AFS GENETICS SECTION NEWSLETTER
August 2005
Volume 18, Issue 3
Contents
President’s Message • Salmon SNP Workshop
Review • Wright Award •
AFS Genetics Section Symposia •
Allozyme Poem • New Society
Announcement • Tsunami Relief Fund •
NOAA News about Salmonids:
Conservation Unit Report • Hatchery Policy •
Puget Sound Recovery
Plan • New Books from AFS •
Submit News to AFSGS • Upcoming Events
President’s Message
I hope all of you are enjoying
your summer. It’s been a busy field season for me, but it’s still my favorite
time of year. I’m looking forward to our upcoming annual meeting in Anchorage,
now only about five weeks away. If you haven’t been to Alaska before, this is a
great time to visit. The Society’s website (www.wdafs.org/Anchorage2005/activities.htm)
has information on several Society-sponsored activities and excursions you might
want to take advantage of while in the area.
The Section is sponsoring three symposia at this year’s meeting.
The topics these symposia cover include the Bering-Aleutian salmon International
Survey, the importance of biocomplexity in sustainability of fisheries, and
emerging issues in conservation genetics. Brief symposia announcements are
provided below, and programs for each of them can be found on the meeting
website (www.wdafs.org/Anchorage2005/index.htm). I hope that you’ll be able to
attend many of the interesting talks and posters to be presented these symposia.
I’m pleased to announce that the Section has reached decisions on
the winners of the Stevan Phelps Memorial Award and the James Wright Student
Travel Award for 2005. Thanks to the members of both award committees for their
efforts in evaluating all the excellent submissions this year. The Phelps Award
committee was composed of Ken Currens, Bernie May, and Fred Utter (chair). The
Wright Award committee was composed of Mike Canino, Jeff Olsen (chair), Lisa
Seeb, and John Wenburg. Please consider joining one of these committees in the
future; it’s a rewarding experience. The 2005 award announcements will be made
public at the annual Section meeting in Anchorage.
If you haven’t already, please take a moment to view the
Section’s redesigned website at http:www.fisheries.org/genetics. We are adding
content all the time, thanks to the efforts of webmaster Jeff Stein and
newsletter editor Joel Carlin. We provide a link to the AFS jobs board, and an
events calendar to keep you apprised of upcoming items of interest. We also
have a “hot topics” section for short communications or if you want to sound off
on a topic. Content and feedback are always welcome.
The Genetics Section meeting in Anchorage is scheduled for
Monday, September 12, 5 PM, in the Spruce Room at the Hilton. I hope to see you
there.
Feel free to contact me anytime about Section or Society matters,
and I’ll do my best to address your concerns. My contact information is on the
section website.
Sincerely,
Jeff Hard, AFS Genetics Section President
Geneticists Discuss How to Get Snippy
The SNP workshop (SNP is short for single nucleotide
polymorphism) sponsored by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the
Genetics Section in April was a huge success. Thanks to Applied Biosystems
for financial support for the meeting rooms and seafood reception! Fifty-five
participants traveled to Anchorage from labs from the US, Japan, Russia, and
Canada.
Speakers
set the tempo of the meeting by describing the advantages of using single
nucleotide polymorphisms for cooperative research. The general message was that
the many different SNP assays all offer high-throughput, relatively inexpensive
data that is automatically standard from lab to lab. Many DNA assays estimate
the size of fragment polymorphisms yielding data that tends to be lab-specific;
in contrast, SNP scores of A, C, G, or T are unambiguous. In addition, the fact
that all of these assays interrogate mtDNA as well as neutral and selected
nuclear genes such as MHC provides an array of powerful opportunities for
various types of study.
Labs from
various agencies including US Geological Survey, Oregon State University, NOAA
Fisheries, UC Davis, Washington Department of Fisheries, and Alaska Department
of Fish and Game provided overviews of SNP applications in their research. Ten
of these laboratories are working on a joint project funded by the Pacific
Salmon Commission to develop SNP markers in Chinook salmon. NOAA Fisheries,
ADFG, and Hokkaido University have further SNP collaborations for chum salmon,
and the genetics lab from the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries is
now cooperating to develop a Pacific-rim baseline for SNPs in sockeye salmon.
