Winter 2005 Newsletter
The Fall 2004 SEERS meeting was held in the Coastline Convention Center on the downtown Wilmington, N.C. waterfront, October 14-16. Approximately 74 people attended, including 35 students. Regular members presented 22 papers and student members presented 21 papers. There was an overall theme of "stormwater runoff" with speakers demonstrating the impacts of nutrients and microbial pathogens from such runoff pollution on various estuarine and nearshore marine habitats including Florida reefs, South Carolina beaches and swashes, and North Carolina tidal creeks and boat ramp areas. We thank the following sponsors: North Carolina Sea Grant; the North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute; the University of North Carolina at Wilmington; Hydrolab/ Hach Corporation; and YSI/SonTek.
Student paper award winners were: Azure Bevington of Coastal Carolina University for Best Undergraduate Oral Presentation; Jeremy Saeger of Coastal Carolina University for Best Undergraduate Poster; Chrissy Smith of the College of Charleston for Best Graduate Student Oral Presentation; and Kurt Bretsch of the University of South Carolina for Best Graduate Student Poster. Student Presentation Award winners get one year's free membership in both ERF and SEERS. Student Travel awards were presented to Dwight Ebanks and Sue Chaplin-Ebanks of Savannah State University.
The spring SEERS meeting would be held February 28 - March 2 in Charleston, S.C. See the announcement at our website: http://links.baruch.sc.edu/seers/meetings.htm.
At the spring 2004 SEERS meeting we will hold elections for SEERS Secretary, SEERS Treasurer, and SEERS Student Representative. People interested in running for Secretary or Treasurer should contact Evan Chipouras at evan@ut.edu, and people interested in running for Student representative should contact Jenni Beseres at beseres@biol.sc.edu.
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