Chapter Two - Growth and professionalisation: towards a national, professional and scientific society

Immediately after its establishment, the Australian Society for Microbiology began to thrive. The founders of the ASM had been correct in their assessment of the need for the Society. By the second decade of its existence, membership numbers had swelled to over 1200. The services it provided for members had also diversified as the Society consolidated and became a strong voice of microbiology in Australia. Not only did the number of members grow, but the Scientific Meetings became more frequent and attracted international speakers, the committees on which the ASM was asked to be represented became more numerous, and the activities in which the Society was involved continued to grow. The needs of members also began to change. It soon became clear that the structure of the ASM needed be addressed so that the Society could adapt to the changing roles it was being called upon to play.

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Manage Media Relations at Scientific Meetings

10.1093/oso/9780197571316.003.0027 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 336-344

Author(s):

Dennis Meredith

Keyword(s):

Public Information ◽

Scientific Meeting ◽

Scientific Society ◽

Media Relations ◽

News Releases ◽

Public Information Officers ◽

The Media ◽

Scientific Meetings

This chapter will help you effectively communicate your meeting’s news to the media. To successfully manage media relations at a scientific meeting, a researcher should first visit press rooms at major scientific society meetings to see how they are run. Some steps to running a newsroom include identifying newsworthy papers and suggesting that scientists contact their public information officers to do news releases, as well as notifying the media of the meeting. The role of a conference press officer also includes organizing the newsroom to include all the facilities journalists will need, setting embargoes on presentations, and planning and conducting news conferences. Arranging interviews and making experts available for background discussion are also important steps.

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Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of St. Petersburg (6th anniversary)

Journal of obstetrics and women s diseases ◽

10.17816/jowd89073 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 80-82

Author(s):

E. K. Aylamazyan ◽

M. A. Repina

Keyword(s):

Political System ◽

Obstetrics And Gynecology ◽

Scientific Society ◽

Economic Problems ◽

Scientific Meetings

For very many years, in St. Petersburg, Petrograd, then Leningrad, there functioned a scientific society of obstetricians and gynecologists, uniting in its ranks the most active specialists. The main activities of the society were regular scientific meetings with presentations on topical issues of obstetrics and gynecology. By the end of 80-s and the beginning of 90-s, i.e. in the period of serious social and economic problems, connected with changes of socio-political system in the country and disintegration of the USSR, the interest of doctors in the work of the Society decreased considerably and in 1991-1992 it had actually stopped its work.

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Sustainable Science? Reducing the Carbon Impact of Scientific Mega-Meetings

Ethnobiology Letters ◽

10.14237/ebl.2.2011.29 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 65-71 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Alexandra G. Ponette-González ◽

Jarrett E. Byrnes

Keyword(s):

Carbon Footprint ◽

Selection Process ◽

Air Travel ◽

Scientific Society ◽

Location Selection ◽

Ecological Society ◽

Scientific Meetings ◽

Combat Climate Change ◽

Business As Usual ◽

Alternative Solutions

Scientists across the globe recognize the importance of reducing carbon emissions to combat climate change. At the same time, we have increased our carbon footprint through air travel to the growing number of scientific society “mega-meetings” that host thousands of attendees. Although alternative solutions have been proposed to reduce the environmental impact of annual conferences, these have yet to be evaluated against the business-as-usual scenario. Here, we use 9 years of annual meeting attendance data from the Ecological Society of America and the Association of American Geographers to assess the efficacy of two additional solutions: 1) alternate large national meetings that require significant air travel with smaller regional meetings that do not; and 2) incorporate geography into the meeting location selection process. The carbon footprint of annual mega-meetings ranged 3-fold, from 1196-4062 metric tons of CO2. Results indicate that an alternating schedule of national and regional meetings can reduce conference-related CO2 emissions up to 73%, while improved spatial planning may result in further reductions. We discuss the benefits and tradeoffs of proposals to green scientific meetings, with a view to spark further debate on how to increase the sustainability of scientific conferences.

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