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ABS MEETINGS CODE OF CONDUCT:

ABS meetings, open to ABS members and those interested in the science of animal behavior, are among the most respected scientific meetings in the animal behavior community. ABS is committed to providing a safe, productive and welcoming environment for all meeting participants and ABS staff. All participants including, but not limited to, attendees, speakers, volunteers, exhibitors, ABS staff, and service providers are expected to abide by this ABS Meetings Code of Conduct. This Code of Conduct applies to all ABS meeting-related events including those sponsored by organizations other than ABS but held in conjunction with ABS events, in public or private facilities.
 

Expected Behavior

•     All participants, attendees, ABS staff, and vendors are treated with respect and consideration, valuing a diversity of views and opinions.

•     Be considerate, respectful, and collaborative.

•     Communicate openly with respect for others, critiquing ideas rather than individuals.

•     Avoid personal attacks directed toward other attendees, participants, ABS staff and suppliers/vendors.

•     Be mindful of your surroundings and of your fellow participants. Alert ABS staff if you notice a dangerous situation or someone in distress.

•     Respect the rules and policies of the meeting venue, hotels, ABS contracted facility, or any other venue.

•    In accordance with ABS policy, request permission from speakers to audio record presentations. Request permission of the Executive Committee and the speaker to video record presentations.

•    Respect presenters’ requests to refrain from disseminating the contents of their presentation on social media or other public platforms. Presenters wishing to opt-out of media dissemination are encouraged to indicate their wishes by including a logo in their presentation, available here.
 

Unacceptable Behavior                       

•  Harassment, intimidation or discrimination in any form will not be tolerated.

•  Physical or verbal abuse of any attendee, speaker, volunteer, exhibitor, ABS staff member, service provider or other meeting guest will not be tolerated.

•  Examples of unacceptable behavior include, but are not limited to, verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, national origin; inappropriate use of nudity and/or sexual images in public spaces or in presentations; threatening or stalking any attendee, speaker, volunteer, exhibitor, ABS staff member, service provider or other meeting guest.

• Disruption of talks at oral or poster sessions, in the exhibit hall or at other events organized by ABS at the meeting venue, hotels, or other ABS contracted facilities will not be tolerated.
 

Consequences                       

•  Anyone requested to stop unacceptable behavior is expected to comply immediately.

•  ABS staff (or their designee) or security may take any action deemed necessary and appropriate, e.g., a verbal warning, immediate removal from the meeting without warning or refund, or reporting to the offender’s employer.

• ABS reserves the right to prohibit attendance at any future meeting.

• If you are the subject of unacceptable behavior or have witnessed any such behavior, please immediately notify an ABS staff member or ABS volunteer in a leadership position. The notifier is not required or expected to discuss the concern with the alleged offender. All complaints will be treated seriously and investigated promptly. Confidentiality will be honored to the extent permitted as long as the rights of others are not compromised.
 

Notification should be done by contacting an ABS staff person on-site or e-mail your concern to [email protected].
 

Anyone experiencing or witnessing behavior that constitutes an immediate or serious threat to public safety is advised to contact 911 and locate a house phone, if available, and ask for security.
 

ABS shall not be responsible for any defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of ABS meeting participants, and shall not be held liable for personal injury, property damage, theft, or damage of any kind suffered by the participants at or in connection with the ABS meeting.

 

 

You may notice that some attendees are designated with a ribbon that reflects their status as ABS Allies. ABS Allies have been trained to offer support to ABS 2023 Annual Meeting participants who are targets of, or who witness, inappropriate behavior which potentially violates the ABS Code of Ethics and Member Conduct. ABS Allies are trained to listen, help targets or witnesses deal with what has happened, and to inform them of their options, including whether to report the conductABS Allies will not participate in any aspect of investigating reports or sanctioning. ABS Allies also commit to creating safe spaces at the meeting by serving as active bystanders.
 
Reporting Code of Conduct Violations:
 
Safe ABS Officer Paula Brantner is available during ABS 2023 to assist attendees with reporting potential ABS Code of Ethics and Member Conduct violations.

Please contact Paula using any method below, and she will follow up with you if you wish to confidentially discuss the incident and what next steps you may wish to take. Your identity will not be shared with others without your consent.


To report a potential violation, please use the following form:
https://bit.ly/ABS2023ConductReport
 

The reporting form is also available in Spanish:
https://bit.ly/ABS-Seguro-2023
 

If you prefer not to fill out the reporting form, please use one of these methods to contact Paula:
e: 
[email protected]
p: +1 202.688.7297

 

 

 

Quiet Room - Located in room C121. This room can be used as a quiet space when needed. 

Earplugs & Masks - Are available in the Diversity Commitee table near the registration desk. 

