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Notes from the Chapter Meeting
At the 2005 Annual Wetlands Meeting
June 7, 2005
Charleston, SC
(Notes by Kim Ponzio, Ann Jennings, and Will Conner)
There was a great turnout at the SAC business meeting (33, see list below) held during the Annual SWS Conference in Charleston, South Carolina. Members witnessed Steve Miller handing off the SAC presidential position to vice chair Greg Noe. Kim Ponzio was elected interim vice chair to fill the vacancy Greg Noe left with his promotion. William Conner will continue to serve as Executive Secretary/Treasurer and Shanin Speas will stay on as our Web Master.
The treasurer’s report indicated that, even after awarding 14 student travel grants to the annual meeting, the chapter still has $8,362 in a checking account and a $15,000 CD. In addition, the chapter will receive 25% of the proceeds from the 2005 annual meeting.
The South Atlantic Chapter’s student travel award was added to monies from USGS and 14 students were presented travel awards ranging from $250 to $500. Awards were made and presented to:
Name Award ($$ requested) SchoolShuwen Li 300 University of Memphis
Katie Hossler 250 Ohio State
Joe Baustian 500 Louisiana State
Jorg Helmschrot 500 University of Jena, Germany
Jianbiao (Jeff) Lu 350 North Carolina State University
Amy Seim 500 Christopher Newport University
Lawrance Oats 500 University of Wisconsin - Madison
Laura Shirley 475 Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
David Bailey 500 Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences
Scott Perez 500 Cornell University
John Connolly 500 University College Dublin
Jennifer Hammel 300 North Carolina at Asheville (undergraduate)
Jennifer Henke 350 University of Georgia
TOTAL $5,525Four student research grants ($500 ea) were formed and a subcommittee to develop application guidelines and administer award of the grants was created with 2 executive members (Steve Miller, Greg Noe) and two non-executive members (Shirley Denton, Dianne Hall).
Two student travel grants of $1,000 each were approved to attend the 2006 Conference in Australia.
Ideas were discussed for a Fall workshop to potentially be held in the Carolinas, including Chesapeake Bay Riparian Buffer Restoration. If you have additional ideas or suggestions, contact Greg Noe.
A cross-section was taken from the members as to whether they hailed from educational institutions, state or federal governments, private companies or other (retired). The greatest number of attendees were associated with educational institutions, followed by government employees and private entities.
A group picture was taken.
LIST OF ATTENDEES:
Name email address
Steve Miller sjmiller@sjrwmd.com
Greg Noe gnoe@usgs.gov
William Conner wconner@clemson.edu
Shanin Speas shanin.speas@dep.state.fl.us
Ann Jennings ajennings@cbf.org
Changwoo Ahn cahn@gmu.edu
Jennifer Richards richards@fiu.edu
Joel Trexler trexlerj@fiu.edu
Shirley Denton sdenton@biologicalresearch.com
Mike Ross rossm@fiu.edu
Amy Seim amy.seim@cox.net
Frank Day fday@odu.edu
Scott Perez sp287@cornell.edu
Dianne Hall dhall@sjrwmd.com
Kimberli J. Ponzio kponzio@sjrwmd.com
David E. Bailey debailey@vims.edu
Dianna Hogan dhogan@usgs.gov
Libby Norris Lnorris@cbf.org
Alani Taylor ant4@uga.edu
Dan Kroes dkroes@usgs.gov
Peter Caldwell pvcaldwe@unity.ncsu.edu
Katie Hossler hossler3@osu.edu
John Holloway johndh@stantec.com
Jennifer Henke jahenke@bugs.ent.uga.edu
Russell Reynolds Russell.reynolds@earthtech.com
Ken McLeod mcleod@srel.edu
Dan Tufford tufford@sc.edu
John Connolly john.connolly@ucd.ie
Jorg Helmschrot joerg.helmschrot@uni-jena.de
Charles Lane lane.charles@epa.gov
R. Harold Jones rharoldjones@aol.com
Cliff Hupp crhupp@usgs.gov
Jim Perry jperry@vims.edu
Mel Thomas mthomas@koontzbryant.com
Jim Pahl jimpahl@duke.edu
Jianbiao (Jeff) Lu jluz@ncsu.edu
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