The Entomological Society of Canada is looking for volunteers for the upcoming JAM, November 3-7! Volunteering looks great on your CV, is an excellent way to meet new people, and is fun! The Student Affairs Committee worked hard to keep student registration rates low, so we need a very strong showing of student volunteers to […]
A friendly reminder from Adrian Thysse about the JAM 2012 Photo Competition! _____________________________ The deadline for submission to the 2012 JAM photo competition is October 30! All JAM 2012 participants are eligible to enter, so why not submit your best shots now? The theme for the competition will be Canadian Arthropods, and there are four categories: Dead – […]
The results of the Eighth Annual ESC Photo Contest have been announced! Judges Kirk Hillier, Kenna MacKenzie, and Rick West faced a difficult task, selecting the winners from among 67 high-quality entries. The top seven selection will be printed on the cover of all issues of Volume 145 (2013) of The Canadian Entomologist. The photos […]
In case you missed it, the autumn 2012 issue of the ESC Bulletin has been out for a few weeks! Here’s a look at some of the highlights: “Dear Buggy” offers some excellent advice on how to tackle the Methods section of your latest manuscript Student rep Chandra ponders the lack of official provincial insects […]
By Chris Buddle __________________________________ Authorship on written work should never be taken lightly. Authorship implies ownership and responsibility for the ideas and content portrayed as the written word. In science, our currency is the written word, in the form of peer-reviewed articles submitted and published in scientific journals, and multi-authored works are the norm (sometimes […]
By Brent Sinclair, University of Western Ontario _______________________________ I’m currently on sabbatical in the Department of Zoology, University of Otago in Dunedin New Zealand. This is the department where I did my PhD, so it is an opportunity to come back to familiar territory and re-connect with all sorts of people and places from the […]
As mentioned in a previous post, the Entomological Society of BC has been working hard to improve the Society’s impact by enhancing our online presence to reach more people in BC, as well as the rest of Canada and the world. We’ve undertaken a massive project to digitize our entire journal archive, and are in […]
As the new web editor of the Entomological Society of British Columbia (ESBC), last fall I began a push toward the digitization of all past issues of the Journal of the ESBC and the implementation of an online journal management system. At the time, only a relatively few issues of JESBC were available online, with […]
Many of us appreciate insects, spiders and other arthropods for more than just their scientific, biological or ecological value: they also have an aesthetic that some of us find irresistible, inspiring us to capture them in photographs or in paintings rather than sweep nets or aspirators. For this special feature, we interviewed Elizabeth Goluch, a […]
Chris Buddle, Editor-in-Chief, The Canadian Entomologist ________________________________ I’ve been involved with the Entomological Society of Canada for a long time. It’s a wonderful community of Canadian entomologists sharing an interest and enthusiasm for arthropods. The ESC’s activities are mostly centered around its annual conference, its range of publications, and it offers a suite of awards […]