Catching up on emails, I found this thread very interesting. My
apologies for a late response. In glancing through responses, I did not
notice anyone mention the importance of attending regional meetings.
While large meetings such as ESA are important and vital outlets,
regional meetings offer perspective and opportunities for dialog that
are difficult to capture at a meeting the size of ESA. I encourage
folks to consider attending regional meetings as well.
Cheers, Tara
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Tara Chestnut
Fish and Wildlife Biologist
WSDOT Olympic Region
Office: 360-570-6739
Cell: 360-480-0862
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Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology
President & Scholarship Chair
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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:46:16 -0500
From: Malcolm McCallum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Skipping meetings or attending meetings outside field
Here is a thought.
I spent quite a bit of time on faculty search committees for computer
science during the past two years. Through this experience I became
familiar with Fuzzy math and neural networks. Frankly, this has
revolutionized the way I look at my data sets. This morning it occurred
to me (maybe someone said this earlier) that we spend too much time
going to meetings in our pigeon-holed disciplines and never venture out.
If you attend a few talks on a topic you know nothing about, but can
grasp, you can look at your data in a completely different way using
techniques that aren't necessarily novel to other fields, but definitely
so in your own.
Maybe everyone knows this, but it is new to me! :)
