Hi all! On behalf of the SMM Women & Families Subcommittee, we would like to reach out to those who attended SMM 2026 in Puerto Rico and are caregivers. We would like your feedback on your experiences regarding being a caretaker at the conference, whether you used the lactation room or child room, or if being caregiver impacted your decision to not attend. We will use this information to provide feedback for the conference organizers for SMM 2028 in Portland. Please answer our short survey here: https://forms.gle/SwLnYrZNoVumw3yV7
We also will host a virtual meeting to discuss this topic, and what you would like to see continued or improved on for Portland. That meeting will be on Friday, December 4th, 2026 at 12pm Eastern time. Please reply to this email to receive the meeting link. Hope all is whale, Megan Hoffman, MPS Marine Mammal Conservation Marine Mammal Specialist & Client Growth Lead at WatchSpotter Graduate student at Cascadia Research Collective she/her/hers "The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever" - Jacques Cousteau "There are a number of things everyone can do to help protect whales" - Jim Murphy "There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath..." -Herman Melville
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