{"636400":{"#nid":"636400","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"COVID-19 Is Pushing Scientific Conferences Online. Maybe That\u0027s Where They Belong","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Virtual participation in scientific meetings has great potential to increase access, reduce carbon footprints and diversify meeting attendance to the benefit of all participants \u0026mdash; and to take attendees beyond conventional meeting spaces, into laboratories or remote field sites,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/about\/meet-susan-lozier\u0022\u003ESusan Lozier\u003C\/a\u003E ... \u0026quot;You\u0026#39;re talking about a conference that\u0026#39;s responsible for thousands and thousands of tons of carbon in five days. It\u0026#39;s something that we\u0026#39;re going to have to come to grips with,\u0026quot; says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/cobb-dr-kim\u0022\u003EKim Cobb\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35185","created_gmt":"2020-06-22 18:49:24","changed_gmt":"2020-06-23 01:25:52","author":"kpietkiewicz3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Henry Owen","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/science\/1966164\/covid-19-is-pushing-scientific-conferences-online-maybe-thats-where-they-belong","dateline":{"date":"2020-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}