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A-2. The Ohio Journal of Science Vol. 109 (1) The Ohio Academy of Science For Saturday, park in any of the various Wittenberg lots shown on 118th Annual Meeting the map, including the Recitation Hall and the Bill Edwards/ Hosted by North Plum Street lots. There will be six vans working their way Wittenberg University through all the larger parking lots every few minutes in order to pick Springfield, OH up anyone needing a ride to the building. Watch for a sign in the April 17-18, 2009 windshield or passenger side window of the vans. About the Annual Meeting SMOKING POLICY: Smoking is not permitted in any building. The Ohio Academy of Science’s Annual Meeting is for academic, governmental, and industry scientists and engineers, university and HOUSING: Please contact hotels and motels directly. See list on pre-college educators and teachers, and pre-college, undergraduate, page 4. and graduate students, and interested lay citizens in the Ohio region. MEALS: Friday, April 17; none planned. Saturday, April 18; lunch Welcome! available at nearby restaurants. Wittenberg University welcomes you to the 118th Annual Meeting of The Ohio Academy of Science. We invite you to explore our campus GENERAL SCHEDULE and to share in the excitement and opportunities provided in this program. Friday, April 17, 2009 REGISTRATION Field Trip: Southwest Ohio’s Canyonland Registration is required for all meeting presenters and attendees. On- Departs: Friday, April 17 at 1:00 PM (meet in the atrium of the site registration will be available at a higher rate. The Ohio Academy Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center, first floor) of Science must receive forms by April 10, 2009. Please use Registration Returns: Friday, April 17 at 5:00 PM Form on the last page. Mail completed form and fee to: Organizer: Charlie Kwit, Assistant Professor of Biology, Wittenberg University OAS Annual Meeting Registration The Ohio Academy of Science UNDREDS OF ACRES OF PROTECTED LAND encompass the Little PO Box 12519 Miami River’s gorge and its surrounding habitats. Prepare Columbus OH 43212-0519 to hike through portions of Clifton Gorge State Nature FAX 614/488-7629 (for Credit Card or PO only) HPreserve, John Bryan State Park, and/or Glen Helen Nature Preserve, and enjoy observing and learning about the area’s natural history. The Registration by credit card or purchase order only will be accepted by dolomite and limestone gorges in this area provide breathtaking scenery, FAX at 614/488-7629. Your registration materials, receipt, and name and the habitats in their midst contain a diverse assemblage of species tag will be ready at the meeting registration desk upon your arrival. For of all kinds, including many that are typical of more northerly parts of further information, please call 614/488-2228. the state. There will be something for everyone on this trip: from spring ephemerals to flowering trees and shrubs, to migratory birds, to An Adobe PDF form is available at: beautiful scenery, and much, much more. This trip will occur rain or shine and will occasionally involve hiking upslope and downslope on http://www.ohiosci.org/WittRegistrationForm.pdf trails. Conditions at times become slippery, so prepare accordingly. Participants should bring binoculars, field guides, proper footwear Online payment option http://ohiosci.org/index_store.html and insect repellent, and water and a snack. Friday, April 17: Registration will not be open on Friday. Field Trip: Cedar Bog State Memorial Departs: Friday, April 17 at 1:00 PM (meet in the atrium of the Saturday, April 18: Registration in the atrium of the Barbara Deer Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center, first floor) Kuss Science Center from 7:30-11:00 AM. On-site registration is Returns: Friday, April 17 at 5:00 PM possible by check, VISA, or MasterCard. Cash is discouraged. Organizer: Timothy L. Lewis, Professor of Biology, Wittenberg University PARKING: Watch for signs. See map in program. For the Friday afternoon field trips, you may park in a small faculty/ EDAR BOG IS ONE OF OHIO’S FEN WETLANDS, sometimes called staff parking lot at the corner of Bill Edwards Drive and North a swamp/fen habitat or a boreal fen remnant. Home to Plum Street, across the street from the Barbara Deer Kuss Science several dozen plants native to more northern climates, it also Center. There also should be some parking available along North Chas several rare animals including massasauga rattle snake and spotted Plum Street, Bill Edwards Drive, and North Lowry Avenue. You turtles. We will spend the afternoon hiking the boardwalk and trails also may park in the lot behind Recitation Hall and then walk to at Cedar Bog looking at spring wildflowers, trees, and hopefully a few the science building. Recitation Hall and the annex attached to it turtles. This trip will occur rain or shine and has mostly level ground are listed as buildings 19 and 20. The parking lot is behind