NEERS News

Fall Meeting in Long Island
The fall 2002 NEERS meeting will be held jointly with the biennial Long Island Sound Research Conference, October 24-26. We will be meeting at the Avery Point Campus of the University of Connecticut in Groton. The campus is located at the water's edge with a commanding view of Long Island Sound, The Race, and Fishers Island. Although the conference will be held entirely on the Avery Point campus, there are other reasons to visit southeastern Connecticut, including historic Mystic (with its Mystic Seaport museum) and two world-class casinos: Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods.

All day Thursday and part of Friday will feature oral presentations relating to Long Island Sound and its watershed. Friday afternoon and Saturday morning will have contributed papers and posters, and as always we anticipate strong contributions from our students.

NEERS offers three student awards for best presentations of undergraduate and graduate talks, plus posters, and we have several student travel awards available as well. This will be an election year for NEERS, so plan to attend our business meeting late Friday afternoon. A tour of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy is being planned for Saturday October 26.
For more information, contact NEERS Program Chairman and Local Organizer, Patricia Kremer, Department of Marine Sciences, 1080 Shennecossett Road, Groton, CT 06340 (860)405-9140, and see our website (http://www.neers.org).

Former NEERS President Published
NEERS also would like to congratulate our past-president and still-active NEERS and ERF member Sandy Macfarlane on the publication of her first book, Rowing Forward Looking Back: Shellfish and the Tides of Change at the Elbow of Cape Cod. Sandy recounts her quarter century working for the Town of Orleans, Massachusetts, initially as the first-ever shellfish biologist for a Massachusetts town, eventually as its conservation administrator.

Sandy's work and her book cover the range from basic to applied research, application of both knowledge and absence of knowledge in management decisions, the progressive scientific and public awareness of the consequences of coastal development and population growth, and of the oft-surprising combinations of people who seek to restore and improve our coastal resources for the future.

For more information or to order a book, contact the Friends of Pleasant Bay at P.O. Box 845, South Orleans, MA 02662 or at their web site, www.fopb.org.