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Upcoming Meeting

Past Meetings

Upcoming Meetings

 

2024 Annual SAML Spring Meeting

April 28-30, 2024

 

Meeting Location: Baruch Marine Field Laboratory (BMFL), University of South Carolina

 

BMFL is located on the 16,000-acre Hobcaw Barony property in Georgetown County, South Carolina. Our on-site conference facilities and lodging (the "Kimbel Center") are located by the entrance to the property off of Highway 17, while the field lab is located 2.5 miles into the property at the edge of the North Inlet estuary. SAML meeting activities will take place primarily at the Kimbel Center and the field lab proper.

 

Address for mapping travel to site:  22 Hobcaw Road, Georgetown, SC 29440

 

Lab Contact:  matt@baruch.sc.edu 

 

Meeting Agenda (pdf version of Agenda)

 

PLEASE REGISTER FOR THE MEETING HERE. IT IS FREE.

 

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Location: Hobcaw Barony Discovery Center (see maps below)

5:00 PM Opening Remarks & Welcome Reception at BMFL

• Bill Strosnider, Director, Baruch Marine Field Lab and Interim Director, Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences
• Welcome Reception

Monday, April 29, 2024

Location: Kimbel Lodge

 

8:00 AM Breakfast (provided)

9:00 AM Welcome and Introductions - SAML President Clark Alexander

9:05 AM Overview of Host Laboratory -  Bill Strosnider

9:35 AM SAML Member Updates - 3 minute update from each member institution

11:15 AM Federal Briefing - Alli Hays, Federal Science Partners

 

12:00 PM Lunch (provided)

 

1:00 PM External Issue Discussion

• NAML Best Practices in Field Safety and Accessibility - Billie Swalla, Chair NAML DEI Committee, Itchung Cheung, Chair NAML Education Committee - View/Download Document on NAML website under Resources tab > Reports

1:45 PM Break

2:00 PM SAML Membership Business Meeting

• All voting by Delegates only; voting by in-person and virtual attendees.
• Approval of Minutes of April 17, 2023 Meeting

• SAML Elections - report of Nominating Committee (Sue Ebanks - Chair, Mike Allen, Mike Wetz)

  • Member-at-Large (2025-2027)

• SAML Dues delinquencies

• Treasurer Report - Eric Milbrandt

  • FY2023 summary

  • FY2024 Budget Overview

  • Audit Committee

• Education Committee Report - Melinda Simmons

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee Report - Mike Wetz

• SAML Student Support Program - Loretta Battaglia, SAML President-Elect and Chair of Student Support Committee

• NAML Updates - Lou Burnett, NAML Executive Director

• New Business

  • Growing SAML/NAML membership

  • Future meeting venues - Gulf Coast progression, then suggest NE lab

  • Future internal/external topics for annual meetings

3:00 PM (approximately) Tour of BMFL and historic Hobcaw House

6:00 PM (approximately) Dinner, South Carolina Maritime Museum (729 Front St., Georgetown)

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Location: Kimbel Lodge

8:00 AM Breakfast (provided)

9:00 AM SAML Student Support Awards Presentations (6 talks at 15 min each) - talks by students who received awards

• 9:00 - Macarena Martin Mayor, University of South Florida, “Spectrophotometric determination of bicarbonate dissociation constants (K2): a model for estuarine and marine waters over a wide range of temperatures”
• 9:15 - Sully Sullivan, University of South Florida, “Remote sensing of Sargassum in the Florida Keys”
• 9:30 - Sam McClain, Texas A&M University, "Short-term improvement in coastal acidification and eutrophication along a coral reef at Kahekili Beach Park in Maui, Hawaiʻi"
• 9:45 - Maggie Knight, College of Charleston, “Application of a new method for detecting and quantifying phthalate exposure using blubber from bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)”
• 10:00 - Jon Choi, Duke University, “The Endangered Species Act, public science, and scientific coordination on offshore wind”
• 10:15 - Mallory Mintz, University of Georgia, “Akashiwo sanguinea blooms in coastal Georgia: insights from high-resolution monitoring efforts”

