The International Biogeography Society seeks proposals for workshops for the 2024 Biennial Conference, 7-11 January, 2024 in Prague, Czech Republic. Workshops are an exciting part of our meeting as they offer in-depth opportunities to learn about topics of biogeography while encouraging smaller group interactions and networking. Workshops can be either full or half-day in length and are aimed to offer conference attendees opportunities to expand their knowledge in specific applications, topics, or opportunities for making connections.
Workshops are scheduled to be held on January 7, 2024 (Day 1) of the conference.
Workshops can be proposed for any topic, including those held in the past or new topics. Some past workshops are listed below (but can be on any topics):
- Spatial Analysis in Macroecology/Phylogenetic Analysis in Macroecology
- BioGeoBEARS
- Communicating Biogeography
- Popular Science Writing
- Visualizing Evolution in Time and Space
- Biogeography of Stress
- Biodiversity Informatics
- Bayesian Statistical Analysis
- Integrating and cleaning biodiversity data
- Intro to Network Analysis
- Analyzing paleoecological data
- Neotoma database
- Teaching biogeography
- Writing skills
- Stable Isotope Analysis
- Introduction to Julia Programming
Workshop proposals should include the following information:
- Name, institution, and email of organizer(s). Please delegate a single organizer as the point of contact
- Title of workshop
- Workshop outline (< 600 words) including
- depth of knowledge needed by attendees/target audience
- level of detail of workshop
- Maximum number of people in workshop (if it needs capping)
- room/power requirements
The International Biogeography Society will provide the following financial support for workshop organizers chosen:
- $500 (USD) per half-day workshop
- $1000 (USD) per full day workshop
NOTE – above amounts are for the entire workshop, not per organizer, and assume that workshops have a minimum of 25 attendees
We welcome all interests/suggestions, however please note that as with the symposia, only a few workshops will be able to be chosen out of an unknown number of submissions. In the past, we have held approximately 4 to 6 workshops.
Submission and questions?
Please send proposals for workshops by email to Tereza Jezkova, TIBS VP for Conferences, jezkovt@nullmiamioh.edu by 15th January 2023. We expect the workshop organizing committee will have a decision by 1st February 2023.
