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                        by Garrett P. Marino                                             Las Tortugas Team 1      

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Las Tortugas – Team 1 – Coordination Meeting 10/27/04
  • Discussion of team web site and interests for the final team plan pages
    • Finalized groups will be formed during Friday's team meeting
  • Anna's talk on her D.C. trip this past Monday. 
    • met with Ecuadorian Commercial/Agricultural individual, director of Charles Darwin Foundation, director of World Wildlife Foundation, and others
    • There are some unpublished data and plans that have not been released to the public, including an energy diapgram for the Galapagos.
    • Garrett will meet with Anna on Sunday evening to discuss questions to ask people on her five-day trip to Ecuador starting November 3. 

Las Tortugas – Team 1 – Coordination Meeting 10/20/04
  • Monitoring research presented in team
    • Garrett created bird and fish tables, volcanic sensors
    • Individual research should be posted on the team site and individual sites
  • Galapagos Monitoring Project, Jan. 1999 to June 2002
  • Unanswered question:  What were the results and conclusions of this project?  It seems that the information is confined to a small group of individuals who are reluctant to release it.  Also, what current sensor systems are in place on the islands?   Back to Top

Las Tortugas – Team 1 – Coordination Meeting 10/13/04
  • Biopreserve/task 1 research-centered week
  • Marty is looking at the Antarctic Treaty / Greenland and spoke about that
    • research on his personal page
  • Illegal fishing is a significany problem around our islands
    • Japanese
    • sea cucumbers are very profitable
    • fisherman that used to make a few hundred dollars per month can now make that in less than a day
  • International feasibility must be investigated further
    • It has potential, but must be approahced in a careful manner.
  • Nature Reserves: Special Places for People and Nature explains the nature reserve concept and how it was developed in the late 1960s
    • the first nature reserve was founded in the mid-1970s
    • the Galapagos became one in the mid-1980s
    • There are currently four hundred reserves throughout the world.
  • Next time:  summary of current biopreserve research   Back to Top

Las Tortugas – Team 1 – Coordination Meeting 10/6/04
  • Team Presentations
    • Approximately 3 minutes per team
    • Plan concise presentation for next time (in about two weeks)
  • More Marine Research Focus
    • Suggested by Garrett in response to I-Max film
    • Bryan mentioned friend in Ocean Engineering department
    • Mr. Gurnitz lent us Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations
    • Matthew offered to find ocean topographical map
  • General Suggestions
    • More focus on background – entire plan will come together after 10/30
    • Avoid hesitancey to contact experts in various fields
    • Don't limit yourself – follow anything that seems interesting
  • Next Meeting
    • Set goals for next week (no class Monday)
    • Discuss outside meetings for the long weekend   Back to Top

Las Tortugas – Team 1 – Coordination Meeting 09/29/04
  • Prototype of team page up, due by Oct. 1
  • Start putting research on the site
  • Update minutes once they are available on the internet
  • Make sure that we follow our team definition of an A for the web site - that it should be easy to follow and user friendly, among other qualities
  • Continue research in sub-areas for another week or two   Back to Top

Las Tortugas - Team 1 - Coordination Meeting 09/22/2004

Web sites
  • Put individual sites up!
  • Team site - has a few problems, but is getting fixed
Completed Research
  • Helene
    • Islands are basically uninhabited
    • Lots of cliffs; birds; eroded volcanoes
    • 3 main islands, 2 “rocks”
Genetic engineering
  • Should we set moral guidelines? Is it morally right/wrong?
  • Possibilities of cloning animals/rebuild extinct or endangered species
  • Investigate cloning laws in Ecuador (if any exist)
  • Should we genetically engineer the species?
  • Should we set an ethical treatment of animals guideline?
Dividing our team
  • Legal Aspects
    • Martin
    • John
    • Bryan
  • Biological Aspects
    • Helene - tourism
    • Matt - climatology
    • Jessica - marine life
    • Garrett - geology
    • Daphne - sensors
Division in other teams
  • Team 2
    • Ecosystem
    • Threat to ecosystem
    • What has already been done to help protect the ecosystem
  • Team 3
    • Cement strategies and laws (Justin)
    • Pollution (Eric, Shu)
    • Ecosystem - terrestrial/aquatic (Mark, Gann, Manisha)
    • Attractions (Bee)
    • Collection of resources
    • Interaction with other islands (Libby)
  • Team 4
    • Geography
    • Tourism - effects/attractions
    • Sensors
    • Plants/Animals
  • Team 5
    • Fishing
    • Native species
    • Native populations and interactions with tourism
    • Policy
    • Reserves
      • what has already been done
Reference
Mission 2007 personal web site page: http://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2007/teams/
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Las Tortugas – Team 1 – Coordination Meeting 09/15/04
  • Definition of an A formulation
  • We were told that the purpose of these coordination meetings are to see how other groups in our section
    • are doing things or what they have thought of and compare notes.


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