Registrations and sponsorship netted $700.00 for the Genetics Section treasury,
hopefully to be used to send a student to present a SNP paper at a national
meeting! We also signed up 11 new members as well as 25 affiliate Section
members.
Some of
the workshop abstracts and other relevant papers are located at:
www.cf.adfg.state.ak.us/geninfo/researc/genetics/snpworkshop.php.
Sincerely,
Jim Seeb, AFS Genetics Section President
Congratulations Wright Award
Recipients Ramstad and Schrey !
I am happy to
announce that Kristina Ramstad (University of Montana) and Aaron
Schrey (Southern Illinois University) are co-recipients of the 2005 James
E. Wright Graduate Award. Both will receive a travel scholarship of $400 to
attend the AFS annual meeting in Anchorage. On behalf of the Genetics Section
of the AFS and the other members of the selection committee (Mike Canino and
John Wenburg), I would like to congratulate Kristina and Aaron. I would also
like to acknowledge and thank the other applicants, Kristin Bott (Michigan State
University), and Molly Stephens (University of California, Davis). You both are
conducting interesting and high quality research projects that will advance the
field of Fisheries Genetics.
Sincerely,
Jeff Olsen, AFS Wright Award Committee
AFS GS Sponsored Symposium
Reminders
You have waited, breathless,
too long to not go now…our section is sponsoring three symposia at the Annual
Meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Anchorage. You are encouraged to
attend (especially since those who do attend will probably make fun of you if
you aren’t there).
The Evolution and Ecology of Biocomplexity as a Key to Fisheries
Sustainability
Sustainability of exploited
fish populations is the primary aim of successful management, yet the importance
of biocomplexity in achieving this aim has only recently been recognized. This
functional significance of biodiversity in maintaining the productivity of
natural resources has brought further significance to conservation efforts and
has increased the necessity to understand the evolution, ecology and potential
threats to complex systems. Such an understanding can only be achieved by
interdisciplinary approaches to biocomplexity research. In this symposium, we
aim to bring together evolutionary biologists, ecologists, geneticists and
fisheries scientists, in order to evaluate our present state of knowledge on
biocomplexity and its significance for the resilience of fish stocks to
environmental perturbations and exploitation.
Although examples will be
drawn primarily from Pacific salmonids due to the large amount of data
available, the symposium will include contributions from other species and from
a variety of disciplines, including metapopulation ecology and computer
modeling. We aim to accumulate a series of presentations showing the functional
aspect of biocomplexity, potentially by looking at long-term data sets, and
studies assessing interrelationships between different levels of biocomplexity,
and their effects on fisheries sustainability. Primary, but not exclusive,
questions are: (i) the significance of population structure, in particular
metapopulation structure, for biocomplexity and resilience; (ii) spatial and
temporal patterns of biocomplexity; (iii) the evolution of biocomplexity and its
consequences for population resilience; (iv) anthropogenic selection and its
consequences for biocomplexity; (v) management implications of biodiversity and
the application of the metapopulation concept in fisheries management.
Science Bridging Five Nations: The Bering-Aleutian Salmon International
Survey
For the society’s annual
meeting, the Genetics Section is co-sponsoring a symposium entitled Science
Bridging Five Nations: The Bering-Aleutian Salmon International Survey.
Participants will describe three years of research sponsored by the North
Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission to study the ecology and migration of Pacific
Salmon in the Bering Sea.
The
NPAFC Convention Area, which includes all international waters of the North
Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas, forms the world’s largest marine conservation
area for
Pacific salmon. The NPAFC provides a forum for international coordination
of the regional salmon research programs of its five member nations (Canada,
Japan, Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and the United States). The
Bering-Aleutian Salmon International Survey (BASIS), which began in 2002, is
NPAFC’s coordinated program of cooperative research on salmon in the Bering
Sea. BASIS was designed to clarify the mechanisms of biological response by
salmon to the conditions caused by climate changes.
