The Plant Love Stories team is currently putting together a proposal for an Inspire session at the 2019 ESA meeting in Louisville, KY. (See www.plantlovestories.com to learn more about us!)
Our proposed session will celebrate plants — and their connections to our lives and careers — in stories from a broad range of ecologists, conservation practitioners, and students. We are looking for Plant Love Stories - You can share a funny, poignant, scary, or sentimental story about a plant (or a whole community of plants) that have impacted your life, your family, your career, or your day. We would love to include a few talks by ecologists that *don’t* study plants as their life’s work, but still have a love story to tell about plants : ) We are also looking for a small number of research talks that might fit in with the theme of Plant Love Stories, with amazing things about plants (like plant communication!), plant conservation, or the importance of storytelling to science and conservation. Inspire session talks are the 5-minute talks with 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. Note that giving an Inspire talk at ESA does not preclude you from giving another scientific presentation at ESA. You are, however, limited to one Inspire talk. Thank you so much to those of you that responded to our first call! If you didn’t but are interested in presenting in our session, please fill out this google form with your tentative talk title. (https://goo.gl/forms/AnprlA9emtOPJE3l2). Though we have limited space in the session, we'll be sharing as many stories as possible as ESA! The Plant Love Story Team will be in touch with you by November 12. Thanks!
