Attention all Canadian Ecologists:
CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
INAUGURAL MEETING
Announcement and Call for Posters
The inaugural meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
will be held on 3-4 April 2006 in Montreal at UQAM and McGill University.
The program will include a business meeting to ratify the constitution and
elect officers and Council; a symposium with invited speakers on the theme
of "The importance of ecology and evolution to Canada"; and an information
session concerning the current NSERC Discovery Grant competition and other
NSERC programs. There will also be a poster display.
All who are interested in the field are invited to attend. Please register
by sending an email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], giving your name and
affiliation in the text of the message. The email subject line should
include the following information: last name-initials-registrations. The
deadline for registration is 1st February 2006.
The fee for the meeting is $20 (student member) or $40 (member) or $80 (non-
member). Please send a check made out to "Aquasalmo R&D Inc" care of:
Louis Bernatchez (Meeting), Département de biologie, Pavillon Charles-
Eugène Marchand, Université Laval, Québec QC, G1K 7P4, Canada. These checks
are deposited into a temporary account that we are using until the Society
is properly constituted.
We encourage all participants to present a poster, and hope that the
meeting will be a showcase for Canadian research in ecology and evolution.
If you would like to give a poster, please see instructions below. The
Society is bilingual and all presentations can be made in French or in
English.
Information about the Society and the membership application form can be
found on our website at www.ecoevo.ca.
Instructions for Posters
Submissions may be from any area of ecology and evolution. We also welcome
reports of projects that are interdisciplinary, that consider the need to
communicate with broad audiences, or that explore ways of teaching ecology
and evolution at any level. Please adhere to the following guidelines in
preparing and submitting your abstract:
Evaluation and acceptance of abstracts
* Accuracy and appearance of the abstract are the responsibility of the
author(s).
* The abstracts should be based on new, previously unpublished material.
* Abstracts may be submitted before all analyses and conclusions are in
their final form, but you should report at least preliminary results.
Abstract Submission
* Submit your abstract (see instructions below) by email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] by February 1st, 2006. The email subject line should
include the following information: last name-initials-registration&abstract.
* Notification of Receipt. You will be notified of receipt electronically
using the e-mail address entered on the submission form. If you enter an
incorrect address, you will NOT receive notification. Your abstract will be
assigned an Abstract Reference Number. PLEASE DO NOT FORGET THIS REFERENCE
NUMBER AS IT WILL BE REQUIRED FOR FUTURE COMMUNICATIONS.
* Notification of Acceptance. You will be notified via e-mail by March 1st
2006, if your abstract has been accepted for presentation. NOTE: If you
submit your abstract early, it will be reviewed promptly and you will be
notified of its status earlier.
* If you encounter problems during abstract submission, contact:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] The email subject line should then include the following
information: last name-initials-problemssubmission.
Preparing abstracts for submission
Abstracts should be submitted as text (.txt) or rich text (.rtf),
documents. Use the following headings to prepare your abstract:
1. Authors and Affiliations
2. Primary Contact (corresponding author with full contact information)
3. Title of Abstract: The title is limited to 255 characters (about 15
words). Do not type the title in all capital letters. It should be like any
other sentence, e.g. Nutrient cycling in stream ecosystems.
4. Body of Abstract: The body of abstract is limited to 1000 characters
(about 150 words). Keep the abstract to one (1) paragraph only
5. Keywords: You may include up to (4) keywords. Each keyword is limited to
64 characters
Cancellations
* Before submitting an abstract, authors should be confident that they will
attend the meeting and make the presentation.
* If circumstances prevent attendance, the author should attempt to find
another person to make the presentation.
* If cancellation is unavoidable, the author should notify:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] as soon as possible. The email subject line should then
be: last name-initials-cancellation.