A central research activity of
BASIS is the study of stock-specific migration patterns of salmon inhabiting the
Bering Sea. In this symposium, scientists from Japan, Russia, and the USA will
describe stock distribution and migration using allozyme analysis and various
DNA markers including microsatellites and single nucleotide polymorphisms.
The Future of Conservation Genetics: Integrating Molecular and
Quantitative Genetic Approaches
Organizers: Jeff Hard and Paul
Moran, Conservation Biology Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, 2725
Montlake Blvd. E., Seattle, WA 98112
Description: Although
molecular markers have long been essential tools for describing genetic
variation in threatened fish species, some of the most critical questions in
conservation relate more to the genetic basis of phenotypic variation than to
variation at neutral markers. The conventional approach to elucidating the
relationship between genotype and phenotype involves often elaborate breeding
programs that are not often feasible for wild, threatened populations. Indeed,
quantitative genetic studies are typically expensive and time-consuming to
conduct and have largely been limited in application to captive pedigreed
populations. Nevertheless, significant advances in molecular
approaches—including tools and analyses—combined with novel applications to wild
as well as cultured populations do hold promise for more fully addressing
questions of the genetic mechanics of adaptation and rapid evolution. How best
can molecular and quantitative genetic tools be brought to bear on understanding
factors that limit viability of wild or conserved populations?
This half-day symposium will
bring together researchers who are actively pursuing this question and who are
making substantial contributions to understanding how these two powerful lines
of inquiry can be combined to enhance the understanding of adaptation. The
symposium will include presentations on evolutionary inference from non-neutral
markers, estimating genetic covariance for suites of complex traits, selection
studies based on inferred pedigrees, identification and estimation of
Quantitative Trait Loci, and studies of effects of selection and drift on
adaptive response. New and advanced genetic technologies and analytical
approaches will become increasingly important in helping researchers understand
how complex phenotypes are inherited and evolve. The synthesis of these methods
will have profound consequences for conservation genetics and evolutionary
ecology. This symposium provides a glimpse into the potential these approaches
offer to conservation biologists working with fish by describing several case
studies that illuminate this potential.
Symposium
sponsors include the Genetics Section and the Northwest Fisheries Science
Center.
Farewell to Allozymes(?)
Written
by Sir Fred Utter, AFS GS Poet Laureate, to the glory and beatification of Ye
Last Allozyme Gelle performed in the Seeb Laboratories.
It’s been more or less, five
full decades, I guess
since allozyme first hit the earth,
coinciding it seems with those DNA schemes
which through Watson and Crick had their birth.
Now the DNA story received all
the glory
and electrophoresis – “so what”,
and with DNA fawning and
allozyme yawning
a full decade passed to
kick butt.
Then things became clubby when Lewontin, Hubby
and others proclaimed
loud and clean
that most earthly creatures
had allozyme features
that never before had
been seen.
This event brought forth
cheers from such great pioneers
as Markert and Stormont
and Smithies,
and particularly spoke to the
fishery folk
who had picked up the
tool in a jiffy.
With blood groups behind them,
the theme “find and grind ‘em”
prevailed; many papers ensued,
but great volumes of data,
just had to wait a
fair time for a
management mood.
to decide that plain genes,
quantified just like beans
could be used in a
meaningfull manner
that couldn’t relate to
survival or weight
and the like for a fish
breeding planner.
In contrast others said,
“allozymes sure are dead;
they’re all under such
strong selection
that their frequencies change
over such a wide range
that they’re worthless
for good stock detection.”
One ominous day that old
scourge DNA
raised its head to
reclaim its old glory.
Words like “microsats”,
“snips” came from managers’ lips
to push allozymes out of
the story.
But it’s no time for tears for
those allozyme years
though its uses just now
appear slack,
fifty years now have passed;
allozymes built to last
are destined again to
come back.
This work first appeared
in the March 2005 issue of "The Journal of Irreproducible Results, The Science
Humor Magazine.” Visit their website at
www.jir.com. Reprinted with
permission of the author.
