Southern New England Chapter American Fisheries Society

About Us

The SNEC was established in 1968 and to provide regional support in the States of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island for the American Fisheries Society.
Established in 1968, the Southern New England Chapter is one of many American Fisheries Society Chapters created to provide regional support for the objectives of the parent society. The AFS is the oldest and largest scientific group dedicated to the advancement of fisheries science and the conservation of renewable aquatic resources with diner bateau mouche.

The chapter has a more parochial objective which is to encourage exchange of information by members of the Society residing or working within Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. This exchange occurs primarily through annual June and December meetings held in various locations throughout southern New England. Both events are important occasions to relate ideas, sharpen a paper for later publication, meet new people, renew friendships, and perhaps find a job.

Chapter Operation

The chapter “membership” automatically includes all AFS members in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. AFS members in other states may become chapter members if they feel the chapter best suits their needs. Meetings are also open to AFS non-members who are encouraged to join and participate. Non-members cannot vote on matters pertaining to chapter business.
Chapter memberships run for the calendar year. The chapter has two categories of membership:

• Regular members are dues-paying parent society members who pay both their parent society and their $5 chapter dues through the American Fisheries Society.
• Individuals and organizations may joint the chapter as affiliate members by paying $10 annually to the Chapter secretary-treasurer. Affiliate members are not required to maintain a membership with the parent society, but are also prohibited from standing for election or holding and elected office in the chapter and voting in chapter elections. Affiliate membership form.
  All memberships operate on a calendar year basis. Chapter dues are used for a variety of purposes including meeting production costs, newsletter production, support of student and professional awards, and other professional activities.

Student Opportunities Abound!

If you are a student, folks are practically standing in line with opportunities for you! Check out the following opportunities:

SNEC-AFS Opportunities

• SNEC-AFS Best Student Paper Award
• SNEC-AFS Student Membership Award Information and Application
• SNEC-AFS Student Travel Award Information and Application (Deadline May 3, 2014)
• SNEC-AFS Student Associate Fisheries Scientist Certification Award Information and Application
• AFS John E. Skinner Fund Travel Award Information and Application links
• NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center summer student employment

Attention Students!

The 2014 Winter Meeting offers reduced registration fees for students pre-registering by deadline.

• Reduced registration!
• Free food!
• Networking with professionals
  Students presenting papers may compete for The Saul B. Saila Best Student Paper Award which includes a $100 check and plaque. SNEC will also offer a Student Poster Award at this meeting.

SNEC Professional Award Nominations

The Southern New England Chapter (SNEC) of the American Fisheries society periodically makes awards to individuals and organizations it feels deserving of special recognition. We are currently seeking nominations for these awards: Award of Excellence, Irwin Alperin Award, Outstanding Organization Award, & the Lesa Meng Aquatic Conservation Award.

[Call for Nominations & Awards Descriptions](/docs/Call for SNEC Award Nominations2010.pdf) (PDF format)

Awards

SNEC-AFS Student Awards & Grants
Click the links below to read information and download applications

• SNEC-AFS Best Student Paper Award
• SNEC-AFS Student Membership Award Information and Application
• SNEC-AFS Student Travel Award Information and Application
• SNEC-AFS Student Associate Fisheries Scientist Certification Award Information and Application

Parent Society Awards and Scholarships

• AFS J. Francis Allen Scholarship
• Skinner Travel Awards
• AFS Student Writing Award

Recent Recipients of Chapter Awards

• Professional/Executive Awards

  • Award of Excellence
  • Irwin Alperin Outstanding Member Award
  • Lesa Meng Aquatic Conservation Award
  • Outstanding Organization Award
  • Special Achievement Award
  • Awards of Appreciation: Past President Award

• Presentation/Publication Awards

  • Saul B. Saila Best Student Paper Award

• Stipends/Scholarships

  • Student Membership Scholarships
  • Associate Certification Scholarships
  • Student Travel Awards

Meetings

Northeast Division postings of meetings in our area:
http://www.fisheries.org/units/ned/meetings-trainings.htm
A Chance to Participate in SNEC meetings:
2013 Summer Meeting:
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Roger Williams University
Bristol, RI

Click here to download an example of abstract format for papers to be submitted for SNEC-AFS meetings (PDF Format)

2013 Summer Program Agenda & Abstracts (PDF Format)

2013 Winter Meeting:
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
University of Connecticut, Avery Point Campus
Shennecossett Road, Groton, CT

Click here to download an example of abstract format for papers to be submitted for SNEC-AFS meetings (PDF Format)

2013 Winter Program Agenda & Abstracts (PDF Format)
2012 Summer Meeting:
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
DoyIe Conservation Center
Leominster, MA

2012 Summer Program Agenda & Abstracts (PDF Format)
2012 Winter Meeting:
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Coastal Resources Building
University of Rhode Island Bay Campus
South Ferry Road, Narragansett, RI

2012 Winter Program Agenda & Abstracts (PDF Format)
2011 Summer Meeting:
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
333 Ferry Road, Old Lyme, CT

2011 Summer Program Agenda & Abstracts (PDF Format)

2011 Winter Meeting:
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Redfield Auditorium
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, MA

