Meeting Planning and Operations

AIBS has considerable experience with meeting planning and operations. In addition to managing multi-panel peer review meetings, we support all aspects of large meetings for many other purposes. We have supported meetings with attendance of up to 4,000. Some examples of meetings we have supported are below:

• Meeting of the XVI International Botanical Congress
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshops
• American Society of Plant Taxonomists Annual Meeting
• Association for Tropical Biology Annual Meeting
• Association Systematics Collections Annual Meeting
• Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting
• Canadian Botanical Association Annual Meeting
• Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
• International Society of Ecological Modeling Annual Meeting
• Torrey Botanical Society Annual Meeting
• Mycological Society of America Annual Meeting
• Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting
• Physical Oceanography Dissertation Symposium
• Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Annual Meeting
• American Bryological and Lichenological Society Annual Meeting
• American Fern Society Annual Meeting
• Dissertation Symposia on Chemical Oceanography
• AIBS Annual Meetings

Dissertations in Chemical Oceanography (DISCO)-1976 to Present
Physical Oceanography Dissertations Symposium (PODS)-2002 to Present

For over 20 years, AIBS SPARS has coordinated the 'Dissertations in Chemical Oceanography' conferences for the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. Most recently, this annual meeting was held in Hawaii. AIBS SPARS makes all lodging and meeting facility arrangements, develops and distributes meeting materials from invitation to abstract compilation, provides onsite meeting support, and designs Web-based meeting support operations.

More recently, AIBS SPARS has begun coordinating the Physical Oceanography Dissertations Symposium (PODS), now held in conjunction with the DISCO meeting. AIBS SPARS organizes this meeting from start to finish, providing all services to ensure a productive, cost-effective, successful meeting.