Announcing a New Zoological
Society: the International Society of Zoological Sciences
The re-estalishment of
International Society of Zoological Sciences was approved by an overwhelming
majority in the General Meeting of 19th International Congress of Zoology.The
Society unites individual scholars and educators with national and professional
organizations to promote an integrative study of animal organisms. The Society
will promote co-ordination, collaboration and co-operation between the different
specialized fields of zoological sciences. To ecourage everybody to join the
Society, the membership of the first 4 year period (2004-2008) is free of
charge.
The major activities of the Society will be maintaining a
website for information exchange, publishing a journal and host the Congress. We
had a meeting with representatives from Blackwell Publishing about the
International Journal of Zoological Sciences. We've reached an agreement to
publish the 1st issue in March, 2005. We are now calling paper for this new
Journal, please find the details on the ISZS website:
www.globalzoology.org.
Lack of interest by news media does NOT mean
that the problems have gone away…
Please, give to the Tsunami
Relief fund
Please consider a generous
contribution to the Tsunami Fisheries Relief Fund, which has been organized
through a partnership between the American Fisheries Society and the Fisheries
Conservation Foundation. The fund is intended to help support ongoing efforts to
rebuild communities dependent on fishing and aquaculture that were affected by
December's massive tsunami. The Network of Aquaculture Centers of Asia (NACA),
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Support to
Regional Aquatic Resources Management, World Fish Centre, South East Asia
Fisheries Development Centers, and Bay of Bengal Programme-Intergovernmental
Organization have developed a Consortium to Restore Shattered Livelihoods and
Rebuild Communities in Tsunami-devastated Nations (CONSRN) to oversee the
restoration strategy for the fisheries and aquatic habitats upon which these
communities ultimately depend. AFS and the Fisheries Conservation Foundation are
encouraging financial and technical assistance of individuals and groups to help
restore the livelihoods of fisheries and aquaculture-dependent communities, and
the aquatic habitat and resources they depend on. More on the Fund and related
efforts can be found at
www.fisheries.org/html/ tsunami_relief.shtml.
Independent Panel Releases
Final Report on Salmon Conservation Units to NOAA Fisheries
An independent scientific
panel released to NOAA Fisheries on June 13 its final report on considering
biological complexity in defining conservation units for salmonids. The panel
was charged by NOAA Fisheries to review the state of the science regarding
designation of conservation units of Pacific salmon and steelhead, with special
emphasis on units that might include both resident and anadromous populations
and/or both hatchery and natural populations. The panelists included: Jody Hey
(Rutgers University; Chair), Ernest Brannon (University of Idaho), Donald
Campton (US Fish & Wildlife Service, Abernathy, WA), Roger Doyle (Genetic
Computation Ltd.), Holly Doremus (University of California Davis), Ian Fleming
(Memorial University of Newfoundland), Michael Kinnison (University of Maine),
Russell Lande (University of California San Diego), Jeff Olsen (US Fish &
Wildlife Service, Anchorage, AK), David Philipp (Illinois Natural History
Survey), Joseph Travis (Florida State University), and Chris Wood (Canadian
Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Nanaimo, BC). The panel was convened as
part of a March 29-31 symposium in Seattle. A link to the full report is
located on the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center’s website (
www.nwfsc.noaa.gov).
NOAA Administration Announces
Hatchery Policy, Listing Determinations for 16 Salmon Species
On June 16, NOAA’s Fisheries
Service issued its final policy for considering hatchery fish in making
Endangered Species Act listing determinations. The agency also made a final
listing decision for 16 salmon populations while deferring eleven others for six
months for further scientific review.
“This policy reinforces our
commitment to protect naturally spawning salmon and their ecosystem,” said
retired Navy Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Ph.D., under secretary of
commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator. “A properly managed
hatchery program can provide a great boost to natural populations of fish and we
intend to use this as a key component of our overall salmon recovery efforts
which, along with favorable ocean conditions, have contributed to record returns
over the last few years.”
