Second Announcement
You are invited to participate in

THE 47th ANNUAL NORTHEAST ALGAL SYMPOSIUM

“The Globalization of Phycology via the Internet”

April 18-20, 2008

University of New Hampshire
Durham, New Hampshire

Registration and Abstract deadlines
Monday, March 24, 2008

The Northeast Algal Society will convene its annual meeting and symposium at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH on the weekend of April 18-20, and will include a wide range of oral and poster presentations pertaining to the many facets of Phycology. As is always the case, the 2008 NEAS meeting will provide a relaxed and informal environment for students and professionals alike to meet colleagues, exchange ideas and make new friends.  Awards will be presented for outstanding student posters and oral presentations. NEAS members take great pride in our commitment to student advancement and extend an especially warm welcome to all students.

Our theme this year is “Globalization of Phycology via the Internet” and we are thrilled to have Dr. Michael Guiry as our key-note speaker. We hope that professionals will consider giving talks that provide their vision of the roll of Internet tools and global databases in the future of Phycology.

Registration & Housing Information
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Registration, hotel reservation, extra banquet tickets, abstract submission are being taken care of online.  This year, payment for registration and accommodations should be made by credit card (MC or Visa) when you register. Credit cards will not be accepted for on-site registration.

Registration is $85.00 for students & retired members and $135 for professionals.   The registration fee includes NEAS membership dues, the Friday evening reception, the Saturday banquet, breaks and lunch on Saturday and Sunday. Extra banquet tickets are available for $39. If you cannot attend the meetings but wish to renew your membership and receive the symposium abstracts, the membership dues is $20 for professionals or $10 for retirees and students.

The talks and poster sessions will be held in the UNH Memorial Union Building; lunch will be at the award-winning Holloway Commons. A Friday evening reception and the Saturday night banquet & auction will be held at the New England Center (NEC). Hotel rooms have been reserved at the NEC Hotel and rates are $127.50 per night for a single or double room. Double rooms at the New England Center shared by students will be partially subsidized by the NEAS Development Fund and will be only $50 per room (i.e. $25 per person) per night; but this is limited to the first 20 rooms, so register early. All attendees will need to reserve and pay for rooms along with their NEAS registration. Do not try to make arrangements with the NEC hotel directly.

You can pick up your registration materials at the NEAS Registration table in the New England Center from 6:30-8:00 pm Friday evening or in the Memorial Union Building (MUB) on Saturday morning.

Abstract Submission

Abstracts should be typed in MS Word (MAC or PC), single-spaced, using 12 point Helvetica, or Arial font, with 1" margins on top and sides and must be no longer than 325 words including the title, authors and affiliations. For multi-author talks, please underline the presenting author. Abstracts should be submitted no later than March 24th.

Example:

CAN ALGAE USE FLIGHT TO AVOID HERBIVORY?   Gary Saunders1 and Peg Van Patten2.  1Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B., Canada, E3B 6E1; 2University of Connecticut, 1084 Shennecosset Rd., Groton, CT 06340, USA.

During a recent survey of phycological literature from the 1800s we came across a reference …

Abstracts should be submitted as an MS Word file attached to an email chris.neefus@unh.edu. The deadline is March 24. In addition, authors must complete the abstract submission form that is part of the online registration.

PowerPoint on an MS-Windows-based computer will be available for oral presentation. You should bring your file on a USB drive. There will be no use of personal computers for presentations. If you have something that you are unsure will work on the computer provided, please contact Chris Neefus well in advance to verify that it will work.

Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research Awards

The society supports three competitions for the best oral or poster presentations of student research.  The President's Award is for the best undergraduate oral or poster presentation, and there are separate Wilce Awards for the best graduate oral and best graduate poster presentation.  Presentations will be judged on the level of student independence, experimental design, methods, data interpretation and presentation.  If you are interested in competing (and all students should be), please sign up in the registration material below. 

NEAS Auction!!!!!

Celebrity auctioneer Glen Thursby will host THE ANNUAL AUCTION on Saturday night following the Banquet.  All proceeds go to the Student Fund.  What can YOU do besides bring lots of $$$ to this event?  If you have an item of phycological (or other) interest to donate to the auction, please bring them.  We already have a large number of books, so we are particularly interested in other items. Please send a list of items that you are bringing to the meeting ahead of time so that the auction tags can be pre-filled out.  Just about anything will be acceptable including old reprints, pet algae, foods based on edible (?) algae, favorite (or not) wines, sculptures or other hand-made items, clothing from august phycological personalities, NEAS t-shirts or mugs from the Pleistocene, and last, but not least, compromising pictures of colleagues.  This last item is particularly desirable if your pictured colleagues will be at the meeting with Big Bucks.  We would hate for a photograph to find its way to a phycological web site without the person(s) depicted in the photo having had a chance to purchase it!  Students will receive a coupon in their registration packet that is good for 50%-off any one item they buy at the auction (live or silent).

Travel Directions & Parking

Parking: You can obtain a free permit from the attendant at the New England Center (NEC) to use the NEC parking lot. It is about a 15 minute walk from the NEC to the Memorial Union Building (MUB) where the talks are being held (see campus map). The closest available parking to the MUB are Lot B and Lot C (see campus map).You can park there on weekends without a permit. From Lot B, walk across College Road and go around the left side of 10 College Rd , past Randall Hall; there will be a ramp into the MUB. Once inside the MUB, you’ll need to go up one level to get to the meeting rooms (MUB Theater I and Rooms 332 and 334). From Lot C cross Quad Way at the West end of the lot, walk up the stairs to the entrance to the MUB. Inside walk up two flights of stairs to the 3rd floor. There is also an elevator available on the far side of the bookstore.

By Train:  Durham is a stop on the Amtrak "Downeaster that travels between Boston MA and Portland ME. The New England Center is within walking distance of the rail station (see campus map).

By Bus: C J Trailways has hourly service between Boston (South Station and Logan Airport) and Portsmouth NH (Pease International Tradeport). From there you can take a COAST trolley to Fox Run Mall, and catch a Wildcat Transit Busto Durham. Or take C J Trailway from Boston to Dover NH and catch the Wildcat Transit to Durham.

By Car:  If you want to use MapQuest,Google Maps, or GPS for directions, the New England Center (NEC) Hotel is located at 15 Strafford Ave., Durham NH 03824. Parking Permits for the NEC lot are available from the attendant or the hotel registration desk

From the South

• Travel North on Interstate 95.
• A few miles north of the Hampton Toll Plaza move to the left lane. 
• Take Exit 4 (Left) onto Spaulding Turnpike for 5 miles.
• Take Exit 6 West onto Route 4 West for 5½ miles to the Madbury Road traffic light.
• Turn Left onto Madbury Road and go one mile to the Edgewood Road stop sign.
• Turn Right onto Edgewood Road for approximately 1/2 mile to Stafford Ave
• Turn Left onto Strafford Avenue and go one block to the New England Center (on your right).

From the North

• Travel South on Interstate 95.
• Take Exit 5 onto Spaulding Turnpike for 5 miles.
• Take Exit 6 West onto Route 4 West for 5½ miles to the Madbury Road traffic light.
• Turn Left onto Madbury Road and go one mile to the Edgewood Road stop sign.
• Turn Right onto Edgewood Road for approximately 1/2 mile to Stafford Ave
• Turn Left onto Strafford Avenue and go one block to the New England Center (on your right).

For more information please contact Chris Neefus (chris.neefus@unh.edu), UNH Department of Plant Biology or Anita Klein (anita.klein@unh.edu), UNH Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Durham NH 03824