Schedule
Assemble: 7:00PM, Friday, 17 November, 2017, pizza place in Spruce Pine
Main day: Saturday
Leave by 9:30AM on Tuesday
Participants
Art Bogan
Cindy Bogan
Peter Burn
Nancy Lowe
Albert Meier
John Pickering
Becka Walcott
Brian Wiegmann
Agenda
Very long-term plans:
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Polistes Foundation
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Our goals
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Governance
Board of directors
Bylaws
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Discover Life
Servers
Technology
Names
Data
IDnature guides, identification tools
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Endowment
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Meetings -- coordination and products
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Save All Species
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Our role and goals -- as thinkers, doers,...
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Large Ecological Studies of Species (LESS)
Texas Biological Survey, other places (NC, AL,...Africa)
Advancing theory -- with community assemblages (plants, moths, bees, ants,...)
Global mapping and analysis -- satellites
Identification tools -- more alpha taxonomy of key groups; facilitate use of known species
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Moth project
LTREB -- threats to insects and their predators -- pesticides, land use,...
Pupa bank
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Focal groups: Bees, Moths, Ants, Plants, ... even aquatic!
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Data quality: Evidence not hearsay, camera traps, sound recordings, photographs, specimens, DNA
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Transform Education and Mastermind Solutions (TEAMS)
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Moth Math
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Texas -- Formal education versus informal
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Delaware, elsewhere