2005 Final Business Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Nancy Hinkle called the final business meeting to order at 3:35 pm on Sunday December 18 2005. Vice-Chair Roger Moon assisted, and Secretary Sandy Allan recorded minutes.
OLD BUSINESS
Student Competition.Winners of the oral presentations were Rebecca Baldwin (first) and Lee Cohnstaedt (runner up). Winners of the poster presentation were Meera Venkatesan (first) and Sean Michael O'Donnell (runner up).
Appointment of Editorial Board Members– There were no vacancies.
Officers Committee Reports
Nominations committee –reported in preliminary business meeting
Symposia –There will be a call for symposia proposals soon for the 2006 ESA Annual meeting.
BUSINESS FROM PRELIMINARY BUSINESS MEETING
Final Committee Reports
Section D Governing Board Representative: Carl Jones
Votes on proceeding with the effort for the new ESA were 2:1 to go forward and the governing board will continue to work on this topic with a referendum in 2006 with restructuring.
A proposal to combine the 2012 International Congress of Entomology with the San Diego meeting was presented and will be discussed at the summer meeting of the Governing Board.
Approval was given for Alan Kahan to reallocate page cost waivers between journals if necessary to meet the needs of the Annals. There was discussion about the time spent formatting and editing the program entries by the program committee and section chairs. The board chose no action on the Blackwell proposal. The current board of governors was adjourned and the new board convened under the new ESA president Frank Gilstrap.
Publication Council: Bill Reisen - no report
Journal of Medical Entomology Editorial Board:Done previously
Environmental Entomology(Leonard Munstermann)
This journal added two new subject editors for a total of 22. The number of submitted papers was 294 in 2005 with a total of 1660 pages and 188 articles published. There were 1,163 subscriptions. Acceptance rate was 64% and the impact factor was 1.8.
Annals of ESA Editorial Board:Done previously
J. Economic Entomology Editorial Board:Done previously
American Entomologist Editorial Board:Done previously
Arthropod Mgmt. Tests Editorial Board: Done previously
Thomas Say Publications Editorial Board:Allen Szalanski
Because of the cost of producing monographs ($2,000), only 1 can be published each year. Monographs are scheduled for production to 2008. There was discussion about the cost of plates.
Book/Media reviews:No report
Standing Committees
Education/Youth Committee: Glen Scoles - no report
Ethics Committee:Cynthia Lord
The committee drafted a statement and code of ethics and addressed conflicts of interest.
Fellows Committee:Jim Oliver – no report
Founders Committee:Woody Foster – no report
Systematics Resources: John-Paul Mutebi
Common Names of Insects:Wayne Gall
Nine new names were approved and one declined by the governing board.
Committee on Awards: Carl Jones) – no report
Thanks were extended to members on standing committees for their work
NEW BUSINESS
Symposium organizers were listed and thanked
Moderators for 10 min papers were thanked
Student competition judges and moderators were thanked
Participants in student competitions were thanked
Thanks to Brad Mullens for serving as Linnaean judge
Cynthia Lord mentioned that there was concern regarding changes in NIH funding regarding new investigator funding turned into R01 funding. She wanted feedback on the level of concern in the community.
Nancy Hinkle extended thanks to Vice-Chair Roger Moon for assisting and Sandy Allan for recording minutes.
Installation of new Section D officers
Chair: Roger Moon
Chair-Elect: Sandy Allan
Secretary: Laura Harrington
Chair Hinkle thanked all who came and made the meeting successful and passed the gavel to incoming Chair Roger Moon, who led the room in applause for Nancy Hinkle's service. Chair Moon announced that the next meeting was in Indianapolis on Dec. 10-14 and that the deadline for requests for program symposia was Feb. 1 and March 6 for section symposia.
David Taylor motioned to adjourn and Nancy Hinkle seconded it. The meeting adjourned at 4:05 pm.