49th Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society
**Note a earlier date: Abstracts due March 16, 2012**
General Meeting Information
CONFERENCE WEBSITE
(http://abs-hbes.unm.edu/
The conference website will be updated frequently. Please check there for all the latest informaiton!
CALL FOR PAPERS
Each ABS member may present or sponsor one contributed paper at an Annual Meeting. Any topic related to the field of Animal Behavior is welcome, including all aspects of the behavior of animals for field, laboratory or theoretical studies. Abstracts submitted by non-members must include the name of an ABS member willing to sponsor the presentation. ABS members may also show one film, participate in invited paper sessions or present plenary lectures in addition to giving or sponsoring their single contributed paper. The research reported at an Annual Meeting must comply with the ABS guidelines and all applicable laws concerning animal care and welfare. More details on abstract submission guidelines and abstract submission deadlines will soon be available on the conference website, linked to the ABS meeting site here.
Registrants may submit abstracts for Talks or Posters. Talks will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis, as per ABS policy. Registrants are encouraged to consider giving a poster presentation. Posters will be presented in well-attended evening receptions and provide the opportunity for extensive interaction and discussion. Registrants will be given the option of flagging their contribution as one that may be particularly appropriate for the day of overlap with HBES. Talks presented on this day in open sessions will garner wide exposure as members of both societies may attend. Only a limited number of talks will be chosen for presentation on this day. The joint-day programming committee will make final decisions as to which contributions will be scheduled for this day.
Abstracts due: MARCH 16th, 2012
REGISTRATION FEES
Given the complexities of the joint day, final registration fees are not yet determined, but approximate fees will be:
Membership |
Early | Late |
| Full-Member | $200 | $280 |
| Non-Member | $260 | $340 |
| Student | $100 | $150 |
CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS
Symposium proposals for the 49th annual meeting may still be considered if they are submitted immediately to one of the ABS program officers.
MEETING COMPETITIONS
2012 WARDER CLYDE ALLEE COMPETITION
All Application Material the the Allee due: Feb 16th 2012
The 2012 Warder Clyde Allee Competition for Best Student Paper will take place June 10 to 14 at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. All eligible students are encouraged to participate. The following rules govern the Allee Award for best student paper presented in the Warder Clyde Allee session at the annual meeting:
Eligibility requirements: Any independent graduate student research (including, but not limited to, the doctoral dissertation) is eligible. The work presented may be part of a larger collaborative effort, but the student should be first author and have the principal responsibility for the conceptualization and design of the research, the collection and analysis of the data, and the interpretation of the results. The entrant cannot have been awarded the Ph.D. Degree before the preceding ABS annual meeting (for the 2012 competition, this date is around July 30, 2011). An individual can enter the session only once per lifetime.
To enter: Students must indicate their desire to be considered for the competition by checking the appropriate box on the abstract submittal form for the annual meeting; submit an electronic version of their paper, which includes their addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses; fill out a signed and dated form indicating that they meet all eligibility requirements (to be supplied to entrants after receipt of their papers); present a spoken version during the 2012 Annual Meeting; attend both the Allee welcoming dinner on the evening before the competition day and the banquet during the Annual Meeting. The spoken portion of the competition is limited by the number of papers that can be presented on the day assigned for the competition. Applications for the 2012 competition, including the written paper, will be due on Feb 16th, exactly one month before the meeting abstract submission date (March 16th, 2012). This will enable the Allee judges to evaluate the written papers and determine further eligibility. Applicants will be informed of status prior to the abstract submission due date for the meeting. The manuscript must be submitted in electronic PDF format, of no more than seven double-spaced, line-numbered, text pages, and no more than a total of four tables and/or figures (this limit does not include abstract, references, or acknowledgments), and must be received by ABS 2nd President-Elect Dan Rubenstein, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA, Phone: (609) 258-5698, E-mail: dir@princeton.edu. Electronic submission is required. If you do not receive acknowledgement of receipt within 7 days, please send a follow-up query. Papers MUST be formatted using the instruction for authors for a research paper in the journal Animal Behaviour to insure eligibility. Check instructions at the site: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journal description.cws_home/622782/authorinstructions. If significant new results arise after submission, students may submit a one-page addendum to their papers up to 30 days before the first day of the Annual Meeting. Questions should be addressed to Dan Rubenstein, dir@princeton.edu.
GENESIS AWARD POSTER COMPETITION
Undergraduates who submit posters for presentation at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society are automatically entered in the Genesis Award poster competition unless they indicate they do not want to be included in the competition when they submit their abstract. Judging criteria include significance of the research topic, research methods, research results, and presentation. Presentation encompasses the student's oral discussion with the judges and the poster itself, including clear statements of the questions and results, demonstration that there has been appropriate literature review, good organization and visual appeal. Students should be prepared to demonstrate a mastery of their subject material. Information about this award is available at the ABS website link:
http://animalbehaviorsociety.org/grants-and-awards/meeting-related-awards/genesis-award-for-undergraduate-research. Further information, if needed, can be obtained from the Education Committee Chair, Jennifer Mather, mather@uleth.ca.
