50TH ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF PSA
July 14 - 19, 1996
University of California, Santa Cruz, California
The 50th anniversary meeting of the Phycological Society of America will be held at the University of California, Santa Cruz from July 14-19, 1996. These meetings will feature four plenary speakers:
- Bruce Parker - "Emergence of Phycology in the New World and PSA"
- Ursala Goodenough - "Genes of the Mating Type Locus in Chlamydomonas"
- Jane Lubchenco - "The Ecological and Evolutionary Significance of Algal Life Histories"
- Robert Haselkorn - "Development and nitrogen fixation in Cyanobacteria").
The plenary presentations will be followed by three morning symposia on related topics:
- History of PSA and Phycology (anticipated speakers include John Kingsbury and John LaClaire);
- "50 years studying sexualilty in green algae" (anticipated speakers include Richard Starr and Lathar Jaenicke, Annette Coleman, Alan Musgrave)
- "Cyanobacteria as model systems for studying biological processes" (anticipated speakers include Arthur Grossman, Wim Vermass, John Waterbury and Susan Golden).
The afternoons will feature several contributed paper sessions, including the Bold Award session, and poster sessions will provide formal presentations; posters will remain on display in a conspicuous area throughout the entire meeting.
Social Events
To celebrate our Golden Anniversary, several very special social events have been planned for the meeting. Monday evening, we will be bused to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which will be opened only to our group. We will have three hours to explore the Aquarium and to enjoy a catered dessert while surrounded by the flora and fauna of the deep. The new addition to the Aquarium (which is larger than the original Aquarium) is scheduled to open in March 1996 so there will be many new things for all to see. Tuesday night we will have a local King Salmon BBQ followed by the PSA auction. Wednesday will provide a break in the paper sessions so that participants can participate in local field trips which will include a trip to collect intertidal algae along 17 Mile Drive (Carmel) (subtidal collections and laboratory facilities with microscopes will be provided upon return to UCSC) and possible trips to see Elephant Seals, birds and native coast plants at AÒo Neuvo, Salmon fishing or sailing on Monterey Bay, wine tasting and sight-seeing on the Big Sur Coast, or a hike or train ride (narrow gauge steam train) in the giant redwoods. Wednesday evening will be devoted to the poster sessions and an open Video session where all are invited to bring their best algal videos. And Thursday night we will wine and dine under the stars in the world famous Coconut Grove Ballroom, located on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Following dinner and the awards ceremony, we will dance the night away to the sounds of the Royal Society Jazz Orchestra of San Francisco. This Jazz band, which is known for their authentic recreations of big band music for the "Jazz Age" and Swing Era" (1920s & 30s), is world-renowned and particularly beloved in San Francisco where Mayor Frank Jordon recently proclaimed them "San Francisco's Official Jazz Band". The meeting will conclude after lunch on Friday, July 19th.
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Site and Accommodations:
The Santa Cruz campus occupies 2,000 acres on the west side of the city of Santa Cruz, on Monterey Bay, about 75 miles south of San Francisco and 35 miles southwest of San Jose. Expansive meadows at the campus entrance gradually slope up to a redwood forest that covers most of the site. Participants may stay in the Crown/Merrill College apartments. These modern apartments are designed with two bedrooms which share a bathroom and common living area. Participants opting for a single room will be housed in a room without another person; however, they will still share the kitchen and bathroom with other participants. Participants opting for a double room will share a room with another person and a bath/kitchen/living area with 2-3 other people. Special apartments for handicapped participants are available upon request. As the kitchen stoves are not turned on during the summer, cooking is not possible in the apartments. However, the refrigerators are functional. The living-room area includes only furniture and no phone, TV or alarm clocks are included in the rooms. Because of the shared living facilities, plan to bring along a bathrobe. You will also need your own alarm clock as breakfast will begin promptly each day at 6:45 am and the plenary talks at 8:30 am. The rates listed below will likely be increased by 3 - 5% prior to our meeting. The price of a single room, 3 meals a day (excellent cafeteria-style food), linen service, and a "B" parking permit is currently $70.25 per day. The cost of a shared room (2 people per room), 3 meals a day, linen service and a "B" parking permit is currently $58.25 per day. Participants who stay in the apartments must pay for all 5 nights (Sun - Thursday) as this is the only way the conference office will book these rooms. Those attendees wishing to come to only 1-2 days of the meeting might wish to book their own hotel rooms independently. A list of recommended hotels (and campgrounds) and their phone numbers will be sent with the second mailing. Please be advised that Santa Cruz is an extremely popular summer tourist region and hotels are booked very early and charge relatively high rates ($125+ per night). Participants who elect to stay off campus may purchase meals at the dining facilities if arranged for in advance. If some of you wish to arrive Saturday night (to take advantage of cheaper airfares), you will be able to book a dorm room and Saturday dinner if so desired. However, you will not be able to get into the apartments until Sunday afternoon. Information on child care and transportation from airports to Santa Cruz (either San Jose International or San Francisco International) will be included in the second and final mailing. Please be advised that the Crown/Merrill apartments are not "child-safe" with unprotected stairwells and other potential hazards to small children. The conference office strongly recommends that families with small children (under 12) find accommodations at local hotels or campgrounds. The weather in July is generally extremely mild. There will be no rain. The characteristic summer pattern is that sea fog comes in about 5 PM along the coast up to the elevation of the campus and above. Consequently the night temperatures can drop to 60 F or below (rarely) though Santa Cruz rarely experiences the fog wind that characterizes San Francisco in the summer. The fog "burns off" about 10 am and the daytime temperature may rise to 70-75 F (rarely any warmer in July). Thus, you will need to bring some warmer clothes (sweater, jacket or wind breaker ) for the evening though most day time temperatures permit shorts and sandals etc. The weather will likely be better than that of the 1988 meeting in Asilomar but we will sell sweatshirts for those of you who overestimate the temperature conditions in central California.
