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September 6, 2005

2005 Meeting Agenda for the annual meeting in Anchorage

August 16, 2005

Student Poster Award at Anchorage - the Computer Users Section is awarding $100 to the best student poster dealing with the use/application of computers and technology in fisheries management and research at the AFS Annual Meeting in Anchorage.. Contact Fred Janssen with your name and poster title to ensure that you are considered for this award.

Continuing Education Opportunities in Anchorage -
AFS will offer an exciting selection of short courses in the areas of Telemetry and Acoustics, GIS, Statistics and Modeling, Writing, Leadership and Communication Skills, Cross-Cultural topics, and more! Classes will be held on September 10 and 11, in Anchorage, Alaska, before the 2005 AFS Annual Meeting.

Some courses are almost full-Register today! Fees, dates, times, registration information, and complete descriptions are posted on the Anchorage AFS 2005 Annual Meeting Web site at www.wdafs.org/Anchorage2005

July 6, 2005

Spring 2005 Newsletter includes: voting ballots for CUS election, information about the Anchorage meeting, software reviews and useful web links for computer users

April 11, 2005

Third International Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analyses in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences: First call for papers: abstracts and registration are due June 15, 2005
http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/3rd/01_01.pdf

Proceedings of the Second Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analyses in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences - a limited number of these have been published and are now available, for orders and details: http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/2nd/sympo15.htm

February 14, 2005

New Release:

Estimating Fish Age From Otoliths - Techniques For Largemouth Bass and Channel Catfish (DVD)
Known-Age Otolith Database - Largemouth Bass and Catfish (DVD):
DVD set developed to aid in ensuring that fish ages estimated from otolith from largemouth bass & channel catfish are accurate. The first of
the DVDs contains an instructional video that demonstrates otolith removal and processing as well as annulus interpretation for largemouth bass
and channel catfish. This video was developed to ensure that validated age estimation techniques are correctly applied. The second DVD
contains a database of video clips of prepared otoliths from known-age largemouth bass (ages 0-17), channel catfish (ages 1-6), and blue catfish
(ages 1-2), These 300 otolith video clips can be used for training and testing.

Remote Sensing Resource webpage (description) : http://cbc.rs-gis.amnh.org/

The American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC) announces the public release of a website to
promote the use of remotely sensed imagery (such as satellite imagery and aerial photography).

New AFSCUS GIS Announcements

January 24, 2005

New useful links:

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

ArcScripts Home - ESRI Support has scripts and extension to add to ArcView and ArcGIS to extend functionality of GIS software.

DLS: Digital Library System - Accesses the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's online digital media library. Presently, the library system contains the National Image Library--the Service's collection of public domain still photos. You may search all the images through the National Image Library link, or you may search by individual collections, which are listed underneath. We plan to add additional media collections to the system in the future.

December 8, 2004

New Palm software addition - under review - see our software listing for download information

The 3rd GIS Symposium. The Third International Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analyses on Fishery and Aquatic Sciences will be held at the Shanghai Fisheries University (China) from August 22-26, 2005. Further detail information including registrations, presentation and etc. will be announced in January, 2005.

The Proceedings of the Second International Symposium (Univ. of Sussex, UK) on GIS/Spatial Analyses on Fishery and Aquatic Sciences will be published by the end of December, 2004 delaying for 3 months. We sincerely apologize the delay as we needed to spend more time than the original plan in order to make higher quality of the publication.

The Early Life History Section of the American Fisheries Society is pleased to announce that the online home of the Annual Larval Fish Conferences is now available here: http://www.larvalfishcon.org

AAG 2005 - Denver, Colorado, April 5-9, 2005. Marine/Coastal GIS & Acoustic Remote Sensing for Benthic Characterization. Co-Sponsored by the GIS and Coastal & Marine Geography Specialty Groups Organized by Dawn Wright, Oregon State University
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/Denver2005/reg.cfm

August 18, 2004

Minutes from the 2003 CUS Annual Meeting are available

July 16, 2004

The CUS Annual Meeting will meet from Noon to 1:30 on Monday, August 23 in Meeting room O, Monona Terrace, Madison, WI. NOTE: this is a different day and time than what is printed in the AFS Meeting Schedule.

