Posts tagged with "Ethnobiological News"

General Membership Meeting Reports and Handouts

The General Membership Meeting of the Society of Ethnobiology is being held on Friday, May 10 from 4:00-5:30 in Geography 100. Due to the limited amount of time to cover the many activities that are happening within the Society and the many concerns of our members, we chose to distribute several reports and announcements as supplements to the spoken reports.  These reports are available as attachments to this announcement. We hope you will join us on Friday at 4:00 and, even if you are not present, you can review these documents. They include:

Special session for Applied (Non-Academic) Ethnobiology and Ethnobotany Scholars and Practitioners

submitted by Trish Flaster Tflkastersprint@earthlink.net

The first annual Networking Social for Applied (Non-Academic) Ethnobiology and Ethnobotany Scholars and Practitioners was held at the 2018 SEB-SoE joint meeting in Madison. The event was well-attended beyond the organizers expectations. Students and early, mid and late career professionals filled the room and spilled out the door.

Shop with Amazon Smile and Give Back to the Society

AmazonSmile is a new fundraising mechanism for the Society of Ethnobiology. When you shop with AmazonSmile and choose the Society of Ethnobiology as your charitable organization, you provide financial support for the Society's suite of awards and publications program.

Congratulations Dr. Robbie Hart, Winner of a BioOne Ambassador Award!

Announcing Dr. Robbie Hart as a BioOne Ambassador Award Winner

Dr. Robbie Hart is a winner of the 2018 BioOne Ambassador Award! Dr. Hart is a member of the Society of Ethnobiology.  Congratulations on your excellent scholarship, Dr. Hart, as well as your work on medicinal plant conservation.  

Undergraduate Ethnobiologist Award Winner for 2018

Chlöe Fackler  is the winner of the 2018 Undergraduate Ethnobiologist Award. Chlöe is an undergraduate student at McGill University, studying environmental biology, with a focus on botany and anthropology.

ISE Darrell Posey Fellowship

The International Society of Ethnobiology asks for your help as we raise money for the ISE Darrell Posey Fellowship. We ask you to visit our Indiegogo campaign and help ‘Support a Fellow'.

Manuscript Submission Invitation for Special Section on Cannabis in JoE

The Journal of Ethnobiology is planning a special section on Cannabis. We invite submissions on ecological, social, cultural, material (or combination thereof) aspects of Cannabis. If interested, send 250 word abstract to dglover@pugetsound.edu (Dr. Denise M.

Save the Date!

Joint Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology
& Society for Economic Botany

FOOD SECURITY, SOVEREIGNTY, & TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE

JUNE 3–­7, 2018

Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus
Madison, Wisconsin (USA)

Undergraduate Ethnobiologist Award Winner for 2017

Hope Loiselle is a junior at the University of Maryland studying anthropology and archaeology. Her research interests include zooarchaeology, historical ecology, and island and coastal archaeology.

Election Results for 2017 Board of Trustees

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Board of Trustees elections.  The new President Elect is Dr. Sarah Walshaw, a Senior Instructor of African History at Simon Fraser University.  Dr. Denise Glover, from the Sociology and Anthropology Department at the University of Puget Sound, has been re-elected to a second term as Treasurer.  The new Publications Liaison is Chelsey Armstrong, a soon-to-be PhD archaeologist at Simon Fraser University.

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