documents are html and pdf files.
Announcement List: We have established an announcement list for the ASIH. I will use this list to send members periodic announcements regarding the ASIH. This is a "one-way" list. Please do not "reply" to the messages you receive. Please visit the directory link on the website to make sure your current email address is on file. As you update your information, the announcement list will also be updated.
I am pleased to announce that the ASIH Bulletin Board is once again functioning properly.
If you posted a message and it is not listed on the Bulletin Board, please repost it. Several messages were overwritten due to the problems caused by the redirection script.
Thank you.
LETTER OF INVITATION - ANNUAL MEETING 2002
If you require a formal letter of invitation for the 2002 annual meeting to help acquire visas or funding, please contact Mo Donnelly (donnelly@fiu.edu).
As many of you may have noticed, the Bulletin Board is not functioning properly. This was due to someone using a redirection script, in their post, to redirect people to an online casino site. I have removed the offending post; however, this script has caused several problems with the Bulletin Board program and I am still working to get them all sorted out.
I have disabled the ability to use scripts, in future posts to the Bulletin Board, to prevent this, or something similar, from happening in the future.
The Bulletin Board should be up and running again soon. I will post a message as soon as it is working correctly.
The summary of business that will be published in Copeia 2000 (4) is now available on the website (see the Annual Meetings link and look at the 2002 meeting).
We have also posted the ballots used during the 2001 election and the Board of Governors book for 2001.
Abstracts will be converted to PDF files and should be posted soon. Please visit this link regularly to see if there are new postings.
Recently Dr. Thomas Orrell contacted the ASIH Secretary regarding a letter he received from PETA. The address on the letter from PETA matched the ASIH directory entry. This letter has been received by some, but not all, ASIH members.
We regularly rent out our membership list (in the form of mailing labels) to book, journal and magazine publishers, manufacturers, and other societies to generate revenues that help support the general operation of the ASIH. While we enjoy these revenues, we do not want ASIH members to receive unwanted or offensive materials.To many, including me, the PETA materials are unwanted and I apologize to all or you who have received such materials.
To prevent this from happening again, all requests for our mailing list (in the form of labels) will pass through me. I will do my best to ensure that ASIH members only recieve information that will foster the scientific study of fishes, amphibians, and reptiles.
The information on Gaige and Raney grants to support student research is posted on the website (Grants and Awards). Information on format is available on the page. Grant applications are due on 1 March 2002. Awards are typically made by May. The winners will receive grant funds directly and certificates will be presented at the annual banquet. Winners should try to attend the Kansas City meeting and the banquet so they can be recognized for their accomplishments by the membership.
The chair of the Gaige Committee for 2002 is: Dr. Joe Pechmann, Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148, joe.pechmann@uno.edu.
The chair of the Raney Committee for 2002 is: Dr. Keith B. Gido, Assistant Professor, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Ackert Hall, Manhattan, KS 66503, kgido@ksu.edu.
Additional information on the annual Gaige and Raney competition will be published in Copeia 2001 (4).
www.disl.org/~conference/larvafish
Interested parties can request to be added to the mailing list, or visit the home page for complete details and updates. African Fish and Fisheries: Diveristy and Utilization Conference JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology Private Bag 1015 Grahamstown, 6140 South Africa email: fishcon@ru.ac.za homepage: http://www.ru.ac.za/affiliates/jlb/fishcon/
African Fish and Fisheries: Diveristy and Utilization Conference JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology Private Bag 1015 Grahamstown, 6140 South Africa
email: fishcon@ru.ac.za homepage: http://www.ru.ac.za/affiliates/jlb/fishcon/