2023 OBFS workshop

[mbjones]

We have an opportunity to run a workshop at OBFS this year that targets field stations. It's in Costa Rica, which would be really fun too (although probably expensive travel)! We could do so on a variety of different topics, but some that come to mind including:

• DataONE portals for field stations
• Hosted Repositories for field stations
• training from our data science short course curricula
• .... other ideas?

Workshop proposals are due March 1st. See announcement below.

The Annual Meeting program committee is working with this year’s site hosts, the Organization of Tropical Studies at La Selva, Costa Rica, to develop our next exciting meeting. Sept 12-17, 2023.

The designated workshop day is Sept 13, 2023. In the past, when many workshops have been proposed, we have extended the workshop schedule a day earlier, in this case Sept 12, 2023. But we need to plan logistics for these activities early.

If you are interested in running a workshop, please use the link below to put in a proposal. This will take you to a simple Google Form and you can provide details of your idea there. Don’t be shy. Field stations are microcosms of great ideas. Yours might make a compelling workshop. Due date March 1. Program committee will review and contact proposers in mid to late March.

Workshop Proposal Form. Due March 1.

https://forms.gle/NocRjrLywTB4wrN69

Feel free to contact me with questions. 

See you in La Selva! Nitido!

SKIP J. VAN BLOEM  Vice-President Organization of Biological Field Stations

[mbjones]

An alternative would be to run a shorter session during the OBFS concurrent sessions track. Here's details on the call that just came out for those:

Dear OBFS members,

Have you attended an OBFS Annual Meeting and wished there was a concurrent session about a topic, but it wasn’t on the program? Or are you planning on attending this year’s meeting and want to share your experience with a certain topic?

Now is the time to propose concurrent sessions for the Annual Meeting. These will occur on Thur/Fri Sept 14-15 and are scheduled for 90 minutes each. Occasionally a topic will continue over 2 sessions (3 hours, but in 90 min blocks). You can propose your idea here: https://forms.gle/J8thHH2RptN3Z1NH7 Hybrid options are preferred so we can include folks who can’t attend in person.

Please propose your idea by APRIL 30. The Planning Committee will review proposals and finalize the program with the OBFS board in early May.

Share your knowledge, share your experience, support your field station colleagues!

Pura Vida!

[angiegarciaa]

As the dates for OBFS 2023 approaches (September 11-16th, 2023), what are the remaining items of the agenda for this event? For example, these are a few lingering questions I have:

• Do we have to arrange traveling and expenses if I am the only one attending? Should I contact Erin Robinson?
• Do the session talks need more work?
• When should everything be finalized? I know we do not have another DataONE team meeting until August 25, but I wanted to see if there's a few things to touch base on prior to that since it is close to the dates of the meeting.

[mbjones]

@angiegarciaa you should definitely arrange travel asap. Happy to chat about that on slack this week, and we should touch base with @aebudden about her plans. And yes, the sessions need more work -- please reach out to Amber about what needs to be done, as she submitted the proposal and probably has the best sense of where things are at.