Membership

The American Fisheries Society has optional membership that provides many benefits. Students, professionals, or anyone that shows interest in fisheries. Benefits include access to many online journals, the monthly "Fisheries" AFS publication in print, access to discounted AFS literature, and participation at the many conferences and meetings held every year.

There are many ways to obtain a membership, and many levels.

Membership Categories:
- Individual: fisheries professional or single person
- Student: high school, college, university, technical program, etc...
- Associate/Official/Sustaining/Golden memberships: organizations or wealthy individuals who can donate lots of time and/or money to AFS (generally doesn't apply to Student Chapters!)

What you will need to start:
- Credit card
- Personal information (billing/mailing addresses, email address, other contact information)
- Reliable internet connection

How to apply:

1. Go to: http://www.fisheries.org/afs/membership_student.html#membership
2. Click "Join"
   
• Make sure you are joining the appropriate membership level (as described above)
3. Fill in the required information
• Fields with an asterisk are required: first/last name, email, address, city, zip, country, login and password (enter 2 times)
4. Click submit
5. Confirm information is correct
6. Click submit
7. Click the drop-down menu and read through the options for membership level
8. Scroll down and click the correct level, taking note of price
9. Click "Save and Proceed to Next Step"
   
10. Click the bullet next to any journal subscription you would like, taking note of price
11. Click "Save and Proceed to Next Step"
12. Click any boxes next to Section Dues that you may need to purchase
13. Click "Save and Proceed to Next Step"
14. Click any boxes next to any Chapters of AFS that you would like to be a member of
15. Click "Save and Proceed to Next Step"
16. Click any boxes next to contributions you would like to donate to AFS
17. Click "Save and Proceed to Next Step"
18. If you would not like to be included when AFS distributes member information for related organizations or if you would not like to be included in the online directory, click "Exclude Me" next to the corresponding boxes
19. If you were recruited by an AFS member type their name and their AFS membership number in the box on the bottom of the page
20. Click "Proceed to Checkout"
21. Select Credit Card Type from the drop-down list under Credit Card Information
22. Enter the Credit Card Expiration date using the drop-down menus under Credit Card Information
23. Enter the Credit Card Number
24. Enter 3 digit security code located on the back of the credit card
25. Type the name as it appears on the credit card
26. Enter the address where your credit card bill is sent (address, city, state abbreviation, zip, country)
27. Click "Check-Out"

This completes your order.

Need Help?
Having trouble entering information?
Make sure all of the fields with asterisks are completed in the correct format.

Credit card doesn't have 3 digit security code, or it is warn off?
Contact your credit card company to issue you a new card.

Your internet connection caused an error when processing order?
Wait for a confirmation email (atleast 2 hours) before you go through the whole process. This will avoid a double charge to your credit card.

There are many steps to this process. If you are having difficulty contact fbafs@uaf.edu, as we have gone through this process and are relatively familiar with online ordering.

Freshwater Native Species Fish Tank

AFS Freshwater fish tank on the 2nd floor of the O'Neill Building at UAF

The tank pictured above was donated by the Bureau of Land Management office in Fairbanks. There are five native species residing in this tank: Slimy sculpin (1), Alaska Blackfish (2), Arctic Grayling (2), Round Whitefish (2), and Longnose Sucker (1).

One main objective of the AFS officers for the 2008-09 year is to get more inolvement from students, and to make the AFS name known on campus. This fish tank provides us with an opportunity for community outreach. The School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences will also use this tank as a tool for attracting prospective/current student attention.

If you get a chance, stop by and see our fish! They are very lively and love attention.

Applied Hydrogeologic Site Characterization & Monitoring Well Construction Workshop

Three day training course to introduce environmental professionals to Applied Hydrologeologic principles and prepare for management and development of Site Characterization activities.

In-class exercises will include calculating hydraulic gradient, flow direction, flow volume, and flow velocity; water table contouring, designing monitoring wells, constructing geologic profiles from well logs, and investigating contaminated sites based on case study data.

The course is structured in a manner that the student will be able to understand hydrogeologic reports, prepare work plans and implement field studies. The attendee will further understand regional groundwater hydrology and how it relates to their local environment.

The class is intended for environmental professionals who are not hydrogeologists, but would benefit from a practical understanding of environmental hydrogeology.

Dates/Location:
October 1-3, 2008

Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Sport Fish Division
1300 College Road
Fairbanks, Alaska

For more information or application instructions click:
https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:7719.1361493416/rid:1bdb32634f86f19c3330fa9628ef35d7

or contact fbafs@uaf.edu.

September 2008 Meeting Minutes

First meeting of 2008-09 UAF AFS (~27 attendees)
Agenda
· Sign-In
· Food – subway, chips, cookies, water, snack mix
· What is AFS? – Stan Triebenbach
· Upcoming meeting announcement (vote on Weds or Thurs via email)
· Fish Tank announcements & call for volunteers
· AFS Alaska Chapter Diversity Travel Award for 2008 Annual Conference
· Officer nomination and elections
· Amanda PCCRC Internship
· Raffle for water bottle
AFS - Membership, purpose, and other information
Stan Triebenbach spoke about the benefits to AFS membership, how to sign up, and what AFS’ purpose is.
Volunteers for fish tank: Daniel Vaughn, Lisa Kangas, and Stan Triebenbach.
Diversity Award: Katie Murra announced the 2008 Annual Alaska Chapter conference in Anchorage, AK October 27-30, 2008. Women, minorities, Alaskan Natives, etc… can apply for scholarship for travel, lodging, registration fee. Application deadline September 26th, 2008. Our very own Lisa Kangas has won the award the past 2 years!
Volunteer opportunities: Katie also spoke about various activities throughout the school year -Outdoor Days: students will have an opportunity to interact and learn about science (Trophic Ecology Game); Science Symposium: High school competition – volunteers needed to help with projects and judge; Fish tank: Moving, filling with water, placing rocks, artificial plants, fish, feeding and cleaning; Natural Resource and Fisheries Career Day: November 13, 2008 – talk about AFS/SFOS, look for a job
Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center – Internships
Amanda Rosenberger – applications to work with an SFOS research scientist due September 15, 2008.
Officer Elections: Nominations:
President – Lisa Kangas (graduating 12/08), Seth Weitgrefe (accepted)
Vice President – Kelly Newfield and Jason Stolarski (vote: Kelly 14, Jason 17)
Raffle – water bottle

Annual AFS Alaska Chapter Conference

The Alaska Chapter of the American Fisheries Society is holding its annual conference in Anchorage October 28-30 at the Hilton Hotel.

You may register for the conference at:
http://www.fisheries.org/units/afs-ak/meetings/2008/m2008_2ND_Call.htm

Students who volunteer to help at the conference will have their registration fee waived. Please contact https://fbafs.email.uaf.edu/webmail/src/compose.php?send_to=eidam.d%40alaska.com if you would like to sign up!


Thanks, and hope to see you there!

-UAA Fisheries Club