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- Registration, Abstracts and Housing:
The second mailing will include registration information and materials, and a housing package as well as general information on childcare, local hotels and campgrounds and shuttle services from the airports to Santa Cruz. We anticipate that this will be sent an enclosure with the February issue of the Journal of Phycology. The call for abstracts accompanies this announcement and we are requesting that abstracts be submitted directly via e-mail, but alternatives will be provided for those of you not yet on the internet. Lastly, payments for housing will be made directly to the University of California, Santa Cruz Conference Office and will be due by 1 June 1996. We look forward to seeing all of you at this most special meeting of the Phycological Society of America and hope that you will be be able to attend! If you have any questions you may contact any member of the Program Committee listed below.
Lynda J. Goff, Local Organizer , Program Committee Member E-mail: goff@darwin.ucsc.edu
Paul Kugrens, Program Committee Chair E-mail: pkugrens@lamar.colostate edu
Bruce Parker, Program Committee Ad Hoc Member E-mail: genera@vtm1.cc.vt.edu
As reported in the 1995 No. 1 issue of the Newsletter, Bruce Parker is soliciting ideas for the 1996 Annual Meeting. Bruce is organizing a Plenary Session on "The History of PSA and Phycology," which will include a half-day session on these topics, focusing on prominent early phycologists who played major roles in the development of American phycology. Suggestions for other activities may be sent to Bruce, whose address is included in the article on "The Phycological Newsletter in 1996" later in this issue.
Future PSA Meetings
The meetings for 1997 are tentatively scheduled for Montreal. PSA would meet with AIBS. The membership, at the Business Meeting in Breckenridge, tentatively approved this venue but also asked the Program Director to explore other possibilities. Paul Kugrens, Program Director, will be contacting the American Society of Plant Physiologists (meeting in Vancouver), the North American Benthological Society and ASLO about holding joint meetings. Suggestions from subscribers about the 1997 site would be appreciated.
Contact: Paul Kugrens, Professor, Department of Biology
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
pkugrens@lamar.colostate.edu
Telephone: 970-491-7551; fax: 970-491-0649
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PSA Listserv
The Phycological Society of America has established a subscription list on the Internet using ListServ at Colorado State University to facilitate conducting society related business and other functions among its members. Currently, membership includes only PSA members, and this initial subscription list contains all PSA members for whom correct E-mail addresses are known. The Executive Committee decided at this year's meeting that membership on this list will not be restricted to PSA members and non-members are welcome to join. The PSA list is intended to facilitate communications among members to conduct society business more efficiently and to promote interactions among members by sending announcements, job opportunities, new book descriptions, registration information and forms for meetings, and possibly abstracts of the annual meeting. Currently there are more than 590 members on our list. The list is not moderated (censored), therefore some self restraint should be exercised in your comments and replies. Membership is not obligatory, and any member can subscribe or unsubscribe at any time by following the simple instructions provided in the information section of this message.
To subscribe to the list send an E-mail message to:
ListServ@ColoState. EDU
Your e-mail message does not need a subject, just make sure that you include in the body of the message the following statement.
subscribe PSA firstname lastname
For example:
subscribe PSA Bill Gates
The computer will automatically put you on the subscription list with your email address. Further instructions are available once you subscribe to the list.
Paul Kugrens
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
pkugrens@lamar.colostate.edu
Telephone: 970-491-7551; fax: 970-491-0649
PSA World-Wide Web Page Launched
The Phycological Society of America now has its own web page on the internet. PSA can now be accessed via the internet at the following World-Wide Web page:
http://condor.depaul.edu/~rmccourt/PSA/PSA_home.html
The page contains a link to the Phycological Newsletter home page as well, whose address is:
http://condor.depaul.edu/~rmccourt/PSA/newsletter.html
To visit the page, also called a web site, you will need an internet connection, available at most universities and institutions, or from commercial suppliers such as American Online or Compuserve. You will also need software such as Netscape, Mosaic, or Cello to browse the web site. All web pages are forever "under construction," so some of the links on the page lead to dead ends. Also, you may see the information, pictures, and overall format of the site change from time to time as material is added or becomes outdated.
The content is edited by Rick McCourt, the Phycological Newsletter editor. The page was designed and initially set up by Alan Kasper, a student at DePaul University in Rick's laboratory. The goal of the web page is to provide information about the society, its activities, and its members to anyone who wants to drop by. If you have a contribution to make, or just want your own web page or your department's or company's web page listed, please send a message to the Editor at the address listed on the masthead (or using the email link to the Editor on the web page itself). Digital images of algae that will add spice to the web page are especially welcome.
World-Wide Web Sites of Interest to Phycologists
Web sites come and go, but the following is a list of a few WWW sites that might be of interest to phycologists. In many cases, the sites themselves contain links to many other sites that phycologists might want to visit, so the list is not exhaustive. Readers are encouraged to submit addresses for inclusion in future issues of the Newsletter and on the PSA web page.
http://mother.biolan.uni-koeln.de/institute/botanik/bot1/melkonian/epc1.html
http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/isep/isep.html
http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/protists/protists.html
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