First All-Hands Workshop for Biotic Surveys and Inventories (To be held May 18-21, 2000 in Orcas Island, Washington)

Los Angeles County Museum Of Natural History Foundation, Los Angeles CA

Investigators

Abstract

Martin 0074423 This workshop will be the first "All-hands" meeting of the Biotic Surveys and Inventories program, and will include all Principal Investigators currently supported by the program. It will be dedicated to examining the successes and failures of projects funded by the program in particular, and of the scientific community's attempts to ducment and disseminate information on the world's biota in general. Although the BS&I program has existed for approximately 10 years, there has never been a community-wide meeting to address shared concerns, interests, methods, or the future of such surveys in general. Topics to be discussed include: the past, present and future of BS&I projects and the program itself; the question of large scale, long-term projects; the future of electronic data gathering and dissemination; the future of funding and partnering with other federal agencies, NGOs, and other agencies; the question of site-based biodiversity observatories; the use of biotic surveys to document the generation and maintenance of biodiversity, and other topics.