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Dryad is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit membership-based organization incorporated in North Carolina, USA. A twelve member Board of Directors is elected by its Members. See also Dryad's Business and Sustainability Plan

ByLaws

Dryad's ByLaws were adopted by the Board of Directors on July 23, 2012 and most recently amended by the membership in May, 2013

Membership Meetings

Annual Membership and Community Meeting are held each in May of each year; the location varies.

Board of Directors

The current board is constituted of the most recent three classes. Each class of four members serves a term of three years. See Who We Are for biographical information on current board members.

Class of 2018

• Simon Hodson, Bill Michener, Eefke Smit, Todd Vision</li>

Class of 2017

• Lynn Baird, Theo Bloom, Emilio Bruna, Liz Ferguson

Class of 2016

• Martin Fenner, Charles Fox, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Carol Tenopir

Former classes

• 2015: Simon Hodson, Bill Michener, Eefke Smit, Todd Vision
• 2014: Theodora Bloom, Liz Ferguson, Marcel Holyoak, Brian Lavoie
• 2013:: Lee Dirks, Allen Moore, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Michael Whitlock

Officers

• 2015-2016: tba
• 2014-2015: Michener (chair), Bloom (vice-chair), Fox (treasurer) and Vision (secretary)
• 2013-2014: Michener (chair), Bloom (vice-chair), Lavoie (treasurer) and Vision (secretary)
• 2012-2013: Michener (chair), Bloom (vice-chair), Lavoie (treasurer) and Vision (secretary)

Board of Director Meeting Minutes

• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• November, Dulles, Virginia, November 17-18, 2012
• July, Durham, North Carolina, July 23-25, 2012
• June, teleconference, June 8, 2012

Interim Governance (2009-2012)

Prior to incorporation, from 2009 to early 2012, the organization was known as the Dryad Consortium and operated under an Interim Governance Agreement.

Dryad Consortium Members and Representatives

• The American Naturalist (American Society of Naturalists) - Michael Whitlock
• BMJ Open (British Medical Association) - Richard Sands
• The Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (Linnean Society of London) - John Allen
• BioMed Central - Iain Hrynaszkiewicz
• British Ecological Society - Charles Fox
• Ecology Letters (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) - Marcel Holyoak
• Ecological Society of America - William Michener and David Baldwin
• Evolution (Society for the Study of Evolution) - Daphne Fairbairn
• Evolutionary Applications - Michelle Tseng
• Heredity (The Genetics Society) - Roger Butlin
• Journal of Evolutionary Biology (European Society for Evolutionary Biology) - Allen Moore
• Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (US Fish and Wildlife Service) - John Wenburg
• Journal of Heredity (The American Genetic Association) - Scott Baker and Mohamed Noor
• Journal of Paleontology and Paleobiology (The Paleontological Society) - Steve Hageman and Bruce MacFadden
• Molecular Biology and Evolution (Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution) - Marcy Uyenoyama
• Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources - Tim Vines
• Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - Derek Wildman
• Oikos (Nordic Society Oikos) - Tim Benton
• Oxford University Press - Cathy Kennedy
• Pensoft Publishers - Lyubomir Penev
• PLOS - Theo Bloom
• Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) - Laura Zahn
• Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology - Harold Heatwole
• Systematic Biology (Society of Systematic Biologists) - Rod Page
• Wiley-Blackwell - Liz Ferguson

Dryad Consortium Executive Committee

• 2009-2010: William Michener, Allen Moore, Mohamed Noor, Marcy Uyenoyama, Tim Vines, and Michael Whitlock (chair).
• 2010-2012: Marcel Holyoak, William Michener, Allen Moore, Mohamed Noor, and Michael Whitlock (chair).

Dryad Consortium Board Meetings

• July 2011, Vancouver, Canada
• April 2010, Durham, NC, USA
• December 2009, London, UK
• May 2009, Durham NC, USA