Dear ASPB Member in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi:

We’re alarmed at the extent and duration of devastation caused in your coastal state by hurricane Katrina. Your colleagues in the ASPB membership and staff and in the ASPB Southern Section are deeply concerned about the effects the hurricane may have had on you and your institution. ASPB is looking at establishing a mechanism through which ASPB members, Southern Section members, and other plant biologists at affected institutions can get in touch with plant scientists elsewhere who are willing and able to help, for example by providing lab space to displaced scientists. Please let us know by sending e-mail to ctaylor@aspb.org if such a service would be helpful or if there is anything else that ASPB, the ASPB Southern Section, or their members at institutions in other states and nations can do to assist.

Sincerely,

Roger Hangarter, ASPB President
James Mahan, ASPB Southern Section Chair
Crispin Taylor, ASPB Executive Director