Discover Life in America
Agenda of July 24th meeting
July 24, 1998
Welcome and Update - John Pickering, Chairman and Mary Johnson Williams, President
Introduce Kevin Skeeters
Update search for Executive Director
Organizational Structure
Appointments of Committee Chairs
Finalize work descriptions with the suggested calendar
Board composition
Approve by laws
Application for charter, 501-C3
Establish terms for officers and board members for DLIA.
Task list
Train taxonomist
Create new generation that appreciate nature
Help NPS raise awareness of resource and conservation issues
International cooperation
New Discoveries
Bio-prospecting
Develop relationship between technology and minorities/disadvantaged
Raise knowledge Curve
Web page, field guides
Develop Interactive Identification Keys
Model for all, products
Political support, fundraising for parks and park protection
Volunteer Center and Stewardship
Close gap between academic science and public knowledge
Curriculum revision K-16 (technology v. ecology, organism, integrated view)
Natural History Observatory
Center for the Study of Natural Science
Nature Science Center - Mary Wiliams
AIBI Report - John Pickering and Keith Langdon
General Planning Meeting, 14-17 December, 1998
Seeking National Science Foundation Funds and other funds and other funds for December Meeting - Frank Harris, Charles Maynard
Funds for Databasing
Set policy on overhead and rates compensation
Set policy for WFED and other potential professional fundraisers
Web page policies
Editing
Disclaimer statement
Documenting letters
History of our organization
Funding for the National Science Foundation Workshop in December
Computers needed
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