Greetings students! As the current Student Member-at-Large of the Society for Marine Mammalogy (SMM), I recently established an electronic mailing list in order to communicate SMM and related student news (e.g., conference information, funding opportunities, student chapter updates, on-line and other marine mammal and professional resources) directly to interested students from time to time. Such communication will become increasingly important with the approaching Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals in Cape Town, South Africa. If you are currently an SMM student member, you should have already been notified that your SMM member email address was added to this mailing list, although please let me know if you have not. If you are not currently an SMM member, but are interested in SMM student issues and would like to be on this mailing list, email me <alb992@u.washington.edu> and I'll add you on. Please try to do so as soon as possible, as I will be sending out a first news installment within a few days. I look forward to connecting with you! All best, amanda (SMM Student Member-at-Large) | Amanda L. Bradford, MS | | WA Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit | School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences | University of Washington | Box 355020 | Seattle, WA 98195-5020, USA | | Phone: 206.697.0143 | Fax: 206.616.9012 | E-mail: alb992@u.washington.edu