Virtual Growing Pains: Initial Lessons Learned from Organizing Virtual Workshops, Summits, Conferences, and Networking Events during a Global Pandemic
Virtual Growing Pains: Initial Lessons Learned from Organizing Virtual Workshops, Summits, Conferences, and Networking Events during a Global Pandemic
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虚拟成长的烦恼：在全球大流行期间组织虚拟研讨会、峰会、会议和社交活动的初步经验教训
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10.1002/lob.10431
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2021
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Favot, Elizbaeth J.
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Meyer, Michael F.;Ladwig, Robert;Dugan, Hilary A.;Anderson, Alyssa;Bah, Abdou R.;Boehrer, Bertram;Borre, Lisa;Chapina, Rosaura J.;Doyle, Chris;Favot, Elizbaeth J.
对许多人来说，2020年是职业和个人突然变化的一年。对于水产科学界来说，许多人正在适应进行和分享科学的虚拟形式，同时学习生活在一个社会距离遥远的世界中。可以理解的是，水产科学界推迟或取消了大多数面对面的科学会议。尽管如此，许多科学界还是将年度会议转变为虚拟形式，或者开设了新的虚拟会议。幸运的是，视频会议平台、网络和通信应用的使用增加，以及科学研究的普遍舒适度，实际上帮助世界各地的科学家获得了面对面的会议体验。然而，向开展科学研究的过渡实际上揭示了参与的新障碍，而其他障碍则有所降低。从组织会议中吸取的综合经验教训构成了一个必要的知识库，将证明是有用的，因为虚拟会议可能会以某种形式继续下去。为了集中和综合这些经验，我们展示了六个科学学会和社区如何在2020年计划，组织和举办虚拟会议。有了这些综合信息，我们期待着未来，科学会议将包含一个虚拟的组成部分，从而有助于使科学更具包容性和全球性。
For many, 2020 was a year of abrupt professional and personal change. For the aquatic sciences community, many were adapting to virtual formats for conducting and sharing science, while simultaneously learning to live in a socially distanced world. Understandably, the aquatic sciences community postponed or canceled most in‐person scientific meetings. Still, many scientific communities either transitioned annual meetings to a virtual format or inaugurated new virtual meetings. Fortunately, increased use of video conferencing platforms, networking and communication applications, and a general comfort with conducting science virtually helped bring the in‐person meeting experience to scientists worldwide. Yet, the transition to conducting science virtually revealed new barriers to participation whereas others were lowered. The combined lessons learned from organizing a meeting constitute a necessary knowledge base that will prove useful, as virtual conferences are likely to continue in some form. To concentrate and synthesize these experiences, we showcase how six scientific societies and communities planned, organized, and conducted virtual meetings in 2020. With this consolidated information in hand, we look forward to a future, where scientific meetings embrace a virtual component, so to as help make science more inclusive and global.