MegaMixer of the Latin America and the Caribbean Chapter and Open Science Section

Event

Description:  This megamix event will bring together the members of the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)chapter and Open Science Section (OSS) meet new colleagues, interact, and reconnect. The agenda for the mixer will be: a) Discuss and meet the speakers of the Symposium organized by the chapter titled "We are stronger together: Building community to face barriers for Latin American and underrepresented ecologists"; b) establish collaborations and novel ways to address common goals, emerging challenges, overcoming barriers and to develop projects to promote interactions among ecological societies, such as the ATBC (with whom we recently had a successful collaborative webinar) and other professional ecological societies of Latin America and the Caribbean; c) discuss LAC chapter member’s success after participating in the annual meeting (i.e. publications ratio of poster/talks presented during ESA meetings); d) discuss scientific decolonization in ecology with a particular focus on Latin America and the Caribbean; e) announce the best student talk and poster awards from the LAC chapter; f) announce the awardees of best presentation from OSS; g) announce the composition of the new LAC chapter board; h) announce the composition of the OSS leadership, future plans, and invite people to join us; and i) discuss future collaborations and upcoming activities we have prepared both for the chapter and section.

Group Name: Latin America and the Caribbean Chapter
Open Science Section