1. The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting
San Jose, Costa Rica
July 7 – 11, 2013

2. Current Membership Current membership 415
Membership continues to be a priority for TCS
Each member needs to bring in one new member or more per year
TCS is exploring new ways to maintain, or increase, our
membership

3. Student Scholarships/Fellowships
We give six student scholarships/fellowships of $1000 each per year
This year we received a sponsorship for one of these scholarships from Loligo Systems. We named the scholarship after them
Please let us know if you know of opportunities like this

4. 2013 TCSERA Award
This award will be presented in Austin at the SICB January meeting

5. Elections For New Officers
President Elect
Program Officer
Asian Governor
Latin American Governor
SICB Liaison Officer
Please Shane Ahyong your nominations

6. Mid Year Meetings 2014 Frankfurt Germany
2015 Most likely Sydney Australia
2016 Possible joint meeting with IAA-21 in Tampico, Mexico
Please TCS with any suggestions or ideas for meetings 2016 – on

7. Future Activities of TCS
2015 Workshop in Thailand? (Shirley Lim)
Zen Faulkes is organizing a symposium on parasitism (including Crustacea) at SICB in January 2014, in Austin, Texas, USA
SICB symposia from TCS/members for future meetings in 2015 and beyond. Talk with Brian Tsukamura or Sherry Tamone

8. Finances
Moved $$ into investment accounts that will produce between 4.8% - 12% per year = approximately $3000+
This is our restricted money for Student Awards
Produced positive budgets in 2013 (just!) and we have a projected positive budget for 2014
Requests for TCS support for symposia or meetings must be made at least a year in advance because we have to build them into the coming budgets

9. JCB Impact Factor: 1-019 (2013) 4 year trend = 0.974, 1.115, 1.116
Possible move from 6 to 8 issues per year?
Current rejection/declination rate = 39+%
Submission rate is up since move to Brill
Future JCB editor search

10. Other business?