[Coral-List] Membership criteria for ICRS Awards: Is this who we are?

Richard Aronson raronson at fit.edu
Fri Dec 10 15:01:57 UTC 2021


Denny and Alina are correct. Govern well by following or changing the bylaws. 

Rich

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-----Original Message-----
From: Coral-List <coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> On Behalf Of Alina Szmant via Coral-List
Sent: Thursday, December 9, 2021 7:34 PM
To: Intenational Coral Reefs Observatory <icri.colombia at gmail.com>; Kristen Marhaver <kristenmarhaver at gmail.com>
Cc: Coral-List Subscribers <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Membership criteria for ICRS Awards: Is this who we are?

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The awards are from the ICRS  to recognize members of the ICRS  who have excelled at the criterion of the award. It's not a general award for society at large. If you are so intent at being recognized by the ICRS then by all means join the society and help support its activities with your membership fees.



Dr. Alina M. Szmant,  CEO
CISME Instruments LLC



-------- Original message --------
From: Intenational Coral Reefs Observatory via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
Date: 12/9/21 4:14 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: Kristen Marhaver <kristenmarhaver at gmail.com>
Cc: Coral-List Subscribers <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Membership criteria for ICRS Awards: Is this who we are?

Some candidates may have been members in the past and now keep working for coral reefs under voluntarily basis.

The objective of giving an award is to stimulate the outstanding engagement to coral reefs conservation, not to count how many years we have paid the membership fee !!!

El lun, dic 6, 2021 12:27, Kristen Marhaver via Coral-List < coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> escribió:

> Dear Coral-List,
>
> As I browsed the list of ICRS Society Awards, I noticed that many of 
> them require a person to have 5 or 10 years of ICRS membership on the 
> books to be eligible for nomination.
>
> These criteria certainly discriminate against members of our community 
> who took time off for family care or mental health, experienced long 
> unfunded periods between grants, came from less-well-funded and 
> minoritized countries/institutions/labs, and even community members 
> who started their careers in other areas and only recently joined the coral community.
>
> This kind of exclusion doesn't seem like who we are as a community.
> Would it be possible to remove these barriers and make the awards more 
> inclusive and equitable? Perhaps the short listed candidates could 
> even be awarded a year's membership instead of excluded due to their lack of one.
>
> With curious regards,
> Kristen Marhaver
>
>
> --
>
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 10:02 AM ICRS Honors and Awards Committee < 
> icrs at memberclicks-mail.net> wrote:
>
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> >
> >
> > Dear Kristen:
> >
> > Please nominate your ICRS colleagues for their research and 
> > conservation accomplishments! These Society Awards are only 
> > available to ICRS members, so please encourage your colleagues to join us today.
> >
> > Colleagues at all career levels are eligible for the following 
> > annual awards. Nominations for all awards listed below close on 
> > February 15,
> 2022.
> > Complete nomination criteria, information, and award descriptions 
> > can be found online (http://coralreefs.org/awards-and-honors/)
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> >    - Mid-Career Award
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> >    - World Reef Award
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