Oregon Convention Center Accessibility Information

The banquet will be held at the Oregon Zoo from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Transportant will NOT be provided. There is a MAX station at the Zoo (TriMet Washington Park MAX Station). A Google Maps route can be found here.

Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon Rd,
Portland, OR 97221

Dinner will be served and a cash bar will be available. 

Tickets are required for this event. If you purchased a ticket, please make sure to bring your badge with you to the Zoo. 

Parking
A limited amount of parking is available in the lot adjacent to the zoo and throughout the park. Visitors can pay for parking at pay stations with coin or card, or through the Parking Kitty app. Oversized vehicles and trailers can park in designated areas.

Parking rates
Common parking questions

BRONZE SPONSOR:

 

SPONSORS:

NSF

Wild Animal Initiative 

  1. All posters must fit within an area no larger than 42 inches wide X 40 inches high.
  2. There are 2 in-person poster sessions: Wednesday, July 12 & Friday, July 14.
  3. Presenters may hang up their poster on the morning of their assigned session on the board with the correct number leaving the board number visible.
  4. Presenters must stand near your poster to discuss your study and answer questions during the entire session.
  5. You will be able to search for your assigned poster number using the mobile program onsite.
  6. Posters will be hung using push pins (provided onsite).

Wednesday presenters should remove their posters by Thursday at 12:00 PM. Friday presenters should remove theirs by 9:00 AM Saturday. 

  1. Talks will be strictly timed by moderators to keep the concurrent sessions synchronous.
  2. Contributed Talks should be 12 minutes long. There will be 3 minutes allotted for questions & transition between speakers.
  3. Presentations should be formatted as EITHER a PC-compatible Microsoft Powerpoint or PDF file.
  4. Important Note: You will not be able to connect your own computer to the projection system.
  5. All presentations should be formatted for 16:9 aspect ratio.
  6. Please note ‘presenter view’ may NOT be available.
  7. It is highly recommended that speakers bring their presentations on a jump/flash/usb drive to their sessions as back-up.
  8. All speakers are expected to visit the Speaker Ready Area (located in B118) at least 4 hours before the scheduled presentation time (or as early as possible) to upload their talks. Talks should be tested and the final version of your presentation should be saved onto the stations located in the Speaker Ready Area.
THE WARDER CLYDE ALLEE AWARD COMPETITION
The 2023 Warder Clyde Allee Session for Best Student Paper Competition will be held during the annual meeting. All eligible students and recent graduates were encouraged to participate. Any independent graduate student research (including, but not limited to, the doctoral dissertation) is suitable for the application. The work presented may be part of a larger collaborative effort, but the student must be first author and have principal responsibility for conceptualization and design of the research, collection and analysis of the data, and interpretation of the results. The entrant cannot have been awarded the Ph.D. degree before the start of the preceding ABS annual meeting (for the 2021 meeting, this date is August 2021). An individual can enter the session only once per lifetime.
 
FOUNDERS MEMORIAL POSTER PAPER AWARD

The Founders' Memorial Poster Paper Award is to be given for the best Poster Paper presented at the Founders' Memorial Poster session at the annual meeting. First awarded in 1986, each year the award is named in honor of any one or more of the 38 founders of the Animal Behavior Society that have died during the previous 24 months. In a period in which no founders have died the award shall be simply in honor of all founders of the Animal Behavior Society or in the name of a founder who died prior to establishment of the award; the President shall make the decision. No founder should be honored more than once.

Sadly, we no longer have any living founders, the last founder having passed away in 2017. We do however, have 14 founders who have not yet been honored via the Founder’s Award. Thus, moving forward, the Society will honor one of these founders each year via the Founder’s Award.

This year, we honor William C. Young. Young passed away in 1965, very shortly after the establishment of the Society. Known primarily as a neuroanatomist and physiologist, his work laid the groundwork for behavioral endocrinology. Born in 1899, Young completed his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1927. He had a long career at the University of Kansas. Significant work focused on the organizational effects of sex steroid hormones.

 

 
 
CHARLES H. TURNER AWARD
Beginning in 2002, the Animal Behavior Society created the Charles H. Turner Program for undergraduate participation at the annual Society meetings. This program, previously funded by an NSF grant but now supported entirely by the Animal Behavior Society, is a travel grant that supports the goals of increasing the diversity of our membership. Selected Turner Program Fellows will receive support to travel to the Annual Conference, and participate in a one-day workshop structured to integrate students into both the meeting experience and the broader community of the Animal Behavior Society.
 
GENESIS AWARD FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
First presented at the 2000 ABS Annual Meeting, the Genesis Award honors the best undergraduate poster presentation at the meeting. 
 
