Minutes 10-01-04

1. Get your Charles Darwin Annual Reports 2003
--read through, take ideas to put on site
--use as model for research, site

2. Evaluate Yourself!
--Halfway to midterm-- what grade are you getting thus far?

3. REORGANIZATION!!
--is it necessary?
--where do we want to go from here?

4. Islands + People

a. Wolf/Darwin
--diving>island (research)
--pontoons, boats
--offshore

b. PInta
--dormant (?) volcano
--no diving interest
--scientists

c. MArchena
--active volcano
--restricted (prohibited)
--safety
--some diving
--scientists? maybe

d. Tower
--existing sites
--terrestrial + diving
--need info on specs for existing sites


5. Ecuador
--polit (already)
--economics --> laws
   -galapagos
   -legislature
   -adv/disadv
--transportation

6. Additional research
---invasive species (monitor these)
--volcanology-- what interests scientists?
--info on colcanos in Galapagos
    -- market for volcanic materials
--Threatened species
--further introduced species