Those of you who might be moved to complain about registration fees at
NSS conventions or were perhaps unhappy about the fee at the recent
International Congress hosted by the NSS ought to look at the
registration fees for some of the professional karst conferences just
posted by George Veni.
The "Carbonate Geochemistry: Reactions and Processes in Aquifers and
Reservoirs" next August in Montana will cost $425 dollars for early
registration, $600 later. It will last two and a half days. The
conference is organized by the Karst Waters Institute, a more or less
informal non-profit collection of karst scientists. They have the
nerve to brag about the low registration fee. And, no, it doesn't
include your housing. Maybe they're planning on inviting that woman
from Alaska (you know the one I mean) to give a $20,000 speech.
The one arranged for this coming January, "12th Multidisciplinary
Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts
of Karst," lasts three days and costs $495. There are a couple of
"short courses" offered at an additional charge that amounts to $50 an
hour ($250 or $375 dollars), which ought to buy you a private
instructor, but no doubt doesn't. The organizers have arranged a
special conference rate at the hotel of just $84 a night, plus 15%
tax. Extra copies of the proceedings CD, which will cost less than $1
per copy to make, are $25.
Admittedly, there are discounts for students.
Saving money was obviously not high on anybody's priority list.--Mixon
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