Greetings Phyco-philiacs,
As the old adage goes: even a virus can’t keep a good society down. Although we may not be having a physical meeting this year, the excellent folks on the virtual PSA Meeting Committee are pleased to announce a two-day, on-line PSA event for 2020! The meeting will feature some fantastic phycological speakers, including the inaugural, soon-to-be Annual Lang Lecture, the bi-annual Student-Organized Symposium, our inaugural Journal of Phycology Co-editor’s mini-symposium featuring two of our incoming new co-editors, contributed lightning talks, award presentations, break out rooms, and more.
Due to the vagaries of virtual meetings and exigent circumstances, we will not be having full, contributed talks from our members this year, but will be facilitating a limited number of lightning talks (three, action-packed minutes of phycological information). If you are interested in giving a 3-minute lightning talk, please send me (Dale Casamatta, email) a short abstract (<200 words) by July 5 (midnight). Students are especially encouraged to apply! If your abstract is accepted, we will request that you pre-record your talk for logistics purposes, and then will live-stream them at the indicated times (with further details to follow). If we have more talks than time available, we shall make them available on the PSA website.
The meeting will be gratis for all, and we encourage members to let their colleagues, friends, nemeses, and acquaintances know of the events. The meeting time has been selected to permit people from many time zones to participate, so please forward widely! In addition, if you have any meeting ideas or would like to propose a topic for one of the breakout sessions please let one of us know.
We are looking forward to connecting with everyone if only virtually this year.
On behalf of the Virtual 2020 Organizing Committee, we are looking forward to the phycological festivities next month.
With regards,
Amy Carlile Patrick Martone Sabrina Heiser
Eric Linton Dale Casamatta
Tentative Schedule
Day 1 (Wednesday, July 29): 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. (EST)
Welcome
1st Annual Lang Lecture
Coeditors mini-symposium
Lightning talks
Break-out Zoom Session(s)
Day 2 (Thursday, July 30): 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. (EST)
Student-organized Symposium (Whether big or small – impacts of photosynthesizers on aquatic ecosystems)
Presentation of awards
Lightning talks
Break-out Zoom Session(s)