ABS 2016 Preliminary Program
The ABS 2016 Preliminary program is now available! Click the link below for details on Symposia and Plenary talks as well as poster sessions and special events.
http://www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/2016/program-preview.php
Please contact Mark E. Hauber ([email protected]) for any requests/inaccuracies.
Opening Reception
Saturday, July 30th
Greet old friends, meet new ones, and enjoy some great food and drink.
This event is included at no additional cost with your registration.
ABS Annual General Meeting & Raffle
Monday, August 1
What is your society doing with your money? How much is spent on graduate student research awards? What advice does the editor of Animal Behavior have about publishing your papers? Hear brief overviews of ABS business, committee accomplishments and budget of the last year, have your say on policy, and enter a raffle to win a cash prize that will cover your registration costs, or a mystery prize (you can only win if you are there!).
ABS Award Ceremony
Wednesday, August 3
Immediately following the last talks of the meeting, join us for a brief ceremony to fête winners of career awards, and applaud this year’s recipients of the Genesis, Founder and Allee awards.
ABS Closing Banquet
Wednesday, August 3
This is a ticketed event that carries an additional fee.
The conference banquet will be held in the Memorial Union on Wednesday evening. Food will consist of traditional Missouri BBQ with standard fixings, catered by a local BBQ restaurant.
Live music will be provided by Ironweed, a local band that offers both bluegrass and Cajun dance tunes. The band has been a crowd pleaser at festivals throughout the region since 1994.
33rd Annual ABS Film Festival
Organizer: Barbara Clucas
Saturday, July 30th
ABS Outreach Fair: ADVENTURES IN ANIMAL BEHAVIOR - Free
Saturday, July 30
Time: TBD
There is a suite of public events planned for the first day of the ABS 2016 Missouri meeting, which currently include the sixth annual ABS outreach fair, a symposium hosted by the ABS Applied Animal Behavior Committee and Certified Applied Animal Behaviorists, a public talk,and a scavenger hunt of behavior labs.
Undergraduate Luncheon & Reception
Saturday, July 30
The reception provides a networking platform for undergraduate students attending ABS, and an opportunity for ABS faculty members to introduce their programs to potential graduate school applicants. The event includes lunch for undergraduate attendees. The ABS Diversity Committee has developed this event as part of an on-going effort to broaden participation of under-represented groups within the field of Animal Behavior, with an emphasis on translating the diverse demographics evident at the undergraduate level to the graduate and professional levels in the field.
Student Party
Tuesday, August 2
Undergradruate students, graduate students and post-graduate students welcome to thi sevent happening in town. Exact location TBD.
Charles H. Turner Program
Saturday, July 30 (by invitation only)
The Charles H. Turner Undergraduate Program, established in 2002, provides to undergraduate participants support for travel to the annual conference of the Animal Behavior Society. Participation in a pre-meeting Turner Program workshop is by invitation only, selection of participants is competitive, and students are encouraged to present research at the conference. The full-day workshop prepares students for the conference and provides advice on: careers in animal behavior, meeting faculty and graduate students at the conference, presenting posters, and identifying and applying to appropriate graduate programs. Each student is assigned a mentor, based on the student’s interests, and the program typically supports from 8-12 students per year, depending upon the meeting location. The goal of the Turner program is to attract and retain in the field of animal behavior highly-qualified graduate and undergraduate students from groups historically under-represented in the STEM fields.
NOTICE TO DEVELOPING NATION SCIENTISTS PLANNING TO ATTEND ABS 2016
The Latin American Affairs Committee and/or Diversity Committee can provide letters of invitation to help scientists (faculty or students) from developing countries obtain travel funding from their universities in order to attend the ABS meeting in 2016. If such a letter would be useful in helping you to obtain funding, please contact the following person, depending on whether you are from a Latin American country or elsewhere, to request an invitation. Please provide your name and address, as well as the title or topic of the paper you will be presenting at the conference.
Latin American Countries: Lilian Tonelli Manica, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR 81531-990, BRAZIL. E-mail: [email protected]
Other Countries: Daniel Howard, Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, US. E-mail: [email protected]
TEACHING WORKSHOP
July 30, 2016
Practicing Best Practices in Teaching Animal BehaviorWe invite ABS members to a special workshop that will take place on Saturday, July 30, at University of Missouri Columbia. We will not have invited speakers who talk ABOUT teaching. Instead, four master teachers will actually model and teach four different types of classes. This will allow participants to more easily incorporate these lessons into their animal behavior courses. This workshop is targeted at graduate students, post-docs and new faculty, but everyone is welcome. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Click here for speaker information and how to pre-register.
PUBLIC DAY
July 30, 2016, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Animals Helping in Society
Hosted by the ABS Applied Animal Behavior Committee and Certified Applied Animal Behaviorists
This event has been approved for CEUs by CCPDT and IAABC
The goal of the 2016 Public Day is to educate the community and ABS members about dilemmas facing the service animal community and regulatory agencies, and the role of Animal Behavior professionals.
Animals play multiple and diverse roles in the lives of humans. The positive effects of the human-animal bond are well documented by empirical research, and supported by both the pet-owning public and the professional pet service community.
Service animals are a special arena of the human-animal bond, which includes therapeutic animal partners, working dogs, counseling programs, and the legal world of human-animal regulatory agencies, as well as the professional animal behavior community.
A wide range of species are employed in the service role to meet the diverse needs that arise from health impairment conditions. Animal Behavior professionals have a specialized knowledge base for advancing these therapeutic partnerships. This Public Day event aims to enlarge our understandings of these relationships.
Speakers include:
Sue McDonnell, PhD, CAAB & Robin Foster, PhD, CAAB. Selection and Retention of Therapy Horses
Rebecca Johnson, PhD, RN, FAAN. Humans and Animals: Wellness Benefits for Both Ends of the Lead
Simon Gadbois, PhD. The Science of Sniffer Dogs
James C. Ha, PhD, CAAB. Stress and Well-being in Working Dogs: Principles and Evidence
Kristen Collins, MS, ACAAB, CPDT. Using "Helper Dogs" to Rehabilitate Canine Victims of Animal Cruelty
Panel Discussion. Issues in Service Animal Certification
Save the Date!
June 12-16, 2017 at the University of Toronto Scarborough
Plan to join us for the 54th annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society
ABS 2017 will be held at the University of Toronto’s Scarborough Campus (UTSC). The call for symposia is now open, and we urge you to consider contributing to the program of what promises to be an exciting meeting. See you in Toronto next year!
Conference hosts: Maydianne Andrade & Andrew Mason
Local Organizing committee:
Darryl T Gwynne
Locke Rowe
Marla Sokolowski
John Ratcliffe