The new policy is part of
NOAA’s response to a court ruling in 2001 directing NOAA Fisheries to consider
hatchery fish in ESA listings. Under the policy, hatchery fish will be included
in determining listing status in the context of their contribution to conserving
natural self-sustaining populations, and will be listed if it is determined that
the species as a whole warrants ESA protections. After reviewing more than
20,000 public comments, the agency revised the policy, first introduced last
year, to emphasize the importance of natural spawning to species’ health and to
clarify the contribution hatcheries can make to population health.
“The goal here is to improve
natural, self-sustaining salmon runs,” said Bob Lohn, NOAA Fisheries Northwest
Regional administrator. “This is not simply a numbers game, but a
scientific-based policy to use a well-managed hatchery program as another tool
in salmon recovery.”
NOAA Fisheries also announced
its final decision to retain the listings of 15 Pacific salmon populations, and
to add lower Columbia coho as a threatened species. In addition, the central
California coast coho was changed from “threatened” to “endangered” status,
which better reflects California’s endangered listing under state law. The
agency has extended for six months the listing decision on Oregon coast coho and
10 species of steelhead trout while it conducts further scientific review.
NOAA Administration calls
Shared Strategy’s Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Plan a “Historic Accomplishment”
The head of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) today said a draft recovery plan
for Puget Sound Chinook submitted to the agency by Shared Strategy for Puget
Sound is a “historic accomplishment.”
At a July 7 luncheon in
downtown Seattle celebrating the event, retired Navy Vice Admiral Conrad C.
Lautenbacher Jr., under secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA
administrator, said the plan “represents President Bush’s vision for salmon
recovery coming to fruition. The President’s goal was to develop region-wide
recovery plans from the ground up, relying on those at the local level who are
closest to the issue and who best know how to fix the problems and today we have
taken a giant step toward reaching that goal.”
Lautenbacher added that,
“unless we bring everyone to the table as Shared Strategy has done, we will not
be successful in our ultimate goal of protecting Pacific salmon and the
ecosystems upon which they depend and also ensuring the vitality of the local
economy. This recovery plan will guide salmon policy, resource management and
funding for years to come.”
The draft plan, written by
Shared Strategy, the non-profit group that represents broad salmon-recovery
interests in the region, is part of a what will be a dozen more watershed-level
recovery plans that will eventually form the foundation for NOAA Fisheries
Service’s own comprehensive, regional plan for salmon and steelhead in the
Northwest.
The Endangered Species Act,
which protects more than a dozen salmon populations in the region, requires NOAA
Fisheries Service to produce recovery plans.
Lautenbacher said the
Administration’s recovery plan would help guide how the region’s share of $100
million from the federal Pacific Salmon Recovery Fund is spent. The fund has
already resulted in improvements to Puget Sound that include more than 52,000
acres of salmon habitat and 126 miles of streamside habitat. Money from the fund
was used to acquire over 8,000 acres of land and 232 acres of wetlands to
protect and restore salmon.
Bob Lohn, Northwest regional
director of NOAA Fisheries, said, “Salmon recovery is within our grasp.
Favorable ocean conditions have combined with an aggressive set of recovery
strategies to help many salmon stocks return at record levels. A comprehensive,
coordinated regional strategy will go a long way in continuing this success and
I thank Shared Strategies for their contribution.”
Last April, NOAA Fisheries
Service officially endorsed another recovery plan, for the Washington side of
the Lower Columbia River. Endorsement of the Puget Sound plan could come as
early as September.
Elements from over 60 subbasin
and watershed plans from across the Northwest are in the process of being
incorporated into the first-ever comprehensive, science-based regional recovery
plan for salmon and steelhead in the interior Columbia Basin, the Snake River
Basin, the Oregon Coast and Puget Sound.
The agency said it expects to
receive further draft plans from various recovery teams later this year.
New Books from AFS
I am sure that we can all
agree that one of the pleasures of being a scientist is wallowing in all the
piles of cash that the lucrative field of fisheries research brings. Check out
these new titles from AFS…c’mon, you know that you need another book or two!!!
To order, simply write to American Fisheries Society, Attn: Orders Department,
1650 Bluegrass Parkway, Alpharetta, GA 30004; or you can go online at
www.fisheries.org (click on "Bookstore").
