[Coral-List] ICRS registration fees

[Luiz Rocha]

Why is ICRS consistently the most expensive conference? Are we
actively trying to keep participants from coral reef countries out of these
meetings? I know it's too late for Germany, but can we please do something
about it for the meeting after Germany? Here is a quick comparison (all
similar attendance to ICRS):

Ecological Society of America, 3000-4000 attendees, USD400 (USD195 for
students)
Evolution Conference, 2000-2500 attendees, USD500 (USD330 for students)
Intl. Conference on Conservation Biology, 2000-2500 attendees, USD495
(USD249 for students)
Limnol. Oceanogr., 2000-3000 attendees, USD495 (USD295 for students)
AGU Ocean Sciences, 5000 attendees, USD525 (USD380 for students)

ICRS, ~2500 attendees, USD820 (USD610 for students)

Just like ICRS, all of the above conferences are held in conference centers
(not universities), so I am just trying to understand why ICRS costs so
much more and what we can do to make it cheaper and perhaps attract more
participants from countries with coral reefs.

Cheers,

Luiz

*Luiz A. Rocha, PhD*
Associate Curator and Follett Chair of Ichthyology
California Academy of Sciences
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