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The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting

The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting. San Jose, Costa Rica July 7 – 11, 2013. Current Membership. Current membership 415 Membership continues to be a priority for TCS Each member needs to bring in one new member or more per year TCS is exploring new ways to maintain, or increase, our

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The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting

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  1. The Crustacean SocietyMid-Year Meeting San Jose,Costa Rica July 7 – 11, 2013

  2. Current Membership • Current membership 415 • Membership continues to be a priority for TCS • Each member needs to bring in one new member or more per year • TCS is exploring new ways to maintain, or increase, our membership

  3. Student Scholarships/Fellowships • We give six student scholarships/fellowships of $1000 each per year • This year we received a sponsorship for one of these scholarships from LoligoSystems. We named the scholarship after them • Please let us know if you know of opportunities like this

  4. 2013 TCSERA Award • This award will be presented in Austin at the SICB January meeting

  5. Elections For New Officers • President Elect • Program Officer • Asian Governor • Latin American Governor • SICB Liaison Officer • Please email Shane Ahyong your nominations

  6. Mid Year Meetings • 2014 Frankfurt Germany • 2015 Most likelySydney Australia • 2016 Possible joint meeting with IAA-21 in Tampico, Mexico • Please email TCS with any suggestions or ideas for meetings 2016 – on

  7. Future Activities of TCS • 2015 Workshop in Thailand? (Shirley Lim) • Zen Faulkes is organizing a symposium on parasitism (including Crustacea) at SICB in January 2014, in Austin, Texas, USA • SICB symposia from TCS/members for future meetings in 2015 and beyond. Talk with Brian Tsukamura or Sherry Tamone

  8. Finances • Moved $$ into investment accounts that will produce between 4.8% - 12% per year = approximately $3000+ This is our restricted money for Student Awards • Produced positive budgets in 2013 (just!) and we have a projected positive budget for 2014 • Requests for TCS support for symposia or meetings must be made at least a year in advance because we have to build them into the coming budgets

  9. JCB • Impact Factor: 1-019 (2013) 4 year trend = 0.974, 1.115, 1.116 • Possible move from 6 to 8 issues per year? • Current rejection/declination rate = 39+% • Submission rate is up since move to Brill • Future JCB editor search

  10. Other business?

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