Association Affairs: Pacific Science Association

Announcements

Meeting of the U.S. National Committee to PSA

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences will hold its second meeting of the new U.S. National Committee to the Pacific Science Association (USNC-PSA). The USNC-PSA was re-formed with mostly new membership in early 2010 and had its first meeting in Honolulu in February 2010.

The Chair of the USNC-PSA is Dr. Aihwa Ong, Professor of Social Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Other Members of the USNC-PSA include: Dr. Peter Brewer, Ocean Chemist and Senior Scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in Moss Landing, California; Dr. Tim Brown, director of the UNAIDS Collaborating Center at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii; Dr. Rosamund Naylor, Director of the Program on Food Security and the Environment [and] professor of Environmental Earth Systems Science at Stanford University; Ms. Eileen Shea, Chief of the Climate Services Division of the NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and Director of the NOAA Integrated Data and Environmental Applications Center (NOAA-IDEA); Dr. David Schindel, Executive Secretary of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL), an international initiative hosted by the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of Natural History. The 2nd meeting will take place at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Beekman Center in Irvine, California in November 2010. PSA thanks Ms. Kathie Bailey Mathae, Director of the U.S. National Academy’s Board on International Scientific Organizations (BISO), as well as Mr. Karumuna Kaijage and Ms. Lynelle Vidale at NAS for their support in organizing the USNC-PSA. For more information on BISO, please visit http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/biso/index.htm.

Updates

Registration Now Available for the 22nd Pacific Science Congress

Registration for the 22nd Pacific Science Congress (PSC-22) is now available! Please visit http://www.22ndpsc.net/reg.html to register online.

Registration fees for the 22nd Pacific Science Congress are:

Category	Early Bird (ends 31 March 2011)	Late (ends 18 May 2011)	Onsite
PSA Member	USD $450	USD $500	USD $550
Non Member	USD $500	USD $550	USD $600
Student	USD $200	USD $250	USD $300
Accompanying Person	USD $100	USD $100	USD $100
Science Teacher	USD $150	USD $200	USD $250

PSA Member, Non-member & Student Registration includes:

• • Admission to all scientific sessions

• • Admission to exhibition

• • Lunch for 4 days

• • Opening Ceremony (Tuesday, 14 June 2011)

• • Congress Dinner (Wednesday, 15 June 2011)

• • Closing Ceremony (Saturday, 17 June 2011)

• • Congress Materials

Accompanying Person Registration includes:

• • Admission to exhibition

• • Congress Dinner (Wednesday, 15 June 2011)

• • 1-1/2 (one-and-a-half) day – KL City Centre Tours : Morning/Afternoon

The call for sessions for the 22nd Pacific Science Congress (PSC-22) ended in November 2010, but submissions for special symposia may still be accepted under particular circumstances. Please visit the PSA page http://www.pacificscience.org/congress2011.html for updated information and a detail list of required criteria and email to: Mr. Nasaruddin Rahman (nasa@akademisains.gov.my). The deadlines for session proposals are also posted on the official Congress website (www.22ndpsc.net).

Upcoming key dates for the PSC-22 are:

• • 15 January 2011: Deadline for abstract submissions

• • 15 March 2011: Notification of acceptance for abstracts

• • 31 March 2011: Deadline for Early Bird Registration

• • 18 May 2011: Deadline for Late Registration

• • 18 May 2011: Deadline for refunds for cancelled registrations

Abstract submissions can also now be submitted online. Please visit: http://www.22ndpsc.net/absSubmit.html.

The PSC-22 will be held from 14–18 June 2011 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The theme of the PSC-22 is: “Asia Pacific Science in the 21st Century: Meeting the Challenges of Global Change”. Subthemes of the Congress, under which the various symposia and sessions are organized, are:

1. 1. A Changing Climate: Climate science; Physical impacts; Ecosystem responses; Mitigation and adaptation strategies; Climate policies; Vulnerable human populations

2. 2. Global Change & Ecosystems: Biodiversity; Landscape systems; Ecosystem services; Coupled human-natural systems; Invasive species; Museum collections and barcoding

3. 3. Oceans: Coral reefs; Ocean acidification; Large Marine Ecosystems, Marine bio-technology; Fisheries, Marine mammals...