DIVERSITY FUND STUDENT REGISTRATION AWARD
The Animal Behavior Society is strongly committed to increasing the diversity of attendees at the ABS Annual meeting and within its membership.
 
LATIN AMERICAN TRAVEL AWARD
The Latin American Travel Awards are intended to encourage greater participation of Latin American researchers in ABS meetings, by helping to defray the costs of international travel, housing, and/or meals at meetings. These awards are restricted to Latin American graduate students enrolled in programs in Latin American institutions, who will be presenting a talk/poster at the ABS meeting. Priority will be given to Ph.D. students who are attending an ABS meeting for the first time and who have not received a Latin American Travel Award in previous years. Award values vary according to funds available.
 
GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD
The Graduate Student Travel Grant award is intended to provide financial support for graduate students to attend and present at the annual Animal Behavior Society meeting by helping to defray the costs of travel, housing and/or meals at the meetings.
 
CAREGIVER TRAVEL GRANT
The Caregiver Travel Grant award is intended to provide financial assistance for active ABS members whose caregiving responsibilities for dependent persons would otherwise limit their ability to attend and present at the annual ABS meeting. Dependents include but are not limited to young children and aging parents. Receiving this award does not preclude ABS members from applying for additional funding from ABS.
 
Announcement of ABS 2023 Meeting, Career Award winners, and ABS Fellows will be made at 
the Awards Ceremony scheduled on Saturday, July 15 starting at 1:00 PM.
Click below to view the current plenaries & keynote talk information:
 
https://www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/2023/program-keynote.php
Audio recording of presentations at ABS meetings is permitted only with prior approval of the speaker. Video recording may be allowed only under special circumstances with prior approval of the Program Officers, the Executive Committee and the speaker.

The Registration Desk will be open during the following hours:

Tuesday          8:00 am - 7:00 pm
Wednesday    7:00 am - 7:30 pm
Thursday        7:30 am - 7:00 pm
Friday             7:30 am - 7:30 pm
Saturday         7:30 am - 3:00 pm

The desk is located outside of Oregon Ballroom in the foyer area. 

You may notice that some attendees are designated with a ribbon that reflects their status as ABS Allies. ABS Allies have been trained to offer support to ABS 2023 Annual Meeting participants who are targets of, or who witness, inappropriate behavior which potentially violates the ABS Code of Ethics and Member Conduct. ABS Allies are trained to listen, help targets or witnesses deal with what has happened, and to inform them of their options, including whether to report the conduct. ABS Allies will not participate in any aspect of investigating reports or sanctioning. ABS Allies also commit to creating safe spaces at the meeting by serving as active bystanders.
 
Reporting Code of Conduct Violations:
 
Safe ABS Officer Paula Brantner is available during ABS 2023 to assist attendees with reporting potential ABS Code of Ethics and Member Conduct violations.

Please contact Paula using any method below, and she will follow up with you if you wish to confidentially discuss the incident and what next steps you may wish to take. Your identity will not be shared with others without your consent.


To report a potential violation, please use the following form:
https://bit.ly/ABS2023ConductReport
 

The reporting form is also available in Spanish:
https://bit.ly/ABS-Seguro-2023
 

If you prefer not to fill out the reporting form, please use one of these methods to contact Paula:
e:
[email protected]
p: +1 202.688.7297

 

To view currently open eateries at the Convention Center, please visit: https://www.oregoncc.org/en/eat-now

The ABS Running Group welcomes runners of all levels. The group plans to go around 3mi / 5km and will break into groups based on preferred pace (or distance). Meet at 6am at the MLK Statue on the northeast side of the Oregon Convention Center (https://goo.gl/maps/Hbti5yZEodcJ83p36) on Weds (12 July), Thurs (13 July), and Sat (15 July), and run on the pedestrian paths along the banks of the Willamette River. These will be relaxed, social runs and a nice way to start each day! Interested individuals can email or DM Justin Merry ([email protected];https://twitter.com/jmerry) for the link to our WhatsApp group.

 

The Speaker Ready Room is located in B118 and will be open from 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM Wednesday-Friday and until 10:00 AM on Saturday. 

 

Click below to view the most current symposia information:
 
https://www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/2023/program-symposia.php

Pre-ordered t-shirts can be picked up at the registration desk outside of the Oregon Ballroom.  

A limited number of conference t-shirts are for sale at the registration desk. Shirts are $25 USD and credit cards are accepted. 

 

Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
Portland, Oregon 97232
Phone: 503-235-7575
Email: [email protected]

WiFi access is available for free throughout the Oregon Convention Center for free.
 
Network Name: ABS 2023
Password: abs2023!
Click below to view the most current workshop information:
 
https://www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/2023/program-workshops.php