July, 2004

Our homepage has been updated to provide easier navigation through the CUS website.

February 20, 2004

See our recent software additions and updates
- CloseTest - Tests for closure in mark-recapture experiments

August 18, 2003

The Spring 2003 newsletter has been posted as an Adobe PDF file.

February 13, 2002

The Spring 2002 newsletter has been posted as an Adobe PDF file. Announcements for upcoming Fisheries GIS Symposium and workshops, and Freshwater Fisheries database summit. Updates for FAST software.

May 6, 2001

The Spring 2001 newsletter has been posted as an Adobe PDF file. Biographies for section officer candidates, Palm database software, and other tips. Be sure to send your ballots for section officers to Doug Beard.

December 13, 2000

The Fall 2000 Newsletter has been posted as an Adobe PDF file. There is new software reviewed, information about upcoming symposia in GIS, and software tips.
Posted review of Fishery Analyses Simulation Tools (FAST). See review for Windows NT incompatibility.

October 21, 2000

AD Model Builder is a powerful modeling package for estimation of non-linear models with large number of parameters.
Revised the website index.

June 28, 2000

The Fisheries GIS page has links to software, upcoming symposia in GIS, and other resources.

May 5, 2000

The Spring 2000 Newsletter has been posted as an Adobe PDF file. There is new software reviewed, information about upcoming symposia in GIS, and software tips.

March 10, 2000

Check out Chapter President Michael Porter's notes for March.

February 9, 2000

Joe Mion takes over as webmaster. Initial priority will be removing dead or erroneous links. Please contact him if you have suggestions for content, layout, design, etc.

January 10, 2000

Updated officer addresses (Gary Ash's phone numbers changed) and removed link to 4th microcomputer conference.

January 5, 2000

Updated the subscription information for the AFS mailing list to reflect the changes in the list management software. The new software maintains an archive of messages posted to the list.

December 2, 1999

The Fall 1999 Newsletter with minutes of the business meeting and other Computer User Section activities.

November 26, 1999

Inadvertently changed the look of the entire web site by applying a "theme". Will see what others think. May or may not switch back to old look.

October 1999

Palm III is one of the latest tools for fisheries biologists doing fieldwork.

September 15, 1999

Updated current officer list and section history list.
Preparing for new webmaster -- look for new things around the corner!

May 27, 1999

Spring 1999 Newsletter the most current newsletter has been added -- our first pdf version.
Continuing to correct or remove bad links. Making some headway.

May 1, 1999

Vote For Section Officers - the Section Officer voting link will remain up until the election is completed.

Moved the downloadable software library files to the AFS server.

Created link to the The 4th Microcomputer Applications in Fish and Wildlife Conference which is co-sponsored by AFSCUS.

Species accounts series "Species profiles: life histories and environmental requirements of coastal fishes and invertebrates (North Atlantic/Mid-Atlantic/Gulf Coast/Pacific/South Atlantic)"

Fishery Management Councils:
New England Fishery Management Council | Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council | South Atlantic Fishery Management Council |
Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council | Pacific Fishery Management Council | North Pacific Fishery Management Council |
Western Pacific Fishery Management Council

International Aquatic Modelling Group - a downloadable list of over 3500 references dealing with fish and habitat.
Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems - Statistical classification techniques (freeware)

Sites with links to freeware or shareware for analysis of spatial (i.e., GIS) data:
ADAPTIVE AUTOMATION RESOURCES
The SoftFAQ - information about available freeware, shareware & software commonly used in spatial data analysis and statistics.

Modeling packages using the System Dynamics approach:
The Stella Modelling Package  |  The Stella Modelling Package - High Performance Systems, Inc.
Madonna software - Used to run large Stella models faster and also as a stand alone modeling program.
Vensim - Widely used with a fully functional free version (Vensim PLE) available by download.
Powersim - Developed in Norway. Available in English, German and Czech versions.
ModMED (formerly known as AME) - Free software capable of handling complex models with extensive sub models, but limited support, and still under development. Available from University of Edinburgh. (This modeling environment is written with Tcl/Tk from http://www.scriptics.com/, and the free Tcl/Tk package from that site is also needed).

For more information about Systems modeling and "systems thinking" check Günther Ossimitz's System Dynamics Mega Link List.

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