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ANAS President-Elect Perry Baker organized the AASP meeting for 2002, and President Aregai Tecle will be planning it for next year, in Flagstaff.

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ANAS OFFICERS FOR 2002-3

Aregai is a Professor in the School of Forestry at Northern Arizona University. His research interests are Hydrologic Modeling, Water Quality Analysis and Conflict Resolution. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1986 from the University of Arizona.

PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS

I like to start this statement with a heart-felt thanks to those who served the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences (ANAS) very diligently during the past year, and the membership for electing me as President of the Academy. In particular, I would like to thank the many individuals who spent a lot of their very precious time to serve and advance the Academy and what it stands for. These individuals include our past President, Jim DeVos, the Editor of the Journal, Anthony Brazel, the Proceedings Editor, Florence Slater, the Newsletter Editor, Stephen Williams, the Academy's web page Manager and Permanent Secretary, Owen Davis, the Director of the Junior Academy, Lynnette Hoff, as well as the Academy's Recording Secretary, Betsy Cooper, the Membership Secretary, Ingrid Novodvorsky, the Treasurer, Karen Conzelman, the Regional Directors, and all the Academy's standing committees' chairs and their members. Special thanks goes to President-elect Perry Baker and Midwestern University for their wonderful hospitality and flawless facilitation of the meeting. Last, but not least, a big kudos to all the Section Chairs for a job well done. The Academy is in a good shape due to the commitment and dedication of all the above individuals. I hope that this tradition will always continue with the same or better vigor in the future.

In accepting the Presidency, I must say that I have very strong feelings about the Academy and the many ideals it represents, and I hope that I will translate my feelings into productive activities. One can summarize the ideals of the Academy in the following manner: to serve as a form for scientists and academicians of all disciplines to come together to share their scientific research and development products, and their applications to promote and foster natural resources conservation and the sustainability of desirable environmental and social conditions. Because of this the ANAS stands uniquely among scientific organizations. It attracts members from all scientific disciplines and unifies us with the common purpose of advancing the sciences and making them relevant to society and the environment. The relevance and importance of such interconnections among scientific disciplines is becoming widely recognized as we realize the limitations to and interactions among our natural resources, on the one hand, and the need for their sustainable management, on the other.

When we desire to have a unified scientific strategy to further develop science, manage scarce resources and protect our environment at the regional level, the Academy is in a good position to bring together academicians, researchers and applied scientists of various backgrounds and disciplines from Arizona and Nevada to discuss and deal with the problems. However, members of the Academy need to make a little more effort to accomplish such a task. As a minimum goal, I suggest that we try to develop a strategy to recruit and have at least one member in every college and university as well as in other federal, state, or local research and development programs in the two states during the next two years. I also feel that we need to develop strategies to increase the number of active institutional members to 90 (we had 83 in 2001 and have about 50 in 2002) and student members to 50 (we had 42 in 2001) during the same period. The outcome will be a much stronger and viable ANAS that can play a wider role in the development and education of science in our two states. The task may seem formidable, but is doable if we take it as our important goal to achieve. With this vision in mind, I wish the entire membership a great and productive year.

Eighty-five people attended the Annual Meeting, which included 55 talks and 14 posters.

REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING

Approximately 85 people pre-registered for the meeting and an additional ten registered on Saturday morning. There were 55 papers in six sections: Biology, Chemistry, Conservation, Geology, Geography and Hydrology. In addition, 14 posters were presented.

About 80 people attended the Awards Luncheon. The guest speaker was Dr. John Burdick, a lieutenant colonel in the Medical Service Corps of the U.S. Army Reserves and Dean of Basic Sciences at Midwestern University. He spoke on " A historical perspective of the use of biological and chemical agents as instruments of terrorism."

Presentations for the Outstanding Service Award, three Outstanding Teacher Awards, and Bud Ellis Scholarship Award were made.

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TENTATIVE DATES AND PLACES FOR THE COMING YEAR'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETINGS

• September 14, 2002, at NAU in Flagstaff, Arizona
• January 11, 2003, at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nevada
• April 11, 2003, at NAU in Flagstaff, Arizona, and
• The 47th Annual Meeting will be held on April 12, 2003, at NAU in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Karen teaches Biology at Glendale Community College. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University.

OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD

Dr. Karen Conzelman has been Treasurer for ANAS for the past six years and has served as Section Chair for the Biology section at the Annual Meeting. She has been a judge at most of the Junior Academy meetings. Dr. Conzelman's research interests include developing programs to use active learning in the classroom, and she is also involved in the development of Biology curriculum for students majoring in elementary education.

