DONATIONS TO ABS FUNDS
A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS!
Over $4000 was contributed in the calendar year from May 1, 2015 to April 30, 2016 to support the student grant competitions and other ABS activities, as detailed here:
| Student Research Grants: | $3301 |
| Unrestricted Funds: | $350 |
| Cetacean Award: | $201 |
| Latin American Initiatives: | $85 |
| Conservation: | $60 |
| Tuber Award: | $51 |
| Barlow Award: | $50 |
| Genesis: | $40 |
Donations to ABS Funds (contributors in alphabetical order by first name):
Christine R. Boake, Jill A. Soha, Joan Strassman, Marlene Zuk, Stephen H. Jenkins, and Zuleyma Tang-Martínez, and Royalties from the University of Chicago Press: (Henry Whitehead, Janet Mann, Lee Dickamer, Lynne Houck, Peter Tyack, and Richard Connor).
GIFT STUDENTS WITH AN ABS MEMBERSHIP
The Animal Behavior Society offers discounted rates for student members ($25/year for online subscription or $60/year for paper and online subscription; $15 or $45, respectively, for students in developing nations). Given graduate students usually have minimal disposable income, please consider purchasing ABS memberships for your students. You will support your students and your society with one small donation.
Please contact the ABS Central Office for more information on how to purchase a gift a membership: [email protected]
GEORGE W. BARLOW AWARD
FOR OUTSTANDING STUDENT RESEARCH PROPOSAL
An endowment fund was established in 2014 in memory of George W. Barlow for the purpose of encouraging excellence in graduate student research in the field of animal behavior. The Barlow Award is awarded annually to one top-ranked proposal in the Student Research Grant cycle in accordance with the most recent ABS Student Research Grant competition rules. A cash award and a certificate will be given to the student selected. The amount of the Barlow Award will be the maximum amount allowed for a Student Grant Award as specified in the most recent ABS bylaws or policies.
If you would like to make a US tax-deductible donation to this cause, you may do so online by visiting the ABS donations page at: http://www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/support.php
CALL FOR SYMPOSIA, INVITED SESSIONS & WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -
2017 ABS MEETING
To organize a symposium, an invited paper session, or a workshop for the ABS Annual Meeting, you should first contact the Program Officers to discuss your ideas. We ask you to propose your topic to the Program Officers to make sure that there is no conflict with already existing plans and topics. A symposium should be a profound and stimulating review of an important subject area that currently is a major focus of research. It should be a thorough treatment of past work and current research advances. A symposium should be of general interest to the majority of ABS members. Limited funding is available from ABS to assist with travel, registration, and other expenses for symposia. An invited paper session is a special grouping of papers that focus upon empirical results relating to a particular topic. A workshop is a hands-on exchange of ideas in a more informal setting relative to lectures and symposia. Funding is not available from ABS for expenses related to invited paper sessions and workshops.
Symposia, invited paper sessions, or workshop proposals for the 2017 meeting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada must be submitted through the website: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r5rS8u6qUE534SxsBWhobvEFIlxvb8QBJBo3MWhzOL8/viewform.
Proposals are due on June 30, 2016 before the annual meeting in Missouri (July 30 – August 3: https://www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/2016). The proposals will be circulated to the Executive Committee prior to the Annual Meeting in Anchorage and then discussed at the Executive Committee meeting.
Further information can be found on the ABS website or by contacting the ABS Program Officers: Mark Hauber, E-mail: [email protected] or Jonathan Pruitt, E-mail: [email protected]
JOIN AN ABS COMMITTEE!
If you would you like to volunteer for one of the society's active committees listed below, contact ABS President Emilia Martins Indiana University - Bloomington, E-mail: [email protected]
ABS STANDING COMMITTEE AND SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRS 2015-2016
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: Regina H. Macedo, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia, DF 70910-900, BRAZIL. 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, Psychology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, 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]
ANNUAL MEETINGS
MEETINGS
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR SOCIETY - ANNUAL MEETINGS
2016: July 30-Aug 3, 53rd Annual Meeting Animal Behavior Society - University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
2017: Dates June 12-16, 54th Annual Meeting Animal Behavior Society - University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
OTHER UPCOMING MEETINGS
2016: 16-19 May, International “Stress and Behavior” Neuroscience and Biopsychiatry Conference - 22nd Annual Meeting, St-Petersburg, Russia
2016: June 29-July 2, Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) – Human Behavior and Evolution Society meetingwill take place at the Westin Bayshore in Vancouver, Canada.
2016: 2-9 July, Joint Meeting of the International Society of Arachnology and the American Arachnological Society. For more information go here
2016: 29 July - 4 August, International Behavioral Ecology Congress 16th Annual Meeting - University of Exeter, UK.
2016: 21-27 August, 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: 21-27 August, 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: 4-8 January, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) - Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, Meeting Website. Abstract Deadline will be Thursday 1 September 2016.
2017: 16-18 January, 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: 16-20 February, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) – Annual Meeting: Serving Society Through Science Policy, Boston, MA.
2017: 30 July-4 August Behaviour 2017, 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: 3-7 January, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) - Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. Call for Symposia (Deadline: 25 August 2016)