Wild Trout 9: Program Protocols

Oral Presentations

Guide to Oral Presenters

Anyone accepted to present a paper at Wild Trout IX is required to provide an electronic Powerpoint presentation upon your arrival at the meeting.

Please meet with your moderator at the Welcome Reception on Tuesday night. They will direct you to the Media Center where presentation uploading will occur. All talks should be uploaded 24hrs prior to your scheduled presentation time slot.

Please use the following recommendations to develop your presentation.

ORAL PRESENTATION DESIGN:
- MS Powerpoint for projection by LCD projector, delivered to meeting staff AV technician on CD-R disk when you arrive at the meeting. Should video be required, please meet in advance with AV technicians to confirm hardware and software compatibility.

- Please keep file sizes to a minimum to facilitate running of presentations.

- No ZIP disks or personal laptops.

General Instructions

Presentations are scheduled in 20-minute blocks. Three things must happen during this block: the speaker introduction (1 minute); the talk (15-16 minutes); and the question and answer period (3-4 minutes). The moderator will notify you when your presentation reaches 15 minutes. You will be asked to leave the podium at 20 minutes.

Oral presentations should contain: introduction, objectives, methods, results, conclusions/implications. Objectives should be clearly stated. Avoid unnecessary detail in methods unless the methodology is the central topic of your talk. Primarily discuss the results and conclusions. Conclusions should relate back to objectives.

Presentations must start and end on time, no exceptions in order to keep the meeting running smoothly.

Podium-mounted computers, lighting, and microphones are not always dependable. Be prepared to give your talk without such aids, if necessary.

An excellent article for speakers is “Strategy and checklist of effective scientific talks ” (Ecol. Soc. Am. Bull. 72: 8-12, 1991). See also a recent article (Fisheries 30(5):34-38, 2005 - 5.2 MB PDF) by Michael Fraidenburg on effective use of PowerPoint.