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Track: Social Event
Marcel Caritá Vaz
Latin American Chapter (Vice-chair)
Diogo Borges Provete
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul
This is an event for our chapter members to interact, reconnect, and meet colleagues working and living in Latin America and the Caribbean. The agenda for the mixer will be: a) Discuss and meet the speakers of the Symposium organized by the chapter titled "Navigating A Gender-Biased World: Lessons From The Experiences Of Women In Ecology Across Cultures And Generations"; b) establish collaborations and novel ways to address common goals, emerging challenges, and to develop projects to promote interactions among ecological societies such as the ATBC (with whom we recently had a successful collaborative webinar) and other ecological societies of Latin America and the Caribbean; c) discuss LAC chapter member’s success after participating in the annual meeting (i.e. publications ratio of poster/talks presented during ESA meetings); d) discuss scientific decolonization in ecology with a particular focus on Latin America and the Caribbean; e) announce the best student talk and poster awards in our chapter; f) announce the composition of the new board, and; g) discuss future collaborations, upcoming events, and webinars we have prepared for the chapter