Archives for March 2022

Herpetological Review 53(1) now available online

Posted March 31, 2022 by SSAR

Herpetological Review Volume 53, Number 1 (March 2022) is now available! Our cover features a stunning photograph of the Iberian Ribbed Newt (Pleurodeles waltl), photographed by Jari Cornelis from near Valencia, Spain. Pleurodeles waltl is the largest European species of newt and is found in the central and southern Iberian Peninsula and Morocco. Many newts can secrete toxins through the skin; however, only a few, including P. waltl, can protrude their ribs through their skin and while doing so coat their ribs in the toxins.

The issue has been posted online, is being printed, and will mail soon. Full contents are now available online to SSAR members at https://ssarherps.org/herpetological-review-pdfs/. Natural History Notes, Geographic Distribution Notes, and Book Reviews are Open Access and are available for download at the same link. If you are not a member of SSAR, please consider joining the leading international herpetological society. Student and online-only rates available. Follow the “Join SSAR” link on the home page. Congratulations to Jari for a great cover image!

Information for JMIH 2022

Posted March 14, 2022 by SSAR

We hope you are planning to attend JMIH 2022 in Spokane, Washington (July 27-31). Please follow this link for the registration form: https://burkclients.com/JMIH/meetings/2022/registration/start.php. Early registration ends June 21. Below is a link to the meeting website that provides information about travel, accommodations, code of conduct, etc.

We encourage you to stay at the Davenport Hotel, as we are trying to meet our room block. This significantly reduces costs to the societies (and thus the members) for meeting rooms, services, etc, as well as keeping you in the same building as the meeting itself. You will see that there is a sizeable registration discount for students and professionals if you do choose to stay at the Davenport.

And keep in mind that abstract submission is currently open: https://burkclients.com/JMIH/meetings/2022/site/abstracts.html. On this page, click the blue button to the right to submit. The deadline for abstracts is March 31.

Finally, there are travel awards for students and postdocs to attend the meeting, and students can register for award competitions occurring during the meeting. Please follow this link to SSAR’s awards: https://ssarherps.org/ssar-awards/ .

If you have any questions, please contact our SSAR rep on the Meeting Management and Planning Committee, Allyson Fenwick: afenwick@uco.edu

Meeting Website: https://burkclients.com/JMIH/meetings/2022/site/

PRESS RELEASE: SSAR Retains Names List and Reforms Committee

Posted March 2, 2022 by SSAR

After a multi-year hiatus, we announce that a new Names List committee is being formed and will resume work on the list. Notable changes include clarification and transparency of guidelines to be published with each revision, term limits to be established for all positions, and a shortening of the timeline for publishing revisions (so appearing more frequently than previously). The list will not be printed in future, but pdfs of each new version will be freely available on our website. We will investigate options for upgrading and improving the online database as well as implementing a mechanism for hosting comments to future revisions. If you are interested in participating in the committee’s work please contact SSAR President Kirsten E. Nicholson (kirsten.nicholson@cmich.edu) who will be chairing the committee temporarily to guide the relaunch and work with the committee to establish the new procedures.