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Abstract Guidelines
First, enter the title of your presentation.
Second, list each author and their contact information in the order of authorship (i.e. the primary author first, the secondary author second, and so on). Each author citation should begin with a new line and be formatted as follows: first name, middle initial, last name and a comma, then institution and a comma, then mailing address and a comma, then city and a comma, then state followed by a comma, and finally the zip or postal code. If an author is at an institute outside of the United States, please add the name of the country that the institute is in to the end of the address information for that author. Please include the complete address information for all authors even if the information is the same and leave a blank line between each author's information as it makes it easier to do the formatting when the address book is made.
Example: John A. Doe, Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Jane B. Smith, Louisiana State University, Coastal Fisheries Institute and Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Richard F. Fark, Louisiana State University, Coastal Fisheries Institute and Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Random Person, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, P.P. Box 38, Solomons, MD 20688
Foreign A. Scientist, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia 2204 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
Third, enter the body of the abstract. All abstracts must be in English, using metric units. Do not include chemical or mathematical formulae, Greek characters, illustrations, figures or photos. Do not use any formatting such as italics, bold, or subscript as the formatting will be lost when you enter it into the abstract submission text box (i.e. CO2 becomes CO2). Do not indent paragraphs. Use a single space between sentences. The body of the abstract must adhere to a maximum count of 250 words, not including the title and the author citations. Cut and paste from a word document to insure correct spelling/grammar.
If you have any questions about formatting email me at GSS2008@LUMCON.EDU and I will give you some hints/guidance on how to write your abstract so that your abstract appears in the abstract book the way you want it to appear.
Presentation Guidelines: Presentations will be strictly limited to a 15 minute time slot (12-13 minutes for the talk itself and 2-3 minutes for questions). If you are not finished after the allotted 15 minutes, water guns will be used to force you off the stage.
It is going to be a really fun symposium and you wouldn't want to miss out on going to it because you were too slow getting your abstract submitted would you?
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