Meeting Format

The Caribbean Natural History Conference (CNHC) serves as a forum for researchers, natural resource managers, students, and naturalists. It welcomes presentations on natural history science and conservation (freshwater, marine, and terrestrial organisms and environments) and applied field biology of the Caribbean islands and circum-Caribbean mainland.

The conference will be live over Zoom by way of three non-overlapping thematically-focused sessions each afternoon, thus allowing participants to sign in whenever a session is of interest to them. The timing of each session will be tightly orchestrated, i.e., they will start and end on time, without an option to extend a session. Presenters are asked to be there for the duration of their session.

Session format - Each session will be 1.5 hours long and will start with a 5-minute period for introductions and general discussion, followed by five PowerPoint presentations each lasting 15 minutes, including time for questions, and will end with 5 minutes for closing remarks.

Breaks between sessions - There will be a 30-minute networking break or open discussion break between each session. Proposals for hosted discussions are welcome. By way of an example, "How is funding for natural history research in the Caribbean trending?".

Presentations may be in English, Spanish, or French, with presentation slides in English.