Bryological Times survey

Hello Bryonet-ers,

The International Association of Bryologists is looking for your input!
Currently we are in the planning stages of expanding The Bryological Times, the
Society's newsletter, to serve better the bryological community. We are
interested to know how we might provide you with more comprehensive, useful and
interesting information. For example would you like more information on grant
opportunities, book reviews, and ways to take bryophytes into the classroom?
Would you be interested in becoming a column editor for a particular topic? How
about interest in submitting original research?

Attached is survey to find out these answers and more. Please fill the survey
out, email it back to DorothyBelle Poli; by July 20, 2009
for your suggestions to be taken to the IAB Congress Meeting in South Africa.
If you or your society need more time, please let us know. Suggestions arriving
later are still welcome and will be considered by the officers and The
Bryological Times editors. Our goal is to make IAB an organization that reaches
out and serves the bryological world the best way it can!

Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.

Geert Raeymaekers and DorothyBelle Poli
The Bryological Times Co-Editors

BRYONET: IAB Blog & Bryonet

BRYONET

Dear Bryonetters,
Starting this afternoon, all messages sent to bryonet will automatically go
to the IAB Blog site
<http://internationalassociationofbryologists.blogspot.com/> so that you can
access old discussions or refer your students to them. It is also a good place
to post images you want bryonetters to see. I have uploaded about half the
discussions on moss culturing and gardening, but I don't know when I will get
the rest of them there. That has been the most frequent repeated topic and
always generates a fair amount of discussion.
Just be aware that your postings will be immortalized :).
Thank you to Efrain DeLuna for offering us this archiving and posting service.
Janice
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Dr. Janice Glime, Professor Emerita
President of IAB; Manager of Bryonet
(Michigan Technological University)
219 Hubbell St.
Houghton, MI 49931 USA

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Student travel awards for the IAB Cape Town meeting.

International Association of Bryologists

If you are a student or have a student who might like to present a paper at the International Association of Bryologists (IAB) meeting in South Africa, students who are members of IAB are eligible for a travel award. If the student is not currently a member, it is still possible to join. Visit the IAB website <http://www.bryology.org/> to learn more about the meeting and about joining IAB.

The IAB Council announces the availability of 6 student travel awards of up to US $200 for the Cape Town meeting. These awards will be available to the first 6 students who apply for the award. Students must satisfy the following criteria:

1. Be a member of IAB

2. Provide proof they are Ph. D. students (a statement from the advisor will suffice), Ph. D. candidates or Master students

3. Provide proof that they have an accepted abstract for a paper or poster presentation at the 2009 IAB meeting

4. Provide a budget of expenses for travel to and housing at the meeting

5. List other sources of funding for attending the meeting

6. Applications for the award must be RECEIVED by 7 July 2009

7. Applications should be sent by email attachment to Blanka Shaw

8. Awards will be announced about 10 July 2009.

Best wishes,

Janice

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Dr. Janice Glime, Professor Emerita

President of IAB; Manager of Bryonet

(Michigan Technological University)

219 Hubbell St.

Houghton, MI 49931 USA

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