For the upcoming ESA Annual Meeting, I've arranged a Science Café at a pub in Minneapolis. Science Café is a nice opportunity to extend the conference into the local community and talk science with people outside our professional bubble. We're holding a contest for interested speakers, and I want to encourage ecologists at all career stages to think about entering.
The prize: 1 beer (or beverage of your choice) + 40 minutes to talk to locals about your work in ecology. The contest is a very short exercise in framing your work (or a particular project) for a general audience - say, strangers you happen to be sitting with at the bar. You get 250 words (or fewer!) to pitch your concept, and one picture to illustrate it. The picture could be anything: photo, cartoon, graph, or composite image. I hope people will come up with creative ideas that I haven't thought of. I'll collect all of the images into a gallery to share on the night of the Science Café. Contest deadline: Sunday, 23 June 2013 You can find more information, and the contest entry link, here: http://www.esa.org/esa/?page_id=7640 Questions? Please email me. Liza __________________________ __________________________ Liza Lester Communications Officer Ecological Society of America 1990 M Street, NW Suite 700 Washington DC 20036 202.833.8773 ext. 211 [email protected] http://www.esa.org/esablog/ @esa_org<https://twitter.com/ESA_org> __________________________
