Behind the scenes

摘要

When Erin Eastwood's adviser suggested in January that their laboratory should organize a symposium, the graduate student had several questions, including a very basic one: what exactly is a symposium? Now Eastwood, who is studying for a master's degree in conservation biology at Columbia University in New York, intimately understands the meaning of the word: along with several others in her lab, she has developed a symposium topic and talks, and has contacted researchers in the field, none of whom she had met before, to speak at the Society for Conservation Biology's Oceania Section meeting in Fiji in July.