tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161161431451849208.post4213350710332477636..comments2024-03-29T00:13:46.845-07:00Comments on Antediluvian Salad: Going GONZO at SVP 2013 Los AngelesDuane Nashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467779935085970909noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161161431451849208.post-15674076476611225302013-11-05T07:08:07.985-08:002013-11-05T07:08:07.985-08:00Thanks for response unknown @11:44 PM
No I am not...Thanks for response unknown @11:44 PM<br /><br />No I am not a member so I never had a chance to propose symposia. So i went online to make my case and in this way hopefully make as much clatter as I could. But if there is an online survey or review section/email response I will gladly point my comments at the society there as well. The society has not emailed anything to me in these regards as of yet.<br /><br />My point with local flavor was not even to have more posters/presenters on local stuff. As you noted there was the La Brea stuff and a wealth of other stuff on display. What I believe would have been neat would be to have a rep from the department of CA fish and wildlife, or a large animal trainer, someone from the LA/San Diego Zoo, a marine mammal rehab person. Not even to present a paper but to have a booth or some kind of presence for local fauna. I think more crosstalk and input from other disciplines can only be a good thing.<br /><br />And look this is my bias. Part of my goals with this blog is to provide a more seem less transition from the world of paleo (ie dead stuff) into the living realm. <br /><br />And I believe paleo can play a role in conservation/enviro-social work. A bigger role than it currently plays. That the Society does not try to address the scope of this role every year at conferences- if not through abstracts/symposia then perhaps through a panel discussion or other chat session- is where they fall down a bit for me.<br /><br />And I took my concerns to the interwebz to shout as loud as I can from my little hilltop in this corner of web to reach as many people as I can to try and enact change that way.<br /><br />But you are right about the time, effort, and planning involved. I don't want to sound like a negative ninny and I would love to go again as I said several times. But as a scientific conference, and an excellent one at, we should apply the same rigorous criticism that should go into all scientific endeavors.<br /><br />DuaneDuane Nashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14467779935085970909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161161431451849208.post-12369606766471865392013-11-04T23:44:59.839-08:002013-11-04T23:44:59.839-08:00I agree with a lot of this post, but here's a ...I agree with a lot of this post, but here's a thought: if you want to see a symposium at SVP on the current extinction event as it relates to the fossil record, then propose one! If you're an SVP member, you should have gotten an email on September 30th asking for proposals for symposia at the Berlin meeting next year. If this issue is important to you, then work to make it happen.<br /><br />As for local flavor, there was a whole symposium about La Brea and similar asphalt-preserved fossil localities. Could there have been more? Sure--but only if people submitted abstracts on those subjects.<br /><br />And as for the recently found oarfish--they couldn't possibly have been the subject of talks or posters at SVP, given that the abstract submission deadline was in April. Keep in mind that putting together a meeting like this takes a lot of time, both for the researchers who write abstracts, and the committee members who volunteer their time to sort through them all and put together a coherent program. It's a good way to keep current on research, but only where "current" means "things that people had started working on at least 6 months ago".Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07099418442691239669noreply@blogger.com