AGI Government Affairs Advisory Committee
Draft Meeting Agenda and Background Information

Saturday, November 23, 2002
American Geological Institute Headquarters
4220 King Street
Alexandria, Virginia

8:30 am Continental Breakfast available

9:00 am Introductions and Preliminary Business (Background: advisory committee roster)

• Approval of Report from 4/02 meeting


• Review of GAP finances

I. Current AGI Government Affairs Program Activities

9:15 am Update from Government Affairs Program Staff

• Staff Presentations


• Coalition Activities (e.g. Coalition for National Science Funding, Science-Engineering-Technology Work Group)


• Member Society Support Activities


• Summer and Semester Internships


• Virtual Geoscience Agency Prototype


• Distribution of E-Mail Updates/Reviews

II. Looking to the 108th Congress

9:30 am Election Impact on Geosciences

• FY 2003 Appropriations
(see AGI web update)

• NSF EarthScope Funding (see Geotimes 4/02 cover story and column, AGI special update on House bill, and EarthScope web site)
  
• Comprehensive Energy Legislation
(see AGI web update)

• Homeland Security
(see Geotimes 11/02 column "Homeland Security, Broadly Defined")

• Other Issues

10:30 am Break

10:45 am USGS Coalition (Geotimes 10/02 column "The Time Has Come for a USGS Coalition")

• Action Item from AGI Member Society Leadership Forum


• Next Steps

11:15 am Congressional Natural Hazards Caucus Update

III. AGI Congressional Science Fellow

11:30 am Presentation by 2002-2003 Fellow Larry Kennedy (draft Geotimes article on new geoscience fellows)

12:00 pm Lunch at AGI

IV. Non-Federal Policy Issues

12:45 pm Education Policy Initiatives

• Challenges to Teaching Evolution (column on Ohio in 9/02 Geotimes; news note on Georgia in 11/02 issue)
  
• Earth Science Graduation Requirements & Curriculum Standards (Geotimes 9/02 article by Ed Roy "Earth Science in Texas: A Progress Report")
  
• AGI Role at the State/Local Level

1:15 pm IUGS Working Group on Public Affairs Update

• ICSU Position Statements


• Future Directions

V. Member Society Collaboration and Input

1:30 pm Reports from Member Societies

• Priority Issues


• Shared Concerns and Ideas


• Mobilizing Society Memberships

2:15 pm AGI Strategic Plan Revision (see 1996 AGI plan and 1998 GAP-specific plan)

• Input to Strategic Plan Update Steering Committee

VI. Wrap Up

3:15 pm Action Items/Plans for Next Meeting

3:30 pm Adjourn

Please send any comments or requests for information to AGI Government Affairs Program at govt@agiweb.org.

Posted November 11, 2002

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