SIL 2007 meeting
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Report by Maren Striebel
The SIL (International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology, Societas Internationalis Limnologiae, SIL) congress 2007 in Montreal, from august 12 to18, turned out to be five days of interesting talks, of seminal plenary lectures, of poster sessions, and of student oriented activities (such as student forums and social events). My talk about “The effect of diversity on light mediated changes in phytoplankton production and stoichiometry” was on Friday, in the Regular Session “Diversity and Stability of Planktonic Foodwebs” with the session organizers Jef Huisman and Roland Psenner.
As this was my first conference talk in English, I had been nervous. Nevertheless, the presentation went quite well and the audience was interested in my talk.
This congress was very interesting and a great experience that gave me the opportunity to present my work and to make contacts with other people.
Report by Florian Haupt
I visited this year the 30th Congress of the “International association of theoretical and applied limnology”. The congress was organized in collaboration with ASLO, the “American society of limnology and oceanography”. It was held in Montreal, themed “Redefining theoretical and applied limnology for the 21st century”.
The congress was attained by about 1500 people from all over the world, covering the whole field of limnology. Nearly 1150 talks and posters were presented in about 75 sessions. Many talks and posters gave me new aspects and ideas for my own work, especially in the sessions about diversity, foodweb interactions and plankton communities.
I also had the chance to present my work about “The influence of daphnia diel vertical migration on the phytoplankton community structure” in a talk. It was my second English talk at such a big conference and I think it went quite well. The questions after the talk showed me, that the audience was impressed about the complexity of our field experiment.
At Wednesday I took part in the “mid-congress excursion”, which was in my case a rafting tour on the Rouge River. It was a big and wet fun, the optimal thing for a limnologist. Besides the rafting, I had the possibility to talk with lots of people from the congress in an easy atmosphere. All in all the congress was a great experience for me. I came in contact with new people in my field of work, renewed old contacts and visited some parts of east Canada
Florian Haupt August 2007
Report by Christoph Jäger
The SIL is the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology (Societas Internationalis Limnologiae). The congress 2007 in Montreal, Canada, was in collaboration with ASLO, the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. It attended about 1500 people, and there was a variety of about 75 different sessions. So the congress covered a wide range of limnology, which is the study of inland waters, from basic ecological up to specific applied aspects.
The congress started with an opening ceremony and a welcome reception an Sunday and lasted until Saturday. Unfortunately my presentation was on the last day of the congress, where a lot of people had already left. But, however, there were still a lot of people listening to my talk, and there were a lot of interesting questions and comments afterwards.
Besides the usual sessions, there was a student forum, called ‘What’s next’, where students had the opportunity to meet with senior scientists and talk about various concerns of a scientific career. I really enjoyed these interesting talks. After that, the evening was finished in one of Montreal’s student bars, the ‘Baloos’.
There was also an excursion on Wednesday, where I went to a rafting tour on Rouge River. Rouge River is a system that drains the Laurentian Mountains and is one of North America’s prime rafting rivers with some nice rapids. The congress, all in all, was a great experience. It gave me the opportunity to present my work, to get in contact or renew the contact to other people, and to see some nice spots of south-east Canada.
Christoph Jäger August 2007
Report by Michael Effenberger
The SIL (International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology) congress, which only takes place every third year, was organized in collaboration with ASLO (American Society of Limnology) in Montreal, Canada from 12th to18th August. Hence, it was attended by about 1500 limnologists from all over the world and for this reason was the biggest conference of limnology in 2007.
Even if the majority of the participants came from a “lake-based” background, there were still some talks and posters (1150 all together) from stream ecologists, which showed me some new ideas, inspired me for further research or pointed out new methods to test.
My own talk was scheduled for Friday morning in a session called “Macroinvertebrates and Benthic Communities in Running Waters”. Because it was my third talk in English at an international congress my nervousness wasn’t as big as the first two times, but still a subject to deal with. Fortunately my talk went quite well, was attended by many people and I also spotted some ‘mahatmas’ of stream ecology. Afterwards I had the opportunity to talk to some of those people and got a lot of feedback regarding our study. Most comments and questions were positive, but I also had to discuss some tricky methodological details.
During the five days of the conference I met several people, which I had known before, but never talk to for some time. Moreover I also made some new contacts and shared some ideas for possible future collaborations.
Overall, the congress was an encouraging experience and a good chance to present and discuss my own work to/with people from the same field of research.
Michael Effenberger September 2007
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