Banff 2011: The 2011 CSEE meeting was held May 12-15 at Banff National Park. Many thanks to all of the organizers and volunteers for hosting such a successful conference! The science was stimulating, the socializing was super, and the scenery was stunning!

Ottawa 2012: Meeting website Dates: July 6-10, 2012

CSEE Sponsored Symposia:
The following two symposia were selected to be sponsored by CSEE: 1. The structure and dynamics of ecological networks: from genes to ecosystems
2. Eco-evolutionary dynamics: how ecological and evolutionary process influence one another

For more information and for other symposia see the meeting website.

Student Travel Grants
The CSEE is supporting students traveling to this year’s meeting with 20 travel grants of $500 each.  To be eligible for a travel grant you must be:

• a student member of the CSEE (unfortunately post-docs are not eligible)
• up to date on paying your membership fees
• presenting a talk or poster
• traveling more than 500 km to the meeting

If you would like to be considered, make sure you check the correct box on the registration page during early registration (until April 30).  You must indicate that you are a CSEE member for this option to be available to you.  Recipients will be informed by e-mail two weeks after early registration has closed. 

**You may also apply for travel grants from other societies of which you are a member.** 

Student Poster & Talk Awards
As usual CSEE will be administering a Student Award Competition for the best talks and posters.  Prizes of $500, $300 and $200 will be awarded for 1st,  2nd  and 3rd of each presentation type.  Entries will only be accepted until the end of early registration.  To be eligible, you must provide an abstract of your talk/poster (< 400 words).  Please note your abstract will be evaluated in order to determine which talks and posters are being judged.   

Hints for giving an effective talk or poster from Dr. Charley Krebs.

For more tips on developing an effective presentation, take a look at the forms used by judges to evaluate student talks and posters.

Future meetings (dates tentative):  Ottawa 2012 (July 6-10 with SSE/ASN/SSB/ESEB), Okanagan BC 2013 (May 13-16), Montreal 2014 (tentatively May 16-21 with CSZ)

Past meetings: Montreal 2006; Toronto 2007; Vancouver 2008 (meeting highlight in Biology Letters); Halifax 2009 (meeting highlight in Biology Letters); Québec 2010 (meeting highlight in Biology Letters and in New Phytologist); Banff 2011(meeting highlight in Biology Letters and in Molecular Ecology);

Presidential address:

• 2008 by Dr. Graham Bell (Experimental genomics of fitness in yeast. Proc. R. Soc. B 277:1459-1467; doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2099)
• 2010 by Dr. Doug Morris (Proc. R. Soc. B, in press)

Presidential award recipients:

• 2009 by Dr. Charles Krebs (Of lemmings and snowshoe hares: the ecology of northern Canada. Proc. R. Soc. B 278:481-489; doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1992)
• 2011 by Dr. David Schindler

Student presentation awards: 2007; 2008; 2009; 2010; 2011

Press release for Banff meeting
May 12-15, 2011