2014 Meeting Information 
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Program, Papers & Abstracts 
You must attend and present your paper/poster to be published in the July issue 
of SEB. Please visit the ASB web site for the latest listing of papers and posters 
for the Spartanburg meeting! www.sebiologists.org 
The Abstract Deadline is Friday, January 31, 2014. 
For questions concerning posters and paper submissions, please contact the 
program chair, Dr. Howard S. Neufeld at email: neufeldhs@appstate.edu , or by 
phone at 828-262-2683. 
The deadline was extended to Friday, February 14, 2014. 
ASB 2014 Field Trips 
1. Beth Button of the USC Upstate Watershed Ecology Center ( http://www. 
uscupstate.edu/academics/arts sciences/watershed/) will lead a Stream 
Ecology Program at Camp Mary Elizabeth. 
2. Dr. Patrick Me Millan, Director of the South Carolina Botanical Garden 
( http://www.clemson.edu/public/scbg/) and host of the Emmy award winning 
ETV nature show Expeditions with Patrick McMillan ( http://www.clemson. 
edu/public/expeditions/) , will lead a tour of the Heritage Nature Garden at the 
South Carolina Botanical Garden. 
3. Drs. Mike Dorcas (Davidson College; http://www.bio.davidson.edu/dorcas/) , 
Melissa Pilgrim (USC Upstate; http://srel.uga.edu/facstaffpages/pilgrim.html) 
and Stephen Richter (Eastern Kentucky University; http://people.eku.edu/ 
richters/meca/) will lead Bioblitz surveys focused on building species list of 
herpetofauna discovered on recently acquired Spartanburg Area 
Conservancy (SPACE) properties ( http://spartanburgconservation.org/ ). 
Symposia 
1. Establishing Your Department's Vision for Change: Our Shared Mission for 
Every Student, facilitated by Leadership Fellows from the Partnership for 
Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE) 
2. Natural Disturbances and Range of Variation: Type, Frequency, Severity, 
and Post-disturbance Structure in Central Hardwood Forests, organized and 
co-hosted by Cathryn Greenberg (US Forest Service, Southern Research 
Station) and Beverly Collins (Western Carolina University). 
3. Educational Opportunities at Biological Field Stations of the Southeastern 
United States, sponsored by the ASB Education Committee (Chris Havran 
and Kirk Stowe). 
