{"id":30,"date":"2013-03-01T19:30:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T19:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/paleoecology2\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2013-03-01T19:30:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T19:30:47","slug":"bylaws","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/paleoecology\/bylaws\/","title":{"rendered":"Bylaws"},"content":{"rendered":"

BYLAWS OF THE PALEOECOLOGY SECTION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Article 1.<\/strong> NAME<\/strong><\/p>\n

The official name of this Section shall be \u201cThe Paleoecology Section of the Ecological Society of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Article 2. PURPOSE<\/strong><\/p>\n

The objectives of this Section shall be to encourage research and to sponsor meetings for the communication of results in all phases of paleoecology. The Paleoecology Section shall be a subdivision of the Ecological Society of America and shall be gov\u00aderned in all of its operations by the Constitu\u00adtion and Bylaws of that Society.<\/p>\n

Article 3. MEMBERSHIP<\/strong><\/p>\n

Any member of any class of the Ecological Society of America who so desires can become a member of the Paleo\u00adecology Section by checking the appropriate area on the Ecological Society of America an\u00adnual dues form and paying the appropriate Sec\u00adtion dues. Members of the Section shall remain in good standing as long as they are members of the Ecological Society of America and pay the Section dues.<\/p>\n

Article 4. OFFICERS AND ELECTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

The officers of the Section shall be a Chairperson, Vice\u2011Chairperson, and Secretary. Any member in attendance at the annual meeting shall be eligible for nomination as an officer. Officers shall be elected by a majority vote of attending members at the annual meeting.<\/p>\n

Article 5. DUTIES OF THE CHAIRPERSON<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Chairperson shall preside at the business meeting of the Section, shall authorize expendi\u00adtures of Section funds, and shall promote in every practical way, the interests of the Sec\u00adtion. The Chairperson shall serve for a term of one year. The Chairperson shall represent the Section on the Council of the Society, and shall appoint committees as required to promote the interests of the Section. Such committees shall serve until the next annual meeting of the Section and may be reappointed at the discre\u00adtion of the Chairperson.<\/p>\n

Article 6. DUTIES OF THE VICE\u2011CHAIR\u00adPERSON<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Vice\u2011Chairperson shall arrange the scientific program, including field excur\u00adsions, for all meetings of the Section, and shall assume the duties of the Chairperson when\u00adever that person is unable to act. The office of the Vice\u2011Chairperson carries the responsibility of Chairperson\u2011Elect to succeed as the Chair\u00adperson in the following year. The Vice\u2011Chair\u00adperson shall serve for a term of one year.<\/p>\n

Article 7. DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Secretary shall keep the records of the Section, including a current membership and mailing list. The Secretary shall edit a newsletter for com\u00admunication of Section activities. The Secretary shall serve for a term of two years, and shall be eligible for reelection.<\/p>\n

Article 8. FINANCES.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The necessary ex\u00adpenses of the Section shall be paid from the treasury of the Society, but in no year shall the total expenses of the Section exceed the sum of the amount allotted for this purpose in the annual budget of the Society plus the amount, if any, collected as dues by the Society on behalf of the Section. No officer or member of the Section shall have authority to incur expenses in the name of the Society, except as specified above.<\/p>\n

Article 9. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE <\/strong><\/p>\n

An Ex\u00adecutive Committee, consisting of the officers of the Section, may act in behalf of the Section during intervals between annual meetings.<\/p>\n

Article 10. MEETINGS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Section shall meet with the Society at its annual meeting, and may organize Section meetings at other times and places at the call of the Executive Committee, or when requested by ten members of the Section. A business meeting of the Section shall be held at the annual meeting, and members present shall constitute a quorum. Notice of the annual meeting shall be given each member of the Section at least sixty days in advance of each annual meeting, and it is understood that publication of a notice of the meeting in the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America <\/i>shall constitute adequate notice.<\/p>\n

Article 11. NEWSLETTER<\/strong><\/p>\n

The newsletter shall be published at least once each year, at such time as to allow inclusion of a call for papers, symposium contributions and other Sec\u00adtion business which requires the attention of the membership prior to the annual meeting. Publication of the newsletter in the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America <\/i>shall constitute fulfillment of this requirement. At least bienni\u00adally, a current list of Section members shall be supplied to the membership.<\/p>\n

Article 12. AMENDMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

These Bylaws may be amended by a two\u2011thirds vote of the attending members at any annual meeting of the Section, provided that notice of the proposed amendment has been supplied to members of the Section at least sixty days prior to the annual meeting date.<\/p>\n

Article 13. EDWARD S. DEEVEY AWARD<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Section confers the Edward S. Deevey Award to honor Deevey\u2019s contributions through fostering the highest quality paleoecological re\u00adsearch by graduate students. The award of $100 [updated to $300 c. 2009] , drawn from the Section budget, recognizes the best oral or poster presentation in paleoecol\u00adogy by a graduate student at the annual meeting of the Society.<\/p>\n

The Award competition shall be announced each year in the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America <\/i>at the same time as the Call for Papers for the annual meeting. To be consid\u00adered for the Award, students must identify them\u00adselves by sending a copy of their abstract to the Section Chairperson with a letter to indicate their candidacy. The candidate must be the sole or senior author of the abstract, and must prepare and present an oral paper, or prepare, set up, and present a poster at the annual meet\u00ading. The candidate must be a graduate student or have completed a graduate degree within 9 months of the presentation. The paper must describe research used for obtaining a graduate degree.<\/p>\n

The Deevey Award Selection Committee shall be composed of Section officers and such addi\u00adtional members as the Section Chair may ap\u00adpoint. Judging criteria shall be parallel to those used in evaluating the Buell and Braun Awards. Paleoecology is defined to include the study of ecological processes and patterns that occur on time scales at or greater than decades, and that use or interpret direct, long\u2011term biological, paleontological, sedimentary, historical, or simi\u00adlar records. Final decisions on eligibility of pa\u00adpers are made by the Award Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BYLAWS OF THE PALEOECOLOGY SECTION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Article 1. NAME The official name of this Section shall be \u201cThe Paleoecology Section of the Ecological Society of America.\u201d Article 2. PURPOSE The objectives of this Section shall be to encourage research and to sponsor meetings for the communication of results in all phases of paleoecology. The Paleoecology…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":923,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/paleoecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/paleoecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/paleoecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/paleoecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/923"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/paleoecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/paleoecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/paleoecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}