THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY
OF AMERICA NEWSLETTER

SOUTHEASTERN CHAPTER

January 1998, Issue 98-1

Andy Ash, Editor

Contents:

Comments From the Chair
Southeastern Chapter Officers
ASB Announcements
Odum Award Contributions Solicited
Candidates for Office

COMMENTS FROM THE CHAIR

With this newsletter we are beginning our new format for chapter communications. We will adopt a standard format for scheduled announcements and place more timely job announcements or news items on our website. Please read how to subscribe for email alerts concerning chapter news on the web page in the October 1997 newsletter. Let us know what you think about this change; call, write, email or bring it up at the next chapter meeting in April, 1998.

Mark MacKenzie has been developing an excellent chapter-sponsored field trip, and symposium activities for the Association of Southeastern Biologists meeting in Monroe, Louisiana. This should be an excellent meeting. There will be many good opportunities to expose students to important Southeastern ecosystems and to applied ecology from a restoration perspective.

At our upcoming annual business meeting, we will elect new officers (see biographical sketches) and discuss some new initiatives for the chapter. Please give some thought to program development and strategies to involve more regional ecologists in chapter activities.

As always, I would like to encourage each member to make a donation to the Odum Award Fund. This is a permanent interest bearing account, which supports the award for the best student paper of an ecological nature. The Odum Award has become a prestigious honor associated with ASB.

I look forward to seeing you in Monroe.

L. Katherine Kirkman

SOUTHEASTERN CHAPTER OFFICERS

Dr. L. Katherine Kirkman, Chair
Jones Ecological Research Center
Ichauway, Inc.
Route 2 Box 2324
Newton GA 31770
(TEL) 912-734-4706
(FAX) 912-734-4707
(e-mail) KKIRKMAN@jonesctr.org

Dr. Mark D. MacKenzie, Vice-Chair
School of Forestry
106 M. White Smith Hall
Auburn University, AL 36849-5418
(TEL) 334-844-1014
(FAX) 334-844-1084
(e-mail) mackenzi@forestry.auburn.edu

Dr. Andy Ash, Secretary
Department of Biology
UNC Pembroke
One University Drive
P.O. Box 1510
Pembroke NC 28372-1510
(TEL) 910-521-6418
(FAX) 910-521-6649
(e-mail) AASH@nat.uncp.edu

ASB ANNOUNCEMENTS

Northeast Louisiana University, Monroe, Louisiana will host the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists, 15-18 April 1998. The meetings will be on campus with Meeting Headquarters located at the Holiday Inn Holidome (phone: (318) 387-5100, fax: (318) 329-9126). ASB registration forms are available on the internet (http://www.nlu.edu/asb) or in the ASB Bulletin (Vol. 45, No. 1, 1998).

The Southeastern Chapter will hold its annual business meeting around noon on Friday, 17 April, immediately after the ASB business meeting. Additionally, the following three chapter-sponsored activities have been proposed for the meetings at Northeast Louisiana University: (1) SEEDS mixer/discussion. This will be a 1-1.5 hour get-together with light refreshments. The SEEDS initiative is designed to enhance entry of minorities into research careers in ecology. All who are interested are invited. (2) Symposium concerning the vegetation and ecology of bottomland hardwoods communities. (3) A field trip to bottomland hardwood sites, which will dovetail with the symposium. See Program (April) Issue of the ASB Bulletin (Vol. 45 No. 2, 1998) for specific times and places.

ODUM AWARD CONTRIBUTIONS SOLICITED

The Southeastern Chapter established the Eugene P. Odum Award to encourage excellence in research by young ecologists. One of the purposes of the award fund is to finance the award prize of $250.00. The fund does not generate sufficient annual interest to cover the prize. Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to our Chapter's only award fund. Contributions can be mailed to the Secretary, Southeastern Chapter, ESA (mailing address at the end of this Newsletter), payable to the Eugene P. Odum Award.

CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE

Election of a new Chair and a new Secretary/treasurer of the Southeastern Chapter will occur at the chapter luncheon business meeting at ASB (17 April 1997). Biographies of candidates are provided below.

Chair

Cliff R. Hupp. Dr. Hupp is a senior scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia and National Research Program Project Chief of the Vegetation and Geomorphic Relations Project and the Tree-ring Laboratory. He received his B.A. and M.S. from George Mason University, and his Ph.D. in Plant Ecology and Geomorphology (1983) from the George Washington University. His research includes the plant ecology of the riparian zone, vegetation and geomorphic relations, forested watershed dynamics, and wetland sedimentation and vegetation. In addition to publishing over 50 scientific papers, Dr. Hupp is the recipient of the 1993 W. S. Cooper Award of the Ecological Society of America for his paper on the ecology and fluvial geomorphology of channelized streams. He has served as Vice President of the Association of Southeastern Biologists (1995-96), on the Executive Committee of the ASB (1993-95), Chair of the Publications Committee, ASB (1994-95), on the ASB Nominations Committee, and as Chair of the Conservation Committee, ASB ( 1991-93). He served as Secretary (1992-94) of the Southeastern Chapter of the Ecological Society of America, as Chair of the Bartholomew Award Committee (1992-94) of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society, and presently serves on the Awards Committee, ESA.

Kenneth W. McLeod. Dr. McLeod is an Associate Research Ecologist at the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. He was trained in plant ecology and ecophysiology at Oklahoma State University (M.S., 1971) and Michigan State University (Ph.D., 1974). At SREL, his research programs have been very broad and have included the following: fate of radionuclides in the environment, elemental cycling in forests, effect of management on forest structure and function, fertilization of forest with sewage sludge, wetland forest restoration, and physiological response of tree species to environmental stress. He has served on the Executive, Graduate Student Support Award, and Meritorious Teaching Award Committees for the Association of Southeastern Biologists, and on various committees and offices in the Southeastern regional chapters of the Botanical Society of America and the Society of Wetland Scientists. He has also served as Vice-chair and Secretary/treasurer of the Southeastern chapter of the Ecological Society of America.

Secretary/treasurer

Martin L. Cipollini. Dr. Cipollini is Assistant Professor of Biology at Berry College, Mount Berry Georgia. He received undergraduate and M.S. degrees in biology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in ecology from Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey. Prior to his current position, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, and post-doctoral research associate at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. His current NSF-sponsored research is focused on the ecological roles of secondary metabolites of ripe fleshy fruits of temperate and tropical ecosystems. Other current research interests include sexual dimorphism in dioecious plants and the use of matrix population models for the analysis of plant population demography. He is a consultant to an Eisenhower Foundation project focused on bringing "schoolyard ecology" into inner city primary school classrooms in Rome Georgia. Dr. Cipollini is a member of the Ecological Society of America, ASB, the Botanical Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and other organizations. A new member of ASB, he served as session chair and student awards judge at the 1997 ASB meeting.

Jerry C. Ritchie. Dr. Ritchie is an Ecologist/Soil Scientist in the Hydrology Laboratory, Agriculture Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland. His research is directed toward understanding the fundamental relationships between biological and physical components of the landscape as they are related to runoff, erosion, sedimentation, and water quality in agricultural, range, and forested watersheds. He received a B.A. in biology from Pfeiffer College, Misenheimer, North Carolina, a M.S. in Botany from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a Ph.D. in botany from the University of Georgia, Athens. He has been on several committees of the Ecological Society of America and has served as President of the Washington Metropolitan Chapter of the Ecological Society of America.

Dr. Andrew N. Ash, Editor
ESA Southeastern Chapter Newsletter
Department of Biology
UNCP
One University Drive
P.O. Box 1510
Pembroke NC 28372-1510

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