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

Martin0074423这次研讨会将是生物调查和清点计划的第一次“全体”会议，将包括目前由该计划支持的所有主要研究人员。它将致力于审查由该计划特别资助的项目的成功和失败，以及科学界试图诱导和传播有关世界生物群的一般信息。虽然BS&Amp；I计划已经存在了大约10年，但从来没有举行过一次社区范围的会议，以解决普遍存在的共同关切、兴趣、方法或此类调查的未来。将讨论的主题包括：BS&Amp；I项目和计划本身的过去、现在和未来；大型长期项目的问题；电子数据收集和传播的未来；资助和与其他联邦机构、非政府组织和其他机构合作的未来；基于现场的生物多样性观测站的问题；利用生物调查记录生物多样性的产生和维持，以及其他主题。

Martin0074423This 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.