ASLO 2021 Aquatic Sciences Meeting

The 2021 Aquatic Sciences Meeting has been organized to engender as much interaction as possible.

Program Structure:

The meeting will be organized on UTC time to reflect the European origin of the meeting.

The scientific program will run from 10:00 to 17:00 UTC with award talks at 17:00 and plenary talks at 18:00. Workshops, town halls, meetings and social events will take place after the scientific program each day and also on Tuesday the 22nd and Monday the 28th. This schedule is subject to change.

There will be a special opening plenary on Tuesday the 22nd at 17:00 UTC.

All presentations will be uploaded prior to the meeting. Instructions and guidance for recording your presentation will be available once your presentation makes it on to the program.

Oral Format:

Oral sessions will follow a new format designed to encourage discussion amongst participants in a virtual setting. Sessions will be organized in one-hour blocks, where each presenter (of six) will gave a short five-minute talk on their research. The remaining 30 minutes will be dedicated to discussion. The audience for each session will be prompted to watch the full, pre-uploaded presentations before the session occurs. Both the prerecorded presentations and a recording of the one-hour session will be available to attendees throughout the meeting.

Poster Format:

Posters will be included in the virtual poster gallery which will feature engagement opportunities like chat and virtual appointments. Posters will be browsable and viewable for the entirely of the meeting with designated posters sessions on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The posters and a recording of the one-hour session will be available to attendees throughout the meeting.

Workshops, meetings and other cool stuff:

The meeting will feature virtual workshops, meetings and town halls and will also will include time to socialize virtually.  These activities include yoga, running challenge, coffee breaks, and other cool stuff! Be sure to add your event, meeting or fun idea to the program!

Virtual Gathering for ASLO ASM Mentees and Mentors

Tuesday, 6/22/2021, 15:00-16:30 (GMT Daylight Time), Room 7

Organizer: Cynthia Hagley (chagley@d.umn.edu)

Are you signed up for the Meeting Mentor program as a mentee or mentor? Bring a time-zone appropriate beverage and join us to meet and connect with other mentees and mentors. This informal gathering will help you attach faces to names; get to know fellow students, early career scientists, or mentors; and receive guidance on navigating the meeting. Break out "rooms" will be available for deeper discussions if desired.

Interactive Mentoring Workshop - Tips and Tricks to Help You Thrive as an Early Career Researcher (ECR)

Tuesday, 6/22/2021, 13:00-14:30 (GMT Daylight Time), Room 5

Organizer: Mina Bizic (mbizic@igb-berlin.de)

“Mentoring is the light that shines on the path to success.”

As a researcher in your early career, you face a lot of situations that are new or difficult to handle. In parallel to the ASLO`s meeting-mentoring program, this workshop aims to address important umbrella aspects hovering above the research activity of early-career scientists. These topics should be a routine part of a mentor - mentee tandem. Whether you are lucky or not to have a mentor, someone you trust and can approach any time for support and advice, joining this workshop will give you the opportunity to hear advice, perhaps alternative, on a topic of your interest, from another leading, experienced researcher.

In this 90-minute workshop, after a short 15-minute introduction on the concepts and roles of mentors and mentees, we will split up into 45-minute breakout rooms where, in small groups, experienced mentors will discuss and answer questions on the following topics:

• Proposal writing
• Fostering EDI (equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging) environments
• Networking (tricks and tips on how to make and keep contacts in the scientific community)
• How to keep open communication with group members/colleagues
• Mistakes to avoid when starting a position in a new working group
• Conflict resolution/management
• Mental health in the stressful scientific surroundings
• Resource navigation/management
• Pandemic-driven adaptations towards a virtual world
• How to avoid the spam folder when contacting a PI for the first time
• Professional challenges (when the rules of the game suddenly change, i.e. Covid)
• How to prepare for parental leave and minimize the forming gap
• Reviewer and editorial activities
• Other: Please specify in one sentence during registration your additional interests

The workshop will conclude with the main highlight from each discussion group so we all can benefit from the topics we could not attend.

If you are an ECR, and would like to take part in our Interactive Mentoring Workshop, please REGISTER HERE (ECR Form)

If you are an established group leader and would like to join our Interactive Mentoring Workshop as a MENTOR to contribute to 45-minute lively discussions in small groups, please REGISTER HERE (MENTOR Form)

In case of any trouble with the registration, please contact Mina Bizic (mbizic@igb-berlin.de)

The registration will close on Sunday, June 6^th, 2021 at 11:59pm (GMT/UTC, Palma, Spain)

The EC Committee is looking forward to seeing many of you participating in our Interactive Mentoring Workshop - Tips and Tricks to Help You Thrive as an Early Career Researcher (ECR) and contributing to lively discussions in the breakout rooms.