2005 Preliminary Business Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Chair Nancy Hinkle called the meeting to order on Friday, December 16 2005 at 5:40 pm.
Vice-Chair Roger Moon assisted and Secretary Sandra Allan recorded minutes.
Minutes of the 2004 preliminary and final business meetings, recorded by secretary Roger Moon were approved (John Anderson moved, Michael Levin seconded).
Chair Hinkle reported that the Highlights of Medical Entomology will be presented by Doug Norris and Highlights of Veterinary Entomology will be presented by David Taylor.
Most of Section D's sessions are scheduled in room 122-123.
Hinkle thanked moderators Charles Apperson and Gary Mullen for the student paper presentations. Also appreciation was given to Judges Will Reeves and Greta Schuster for the student paper competition (15 papers) and Judge Phil Kaufman for the student poster competition (6 posters). Hinkle thanked moderators for all sessions (Howard Ginsberg, Graham White, Sandra Allan, John Lucas, and Roxanne Burrus) and symposia. Thanks were extended to Jerry Hogsette and Wes Watson for organizing a symposium on muscoid flies and pathogens, to John Anderson, Bill Reisen and Ted Andreadis for one on West Nile virus, and for Michael Zyzak and Lisa O'Brien for one medical entomology research in the US military.
Committee Reports
Section D Governing Board Representative: Carl Jones
The Board voted to increase the BCE budget by $6,000 to support marketing efforts to increase membership. The Board declined to host The Journal of Apicultural Research and Bee World due to the low subscriptions of the journals and the additional workload on the staff.
Three new and three existing handbooks will be published by the American Phytopathological Society with costs of $34-$53 for members and $43-%59 for nonmembers. Handbook sales declined in 2005. An increase of 4% in dues for next year was voted in by the board at the summer governing board meeting. Registration will costs will increase 2% ($290) with 90% of registration occurring online. Student rates will increase from $85-$90. Pre-registration for the meeting declined by 109 people with about 2000 expected by Wednesday night. The total room nights declined from 5,400 to 4,300. ESA central costs are reduced and the costs of tote bags, etc. ($30-$40K) has been redirected towards program enhancement. Jones concluded with an offer by Blackwell Publishers for a 5 yr contract to publish journals without page charges but cost passed onto members in dues. Bids from other publishers were invited.
Journal of Medical Entomology Editorial Board – Wes Watson
John Edman was stepping down as editor-in-chief and Walter Tabachnick was replacing him. The journal has 20 subject editors and 2 new topic editors. The journal impact factor was 1. 609 which was the highest for ESA journals. There were 834 subscriptions. The number of manuscripts submitted was 266. The acceptance rate was 64% with the average time to notification 7.6 wk, average time to acceptance 28 wk, and time to publication 48 wk. An issue for the upcoming year is the development of a policy for naming of Aedes spp. More information is needed before a systematics policy can be established. Bill Reisen submitted a statement of use of virus names. Two manuscripts were appealed and the editors decisions were upheld. Chair Nancy Hinkle had invited a member from the Committee on Common Names (Wayne Gail) to discuss the topic of the Aedine genera/subgenera issues. Discussion followed on the current policy by the editors of JME
Annals Editorial Board – Reg Coler – Report presented by Joe Keiper
There were 5 new subject editors this year. The number of pages published increased this year to 1,022 pages. The total number of articles published was 119 with 168 submitted. The average acceptance rate was 62% and the average time to first notification 9.8 wk, average time to acceptance 25.1 wk, average time to publication 43 wk. The number of subscriptions was 1,069, up from 1,040 in 2004. There was discussion of the offer that Blackwell had proposed for publishing journals with no consensus.
Journal of Economic Entomology Editorial Board – Tim Lysyk
Acceptance rate of 60% with 10 wk to notification, 24 wk for acceptance and 42 weeks to publication. JEE has 1464 subscriptions and has the highest number of citations. The impact is 1.28 and the second highest for an ESA journal. The Blackwell proposal was discussed, however this has a limitation on the number of pages per year and no access to reprints. The Cadmus contract ends in 2006 and will rebid the contract.
American Entomologist Editorial Board- Mark Breidenbaugh
Gene Krinsky, the managing editor reported that thisyear there were 54 manuscripts and 10 obituaries with a 25% rejection rate. It continues as a peer-reviewed magazine. There is a call for Heritage papers and need section D and urban entomology in the Heritage paper. There were 37 reviewed books or web-pages.
Arthropod Management Tests-Jim Cilek
There were 347 reports in 2005 (a small increase from 2004). These was some discussion about what it would take for this publication to become peer-reviewed
Thomas Say Publication-Allan Szalanski– pending meeting
Book and Media Reviews-cancelled
Standing Committees
Education and Youth – Glen Scoles absent
Ethics – Cynthia Lord – presented at final business meeting
Fellows Jim Oliver – final business meeting
Founders-committee did not meet
Systematic Resources – Paul Mutebi absent
Membership Committee– Jack Peterson
Membership was up from 2004 but still not to 2001 levels. ESA is now at 5,803 members and we are encouraged to get students to join.
Symposia for 2006– Roger Moon emphasized the deadlines of Jan 17 (submission of program symposia), Feb 1 (program symposia) and March 6 (section D symposia)
New Business
Attendees were encouraged to attend the session tomorrow on restructuring ESA.
Chair Hinkle reminded session moderators to complete attendance forms.
The 2006 ESA meeting will be in Indianapolis on December 10-14 2006 and Chair Hinkle encouraged members to be alert for deadlines.
Laura Herrington was announced as Section D secretary-elect.
Roger Moon reported for the Nominations Committee that two positions were filled, Laura Harrington for in-coming secretary and Steve Dobson for editor.
With the cancellation of the original meeting schedule, Hinkle commended the efforts that were made to organize the new time of the meeting, in particular efforts by Kathleen Shields and Susan Weller. Due to the rescheduling of the meeting, 4 symposia were cancelled and 25% of student presentations cancelled. The final business meeting will be in Rm 122 from 3:30-5 pm December 18. Attendees were encouraged to view the boat parade at 6:30-8:30. Submissions for the Mentor Wall are still allowed and the local arrangements desk will print them.
Chair Hinkle adjourned the meeting at 7:45 pm.