Black
Carp: Biological Synopsis and Risk Assessment of an Introduced Fish
Leo G.
Nico, James D. Williams, and Howard L. Jelks
This book is a detailed risk
assessment and biological synopsis of the black carp, a large mollusk-eating
cyprinid fish native to eastern Asia. A great deal of controversy surrounds the
presence of this foreign fish in the United States. Most of those associated
with the aquaculture industry view black carp as an important tool in
controlling disease-carrying snails that infest aquaculture ponds. Those
interested in mollusk protection and groups involved with aquatic ecosystem
conservation are concerned that continued use of black carp by U.S.
aquaculturists will lead to the species’ establishment in open waters.
Major subjects addressed are
(1) taxonomy, description, and distinguishing characteristics; (2) native
distribution; (3) biology and natural history; (4) history of the species in
world aquaculture; (5) history of introduction within and outside the United
States; (6) use as a biological control agent; (7) alternatives to the use of
black carp; (8) environmental tolerance and potential geographic range; and (9)
risks associated with its introduction.
Special Publication 32
337 pages, hardcover, subject index
List price: $60
AFS member price: $42
Stock number: 510.32C
The
Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout
Thomas
Quinn
Few subjects have generated as
much emotional dialogue around conflicting scientific and policy agendas as the
protection and management of Pacific salmon resources. In this major new work,
Thomas Quinn distills from the vast scientific literature the essential
information on the behavior and ecology of Pacific salmon, including steelhead
and cutthroat trout. Unlike other books that examine only selected life stages,
habitats, or species, this book—richly illustrated with beautiful photographs
and original drawings—thoroughly covers the complete life cycle, emphasizing
common themes and differences among the various species of salmon.
Representing the range of species and geographic regions, the book includes
examples from classic studies by pioneers of salmon biology and from the most
current research to illustrate the important features of salmon life history and
behavior and the complex physical, biological, and human factors that affect
them.
328 pages, 64 in color
Stock number: 637.07P
List price: $35.00
Member price: $28.00
More information and to order:
http://64.224.98.53/publications/catbooks/x63707P.shtml
Monitoring Stream and Watershed Restoration
Philip
Roni, editor.
Millions of dollars are
invested annually to aquatic restoration, yet little guidance exists on how to
monitor and evaluate these activities. This long-awaited book provides a
practical resource for designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation
programs for restoration activities at various scales – from individual,
site-specific actions to multiple projects throughout a watershed.
Chapters are organized around
the major types of restoration techniques, including road improvements, riparian
silviculture, fencing and grazing management, floodplains, estuarine, instream,
nutrient enrichment, and acquisitions and conservation easements. Also includes
chapters on economic evaluation and monitoring design.
The book will particularly
appeal to scientists evaluating restoration techniques, to groups implementing
restoration, and to agencies and entities responsible for funding restoration
efforts.
350 pages, glossary, index
Stock number: 550.47P
List price: $65.00
Member price: $45.00
More information and to order:
http://64.224.98.53/publications/catbooks/x55047P.shtml
Propagated Fish in Resource Management
Mary
Nickum, Patricia Mazik, John Nickum, and Don MacKinlay, editors.
This book
contains the peer-reviewed technical papers presented at a June 2003 symposium
examining the effective use of fish culture as a tool for fisheries resource
management.
The
symposium identified information gaps in technical knowledge, debated the
appropriateness of assumptions and current theories being used to make resource
management decisions, and attempted to reconcile philosophical differences that
have become an obstacle to science-based resource management. Ten AFS Sections
collaborated in this effort that showcased several themes:
Decision Making
and Risk Evaluation in Fish Stocking.
Fishery
Perspectives and Managing for Multiple Goals.
Differences
Between Propagated Fish and Wild Fish.
Fish Health,
Environmental Health and Hatchery Reform.
Propagated Fish
and Resource Management – Science & Agency Perspectives.
