http://www.npic-afs.org Serving the AFS Members of British Columbia and Washington State Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:51:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Download May 2008 Confluence Newsletter Articles: President’s Message Coastwide Salmonid Genetics Conference Upcoming NPIC Voting Executive committee candidates’ statements NPIC Builds Momentum with Successful 2008 AGM NPIC’s 2009 AGM NPIC’s New Archivist Increasing Student Involvement NPIC Needs a New Web Master Annual Award Recipients What Kind of Impact Do You Want to Have With Your Career? http://www.npic-afs.org/2008/05/26/may-2008-newsletter/ Co-convened by NPIC-AFS and Washington Dept of Fish and Wildlife June 6 – 7, 2008 Olympia Washington We invite you to Olympia, WA June 6 – 7, 2008 for the Coastwide Salmonid Genetic Meeting hosted by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the North Pacific International Chapter (WA and BC) ... http://www.npic-afs.org/2008/03/26/coastwide-salmonid-genetics-meeting/ We have a great selection of raffle items for you to win at the Awards and Raffle Social on Wednesday Night March 5th. Items include:  Flyfishing gear including flies and a fly rod Art including a Joe wilson print, 5 prints form the Sustainable Fisheries Foundation, coastal cutthroat print from recent Skamania ... http://www.npic-afs.org/2008/02/26/2008-agm-raffle-update/ Greetings: Please be aware that the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society deadline for the 2008 graduate-level student scholarship applications is March 1, 2008. This scholarship program provides up to $3,000 annually in scholarships to master's or doctoral students in the general area of fisheries science with one ... http://www.npic-afs.org/2008/02/14/wdafs-scholarships-deadline-coming-up/ We Invite Additional Speakers and Posters for both Symposia and Contributed Sessions on freshwater, estuarine, and marine topics. The Program Committee invites abstracts for individual symposia, oral, and poster presentations. Abstracts must be submitted on-line by January 31st, 2008. Please also see www.npic-afs.org for information on the Program, Accommodations, and to ... http://www.npic-afs.org/2008/01/28/final-call-for-paper-and-poster-abstracts/ Please join us on Wednesday March 5th at 5:30 for the NPIC Awards Social and Raffle. We will be giving out awards and raffling off items throughout the evening. David Hillman will be playing some of his original music after the awards and raffle ceremonies. Rock, alt-country, blues, and jazz, all take ... http://www.npic-afs.org/2008/01/28/npic-agm-awards-social-and-raffle/ NPIC is committed to minimizing the environmental impact of the 2008 Annual General Meeting through: Decreasing the amount of solid waste produced by the meeting Serve liquids in bulk containers (e.g. cream for coffee, water in pitchers [no bottled water], kegs of beer (bring your own ... http://www.npic-afs.org/2008/01/10/environmental-impact-reduction/ Are you a Worthy Coelacanth? NPIC has a number of awards which will be presented at the Annual General Meeting. A brief description of each award is provided below. Haig Brown Award Established in 1981 to recognize those who have produced outstanding, non-technical articles or publications on any aspect of fishery management, research, ... http://www.npic-afs.org/2007/12/28/call-for-npic-annual-awards-nominations/ Are you interested in a tremendous chance to broaden your fisheries networking and serve AFS at the same time?!?! The NPIC Executive Committee is seeking candidates for the position of General Arrangements Chair for “Team 2011”, to coordinate implementation of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, September 1-8, 2011. The General ... http://www.npic-afs.org/2007/12/28/special-position-announcement/ NPIC wants you! We have openings for 2008-2009, beginning in September, for Vice President and Assistant Newsletter Editor. The Vice President will ascend annually to President-Elect, President, and Past-President, while the Assistant Newsletter Editor may ascend to Newsletter Editor. For more information on the responsibilities of these positions, please see ... http://www.npic-afs.org/2007/12/28/solicitation-for-open-executive-committee-positions/