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TCS Business Meeting

TCS Business Meeting. 6:30 pm January 6, 2012 Charleston, SC SICB 2012. Welcome & thanks to Past-President Akira Asakura 1. TCS moved from Allen Press, Inc. to Brill (The Netherlands). 2. Journal of Crustacean Biology is publishing six issues per year.

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TCS Business Meeting

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  1. TCS Business Meeting 6:30 pm January 6, 2012 Charleston, SC SICB 2012

  2. Welcome & thanks to Past-President Akira Asakura 1. TCS moved from Allen Press, Inc. to Brill (The Netherlands). 2. Journal of Crustacean Biology is publishing six issues per year. 3. In JCB, the "article by article on line" publication started for rapid publication. 4. New membership categories and fees were decided. 5. Positions of Liaison Officers established and the officers appointed. 6. An Executive Director was established. 7. Amembership poll was conducted in 2010. 8. Seed money policy was decided: $2000 for a TCS meeting, up to $6000 for an ICC; and considered a loan.

  3. TCS Elections for 2012 Officers President-Elect Program Officer SICB Liaison Officer Asian Governor Latin American Governor

  4. TCS Elections for 2012 Officers President-Elect Program Officer SICB Liaison Officer Asian Governor Latin American Governor

  5. JCB Editorial Report for volume 31 (2011) Volume 31 (2011), the purple volume • The new EM (Editorial Manager) system with Brill went live in September with our first submission - #1000, and we logged in # 1065 on 20 December Our Impact Factor went back up to 1.115; last year it was 0.974, in 2009 it was 1.109 The total number of pages published were 751, down from 803 in 2010, but up from 619 in 2009, and about par with the 764 in 2008 Rejection rate – around 35%

  6. Treasurer and Executive Director Report 2011 TCS, at mid-year, changes publishers from Allen Press to Brill TCS appoints Mary Belk as Executive Director to focus on membership and run the business office TCS appoints Brian Tsukimura as Treasurer to oversee the business office Moved several CD’s to Wells Fargo checking to ensure we met needs for the midyear meeting & JCB vol. 31(3) The Editor’s computer will be up-graded in 2012 TCS is in a recovery year as far as the stock market is concerned After reaching a low in 2010, our membership has started a slow increase

  7. Treasurer and Executive Director Report 2011 2011 income from BioOne ($45,228) surpassed the 2010 income ($38,566) JSTOR income ($5,042.91) also increased from 2010 levels. Investment accounts with Schwab have been put under Schwab management and are producing modest increases Our overall portfolio (Assets) is balanced but our Schwab funds are aggressive In 2011, TCS has a loss for the year, which can be explained by: increased cost of operations slight increase in JCB cost appointing an Executive Director loss created bythe Hawaii meeting. The Executive Director is collecting back due page charges and payments for page charges into 2012.

  8. Table 1.

  9. Program Officer Report Future TCS and ICC meetings (to 2015) - 2012 - Mid-year meeting, Athens, Greece, with 10th CCDM 2013 - Winter meeting with SICB, San Francisco (Conservation of Crayfish Session) 2013 - Mid-year meeting, Costa Rica? - Ingo Wehrtmann (to be confirmed) 2013 – ICIRD Detroit, USA (TCS sponsored symposium on crustacean reproduction?) 2014 - Winter meeting with SICB, Austin, TX (Symposia by Mid-August 2012) 2014 - 8th International Crustacean Congress (ICC-8), Frankfurt, Germany 2015 - Winter meeting with SICB, West Palm Beach, FL (Symposia by Mid-August 2013) 2015 - Mid-year meeting, Australia (Shane Ahyong)

  10. TCS website upgrade

  11. A case for a modern and professional web presence of the The Crustacean Society

  12. New domain name: www.thecrustaceansociety.org This is the current view of the new TCS website as it appears using Firefox.

  13. Navigation difficulties Many categories on landing page; these could be simplified (e.g. society business, meetings, publications, membership) Duplication and inconsistent or non-intuitive location of links or downloads (partly because of titles ‘resources’, ‘links’, ‘downloads’ which overlap greatly) Problem of upkeep, such as outdated news (e.g., a January 2011 deadline)

  14. Proposed revamp of TCS website • Hire professional web designer to design and advise • Modernize look to appeal to wider and possibly younger audience • Reorganize and ‘de-clutter’ site to increase usefulness • Anticipated costs: XXX • Volunteers: Zen Faulkes, Kareen Schnabel

  15. Search Login Welcome to The Crustacean Society The Society Meetings Publications & Resources Awards Jobs? JOIN US Our mission is to advance the study of all aspects of the biology of the Crustacea by promoting the exchange and dissemination of information throughout the world. Please consider membership in the society. News & announcements • Nominations for TCS officers open • Squat lobster biology book published • 1B$ Taxonomy Bill passed in senate Publications Upcoming meetings • 2012 – with the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Charleston, South Carolina • 2012 – TCS mid-year meeting, Royal Olympic Hotel, Athens, GreeceCo-sponsors: Hellenic Zoological Society; 10th Colloquium CrustaceaDecapodaMediterranea, and the Greek National Center for Marine Research • 2013 – with the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Francisco, California • 2014 – 8th International Crustacean Congress (ICC-8) will be held at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. TCS blog (?) • Journal of Crustacean Biology • Ecdysiast Newsletter • Amphipod Newsletter TCS connect (?) CRUST-L

  16. Proposed features Clear logo and society name Links to business and resources A banner or images (static or moving) to highlight the organisms and the science Mission statement Direct links to publications and conferences Regularly updated news and announcements (could include live link to Crust-L posts)

  17. Proposed website structure This level matches the labels on front page banner Re-locate some items Needs to be kept up-to-date! Suggest instalment of a web-related TCS Officer to coordinate and upkeep

  18. Future development • Social media • YouTube • Twitter • Facebook • Google Plus • ‘History of TCS’, including archival images • Image gallery (e.g. previous meetings, people shots, open access images that can be used in presentations, etc.)

  19. Other business?

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