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Announcing The 2010 ESC-ESBC Joint Annual Meeting  
 
   
 

Call for submitted papers and Posters

The August 1 deadline for paper submissions has past, and the scientific program is full. If you need to contact the Scientific Program Committee, please email the chair, Ward Strong. Thank you.

Instructions for graduate students applying for the Graduate Student Symposium can be found here.

Presentations may be oral or poster format, and can be regular or President's Prize*

Presentations (including Abstract) may be given in either official language.

It is preferable for speakers to submit titles and abstracts on line. Note that abstracts submitted on line are limited to 500 characters.

Abstracts (not more than 100 words) may also be submitted by E-mail to ward.strong@gov.bc.ca in Microsoft Word format. Abstracts should include the following information, as per the example: 1) authors’ names; 2) authors’ addresses and affiliation; 3) presentation title; 4) presentation category and language of presentation, and 5) summary text.

Example:

Corrigan, J (1,2,3) , Axel Larsen(2), Jackie Scott(3)

(1) Ministry of Forests and Range, Kalamalka Forestry Centre, Vernon, BC Canada; (2) Eastern Leisure Management Association, Guelph, ON Canada, (3) Miramichi Centre of Salmonid Angling Excellence, Doaktown, NB Canada. 

Tough fishing! DDT and the Atlantic salmon as reported in the angling literature of the day.

Oral, Regular presentation – English)

Not surprisingly, people closely associated with the Atlantic salmon sport fishery were among the first to notice the effects of widespread DDT spray programs implemented to control the eastern spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana, [Lepidoptera: Tortricidae] in the 1950’s. In a totally non-scientific analyses, the impressions and concerns of anglers, written at the time, will be discussed in the context of this large-scale pest control initiative.

* The following comprise the eligibility criteria for the President’s Prize:

The 2010 ESC President's Prize competition offers awards for the best scientific papers that are presented by students in either oral or poster format at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Canada and the Entomological Society of British Columbia.

Students wishing to compete for the President’s Prize must select the appropriate box on their paper submission form.

The following comprise the eligibility criteria for student presenters:

  • The student must be enrolled in a graduate degree program or have graduated from the program less than six months previously.
  • The student must be registered at the meeting.
  • The student must be the principal investigator and principal author of the paper.
  • The student does not have to be a member of the ESC.

There will be one prize for each of the oral presentation sessions, and one prize for the poster session. Each prize will be worth $250.

The awards are provided jointly by the Entomological Society of Canada, the Entomological Society of British Columbia, Contech Enterprises Inc and Valent BioSciences.

Download judging criteria for presented paper competition (pdf)
 
Download judging criteria for poster paper competition (pdf)

Download “Tips for Effective Communication” (pdf)

Download “Making a Great Poster” (pdf)

Oral Presentations (Regular & President’s prize) will be 12 minutes plus 3 minutes for questions and discussion. Microsoft Office 2007 PowerPoint will be used for all presentations.  Please ensure your presentation runs in this edition. Please embed fonts in the file, reduce picture size and limit the use of animation. For instructions on embedding fonts, check out this example.


Facilities for loading oral presentations from USB storage devices will be provided at designated times during the meeting.  Please format file names as: 

First Name_Last Name_Presentation Title

Example:

Jim_Corrigan_Tough Fishing DDT and the Atlantic salmon as reported in the
angling literature of the day


  

 

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