it. and wooden boardwalks. Participants should dress for the weather and are expected to bring their own water and/or snacks.. Vol. 109 (1) The Ohio Journal of Science A-3. Field Trip: Passive Stream Restoration Using Recent Stream fjord as a student in 1979. He has now visited the sea floor in 8 Channel and Pattern Changes different submersibles on more than 70 scientific cruises. He spends Departs: Friday, April 17 at 1:00 PM (meet in the atrium of the much of his time working at laboratories and universities in Europe Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center, first floor) and holds academic appointments at two universities in England. Dr. Returns: Friday, April 17 at 5:00 PM Young has published more than 140 scientific papers and has edited Organizers: John Ritter and Mike Zaleha, Department of Geology, many books, including the Atlas of Marine Invertebrate Larvae. He Wittenberg University also serves as one of the editors of a book series called Advances in Marine Biology. Dr. Young and his students have studied many aspects ECENT CHANGES IN STREAM CHANNEL and pattern morphology, of invertebrate biology using animals from most of the invertebrate hydrology, and channel and floodplain stratigraphy of nine phyla, but his lab specializes in the reproduction and larval biology of streams (2nd-3rd order basins) in Clark County were deep-sea animals, particularly sea squirts, echinoderms and various Revaluated as part of a data-gathering phase for a stream resource kinds of worms. protection plan. Currently most streams are moderately to slightly entrenched, likely the result of channel straightening but also due to 12:30 PM Lunch on your own reduced sediment yield resulting from improved soil conservation Available at nearby restaurants. practices or urbanization. On this field trip, we will visit several of the study reaches to illustrate the recent changes in channel and pattern 12:30 PM Official Notice of Annual morphology and hydrology. Discussion at field stops will focus on Business Meeting passive stream restoration as well as methods of study. This trip will for Academy Members Only. occur rain or shine and will include walking along or in streams. Auditorium, Barbara Deer Kuss Science Participants should bring hip or chest waders if they have them (we Center will have an ample supply for those who do not) and personal field gear. 1:30-3:00 PM Afternoon Poster Sessions Barbara Deer Kuss Science 3:00 PM-5:00 PM The Ohio Academy of Science Center Board of Trustees Meeting Room T.B.A. About Our Host Saturday, April 18, 2009 DR. HORTON H. HOBBS, III Chairperson, Local Arrangements 7:30 AM-11:00 AM General Meeting Registration Lobby of Barbara Deer Kuss Science ITTENBERG U NIVERSITY IN THE HEART of Springfield, Ohio, Center provides a liberal arts education dedicated to intellectual inquiry and wholeness of person within a diverse residential Wcommunity. Reflecting its Lutheran heritage, Wittenberg challenges 9:00 AM-11:00 AM Morning Podium Sessions Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center students to become responsible global citizens, to discover their callings, and to lead personal, professional, and civic lives of creativity, service, 9:00 AM-11:00 AM Morning Poster Session compassion, and integrity. Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center Since its founding in 1845, Wittenberg’s curriculum has centered on the liberal arts as an education that develops the individual’s capacity 11:30 AM All-Academy Lecture to think, read, and communicate with precision, understanding, and Auditorium, Barbara Deer Kuss Science imagination. We are dedicated to education in the core disciplines of Center the arts and sciences and in pre-professional education grounded in the liberal arts. CRAIG M. YOUNG, PhD Professor Wittenberg has more than 60 majors, minors and special programs The University of Oregon from which students may choose to focus their studies. Among these majors are outstanding interdisciplinary programs, including East Asian The Invertebrate Zoology of Darwin: Studies and Russian Area Studies. Zoophytes, Barnacles, Corals and Worms. The faculty consists of 195 outstanding classroom instructors, true mentors who consider students their top priority. With an average RAIG M. YOUNG IS A PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY at the University of Oregon and the director of the Oregon Institute of Marine class size of 20 students and a student-faculty ratio of 12 to 1, Biology. He completed B.S. and M.S. degrees at Brigham Wittenberg faculty and students have numerous opportunities for CYoung University and received his Ph.D. in zoology from the University meaningful interaction both in and out of the classroom. of Alberta (Canada) in 1982. Much of his college work was completed What strikes most people when they visit Wittenberg is how genuinely at marine laboratories, particularly Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station friendly and welcoming people are.