[Coral-List] ICRS registration fees

Thu Mar 12 17:16:48 UTC 2020

Apologies for the previous msg.

I started and never finished.

Is this TBT?

If you go to :https://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list/2011-July/thread.html#10255
And search the page for Registration cost or registration fee, you will see that this topic is not new. Sad to see that things have not change.

I believe the conclusion on 2011 was that the cost to the sponsors was to high driving the cost of attendance high to pay for the meeting. - Nothing official ever came out of that.

In 2011 we even had a Facebook group (no longer active) for boycott the meeting, obviously that did not work.

Luiz, I think you were part of that conversation as well.

Hope you guys can figure better prices!

Jorge

On Mar 11, 2020, at 12:20 PM, Jeremy Jackson via Coral-List <Coral-List at coral.aoml.noaa.gov<mailto:Coral-List at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>> wrote:

FYI as a former host in Panama in 1996 the registration never pays for the cost of the meeting. I had to raise more than half a million $US to cover expenses including half of that to bring 100 attendee from developing countries for free. Australia happen cost $1million more than paid by registrations. It’s a simple fact of economics.
Jeremy Jackson

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On Mar 11, 2020, at 12:59 PM, Luiz Rocha via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov<mailto:coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>> wrote:

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

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