[Coral-List] Remote meetings
John Ware
jware at erols.com
Thu Sep 26 16:10:08 UTC 2019
Dear List,
A little background: I was Treasurer of the ISRS for 8 years and also
served as a Council Member.
The first ICRS I went to was in the 1990s. There were perhaps 100
attendees and you could meet people and go to all the presentations of
interest.
The last ICRS I went to was Ft Lauderdale in 2008. There were an
estimated 2000 attendees and no way to go to all the the presentations
that I was interested in. It was more like a DEMA than a scientific
meeting with a large number of booths hawking various items. It was the
last ICRS I attended. Just too darned many people.
As an aside, the ISRS had a booth which my wife and I manned. Despite
promises from several the council members to help, the only on I
remember showing up was Isabel Cote - thanks Izzie.
In my opinion, as I have stated on this list at other times: Global
climate change has been bad for coral reefs but great for coral-reef
scientists.
Also as an aside, the item I just read on the Coral List was under the
heading "Remote Meetings" but the whole content was on the number of
coal-fired power plants in the US.
John Ware, Registered Curmudgeon
--
John R. Ware, PhD
President
SeaServices, LLC
302 N. Mule Deer Pt.
Payson, AZ 85541, USA
928 478-6358
jware at erols.com
http://www.seaservices.org
Become a member of the International Society for Reef Studies
http://www.coralreefs.org
More information about the Coral-List
mailing list