[Coral-List] Reflections on ICRS 11
ommm
ommm at wanadoo.fr
Mon Aug 4 12:36:11 EDT 2008
Dear All
I represent a small NGO located in Martinique, French West Indies, lost
right in the middle of the Lesser Antilles. I was able to attend the
ICRS meeting with 3 of my PhD students. We submitted 3 posters and 2
talks to present unpublished results from Martinique, where permanent
coral reef research is quite new (less than 6 years).
What I would like to highlight is that I was really disappointed seeing
that our request for 2 talks was changed into poster presentation while
the same team could have 3 to 4 talks in the same mini-symposia, just
the speaker changing ... with same slides for different talks and same
ideas developed in a different manner.
I understand that many abstract were submitted and I am not complaining
about the choice that the board committee had to make.
I just realise that small institution are not well listened and I want
to point out that the quality of the work is not related to the size of
the institution.
Cheers,
Jean-Philippe
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Dr Jean-Philippe Maréchal
Observatoire du Milieu Marin Martiniquais
3 avenue condorcet
97200 Fort de France
tel: + 33 (5) 96 39 42 16
http://www.ommm.org
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