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Oklahoma Chapter and Southern Division of the
American Fisheries Society invite you to join us in
Bricktown, Oklahoma City, OK at the Westin Hotel for
the 2004 Southern Division Spring Meeting, 26-29
February 2004.
Hotel and
Registration Information:
Room rates are $89 per night for single through
quad occupancy. Rooms must be reserved by 25 January
2004 to receive this rate and guarantee
availability. Reservations will be accepted via
phone only (405) 235-2780. State you are with the
American Fisheries Society. Check the meeting
website for more hotel reservation information
(http://members.cox.net/gregsumm/)
Meeting
registration forms can be downloaded at:
(http://members.cox.net/gregsumm/registration).
Meeting registration is $65 for students and
professionals prior to 1 February 2004 and $75
thereafter. Students seeking free accommodations
should download the form off the meeting website.
Students applying for reimbursement of registration
costs by working at the meeting should contact Dan
Dauwalter:
dauwalt@okstate.edu.
Schedule of
Events:
- Thursday 26
February-Technical Committee Meetings
- Friday 27
February-Southern Division EXCOM Meeting;
Southern Division Business Meeting; Continuing
Education Workshops, LMBV Workshop, Student
Social at "Rocky's" in Bricktown
- Saturday 28
February-Plenary Session, Symposia and Technical
Sessions, Poster Session, Social at the "Bricktown
Brewery"
- Sunday 29
February (ending at noon)-Symposia and Technical
Sessions, Poster Session
Workshops:
- The 4th
Largemouth Bass Virus workshop, sponsored by
B.A.S.S. will be held Friday.
- We also
currently have a workshop entitled, "Working with
Commissions," scheduled for a full day on Friday.
The workshop will be taught by Mike Fraidenburg
of Dynamic Solutions Group, LLC. For background
information on this workshop see the February
2001 issue of Fisheries.
- The annual
half-day Student workshop is being planned by the
Student Affairs Committee. More information on
these and other workshops will be available on
the meeting website and in the December SDAFS
newsletter.
Symposia:
Symposia topics currently scheduled include:
- Warmwater
Streams: Species Restoration and Recovery
Success; Stream Habitat Improvement; Warmwater
Streams Fisheries Management
- Ictalurid
Biology and Management
- Non-game Fishes
Submission
Procedures for Presentations and Posters
Presentations will be scheduled for 20 minutes
(15-min presentation and 5 min for questions, which
will be strictly enforced. Media for presentations
is Microsoft PowerPoint. Abstracts should be a
200-word (or less) statement of objectives,
principal results and conclusions. All abstracts
must be submitted on-line at
http://www.sdafs.org/abstracts. Abstracts for
symposia and contributed presentations, as well as
posters are due by 1 December 2003. If your
presentation is part of a symposium be sure to
acknowledge on the abstract submission form. For
additional information contact Jeff Boxrucker,
Oklahoma Fishery Research Laboratory, 500 E.
Constellation, Norman, OK 73072; (405) 325-7288;
jboxrucker@odwc.state.ok.us
Check out the
meeting website at
http://members.cox.net/gregsumm/. This site will
be updated as more information becomes available.
Special Notice:
Oklahoma State University
is having a reunion at the Westin Hotel on Friday
night, February 27th from 5pm to 7pm. We welcome all
former Cowboys and Cowgirls. Check the bulletin
board at registration for room location.
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