Constellating at conservation conferences

by Alexis Heinz, former EEB GSI, conservation ecology and landscape architecture graduate Part of my graduate school education included the exploration of ecological conferences.  Constellating with other conservation-minded people frequently provides new insights into existing projects in addition to potential future collaborations. Attending conferences, I have observed differences in topics, style, and organization.  I think…

SICB 2019 – an accessibility perspective

From The Bendy Biologist by Amy-Charlotte Devitz, a University of Michigan Frontiers Master’s Student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology The nerves kicked in the day that my research abstract was submitted. It was a big deal, to be preparing for a presentation at an international conference so early in my graduate school career, but it…