This is the second call for submissions for the SDAFS summer newsletter. We encourage chapters, student subunits, committees, and individuals to submit articles about: · Unit meeting updates and activity · Meeting announcements · News and events (recently past and upcoming) · Member recognition and student awards · Pressing issues Continue reading
The South Carolina Chapter of AFS and the Planning Committee for the 2014 Southern Division AFS Meeting invites you to historic Charleston, South Carolina on January 23-26 for the 2014 Southern Division Spring Meeting. The Planning Committee is in the process of putting together an exciting program of Workshops, Symposia, Continue reading
Podcasts from over 150 presentations given at the 2013 SDAFS Spring Meeting are now available here. Many thanks to Greg Summers for making these available to members of the Division!
The presentations from the Black Bass Conservation Symposium, at the 2013 SDAFS Spring Meeting in Nashville, can now be viewed as podcasts at: http://129.15.97.19/bbcc There are 52 presentations including many topics from population dynamics to population genetics of black bass species. Over 100 additional podcasts from other symposium and technical Continue reading
The Nashville SDAFS meeting was a huge success. Thanks to Dave Rizzuto, Phil Bettoli, and all the Tennessee Chapter members who organized such a terrific meeting. We are very proud of the recipients of this year’s Southern Division Awards. Please read about their accomplishments here. Thank you, Mike Allen
The Resolutions Committee has adopted a resolution on federal funding for the implementation of the management and control plan for bighead, black, grass, and silver carps in the United States. More information can be found on the Resolutions Page.
Are you going to the upcoming Southern Division AFS Conference in Nashville next month? If so… You are cordially invited to participate in a half-day workshop hosted by the SDAFS Black Bass Conservation Committee. The workshop will focus on progress and next steps for the Native Black Bass Initiative Continue reading
AFS President Boreman to join us in Nashville: American Fisheries Society President and Southern Division member, John Boreman will join us for the Spring Meeting in Nashville. John has graciously agreed to serve as a judge for the Student Best Paper Session on Friday afternoon, and he will be around the Continue reading
SDAFS has been a leader within AFS in terms of our widely emulated effort to podcast Spring Meeting presentations for wider viewing. This groundbreaking effort has been successful due to the tireless work of Greg Summers. We offer sincere thanks to Greg, and we welcome Jessica Baumann (NC) who will Continue reading
By the time we meet in Nashville, the Southern Division will have a new chapter: Puerto Rico! A dedicated contingent of fisheries professionals there has been working for several years to get an AFS chapter established, and this week their hard work came to fruition when the AFS Governing Board Continue reading
Students of the Southern Division–GREETINGS! We have some exciting news for student activities at the upcoming Spring Meeting, to be held Feb 7-10, 2013 in Nashville. 1. A Student-Mentor Lunch will be held on Saturday February 9th. The Student-Mentor lunch pairs a student with a professional to discuss career directions Continue reading
We would like to thank Patrick Cooney for his hard work in developing two excellent logos for the Division vote, and for his continued work to make the image a great fit for the SDAFS. Thanks Patrick!
Congratulations to the following candidates, who were recently elected to serve the Southern Division: Dennis Riecke, Vice-President; Craig Bonds, Secretary/Treasurer; Tim Churchill, Division Representative to the AFS Nominating Committee. Balloting was extremely close, with only a few votes separating all the candidates. The Division extends sincere thanks to Kim Bonvechio, Linda Lombardi, and Continue reading
The podcasts from the 2012 SDAFS Spring Meeting in Biloxi are available for viewing here. There are 152 podcasts published but please be advised that there are presentations that are not viewable. Some were requested by authors not to be published. Others are unavailable because of “technical difficulties” (unplugged mikes, underperforming laptops Continue reading