Dear Committee of Scientists,

In January, we sent out a survey about our Annual Cooperator’s Meeting at Hubbard Brook. The concern had been raised that the meeting is often packed with science talks and committee meetings, leaving little time for discussion or informal scientific interaction. Several alternate strategies for the meeting had been proposed and we sent out a survey to get input from the COS and student community about potential changes. Please find the results of that survey attached.

There will be a small amount of time at tomorrow’s COS meeting to discuss the format of this summer’s Annual Cooperator’s Meeting. We will continue the discussion after the COS meeting and welcome everyone’s input. One idea for changing the Annual Meeting was to increase the length of the meeting by one day. Because the Board of Trustees Meeting for this July was scheduled long ago, it would be challenging to change it for this summer. We therefore propose that for 2015 we keep the length of the meeting the same and try the format below for this year. We can consider a longer meeting for 2016.

Based on the results of the survey and the need to maintain the length of the meeting this year, we suggest the following format for this summer’s annual meeting:

· Leave the total length of the meeting the same

· Add time at the end of each session for some discussion

· Change the format so that people can choose between giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 minute talks

· Add a new poster session

We welcome input via email and/or at tomorrow’s COS meeting.

All the best,

Pam Templer, John Battles, Nat Cleavitt, Peter Groffman, Gary Lovett, Rebecca Sanders-DeMott, and Ruth Yanai

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Pamela Templer, PhD

Associate Professor of Biology

Director, PhD Program in Biogeosciences

Boston University

Boston, MA 02215

5 Cummington Mall

Phone 617-353-6978

http://people.bu.edu/ptempler/

http://www.bu.edu/bio-geo/

From: hubbardbrookcos-bounces@lists.sr.unh.edu [mailto:hubbardbrookcos-bounces@lists.sr.unh.edu] On Behalf Of Templer, Pamela H
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:23 AM
To: 'HubbardBrookCOS@lists.sr.unh.edu'
Subject: [HubbardBrookCOS] Survey about Annual Cooperator's Meeting

Dear Hubbard Brook Committee of Scientists,

Please find a link below to a survey about our Annual Cooperator’s Meeting at Hubbard Brook. We would appreciate your feedback on potential changes to the structure of the meeting.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7BR6T5L

Please fill out the survey by Friday, January 23rd. It shouldn’t take more than a few minutes.

Thanks in advance for your time!