Knowing that we had a fully organised and funded workshop coming up at CMO-BIRS actually allowed us to form a cohesive collaboration from all the participants even before arriving in Oaxaca. The time together in Oaxaca then meant that the workshop itself gave us the opportunity to make a lot of progress on a large project together. The end result will be a series of nine papers co-authored by all of the attendees, to be submitted within a year of the workshop. The fantastic support of Silvia and her team meant that we could really focus on doing that science rather than spending time and effort ensuring that the workshop ran properly.

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