CALL FOR DONATIONS FOR THE PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL AUCTION
The 1996 annual auction for the PSA Endowment will be held at the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the PSA in Santa Cruz, CA. The purpose of the Auction is to raise funds for the Hoshaw Travel Award Fund. This fund is used to provide travel grants for students to attend the PSA annual meeting. The Auction also provides an opportunity for phycologists to exchange items of phycological interest.
In the past auction items have included: algal jewelry (pins, earrings, tie tacks, necklaces, belt buckles), books about algae including newly published books, and phycological classics, kelp baskets, seaweed wreaths, photographs of algae, photographs of phycologists, sculptures of algae, dinoflagellate prints, boxer shorts decorated in an algal motif, diatom pillows, note cards decorated with pressed algae, pressed and framed algae, pressed algal specimens to be used in classes, samples of commercially available algal products, plates from Prescott's monographs on desmids, original Prescott pastels, coffee mugs with algal themes, T-shirts from various phycological groups, lamps made of EM negatives (glass) of algae, algal posters, algal coasters, living pet algae, phycological rugs, crate labels, etc. The list goes on and on. There are also phycological reprints for sale.
It is time to start thinking about what you can donate to the 1996 Auction. As you can see the possibilities are endless. All items will be accepted. Let's make the 50th Anniversary Meeting Auction the best ever!! If you are planning to attend the meeting, please bring your items with you. Otherwise please let me know so we can work out a transport plan. THANK YOU!!
Susan Waaland, PSA Auction Chair
Biology Program
University of Washington
Box 355320
Seattle, WA 98195-5320
206-685-8040 email: sdw@u.washington.edu
Newsletter Subscriptions
Members of the Phycological Society of America receive the Newsletter as one of the benefits of membership. To join PSA, contact the Phycological Society of America, Membership Office, P.O. Box 1897, Lawrence, KS, 66044-8897. Telephone 913/843-1235; fax 913/843-1274. In addition to the Newsletter, members also receive six issues of the Journal of Phycology every year. Student memberships are discounted in price, and student members are eligible for various fellowships and travel awards for attending the Annual Meeting and summer field courses.
Previous Issues of the Newsletter may be accessed on the PSA WWW Home Page on the Internet: http://condor.depaul.edu/~rmccourt/PSA/newsletter.html
Deadlines for Future Issues
Deadlines for the next three issues are:
1996, No. 2, April 31, 1996
1996, No. 3, August 31, 1996
1997, No. 1, January 31, 1997
Note that the next issue of the Newsletter will be a special 50th Anniversary issue that will be published in conjunction with the Annual Meeting to be held at Santa Cruz, California. Details of the meeting were published in the 1995, No. 3 issue of the Newsletter. Contact the Newsletter editor or Bruce Parker (Program Committee Ad Hoc Member, email: genera@vtm1.cc.vt.edu) if you wish to contribute to the Anniversary issue. Additional Information on the meeting may be obtained from Lynda J. Goff (Local Organizer, email: goff@darwin.ucsc.edu), or Paul Kugrens (Program Committee Chair, email: pkugrens@lamar.colostate.edu).
Contributors are welcome to submit phycological news items, announcements of books, courses, awards, etc., articles, and other items for publication in the Newsletter. Send submissions to the Editor:
Dr. Richard M. McCourt
Department of Biological Sciences
1036 W. Belden Avenue
DePaul University
Chicago, IL 60614
Telephone: 312/325-7000, ext. 2191
Fax: 312/325-7596.
Email: rmccourt@condor.depaul.edu
PSA PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE Solicits Publication Ideas
The PSA publication committee solicits and coordinates non-journal publications of interest to members of The Society. As the new Chair of this committee, I invite anyone to make suggestions for possible PSA publications, for consideration by the committee. For example, the Phycological Biographies project is scheduled for completion before the 1996 annual meeting at Asilomar. Other publications currently under consideration include
- A Catalog of Strains for the Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton (CCMP),
- A set of three "Keys to the Genera of Marine Phytoplankton; to Seaweeds; and to Fresh Water Algae."
Send comments on these or suggestions for other publications any time, but preferably as soon as possible, to:
Bill Henley (henley@vm1.ucc.okstate.edu),
Department of Botany,
Oklahoma State University,
Stillwater,
OK 74078-3013.
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Phycological Newsletter Vol. 32, No. 1 April 1996
Last updated: Nov. 08, 2005
