The Crustacean SocietyMid-Year MeetingSan Jose, Costa Rica

July 7 – 11, 2013

Current Membership Current membership 415 Membership continues to be a priority for TCS Each member needs to bring in one new member or more

per year TCS is exploring new ways to maintain, or increase, our

membership

Student Scholarships/Fellowships We give six student scholarships/fellowships of $1000 each

per year This year we received a sponsorship for one of these

scholarships from Loligo Systems. We named the scholarship after them

Please let us know if you know of opportunities like this

2013 TCSERA Award This award will be presented in Austin at the SICB January

meeting

Elections For New Officers President Elect Program Officer Asian Governor Latin American Governor SICB Liaison Officer

Please email Shane Ahyong your nominations

Mid Year Meetings 2014 Frankfurt Germany 2015 Most likely Sydney Australia 2016 Possible joint meeting with IAA-21 in Tampico, Mexico Please email TCS with any suggestions or ideas for

meetings 2016 – on

Future Activities of TCS 2015 Workshop in Thailand? (Shirley Lim) Zen Faulkes is organizing a symposium on parasitism

(including Crustacea) at SICB in January 2014, in Austin, Texas, USA

SICB symposia from TCS/members for future meetings in 2015 and beyond. Talk with Brian Tsukamura or Sherry Tamone

Finances Moved $$ into investment accounts that will produce

between 4.8% - 12% per year = approximately $3000+

This is our restricted money for Student Awards Produced positive budgets in 2013 (just!) and we have a

projected positive budget for 2014 Requests for TCS support for symposia or meetings must be

made at least a year in advance because we have to build them into the coming budgets

JCB Impact Factor: 1-019 (2013)

4 year trend = 0.974, 1.115, 1.116 Possible move from 6 to 8 issues per year? Current rejection/declination rate = 39+% Submission rate is up since move to Brill Future JCB editor search

Other business?