I'm sure those of you who attended the SICB 1996 Annual Meeting in Albuquerque will agree with me that it was very exciting. Our thanks go out to Lee Drickamer for putting this superb symposium together for us. From my perspective, the only unfortunate thing about the symposium was that it was so good that I found it hard to make time during those two days to sample from the equally impressive array of contributed papers in ecology, evolutionary biology, behavioral endocrinology, functional morphology, and all those other areas we DAB members follow.
Behavioral biology is inherently interdisciplinary.
Those of us who study behavior are bound to find SICB meetings both delightful, because we can find so much variety there, and overwhelming, because we can't take advantage of all that is offered. I expect the SICB 1998 Annual Meeting in Boston to be no different. We read their journals regularly, and some of us attend the ESA summer meetings. I urge DAB members to take full advantage of this opportunity by attending the meeting in Boston and participating in DEE's activities as well as our own. I would like to see us all redouble our efforts to encourage students to attend and present their work at future meetings.