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Sara Miñarro
Report of GLOMAR PhD student Sara Miñarro about her participation in the IMBER Open Science Conference, Bergen, Norway, 22 - 27 June 2014
I attended the Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research Open Science Conference (IMBER OSC) from June 22nd to 27th. Under the overarching topic “Future Oceans”, it gathered around 500 participants contributing 320 oral presentations and 140 posters. The conference’s outlook of integrating different disciplines to account for the global change effects on marine ecosystems fitted very well with my doctoral research and gave me the chance to meet many high profile scientists working in mine or related research fields. And all of this was accompanied by the lovely summer atmosphere of the city of Bergen.
In general, the conference days would start with two plenary talks with a synthesis of the speaker’s long-term research and the insights obtained from it, followed by the parallel sessions. I was impressed by the excellent scientific quality of the talks, and it was at times hard to choose between the eight simultaneous sessions. One of the morning sessions was dedicated to topic-focused open discussions on future research directions, in which senior scientists and young researchers shared and exchanged views on the current strengths and weaknesses in their disciplines.
My own talk in the “End-to-end modeling for research and management” session went very well. As a result of a late withdrawal, I was asked to give an oral presentation instead of a poster as initially planned. This allowed me to take an active part in the discussion, and I received encouraging comments and suggestions. Furthermore, my session was right on my topic and I had the chance to ask about research directions and technical issues for which I have no in-house experts to consult.
The day before the conference, I attended one of the parallel workshops on scientific peer review and publishing for young scientists, organized by Elsevier and Dr Eileen Hofmann, director in chief of the Journal of Marine Systems. It was a great opportunity to receive first hand advice on what to do and what not to from an experienced editor, professor, and modeler of marine ecosystems. Besides, the workshop turned out being the perfect setting for meeting other young researchers, with whom I had interesting discussions and hope to collaborate in future projects.
Perhaps the most positive experience for me was the mentoring program put in motion by the conference organization. The initiative consisted on pairing a senior scientist with a PhD student from similar fields, and I was lucky to have Dr Ingrid van Putten as my mentor. Dr van Putten is a human-behavior modeler at CSIRO’s facilities in Hobart, Australia, and the place I was hoping to go for my research stay. From our interaction I received extensive advice, met many scientists in my research field and established the first plan for the specific work during my visiting their institute.
In sum, the IMBER OSC was the best networking setting I have had so far in my PhD, and I would like to thank GLOMAR and IMBER for their financial support making it possible for me to attend it.
In general, the conference days would start with two plenary talks with a synthesis of the speaker’s long-term research and the insights obtained from it, followed by the parallel sessions. I was impressed by the excellent scientific quality of the talks, and it was at times hard to choose between the eight simultaneous sessions. One of the morning sessions was dedicated to topic-focused open discussions on future research directions, in which senior scientists and young researchers shared and exchanged views on the current strengths and weaknesses in their disciplines.
My own talk in the “End-to-end modeling for research and management” session went very well. As a result of a late withdrawal, I was asked to give an oral presentation instead of a poster as initially planned. This allowed me to take an active part in the discussion, and I received encouraging comments and suggestions. Furthermore, my session was right on my topic and I had the chance to ask about research directions and technical issues for which I have no in-house experts to consult.
The day before the conference, I attended one of the parallel workshops on scientific peer review and publishing for young scientists, organized by Elsevier and Dr Eileen Hofmann, director in chief of the Journal of Marine Systems. It was a great opportunity to receive first hand advice on what to do and what not to from an experienced editor, professor, and modeler of marine ecosystems. Besides, the workshop turned out being the perfect setting for meeting other young researchers, with whom I had interesting discussions and hope to collaborate in future projects.
Perhaps the most positive experience for me was the mentoring program put in motion by the conference organization. The initiative consisted on pairing a senior scientist with a PhD student from similar fields, and I was lucky to have Dr Ingrid van Putten as my mentor. Dr van Putten is a human-behavior modeler at CSIRO’s facilities in Hobart, Australia, and the place I was hoping to go for my research stay. From our interaction I received extensive advice, met many scientists in my research field and established the first plan for the specific work during my visiting their institute.
In sum, the IMBER OSC was the best networking setting I have had so far in my PhD, and I would like to thank GLOMAR and IMBER for their financial support making it possible for me to attend it.
