The American Naturalists Society is exploring the possibility of
offering financial support to regional meetings, such as those of the
Southeast Ecological Geneticists (SEEG), the Guild of Rocky Mountain
Ecologists and Evolutionary Biologists (GRUMPS) or the now defunct
California Population and Evolutionary Genetics group (CalPEG).
Possible venues of support might be to fund a keynote speaker, a small
symposium or mixers. The challenge we face is that these societies
exist as loose consortia with no fixed address or people in charge.
As a first step in developing a plan, we would like to compile a list
of such societies and some basic information about each of them. Who
are they? When to they meet? How many undergraduates, graduate
students, post-docs and faculty usually attend? We would also like to
compile a short contact list for people affiliated with each society
so that we can communicate with them to develop ideas for how we can
enrich their conferences. If any of you can help, then please answer
these questions and give us the names and e-mail addresses of possible
contacts. Send this information to: [email protected]. Please
put “regional conference information” in the subject line so that I do
not confuse you with spam.
