Dear BSA Members

Good morning! February Newsletter - Roll on spring!

1. Call for “Nomination of Officers” (President-elect and Treasurer) will close on February 15^th. Please go to www.botany.org for more information.

2. Call for Abstracts for Botany & Plant Biology 2007 will close on April 4^th. Please ensure your abstract(s) for the meeting has been submitted by the deadline. All abstracts submitted after April 4^th will be entered as “Recent Topics Posters.”

3. Pending deadlines for 2007 Award Nominations
March 1^st – BSA Merit Award, Young Botanist of the Year, C. E. Bessey Award, and the John S. Karling & BSA Graduate Student Research Awards

April 1^st - Conant “Botanical Images” Student Travel Awards (STA), Vernon I. Cheadle STA, Developmental and Structural Section STA, Ecological Section STA, Mycological Section STA, Phycological Section STA, Phytochemical Section STA, and the Pteridological Section STA

April 15^th - Grady L. Webster Structural Botany Publication Award

April 30^th – The Darbaker Prize

Please visit www.botany.org for more information.

4. Thank you! BSA Membership in February is at the highest level we’ve experienced in many years. I’m pleased to report that student membership is up significantly.

5. Thank you to those of you who have provided contributions to the sectional funds, award funds and endowment funds as part of the membership renewal process. Contributions are up significantly for this time of year. It is important to remember that these funds underwrite our ability to support our mission and objectives, including support for research, student development and education. Over the past four years these funds have contributed over $225,000 towards BSA development, sectional support for meeting activities and the numerous award programs we have in place.

6. The BSA outreach program PlantingScience.org will begin its third spring session later this month. It has come a long way in three years, and continues to be an important bridge in our relationship with other education and outreach programs. Congratulations to Gordon Uno, Claire Hemingway, the rest of the Education Committee, the PlantingScience.org steering group, and especially to the scientist mentors who support the program.

7. Plant Science Bulletin & www.botany.org - You may have noticed the full run of the Plant Science Bulletin, 1955-2006, is now searchable and online on the BSA website at www.botany.org/plantsciencebulletin/issues.php. You may also have noticed the BSA’s Career Opportunities notice-board is taking on the look of the Bulletin. The BSA office is working with Marsh Sundberg to create a BSA/PSB online platform to provide better, faster and more up-to-date career, intern, fellowship and post-doc listings. We will also update the announcement section to better reflect happenings in the botanical world.

If you have yet to renew your membership for the 2007 year, please go to https://secure.botany.org/secure/default.asp?lType=2. Please contact us at bsa-manage@botany.org if we can be of any assistance or if you have a question regarding your membership status.

Thank you for your time!

Sincerely,

William M Dahl
Executive Director
Botanical Society of America
4475 Castleman Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110

PO Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166-0299

Ph: 314-577-9566
FAX: 314-577-9515
www.botany.org
www.BotanyConference.org
www.PlantingScience.org

Mission: The Botanical Society of America exists to promote botany, the field of basic science dealing with the study and inquiry into the form, function, development, diversity, reproduction, evolution, and uses of plants and their interactions within the biosphere.

The objectives of The Society are to: sustain and provide improved formal and informal education about plants; encourage basic plant research; provide expertise, direction, and position statements concerning plants and ecosystems; and foster communication within the professional botanical community, and between botanists and the rest of humankind through publications, meetings, and committees.