News and Notes

Award Announcements

Great Plains Research presents two annual awards for the best articles published during a volume year: The Charles E. Bessey Award for natural science and the Leslie Hewes Award for social science. The awards are announced at the annual Fellows Luncheon of the Center for Great Plains Studies and include a cash stipend of $250.

The 2014 Charles E. Bessey Award for best natural science paper in Volume 24 of Great Plains Research was awarded to Craig Corpstein, Joseph Arruda, Cynthia Ford, and Ananda Jayawardhana for their paper “An Assessment of Prairie Restoration at Fort Scott National Historic Site,” which appeared in the Spring 2014 issue.

The 2014 Leslie Hewes Award for best social science paper in Volume 24 of Great Plain Research was awarded to Miguel Ceballos and Oksana Yakushko for their paper “Attitudes toward Immigrants in Nebraska,” which appeared in the Fall 2014 issue.

Conferences

The Kansas Arborists Association will hold their 61th Annual Shade Tree Conference January 13–15, 2016, at the Ramada Inn in Topeka, Kansas. Website: http://www.kansasarborist.com/shadetree.aspx.

The 76th Annual Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference will be held January 24–27, 2016, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The theme of the conference is “Great Waters, Great Lands, Great Responsibilities.” Website: http://midwestfw.org/index.html.

The 69th Society for Range Management Meeting, Technical Training, and Trade Show will be held January 31–February 4, 2016, in Corpus Christi, Texas. The theme is “Rangelands and Wildlife.” It will provide an overarching view of the changing landscape of Texas rangelands and will reflect the diversified management focus for many of Texas’s ranches. Website: http://rangelands.org/events/.

The 2016 Kansas Natural Resources Conference will be held February 4–5, 2016, in Wichita, Kansas. Join natural resource professionals, students and managers representing more than six professional societies to discuss the advancements and research surrounding the field of natural resources at this annual conference. Research projects, papers and posters on all natural resource topics will be presented, including: Forestry, Wetlands, Fisheries, Wildlife, Range Management, Soil and Water Conservation, and Natural Resource Education. Website: http://www.kansasnrc.org/.

The Missouri Valley History Conference will be held March 3–5, 2016, at the Hotel Magnolia in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. The theme is “Sacred Sites, Holy Places.” Website: http://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-arts-and-sciences/history/mvhc/index.php.

The North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference will be at the Wyndham Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 14–18, 2016. Website: http://www.wildlifemanagementinstitute.org/.

The Missouri River Natural Resources Conference and BiOp Forum will be held March 22–24, 2016, in Great Falls, Montana. Website: http://www.mrnrc2015.com/.

Join the Association of American Geographers at the aag Annual Meeting in San Francisco, March 29–April 2, 2016, for the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainability, and giscience. The aag Annual Meeting is an interdisciplinary forum open to anyone with an interest in geography and related disciplines. All scholars, researchers, and students are welcome. The five-day conference will host more than 7,000 geographers from around the world and feature over 5,000 presentations, posters, workshops, and field trips by leading scholars, experts, and researchers. Sessions will be organized around many subfields, special tracks, and featured themes. For more information, visit www.aag.org/annualmeeting.