2012 Annual Meeting: Call for Session proposals
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 08:24 PM

The Archbold Biological Station, located in central Florida near the town of Lake Placid, will be hosting the annual meeting of the Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS) on September 19-23, 2012.

The theme of the meeting will be "Full STEAM Ahead: building bridges between science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics at our field stations."   For example, how are architects, scientists and engineers working together to "green" a field station? How can field stations bring writers and scientists together to explain science to a general audience?  How is social media technology used for outreach and image management by field stations?  What bridges would you like to see built?

 
We would like your input on topic ideas for plenary and concurrent sessions addressing this theme.  We are also looking for plenary speakers and discussion leaders, so please let us know if you would like to give a presentation or organize a session, or if you would like to nominate someone.
 
If you have a topic you would like to see addressed at the meeting, please submit a half-page proposal to Karie Slavik ([email protected]) by Friday, February 3. The proposal should define the items you would like to see covered. We will contact you for more details once we collect all of the proposals.
 
Thank you for helping to make the 2012 OBFS Annual Meeting a valuable and interesting event. Information about the meeting location and agenda will be available at http://www.archbold-station.org in February.
 
We hope you will be joining us at the September 2012 OBFS annual meeting at the Archbold Biological Station!
 
Karie Slavik,
OBFS Vice President & Associate Director, Univ. of Michigan Biological Station
 
Hilary Swain,
Director, Archbold Biological Station