Nominations

Fellows and Elective Members

2011 NOMINATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP CLASSES OF FELLOW AND ELECTIVE MEMBER of the AOU are due 11 March 2011.

Fellows and Elective Members are encouraged to submit nominations of deserving colleagues. The Committee on Nomination of Fellows and Elective Members will prepare additional nominations, but often committee members don’t know all the deserving ornithologists, thus timely submissions from members are imperative. Nominations and full supporting information are to be supplied by the nominators.

Nominators seeking to endorse a nominee must first obtain the instructions and forms for 2010. Forms may be downloaded in any of the following formats:

• Adobe Acrobat (pdf)
• Rich Text Format (rtf)
• Microsoft Word (doc)
• Corel WordPerfect (wpd)

or requested from the Secretary, SARA R. MORRIS, Department of Biology, Canisius College, 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14208 USA (PH: 716-888-2567, FX: 716-888-3157, E-Mail: ).

For ELECTIVE MEMBER nominations, the Secretary will compile and prepare ballot packets to be sent to current Fellows and Elective Members in April 2011. Ballots must be returned by mail to the Secretariat by three weeks before the Stated Meeting (i.e., by 5 July 2011) and the names will be announced at the Business Meeting of Members in July 2011 in Jacksonville, FL. For FELLOW nominations, the Secretary will compile and prepare packets to be sent to current Fellows in May 2011. Voting will take place at the Fellows Meeting on the first evening of the Jacksonville meeting.

Officers and Elective Councilors

2011 NOMINATIONS FOR AOU OFFICERS AND ELECTIVE COUNCILORS must be received by the Secretary four months before the Stated Meeting. Thus, this year nominations are due 24 March 2011.

Officers will be elected by electronic and postal ballot prior to the meeting, and the new officers will be announced at the Business Meeting of Members. Officers to be elected will be Secretary, Treasurer, four Elective Councilors (three-year terms) and one Elective Councilor (one-year term). At the conclusion of the 129th Stated Meeting, John R. Faaborg will begin his second year as President, and Susan M. Haig will begin her second year as President-Elect. The Bylaws of the AOU require that the Secretary and Treasurer be elected or re-elected annually. The incumbent Secretary (Sara R. Morris) and Treasurer (James Herkert) are willing to stand for re-election. Of the total of twelve Elective Councilors, four are elected annually to serve terms of approximately three years, beginning at the close of the Stated Meeting. Elective Councilors ending their terms at the conclusion of the 129th Stated Meeting in 2011 are Bonnie S. Bowen, Mary Bomberger Brown, Janis L. Dickinson, Rebecca L. Holberton, and Amanda D. Rodewald. Continuing to serve in 2011-2012 will be Elective Councilors Peter Arcese, Ronald L. Mumme, Jennifer C. Owen, J. Michael Reed, Ernesto Ruelas Inzunza, Brett K. Sandercock, and Michael S. Webster.

The procedure for nominating AOU officers and Elective Councilors is outlined in the Bylaws (Art IV, Sec 2):

“Each Fellow and Elective Member shall be invited to nominate to the Secretary, persons for President-Elect, Secretary, Treasurer, and Elective Councilors. These nominations shall be received by the Secretary four months before the Stated Meeting. Nominations for all officers and Elective Councilors must be accompanied by documented consent of the nominee.”

Nominations may be submitted in writing, or electronically to the Secretary, Sara R. Morris, Department of Biology, Canisius College, 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14208 USA (PH: 716-888-2567, FX: 716-888-3157, EM: ).