The mission of the Crustacean Society is to advance the study of all aspects of the biology of the Crustacea by promoting the exchange and dissemination of information throughout the world.  Please consider membership in the society.

The website for the Crustacean Society's Business Office is at http://tcs.allenmm.com. You can use this site to subscribe automatically.

Electronic submission of manuscripts is available at http://jcb.allentrack2.net.

The latest copy of the Ecdysiast is available at http://web.vims.edu/tcs/ecdysiast.htm 

Members receive significant benefits in the Crustacean Society:

• Members receive savings on page charges in the Journal of Crustacean Biology (JCB).
• Members receive online access to JCB through www.BioOne.org. (Requires 'user name' and 'membership number.'
• Memberships that include the journal now have electronic access to back issues of the journal through JSTOR! This is done through BioOne.
• Members receive complimentary pdf files of their publications in JCB.
• Members can receive the Journal at a great price, essentially at cost!
• Members receive lower registration fees at SICB and regular TCS functions.
• Members receive biannual mailings of the society’s newsletter, the Ecdysiast. 
• Members receive breaking news on CRUST-SOC, a members-only list for the society.
• Student members are eligible for two different fellowships for research or travel.
• Students are also eligible for Best Student Paper and Poster awards at several scientific meetings (e.g., SICB, TCS, ECC, ICC).
• Students receive the journal at an excellent price, below cost!
• But best of all, members enjoy the camaraderie of their fellow crustaceophiles!

The Crustacean Society Meetings

• Summer 2009, Japan! Message from Keiji Baba, President of the Carcinological Society of Japan
• SICB 2010, 3-7 January, Seattle, WA
• International Crustacean Congress 7, 20-25 June, 2010, Qingdao, China!
• SICB 2011, early January, Salt Lake City, UT

For other meetings on Crustacea visit Society News and Crustacean Resources.

The Crustacean Society co-sponsors the annual meeting of The Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology.

This site is hosted by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science,  

and maintained by Jeff Shields (jeff@vims.edu).

Last updated 27 October 2009.