November 5, 2004

        Today we met for the first time we utilized the coordination meeting time as the Las Iguanas section rather than in our individual island groups. During the meeting we discussed how to spend the remaining time we have in order to combine the research and plans of each island group into a comprehensive, coherent plan for the Galapagos Islands. It was decided that we would split into subgroups based on the three different objectives. Fortunately, the number of people in each objective group were roughly equal. I am in Objective group #1; we will be working to create an international biopreserve for the Galapagos Islands.
       In addition to the three objective groups, there will be two other groups comprised of members from each of the three objective groups. These two groups will serve to design the section website and put together the final presentation. The purpose of taking members from each of the three objective groups is to ensure that information from each objective is presented in the website and in the final presentation.
       A timeline of due dates was also set up to ensure steady progress towards our goals. We have decided to have everything for the website complete a week early (on November 22) so that the website group has ample time to create the website. We also decided that we would have completed our designs by November 15. Until then we will continue research and try to reconcile the different plans each island group created in order to make a single comprehensive plan.