Symposium 44
640 pages, hardcover
List price: $75
AFS member price: $53
Stock number: 540.44C
More information and to order:
http://64.224.98.53/publications/catbooks/x54044.shtml
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Calendar of Upcoming Events
August 2005
Aug 21-27 — 2005 International
Symposium on the Biology and Management of Coregonid Fishes, Olsztyn,
Poland. See
www.uwm.edu.pl/wosir/ISBMCF/ .
Aug 25 — Abstract and
registration deadline for 10th QTL-MAS Workshop, Sep 16-17, Agrarian
Impulse Center, Salzburg Austria. See
www.nas.boku.ac.at/ 5399.html.
Aug 31 — Registration deadline
for 31ST Annual Meeting of SEEPAGE (South-East Ecology,
PopulAtion Genetics and Evolution), Hendersonville NC, 23-25 September. See
http://people.clemson.edu/~mptacek/ or contact Margaret Ptacek (mptacek@clemson.edu).
September 2005
Sep 2 — Abstract Deadline for
2006 Annual Meeting of SICB, the Society for Integrative and Comparative
Biology. Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, FL. See
www.sicb.org/meetings /2006/index.php3.
Sep 2 — Abstract deadline for
18th Biennial Conference of ERF, the Estuarine Research Federation, Oct
16-21. Norfolk Marriott Waterside Hotel, Norfolk Virginia. See
www.sgmeet.com /erf2005/.
Sep 2 — Abstract and Early
registration deadlines for Desert Fishes Council 37th Annual Meeting, Nov
16-20. Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila, Mexico. See
www.desertfishes.org/meetings/2005/call.html.
Contact Dean Hendrickson,
deanhend@mail.utexas.edu,
512/471-99774
Sep 11-15 — AFS 135th Annual
Meeting,
Anchorage, AK. Contact Betsy Fritz,
bfritz@fisheries.org, 301/897-8616, ext. 212.
Sep 11-16 — 95th Annual
Meeting of the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies,
Nashville, TN. Contact
info@delaney meetingevent.com, 202/624-7890.
Sep 12 — Abstract deadline for
The Coastal Cutthroat Symposium: Biology, Status, Management, and
Conservation, Sep 29-Oct 1. Port Townsend, WA. See
www.orafs.org/cutthroat.html. Contact Tim Cummings,
Tim_Cummings @fws.gov,
360/604-2512.
Sep 12-15 — 23rd Wakefield
Fisheries Symposium: Biology, Assessment and Management of North Pacific
Rockfishes, Anchorage, AK. See
www.uaf.edu/seagrant/Conferences/rockfish/info.html. Contact Sherri
Pristash,
fyconf@uaf.edu, 907/474-6701.
Sep 15 — Early registration
deadline for 58th Annual Meeting of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries
Institute, Nov 7-11. San Andres Isla, Columbia. See
www.gcfi.org, Contact
gcfi@gcfi.org.
Sep 15 — Poster abstract
deadline for 3rd Annual Genes in Ecology, Ecology in Genes Symposium, Nov
4-6. Radisson Hotel, Kansas City, Kansas. See
www.ksu.edu/ecogen for details.
Sep 16-17 — 10th QTL-MAS
Workshop. Agrarian Impulse Center, Salzburg Austria. See
www.nas.boku.ac.at/5399.html.
Sep 22 — 7th International
Meeting on Single Nucleotide Polymorphism and Complex Genome
Analysis. Hinckley Island Hotel, Hinckley, Leicestershire, UK. Topics
include association studies, haplotypes, methods/strategies, population
genetics, bio-informatics, and ethical dimensions. See
http://snp2005.nci.nih.gov/home.cfm for further details.
Sep 20-24 — Meeting of ICES,
the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Aberdeen, Scotland,
United Kingdom. See
www.ices.dk/asc/2005/. Contact
gorel@ices.dk.
Sep 23-25 — 31ST
Annual Meeting of SEEPAGE (South-East Ecology, PopulAtion Genetics and
Evolution), Camp Kanuga, Hendersonville, North Carolina. See
http://people.clemson.edu/~mptacek/.
Sep 25-29 — The Wildlife
Society 12th Annual Conference, Madison Wisconsin. See
www.wildlife.org.
Sep 29-Oct 1 — The Coastal
Cutthroat Symposium: Biology, Status, Management, and Conservation, Fort
Worden State Park (near Port Townsend), WA. See
www.orafs.org/cutthroat.html. Contact Tim Cummings,
Tim_Cummings@fws.gov,
360/604-2512.
Sep 30 — Early registration
deadline for 3rd Annual Genes in Ecology, Ecology in Genes Symposium, Nov
4-6. Radisson Hotel, Kansas City, Kansas. See
www.ksu.edu/ecogen for details.
October 2005
Oct 15 — Remind your
students! Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid graduate student grant application
deadline. Visit the
SC website for details.
Oct 16-19 — 59th Annual
Conference of SEAFWA, the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife
Agencies: When Practice Meets Policy, St. Louis, MI. See
www.sdafs.org.
Oct 16-20 — ERF 2005,
the 18th Biennial Conference of Estuarine Research Federation. Norfolk Marriott
Waterside Hotel, Norfolk Virginia. See
www.sgmeet.com/erf2005/.
Oct 20 — Abstract submission
deadline for the 13th Ocean Sciences Meeting, a joint meeting of ASLO,
TOS and AGU, which will be held 20-24 February 2006 in Honolulu, Hawaii. See
www.agu.org/meetings/os06/.
Oct 20 — Yellowstone
Cutthroat Trout Symposium, Idaho Falls, Idaho. Contact Scott Christensen,
schristensen@greateryellowstone.org, 208/522-7927.
Oct 28-30 — Building for the
Future: Dr. E. J. Crossman Muskie Symposium, Indianapolis, IN. See
www.muskiesinc.org.
Oct 31 — Submission deadline
for AFS Genetics Society Newsletter.
Send articles / ideas to the Editor at
carlinjl@whitman.edu.
November 2005
Nov 1 — Abstract deadline for
Joint meeting of the European Aquaculture Society and the World
Aquaculture Society, May 9-13, 2006. Florence, Italy. See
www.was.org. Contact John Cooksey,
worldaqua@aol.com, +1 760 432 4270.
Nov 4-6 — 3rd Annual Genes
in Ecology, Ecology in Genes Symposium. Radisson Hotel, Kansas City,
Kansas. See
www.ksu.edu/ecogen for details.
Nov 7-11 — 58th Annual Meeting
of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute, San Andres Isla, Columbia.
See
www.gcfi.org, Contact
gcfi@gcfi.org.
Nov 9-11 — 25th Annual
Symposium of the North American Lake Society: Lake Effects: People/Water
Exploring the Relationship, Madison, WI. See
www.nalms.org. Contact Carol
Winge,
winge@nalms.org, 608/233-2836.
Nov 16-20 — Desert Fishes
Council 37th Annual Meeting, Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila, Mexico. See
www.desertfishes.org/meetings/2005/call.html.
Contact Dean Hendrickson,
deanhend@mail. utexas.edu,
512/471-99774.
December 2005
Dec 2 — Early registration
deadline for the 2006 Annual Meeting of SICB, the Society for Integrative
and Comparative Biology. Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, FL. See
www.sicb.org/meetings/2006/index.php3.
Dec 8-11—First
International Biocurator Meeting for curation of molecular genetic data,
Asilomar, CA, sponsored by the Genetics Society of America. Contact Sue Ree,
rhee@acoma.stanford.edu for details.
Coming up in 2006
Jan 4-8 — 2006 Annual Meeting
of SICB, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Wyndham
Palace Resort and Spa in the Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, FL. Symposia
include “Genomic and Proteomic Approaches in Crustacean Biology,” and
“Integrating Function over Marine Life Cycles.” See
www.sicb.org/meetings/2006/index.php3.
Feb 8-12 — 2006 Southern
Division American Fisheries Society Spring Meeting:
Water Allocation for Fisheries, San Antonio, Texas. See
www.sdafs.org/meetings/2006.
Contact Dave Terre,
dave.terre@ tpwd.state.tx.us,
903/566-1615.
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