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GRADUATE GRANTS-IN-AID

Melissa Hicks, Las Vegas, NV was awarded a $250 grant to help support her study: "Correlating early Cambrian archaeocyathan-built reefs across North America and China: Influences on the global demise of archaeocyathan-built reefs."

Melissa's Graduate Advisor is Stephen M. Rowland, in the Department of Geosciences at UNLV

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HIGH SCHOOL GRANT-IN-AID

ANAS awarded a High-School Grant-In-Aid of $100 to Brooke Elizabeth Buerkle from Elko High School, Elko, NV. Her project was "Phytoextraction: Using Hyperaccumulators to Extract Metallic Cations."

BEST STUDENT PAPERS

The best student papers were awarded to two students. All winners received checks for $50.

The best student paper awards went to Jackie Marlette from NAU for her presentation on "The Power of Drainage Systems in Minnesota Water: the Necessity of Storm Water", and Amanda Coleman from ASU for her presentation on "Taxodiaceous Conifers from the Middle Miocene Yakima Canyon Flora, Washington State, USA."

BEST POSTER SESSION

The best poster with its $50 check was awarded to Stefanie M. Ickert-Bond from ASU for her poster entitled "Pollen Dimorphism in Ephedra L. (Ephedraceae)."

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BUD ELLIS SCHOLARSHIP

The winner of the 2002 Bud Ellis Scholarship was Sara Megan Ramirez from Douglas High School in Douglas, Arizona. She is class Salutatorian, and she has already taken two semesters of Calculus as well as upper division courses in Physics and Chemistry. This $800 Scholarship will help Sara pursue a degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Arizona.

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OUTSTANDING SCIENCE TEACHER AWARD

The three outstanding science teachers were honored at the Annual Meeting Luncheon with plaques and checks for $50.

ACADEMY RECOGNIZES OUTSTANDING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SCIENCE

The Academy awarded a total of $900 to the top finishing high school teams in nine events in the Arizona State Science Olympiad held at Glendale Community College on March 2, 2002. The Science Olympiad is a statewide competition of teams of high school students in over 25 different events covering all aspects of science, engineering and technology. The events selected for this year's ANAS awards were those that required students to construct a device or instrument meeting certain pre-determined criteria. These events included "Robot Ramble" (in which teams had to build a robot to pick up items on a playing field and move them to a box as quickly as possible), "The Wright Stuff" (requiring construction of a wooden airplane to rise off the ground and stay aloft for as long as possible), and "Scrambler" (in which teams had to build a car propelled by a falling mass to carry an uncooked egg as close as possible to a wall without hitting it). The ANAS prize moneys were sent to the coaches to be used toward the purchase of science supplies. Awards went to the following schools in this year's competition:

• Saguaro High School (Scottsdale, AZ): $375 for five -1st place, two-2nd place and three- 3rd place finishes.
• University High School (Tucson, AZ): $150 for one - 1st place, one - 2nd place and three- 3paplace finishes.
• Desert Mountain High School (Scottsdale, AZ): $125 for one- 1st place, two- 2nd place, and one- 3rd place finishes.
• Catalina Foothills High School (Tucson, AZ): $100 for one - 1st place, one - 2nd place, and one - 3rd place finishes.
• Barry Goldwater High School (Phoenix, AZ): $50 for two- 2nd place finishes.
• Cortez High School (Phoenix, AZ): $50 for one- 1st place finish.
• Desert Vista High School (Chandler, AZ): $25 for one- 3rd place finish.
• Dobson High School (Mesa, AZ): $25 for one- 2nd place finish.

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ON-LINE ANAS NEWSLETTER

At its most recent meeting the ANAS Board of Governors voted to make the ANAS Newsletter an online publication. Starting this year (2002-2003) members will receive the Newsletter via the ANAS Listserv, or read it online. unless they explicitly mark "paper only" on the membership form. This Newsletter (May, 2002) is being sent out by paper to all members, as usual, but if you want to switch to the money saving and "tree-saving" electronic format now, send us a note at anas@geo.arizona.edu.

REPORTS OF PRIOR RECIPIENTS OF ACADEMY AWARDS

The web site listed below has reports from prior recipients of ANAS Grants-In-Aid. Academy members might be interested to see the kinds of high school and graduate research projects our grant funds are supporting. Please check out this web site: http://www.geo.arizona.edu/anas/awards.

And, while you're at it, stop by the online version of the Annual Meeting's Geology Session at http://www.geo.arizona.edu/anas/annualmeetings/geology02/. Putting talks online makes them accessible to a much wider audience and gives them a lot longer shelf life! Professor Ken Cole's talk has amazing maps of the postglacial history of creosote bush and Joshua tree, in the Southwest.

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