2011 Winter Program Agenda & Abstracts (PDF Format)

2010 Summer Meeting:
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
University of Rhode Island, Kingston Campus
Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences Biology Building, Kingston, RI

2010 Summer Program Agenda & Abstracts (PDF Format)

2010 Winter Meeting:
Thursday, January 28, 2010
University of Connecticut, Avery Point Campus
Marine Science Building, Room 103
Shennecossett Road, Groton, CT 06340

2010 Winter Program Agenda & Abstracts (PDF Format)

2009 Summer Meeting:
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Regional Office
300 Westgate Center Drive, Hadley, Massachusetts

2009 Summer Program Agenda & Abstracts (PDF Format)

2009 Winter Meeting:
January 14, 2009
Roger Williams University
Marine & Natural Sciences Building (MNS)
One Old Ferry Road, Bristol, RI 02809

2009 Winter Program Agenda & Abstracts (PDF Format)

2008 Summer Meeting:
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Bishop Center
University of Connecticut
One Bishop Circle, Storrs Campus, CT 06269

2008 Summer Program Agenda & Abstracts (PDF Format)

2008 Winter Meeting:
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Doyle Conservation Center
464 Abbott Street, Leominster, MA

2008 Winter Program Agenda & Abstracts (PDF Format)

2007 Summer Meeting:
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Coastal Institute, University of Rhode Island
Kingston Campus, Kingston, RI
2007 Summer Program Agenda & Abstracts (PDF Format)

2007 Winter Meeting:
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
333 Ferry Road, Old Lyme, CT

2007 Winter Program Agenda & Abstracts (PDF Format)

2006 Summer Meeting:
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Fall River MA

Summer 2006 meeting agenda

2006 Winter Meeting:
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Coastal Institute, University of Rhode Island
Narragansett Bay Campus, Narragansett, Rhode Island

Winter 2006 meeting agenda

2005 Summer Meeting:
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Connecticut Department of Environmental Management
Old Lyme, Connecticut

2005 Winter Meeting:
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Best Western-Yankee Drummer Inn, Auburn, MA

Winter 2004 meeting agenda
Winter 2004 meeting abstracts

2004 Summer Meeting:
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Coastal Institute
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

Summer 2004 meeting agenda

2004 Winter Meeting:
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Connecticut Department of Environmental Management
Old Lyme, Connecticut

Winter 2004 meeting agenda

Joint 2003 Meeting:
May 8-10, 2003
Holiday Inn Express
Fairhaven, Massachusetts
New England Estuarine Research Society (NEERS) meeting was held jointly with SNEC: contributed papers from SNEC-AFS & NEERS, SNEC Student papers, NEERS Student papers, and Mount Hope Bay Symposium: “Natural and Anthropogenic influences on the Mt. Hope Bay Ecosystem.”

2003 Winter Meeting:
Tuesday, January 14, 2003
Ramada Inn
Auburn, Massachusetts

Winter 2003 meeting agenda (PDF Format)

2002 Summer Meeting:
Wednesday, June 19, 2002
Center for Environmental and Economic Development
Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island

copy of Summer 2002 meeting agenda (PDF format)

2002 Winter Meeting:
Tuesday, January 22, 2002
University of Connecticut
Avery Point, Connecticut

the Winter 2002 meeting agenda (PDF Format)

Meetings usually involve a call for papers. Presentations are given by individuals choosing to use the chapter forum to discuss their research and/or management efforts. Meetings are excellent opportunities for presentation of work-in-progress reports and for students to relate ongoing research. They are especially important for students as they are often the their first introduction to the workings of a professional society and their first opportunity to present a paper before a professional society.

The chapter’s annual business meeting is held in June. Besides electing new officers, AFS attendees are briefed on matters pertaining to chapter, Northeast division, and parent society business. This meeting gives AFS members an opportunity to express their views on the parent society or Northeast division activities or plans and, accordingly, to help establish chapter positions. In this way, AFS members who might not be able to attend parent society and/or division annual meetings, are able to influence their organization’s attempts to achieve its goals.

Executive Committee

President: William Duffy
National Marine Fisheries Service
166 Water Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Phone: (508) 495-2364
FAX: (508) 495-2258
Email: william.duffy@noaa.gov

President-Elect: Syma Ebbin
Depart. of Agriculture & Resource Econ.
University of Connecticut
Avery Point Campus
1080 Shennecossett Rd.
Groton, CT 06340
Phone: (860) 405-9278
Fax: (860) 405-9109
Email: saebbin@sbcglobal.net

Secretary-Treasurer: Heidi Fitzpatrick
11 Tolland Rd.
Bolton, CT 06043
Phone: (860) 670-2101
Email: Heidi.fitzpatrick@uconn.edu

Past President: Sean Lucey
Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Ecosystem Assessment Program
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Phone: (508) 495-2011
Email: Sean.Lucey@NOAA.gov

Southern New England Chapter, AFS Committee Chairs & At-Large Board of Directors Members 2012-2013

