BOTANY & Mycology 2009 will be a joint meeting with the Mycological Society of America. It will be held at Snowbird, Utah, July 25 – 29, 2009. Societies participating in BOTANY 2009 will include: the American Bryological and Lichenological Society (ABLS), the American Fern Society (AFS), the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT), the Botanical Society of America (BSA) and the Mycological Society of America (MSA).
Members of all participating societies are encouraged to organize and lead scientific field trips at the annual meeting. Scientific field trips can be either theme-based or more general in scope. In addition, field trips can be single-day or multi-day events and typically take place on the days before or after the paper, poster, and symposium sessions.
Field trips are ticketed events and generally have limited enrollments. Careful consideration must be given to logistical issues. Field trip organizers will work closely with a Local Field Trip Coordinator, who will also solicit field trip ideas from local and regional botanists.
Proposals for field trips should include the following: 1) your name and email, 2) title of the field trip, 3) name and contact information for the organizer or organisers, 4) a brief description of the field trip, 4) preferred day(s) of the field trip, 4) special needs and enrollment limit, 5) tentative budget (e.g. lunches, admission fees, printing of field guides and etc. as well as hotel rooms if necessary, an estimated cost per participant). The Conference Director will coordinate the transportation for all the trips as a package to get the most economical costs for each trip but the proposal should include the type of transportation appropriate for the area. (Full size bus, van, cars, etc.)
Submission of field trip proposals should be carried out on-line using this “Electronic Field Trip Proposal Submission Form” Copies of the proposals will be sent electronically to the sender, the BSA Conference Director, and the BSA Program Director. The deadline for receiving field trip proposals is: November 15, 2008.
2. TITLE of FIELD TRIP
This request will be sent electronically by pressing the "Submit Proposal" button. Pressing this button sends your proposal via e-mail to the Society Program Directors and BSA Conference Manager noted below.
For additional information or questions, contact:
Johanne Stogran Botanical Society of America (614) 899-9356 E-mail: johanne@botany.org
For additional information or questions, please contact the appropriate program director:
MSA Marc Cubeta, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 - (919) 513-1227, marc_cubeta@ncsu.edu
ABLS Karen Renzaglia, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901 - (618) 453-3229, renzaglia@plant.siu.edu
AFS Michael Windham, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 - (919) 660-7293, mdw26@duke.edu
ASPT Patrick Herendeen, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL 60022 - (847) 835-6956, pherendeen@chicagobotanic.org
BSA David Spooner, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 - (608) 890-0309, david.spooner@ars.usda.gov
And/Or your sponsoring BSA Sectional Program Chair (www.botany.org/governance/sections.php).
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