[TN-Bird] Andy Jones of BBC -- Secretary of AOU !

From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:00:26 -0400
 

This is a an exciting and historic time for the Bristol Bird Club!

 

One of our own,  Andy Jones who grew up in Kingsport,  TN, is soon to be
announced as the elected Secretary of the famous American Ornithologists'
Union which has served science since 1883.  The AOU has opened its annual
meeting and the 132nd Stated Meeting at Estes Park, Colorado thru 28
September 2014.

          

AOU members have voted and the ballot was closed in early August.  Andy was
nominated by an official process of the AOU and he was not opposed.   The
formal results of that vote will be announced  at the Estes Park meeting in
coming hours and the organization will then begin a scheduled process of
making election results known to the public in a series of announcements
that may take days or weeks. 

 

Andy Jones August 2014 headshot.jpgWhen Andy takes office, the Bristol Bird
Club will be proud that he becomes the second person from BBC to hold the
office of AOU Secretary.  Dr. Stephen M. Russell, who earned his Ph.D. in
ornithology from LSU in 1962, previously served in the office in the late
1980's and 1990's.  In 1950, Dr. Russell was a charter member and founder of
the Bristol Bird Club while a high school student at Abingdon, VA.  He later
served as president of the famous Cooper Ornithological Society.

In the 1990's BBC renamed itself the Bristol Bird Club -- Stephen M. Russell
Chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society.

 

The Cooper Ornithological Society (84th Stated Meeting), and the Society of
Canadian Ornithologists are jointly meeting with AOU at Estes Park as this
is written.

 

As Secretary,  Andy will obviously keep records of the meetings of the
American Ornithologists' Union and of its governing bodies and distribute
minutes and proceedings of the meetings. He will be served by a Recording
Secretary who will carry out many of those duties.   

 

However, the office is more significant and influential than the recording
process. He will also have responsibilities, with the President, for the
Annual Stated Meetings of AOU.  

 

His duties will include:

 

.      issues notices to members of the time and place of all meetings

.      maintains lists of members in the two classes of Fellows and the
class of Elective Members

.      maintains liaison with the office maintaining membership records and
inform the office of changes in members' addresses or membership status

.      maintains a record of committee assignments

.      is in charge of the corporate seal of the union 

.      with the President,  is responsible for the Stated Meeting in
coordination with the Committees on Local Arrangements and on Scientific
Program.

 

ANDREW W. JONES. William A. and Nancy R. Klamm Endowed Chair of Ornithology
and Curator of Ornithology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History.  Also
Director of Science, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and Adjunct
Faculty, Cleveland State University. Ph.D. 2006, University of Minnesota,
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. Published in Auk, Condor,
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Molecular Phylogenetics and
Evolution, BioScience, Cotinga. AOU Member 1997, Elective Member 2009. His
research concerns geographic variation in birds, primarily using molecular
markers for comparative phylogeography and resolving evolutionary
relationships among species in diverse genera.

  

He became Recording Secretary for the AOU in 2009, and has served in that
role for the last five years.  During this time, he has been involved in all
Council meetings as well as the semi-monthly Executive Committee conference
calls.  This has been an opportunity for Andy to learn how the AOU is
structured, and to work with the volunteers who make the society function.
His role as Recording Secretary has been long-term training for the
Secretary position. As Secretary, Andy will play an active role in the
governance of the AOU, working with the elected officers and councilors as
well as the newly hired Executive Director.  

 

Wallace Coffey

Bristol, TN
[TN-Bird] Andy Jones of BBC -- Secretary of AOU !

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