NADS News & Updates 

• NADS 5 Photo Archive Now Online - Visit the NADS 5 Photo Archive to view pictures taken during NADS 5 in Toronto Ontario.
   
• NADS 5 Web Site Archive Complete - Rather than producing a formal Symposium Proceeding as have past NADS, the NADS 5 Proceedings will in essence be a scaled down version of the former NADS 5 web site. All of the major information such as, sponsors, committees, science program structure, oral and poster abstract downloads, workshops, and the NADS 5 Photo Archive, are being retained within the archival web site and will be available for reference long into the future. The NADS 5 web site link, along with links to the Proceedings from NADS 1 through 4, is now also located within "The NADS Archive". The NADS Archive will eventually be one of the main menu items on the NADS web site. As progress is made, more information regarding the umbrella NADS web site and NADS 6 will be available in the future.
    
• Southward Migration for NADS 6 - The Sixth North American Duck Symposium and Workshop will convene in the southern US, either in Mississippi or Tennessee (tentative period, 2 - 8 February 2013). Drs. Rick Kaminski and Brian Davis - Mississippi State University - have agreed to co-chair the NADS 6 Organizing Committee. The NADS Board of Directors will entertain a proposal for an expanded joint meeting including all waterfowl (ducks, geese, and swans). More information on NADS 6 will be available in the future coinciding with development of the NADS 6 Website.
   
• Congratulations to the Robert Todd Eberhardt Memorial Award recipient - Dr. Kenneth F. Abraham - Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources & Trent University
   
• Congratulations the North American Duck Symposium Presentation Award Recipients:
  Ph.D. Poster Presentations:
  1. Courtney L. Amundson - University of Minnesota
  2. Heath M. Hagy & Jake Straub (co-recipients) - Mississippi State University
  3. Matthew R. Pieron - Louisiana State University

Ph.D. Oral Presentations:
1. Benjamin J. O'Neal - University of Illinois
2. Courtney L. Amundson - University of Minnesota & Matthew R. Pieron - Louisiana State University (co-recipients)
3. Josh L. Vest - Utah State University

M.Sc. Poster Presentations:
1. Everett E. Hanna - Trent University
2. Elizabeth A. St. James - Mississippi State University
3. Kurt A. Anderson - University of Delaware

M.Sc. Oral Presentations:
1. Pauline M. Bloom - University of Saskatchewan
2. Christopher J. S. Martin & Jennifer I. McCarter (co-recipients) - University of Guelph
3. Sarah J. Thompson - University of Minnesota 

• Congratulations the North American Duck Symposium Travel Scholarship Recipients:
  • John A. Dassow - Southern Illinois University
  • Heath M. Hagy - Mississippi State University
  • Benjamin J. O’Neal - University of Illinois
  • Sarah J. Thompson - University of Minnesota
  • Josh L. Vest - Utah State University
     
• Congratulations to the Robert N. Helm, Jr. Travel Scholarship Recipients:
  • Courtney L. Amundson - University of Minnesota & Matthew R. Pieron - Louisiana State University (co-recipients)
  • Kirsty E. B. Gurney - University of Saskatchewan