2010 Annual Meeting
Northeast Region of the American Society For Horticultural Science (NEASHS)

Joint Meeting With the Northeastern Weed Science Society (NEWSS)

4–7 January 2010
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Boston Marriott Cambridge Hotel
Two Cambridge Center, 50 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

Call for paper and poster titles.

Please submit titles, authors (indicate who will present) and affiliation. Also specify poster or paper and indicate if you wish to be included in the student paper competition.

Submission Deadline - 25 September 2009

Please note the early deadline to allow session planning with NEWSS.

*Poster boards will be provided for the poster session—they are 4 x 4 ft (120 x 120 cm).

**Oral presentations will be scheduled for 15 minutes (12 minutes plus questions). An LCD projector and PC laptop will be available. We plan to have all presenters load onto one laptop for this purpose. All oral presenters are required to use digital (PowerPoint) format.

After all titles have been received, authors will be sent abstract instructions and deadlines including instructions for bringing or e-mailing PowerPoint presentations for use on a shared laptop. Student competitors will be sent judging criteria and competition guidelines.

Submission Deadline: September 25. Please submit titles, authors (indicate who will present) and affiliation. Also specify poster or paper and indicate if you wish to be included in the student paper competition.

The student competition is papers only (no posters) and is open to both graduate and undergraduate students (separate awards)—please indicate graduate or undergraduate when submitting your title.

Students may present posters but those will not be judged.

$90 ($60 for students) - includes meeting materials, refreshment breaks, social mixer, and continental breakfast on Thursday

Registration fees also cover the cost of publishing meeting abstracts in HortScience.

Registration forms will be mailed in early November.

For additional information, to request registration forms, or to submit papers and poster titles, please contact
Carolyn DeMoranville, UMASS Cranberry Station
By e-mail (preferred) at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
or by FAX to 508-295-6387

The NEWSS meeting begins on Monday, 4 January, with a graduate student mixer. Our students are welcome to attend if they have arrived in Cambridge by then. However, NEASHS official events do not begin until Wednesday morning. Please note that the NEWSS keynote speaker, the lead-in to the symposium, will speak on Tuesday morning; the remainder of symposium presentations will be on Wednesday morning.

The outline schedule is tentative (see box, next page) and cannot be finalized until the number of presentations is known—therefore the title submission deadline is early this year to allow time for coordinating with NEWSS. Also, the poster session may be held on Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning(to be decided).

There are no plans for tours associated with the meeting but information on attractions of interest within reach via public transportation will be provided. Recommended by Carolyn deMoranville is the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s glass flower collection

The Boston Marriott Cambridge will be the conference hotel.

Address: Two Cambridge Center, 50 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142.

Phone:  (617) 494-6600.

Room rate for a standard room is $120 for single or double.  Rates do not include tax.

To receive this discount rate, guest should make reservations with the Boston Marriott Cambridge by December 14, 2009.

Guests should call (617) 494-6600, to make their reservations and mention the group name NEWSS or Northeastern Weed Science Society to assure that you receive the special group discount. Check in is 4:00 pm.  Check out is at 12:00 noon.

For more information, see the website.

Boston’s Logan Airport is the closest to the meeting site. Cab fare from the airport is about $30. The hotel is accessible by subway/rapid transit bus ($2) from the airport—the hotel is on the Red Line, Kendall Stop. Take the Silver Line bus at the airport terminal to South Station and then board the Red Line subway train (towards Alewife) and ride to the Kendall stop. See subway maps at http://www.mbta.com/. For those driving, see the hotel website for directions. Parking at the hotel is $23/day self park or $30/day valet.