DONATIONS NEEDED FOR SILENT AUCTION FUNDRAISER AT IALE WORLDCONGRESS It is that time of year again to browse your burgeoningbookshelves and select a few key textbooks that you would like to donate to theUS Chapter of the International Association of Landscape Ecologists (US-IALE)Foreign Scholar Travel Award (FSTA) silent auction. At the IALE World Congress in Portland, OR, July 5-10, theFSTA committee will once again host a silent book auction, the funds of whichgo toward travel grants to support the attendance of international scientistsat next year’s meeting. We have been fortunate to get awesome donations fromseveral publishing companies, but we need YOUR support to fill our silentauction tables! Please help by bringing a couple spare textbooks. There will bea place to drop them off at registration. If you don’t have any books to spare, then you need to buysomething at the silent auction!! Bidding will begin with the opening keynoteaddress on Monday July 6 when this year’s awardees are introduced. Please givea warm Portland welcome to our international colleagues, especially importantas US-IALE and the IALE World Congress join forces! Kathy Kathleen J. Vigness-Raposa, Ph.D. Chair, Foreign Scholar Travel Award Committee Vice President of Environmental Programs Marine Acoustics, Inc. 809 Aquidneck Ave. Middletown, RI 02842 Phone: 401-847-7508 Email: kathleen.vign...@marineacoustics.com