• For additional contact information, please click on the officers name below:
• Education & Student Presentation Chair: Karina Mrakovcich (CT)
• Professionalism Chair: vacant
• Student Presentation Evaluation Chair: Karina Mrakovcich (CT)
• Program Development Chair: Dave Taylor (RI)
• Website Coordinator: Dodi Borsay Horowitz (RI)
• Student Affairs Coordinator: vacant
• Newsletter Editors: UCONN SNEC Student Chapter Members (CT)
• Publicity Officer: Donald J. Danila (CT)
• CT Fisheries Advisory Council Representative: Jason Vakoun (CT)
• At Large Board of Directors Members:
  • Vacant
  • Vacant
  • Tracy Maynard (CT)
  • Carolyn Griswold (RI)
  • Grace Klein-MacPhee (RI)
  • Penny Howell (CT)
  • Owen Nichols (MA)
  • Jason Vokoun (CT)
  • Chris Tomichek (CT)

Education Committee Chair
Karina Mrakovcich
U.S. Coast Guard Academy
New London, CT 06320
Phone: (860) 701-6288
Email: Karina.L.Mrakovcich@uscga.edu
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Professionalism Committee Chair

VACANT
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Student Affairs Coordinator

VACANT
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Program Development Committee Chair
David Taylor
Department of Biology & Marine Biology
Roger Williams University
Bristol, RI 02809
Phone: (401) 254-3759
FAX:
Email: dtaylor@rwu.edu
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Website Coordinator
Dodi Borsay Horowitz
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Atlantic Ecology Division
27 Tarzwell Drive
Narragansett, RI 02882
Phone: (401) 782-3042
FAX: (401) 782-3030
EMail: borsay.dodi@epa.gov
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Dodi Borsay Horowitz

Newsletter Editors
Joseph Cassone, President
UCONN SNEC Student Chapter
EMail: joseph.cassone@uconn.edu
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Publicity Officer
Donald J. Danila
Email: abcfish@ct.metrocast.net
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CT Fisheries Advisory Council Representative
Jason Vokoun
Dept. of Natural Resources Mngt & Eng.
308 Young Building
1376 Storrs Road, Unit 4087
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-4087
Phone: (860) 486-0141
Email: jason.vokoun@uconn.edu
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At Large BOD Member
Penny Howell
Connecticut DEP
Old Lyme, CT
Phone:
FAX:
Email: penny.howell@po.state.ct.us

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At Large BOD Member
Grace Klein-MacPhee
Graduate School of Oceanography
University of Rhode Island
Narragansett, RI 02882
Phone:
FAX:
Email: gracemac1@verizon.net

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At Large BOD Member
Tracy Maynard
Kleinschmidt Associates
35 Pratt Street, Suite 201
Essex, CT 06426
Phone: 860-767-5069, ext. 406
FAX: 860-767-5097
Email: Tracy.Maynard@KleinschmidtUSA.com
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Tracy Maynard
At Large BOD Member
Carolyn Griswold
National Marine Fisheries Service
Northeast Fisheries Science Center
28 Tarzwell Drive
Narragansett, Rhode Island 02882-1199
Phone: 401-782-3273
Fax: 401-782-3201
Email: cgriswol@mola.na.nmfs.gov
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At Large BOD Member
Jason Vokoun
Dept. of Natural Resources Mngt & Eng.
308 Young Building
1376 Storrs Road, Unit 4087
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-4087
Phone: (860) 486-0141
Email: jason.vokoun@uconn.edu
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At Large BOD Member
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At Large BOD Member
Chris Tomichek
Kleinschmidt Associates
35 Pratt Street, Suite 201
Essex, CT 06426
Phone: (860) 767-5069
Email: chris.tomichek@kleinschmidtusa.com
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Chris Tomichek
At Large BOD Member

VACANT
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At Large BOD Member
Owen C. Nichols
School for Marine Science and Technology
University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
200 Mill Road - Suite 325
Fairhaven, MA 02719
Phone: (508) 910-6394
FAX: (508) 910-6396
Email: onichols@umassd.edu
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Owen Nichols
At Large BOD Member
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SNEC-AFS Job Resource Board

American Fisheries Society Job Board

Current Southern New England postings

NOAA’S NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTERS SUMMER STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Check out details at http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/sstudent/

Southern New England resources

Massachusetts Job Bank
Massachusetts Division of Employment and Training
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Employment Opportunities
Connecticut Job Bank
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection job opportunities
Rhode Island Job Bank
Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training
Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management

Federal Government Resources

US Government Federal Jobs Search homepage
Environmental Protection Agency
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration jobs homepage
Office of Personnel Management - NOAA jobs search
Department of the Interior jobs homepage
United States Geological Survey Jobs homepage
Office of Personnel Management - US Fish and Wildlife Service jobs

Other sites

Science careers from Science magazine
Nature jobs from nature.com

Other Useful Links

• Some of our favorite links to other fisheries resources:
• American Fisheries Society
• AFS - Computer Users Section
• AFS Fish Health Group
• American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
• Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans
• ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
• National Marine Fisheries Service
• National Marine Fisheries Service - Northeast Fisheries Science Center
• North Atlantic Chapter of SETAC
• Northeast Division of AFS
• Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization