We would like to remind students in the California area of the United States that we are having our first annual SMM Student Chapter Meeting on Saturday October 26th and Sunday October 27th at the University of California Santa Cruz. Abstract submission is open until Sept 15th and registration is open until Oct 15th (although earlier registrations are preferred) and we welcome submissions from both undergraduate, graduate, and recently graduated students. Go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6JLLKXD to register/submit an abstract. Click here<http://smm.pbsci.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/California-Student-SMM-2013-Meeting.pdf>, or check out our website <http://smm.pbsci.ucsc.edu/meetings/> for more information on the meeting. Please email us at californiastudentsmm@gmail.com if you have any questions! Cheers, Sarah and Liz -- Sarah Peterson and Liz McHuron California Student Chapter of the Society for Marine Mammalogy