I’ve been thinking that we really should have some way of keeping a good record of our GEOS talks. It’d also be great if there was a way to share the talks with other students. We have our campus’s Science Center (on the 4th floor) reserved on every-other Thursday, which tends to be a day when there aren’t too many classes, or at least it’s not the day that the departmental Core Required classes meet, but even so a lot of students just can’t make it to the talks.

Between taking classes at the Grad Center or the other CUNY campuses, and teaching at their own campus, students in our program are pretty busy.

Maybe it’s time to start video-recording these talks and post them on YouTube or Vimeo. The Graduate Center apparently has Audio-Visual equipment that can be loaned out to students for the day, so obtaining it probably won’t be a problem. Heck the school might even want to host the video’s itself.

One problem I can see is that researchers might be uncomfortable having their talks recorded and then, effectively, broadcast. It’s not too uncommon for scientists to do this themselves, but we’ll definitely have to give them plenty of heads up before doing that.