***Announcement***

Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists & Herpetologists

(JMIH)

Official Logo Contest

Concept: As is well known to all memberships, the Herpetologists’ League, American Elasmobranch Society, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, have embarked on a plan to meet jointly in most years for the foreseeable future.  Thus, the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (JMIH) is the official name for this annual meeting of the four societies.  The JMIH needs a logo of its own, in part to facilitate a registration website that can be made active before the annual “local logo” may be prepared, and in part to identify the reality of this important ongoing partnership of our societies.   Note that this JMIH logo will be a permanent symbol of the JMIH and will not replace the popular annual “local logo” that makes the t-shirts, programs, and other materials of each year’s JMIH both memorable and unique.   JMIH will hold publishing rights to the logo.

Contest: The JMIH logo needs to reflect our interests in cartilaginous and bony fishes, amphibians, and reptiles. If you are artistic and would like to submit a logo for consideration, please:

•    Notify This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and submit your logo as a TIFF file by 1 March 2011.

•    Method of voting will be determined by the number of entries.  If there are more than five entries, then an on-line voting mechanism will be used to identify the top five entries.  This would take place from 15 March to 30 April.  All members of all of the societies will be notified of the URL for the on-line voting platform.

•    The five finalist entries will be on display at the 2011 Minneapolis JMIH, where the attendees will have a chance to vote for their favorites, and the winning entry will be selected and announced at the JMIH banquet.

Submissions should be sent electronically (e.g., high resolution TIFF file) to Joe Mendelson:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it