[DIALOGnews] Society Membership

[Susan Weiler]

Dear All,

Our professional activities do not take place in a vacuum. 
Professional societies are an integral part of our community, and it 
is important to belong--not just because there may be a meeting you 
want to attend and the registration fee is lower, or because you get 
a great deal on your favorite journal. Societies do much, much more.

The aquatic science and climate change communities are inherently 
interdisciplinary. There is no one society that covers the full 
breadth of issues, and so there are probably at least two societies 
that any one of you might want to affiliate with.

DIALOG, DIACES and DISCCRS are sponsored and co-sponsored by various 
professional societies. Judging by the surveys I conduct, I know that 
most of you learned about these programs through a professional 
society.

I would like to take this moment to thank the societies for their 
support of DIALOG, DIACES and DISCCRS, and encourage you to find out 
more about the sponsoring societies. Most society memberships begin 
on the first of January, so now is a perfect time to renew your 
membership if you haven't yet, or perhaps to become a member of a 
society. Below is a list of sponsoring societies and their web 
addresses. I hope you will take a look at them and consider joining 
whichever seem most appropriate for your individual situation.

--If you are a member of a society not listed below, and think they 
might be interested in co-sponsoring DIALOG or DISCCRS, please let me 
know. I am particularly interested in bringing sociologists into the 
DISCCRS program.

cheers, sue

ASLO-American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
http://aslo.org

ERF-Estuarine Research Federation
http://erf.org

AGU-American Geophysical Union
http://agu.org

AMS-American Meteorological Society
http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/

ESA-Ecological Society of America
http://www.esa.org/

NABS-North American Benthological Society
http://www.benthos.org/

NALMS-North American Lake Management Society
http://www.nalms.org/

SIL-International Society of Limnology
http://www.sil.org/

SCL-Society of Canadian Limnologists
http://www.biology.lsu.edu/webfac/cramcharan/sclsite/

TOS-The Oceanography Society
http://www.tos.org/

WSN-Western Society of Naturalists
http://www.wsn-online.org/
-- 
C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.
Biology Department                  Tel:   509-527-5948
Whitman College                       Fax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler@whitman.edu
   Programs for Recent PhDs             http://aslo.org/phd.html
   Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences  http://aslo.org/mas/
   DIALOG and DIACES poster  http://aslo.org/dialog/dialogposter.pdf
   DISCCRS poster 
http://aslo.org/disccrs/disccrsposter.pdf