10:30 AM Break

10:45 AM  Partnership Feature: NOAA NERRS Centralized Management Office: SWMP Program and Best Practices for time-series data collection and archiving

• National SWMP Data Synthesis Report: “Quantifying short-term variability and long-term change in estuaries with NERR SWMP data,” Robert Dunn, Research Coordinator, North Inlet - Winyah Bay NERR

11:45 AM Closing Remarks - SAML President Clark Alexander

12:00 PM Adjourn

• Lunch is Grab and Go Style (provided)

 

Zoom Meeting Links

Day 1 (Monday, April 29):

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87479996075?pwd=hplHLoFpRV4YC8Q62pp3Acq2jjapDz.1

Meeting ID: 874 7999 6075
Passcode: 817492

Day 2 (Tuesday, April 30):

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81569434883?pwd=addvLsMXa4JsxyIFtNFmbTXJf0WAA8.1

Meeting ID: 815 6943 4883
Passcode: 533214

 

Committees of SAML

Board of Directors

Clark Alexander, President 2024-2025

Loretta Battaglia, President-Elect 2024-2025

Sue Ebanks, Past President 2024-2025

Eric Milbrandt, Treasurer 2024-2025 (non-voting)

Sally Brooks, Secretary 2024-2025 (non-voting)

Antonietta Quigg, Member-at-Large 2022-2024

Mike Allen, Member-at-Large 2023-2025

Reide Corbett, Member-at-Large 2024-2026

 

Standing Committees

Nominating Committee 2024

Sue Ebanks (as Past President), Chair

Mike Wetz

Mike Allen

 

Finance Committee 2024

Eric Milbrandt, Chair (as Treasurer), Chair

Clark Alexander, President

Loretta Battaglia, President-Elect

Antonietta Quigg, longest-serving Member-at-Large

 

Audit Committee 2024

Ken Halanych, Chair

Jim Gelsleichter

Carys Mitchelmore

 

Other Committee(s)

Student Awards Committee 2024

Loretta Battaglia, Chair (as President-Elect)

Two players to be named later

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AIRPORTS

• Myrtle Beach International Airport (https://www.flymyrtlebeach.com/) 
  (Located 30 miles north of BMFL)
• Charleston International Airport (https://www.iflychs.com/) 
  (Located 70 miles south of BMFL)

LODGING

Primary Meeting Hotel:

The George Hotel

615 Front Street, Georgetown, SC 29440

Phone:  833-666-1624

Website:  https://www.thegeorgehotelsc.com/ 

Located on Front Street in the heart of historic Georgetown with walking access to numerous restaurants, museums, and other attractions (e.g., Harborwalk, East Bay Park).

 

Block of 25 rooms reserved for SAML attendees:

Southern Association of Marine Labs Room Block THE GEORGE HOTEL

• Please make your reservations as soon as possible.
• Our hosts will have shuttle service available for those wanting or needing transportation between the hotel and BMFL. 

Other lodging options:

• Econo Lodge, 600 Church St , Georgetown, South Carolina 29440-3612; 844-684-9427
• Quality Inn & Suites, 210 Church Street, Georgetown, SC, 29440; 843-485-0701
• Baxter's Brewhouse Inn, 824 Prince St., Georgetown, SC 29440;  844-684-9427
• Hampton Inn Georgetown-Marina
  420 Marina Drive, Georgetown, South Carolina 29440
  Phone:  843-545-5000
  Website:  https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/gtnschx-hampton-georgetown-marina/
  Located just across the bridge from Hobcaw Barony at the marina overlooking the Pee Dee River.

Lodging at BMFL

Some space will be available in the on-site BMFL cottages and duplex for potential shared housing options (each one has two bedrooms).

 

TRANSPORTATION

Ample parking is available on-site at BMFL for those choosing to drive themselves between the above hotels in Georgetown and BMFL. In addition, shuttle service (vans) will be provided to transport guests from the above hotels to BMFL.