Vol. 61, No. 3 | August 2016
 

Announcements


 


UPCOMING MEETINGS

 

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR SOCIETY - ANNUAL MEETINGS

2017: Dates June 12-16, 54th Annual Meeting Animal Behavior Society - University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada.

OTHER UPCOMING MEETINGS

2016: August 21-27, American Society of Primatologists - The 39th meeting of the American Society of Primatologists will be held jointly with the 26th Congress of the International Primatological Society in Chicago, Illinois. All details, including submission deadlines, are available on the joint meeting website: http://www.IPSChicago.org.

2016: August 21-27, Congress of the International Primatological Society - The 26th meeting of the 39th Congress of the International Primatological Society will be held jointly with the American Society of Primatologists. All details, including submission deadlines, are available on the joint meeting website: http://www.IPSChicago.org.

2017: January 4-8, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) - Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, Meeting Website. Abstract Deadline will be Thursday 1 September 2016.

2017: January 16-18, 4th Caribbean Biomedical Research Days CBRD-2017, in conjunction with Regional ISBS "Stress and Behavior" Neuroscience and Biopsychiatry Conference Biopsychiatry Conference - Rodney Bay, St. Lucia, West Indies.

2017: February 16-20, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) – Annual Meeting: Serving Society Through Science Policy, Boston, MA.

2017: July 30- August 4, 2017, Beahviour, A joint meeting of the 35th International Ethological Conference (IEC) and the 2017 Summer Meeting of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) in Estoril, Portugal.

2018: January 3-7, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) - Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. Call for Symposia (Deadline: 25 August 2016).

 




JOIN AN ABS COMMITTEE!


Would you like to volunteer for one of the Society's active committees? The Animal Behavior Society has several committees that do very important work for the society. Committee members and chairs volunteer their time and have been appointed by the ABS executive committee. The following is a list of committees and chairs (2016-2017). This is an important and rewarding way to participate in the business of the Society, and we need your help! If you are interested in volunteering for a committee, contact the chair of the committee directly, the President of the society by email [email protected], or send an email to [email protected]

Animal Care Committee: Alexander Ophir, Department of Psychology, Cornell University, 224 Uris Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, US. E-mail: [email protected]

Conservation Committee: Misty McPhee, Asst. Prof. Environmental Studies and Biology, 3448 Sage Hall, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI 54901, US. E-mail: [email protected]

Nominations Committee: Emilia Martins, University of Indiana- Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, E-mail: [email protected]

Education Committee: Susan W. Margulis, ABEC Department, Canisius College, 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14208, US. E-mail: [email protected]

Film Committee: Barbara A. Clucas, Department of Wildlife, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 95521, US. E-mail: [email protected]

Applied Animal Behavior Committee: Robin L. Foster, Department of Psychology CMB 1046, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 98416-0001, US. E-mail: [email protected]

Public Affairs Committee: Patricia Brennan, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075, US. E-mail: [email protected]

Board of Professional Certification Subcommittee: Crista Coppola, Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist, Dog and Company Behavior Consulting, US. E-Mail: [email protected]

Latin American Affairs Committee: Lilian Tonelli Manica, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR 81531-990, BRAZIL. E-mail: [email protected]

Student Research Grants Committee: Alison Bell, Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois at Urbaba-Champaign, 439 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, US. E-mail: [email protected]

Advancement and Investment Committee: Jeff Galef, 82 Fountain View Lane, Durham, NC 27705, USA and Robert Seyfarth, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, US. E-mail: [email protected]

Diversity Committee: Daniel Howard, Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, US. E-mail: [email protected]

 



CALL FOR ABS MEETING INVITATIONS


ABS is seeking proposals for future meeting venues. Sites can be a resort or hotel, university campus or a mixture of the two. Contact ABS Past President: Emília P. Martins E-mail: [email protected]


Grooving to the tunes at the ABS 2016 banquet in Columbia, Missouri.

 

 




GIFT MEMBERSHIPS

Consider giving your students and graduate students a gift membership to the Animal Behavior Society. It doesn’t cost much, supports your society, helps out our youngest members, and keeps our society growing. Simply contact the Central Office for more information on how to gift a membership: [email protected]

 

 
ABS Newsletter

Send general correspondence concerning the Society to Sue Bertram, the Secretary of The Animal Behavior Society, E-mail: [email protected]. Deadlines for materials to be included in the Newsletter are the 15th of the month preceding each issue. The next deadline is October 15, 2016. Articles submitted by members of the Society and judged by the Secretary to be appropriate are occasionally published in the ABS newsletter. The publication of such material does not imply ABS endorsement of the opinions expressed by contributors.

Animal Behavior Society Website: http://www.animalbehaviorsociety.org

Animal Behavior

Animal Behavior, manuscripts and editorial matters: Authors should submit manuscripts online to Elsevier’s Editorial System (http://ees.elsevier.com/anbeh/). For enquiries relating to submissions prior to acceptance, contact the Journal Manager ([email protected]). For enquiries relating to submissions after acceptance, visit Elsevier at http://www.elsevier.com/journals. For other general correspondence, contact Kris Bruner, Managing Editor, Animal Behaviour, Indiana University, 407 N. Park Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Phone: 812-935-7188.

Change of address, missing or defective issues: ABS Central Office, 2111 Chestnut Avenue, Suite 145, Glenview, IL 60025, US. Phone: 312-893-6585. Fax: 312-896-5614. E-mail: [email protected].