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SUMMARY:2025 Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:SCAN 2025 Annual Meeting \nSaluda Shoals Park \nThe River Center\, TD Bank Room \n5605 Bush River Rd\, Columbia\, SC 29212 \nGPS Coordinates: 34.0524\, -81.1819 \nJanuary 25\, 2025 at 9am to 5:30pm \n  \nWhen you arrive\, tell the attendant at the gate you’re with SCAN\, and they’ll let you in for free. This year we’re at the River Center\, which is on top of the hill on the left after you come in through the gate. We’ll be in the TD Bank Room. Lunch is a potluck\, so bring a dish to share with the group! \n  \n2025 Annual Meeting Agenda \n  \n9:00 – 10:00:            Socializing and refreshments (Coffee and breakfast snacks provided) \n10:00 – 10:15:          Welcome and introductions \n10:15 – 11:05:          Kevin Kubach\, SCDNR \nSubject of Talk: Environmental DNA (eDNA) as a Conservation Tool: Finding a Freshwater Needle in a Haystack \nBio: Kevin Kubach has worked as a research biologist in freshwater stream and river conservation for over 20 years with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. He works primarily on statewide studies aimed at enabling proactive\, watershed-scale conservation of aquatic resources\, as well as efforts to understand and protect freshwater fish species of greatest conservation need. Although Kevin’s interest in nature has always involved the water and its finned inhabitants\, his understanding of the natural world took a monumental leap when he picked up binoculars and began looking more closely at birds. \n11:05 – 11:55:          Andy Jones\, Spring Island Trust and LowCountry Institute \nSubject of Talk: Migration All Around Us: How Birds Navigate the Americas \nBio: Dr. Andy Jones is a lifelong naturalist\, with a passion for the biodiversity of the southeastern United States. He has worked as curator of ornithology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and was one of the team leads on Lights Out Cleveland\, a group working with building managers to turn lights off during migration as well as coordinating volunteers to recover injured and dead birds that collided with buildings. He has served as a board member of Black Swamp Bird Observatory and the Winous Point Marsh Conservancy\, and as Secretary of the American Ornithological Society. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society for his contributions to ornithology. In May 2022\, he joined the Spring Island Trust and LowCountry Institute as Executive Director. \n11:55 – 12:15:          Break   \n12:15 – 1:30:            Potluck Lunch (Don’t forget a dish to share!) \n  \n  \n1:30 – 2:20:              Paul Baker\, Clemson Pee Dee Research and Education Center \nSubject of Talk: Longhorn Beetles in South Carolina \nBio: Paul Baker is an entomologist at the Clemson Pee Dee Research and Education Center complex just outside of Florence\, SC. He works with Clemson Extension Professor Dr. Muhammad “Zee” Ahmed\, who is a Turf and Ornamental entomologist. Most of his research work revolves around monitoring beetles that are either pest species of tree nurseries or surveys of beneficial beetles within forests. \n2:20 – 3:10:              Madison Janakis\, University of South Carolina \nSubject of Talk: Visual Ecology of Two South Carolinian Tidal Creek Crabs \nBio: Bio: Maddy graduated from DePaul University in Chicago with her B.S. in Biology and Environmental Science in 2020. She is currently a fifth year PhD student in the biological science department at USC Columbia. (Go Cocks!) Maddy resides in Dr. Daniel Speiser’s lab which investigates the visual system of marine invertebrates. Her research is focused on the compound eyes of crabs captured off the coast of Georgetown at Baruch Marine Field Lab. \n3:10 – 3:30:              Break \n3:30 – 5:00:              Business Meeting \n\nApproval of 2024 Annual Meeting Minutes\nTreasurer’s Report\nElection of Officers – nominations will be accepted from the floor\, provided that the nominee has agreed prior to the nomination. The proposed slate is:\n\nPresident – Lee Morris\nVice President – Scott Wietecha\nSecretary – Kim McManus\nTreasurer – Seat Open (BACK-UP: Gordon Murphy)\nHistorian – Gordon Murphy\nDatabase Manager – Tom Austin\nWebkeeper – Kim McManus\nNorthern Regional Director – Seat Open (BACK-UP: Rita Zollinger)\nWestern Regional Director – Ron Ahle\nCentral Regional Director – Dave Kastner\nEastern Regional Director – Seat Open (BACK-UP: Todd Johnston)\nSouthern Regional Director – Tom Austin\n\n\n2024 Field Trips in review\n2025 Itinerary of field trips\nOld Business\n\nProposed Revisions to Bylaws and Constitution\nSCAN Book 4 Update\nSCAN Book 5 Preparations\n\n\nNew Business\n\n5:00 Adjourn
URL:https://www.scnaturalists.org/event/2025-annual-meeting/
LOCATION:Saluda Shoals Park\, 5605 Bush River Road\, Columbia\, SC\, 29212\, United States
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