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PhD Candidate Samantha Oester was featured in Women in Higher Education Journal

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PhD candidate Samantha Oester was featured in Women in Higher Education, Vol. 25, Issue 9 in September 2016.

The article talks about the IMCC Code of Conduct (CoC) for attendees.  As chair of the IMCC for 2016, Oester was able to make change by implementing a CoC. A few other science conferences have codes, but they tend to rely on an honor system for what is appropriate or inappropriate behavior.

Read more in the full article (link below):

Baker, K. J. (2016), Int’l Marine Conservation Congress Creates Code for Safety. Women in Higher Education, 25: 1–2. doi:10.1002/whe.20346 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/whe.20346/full

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