American Geological Institute

Government Affairs Program

• Directions to AGI
• Preliminary Meeting Agenda
• Minutes from 9/98 Committee Meeting
• Report from 10/98 Committee Information Session
• AGI/AIPG/AAPG Summer and Semester Internships Flyer
• AGI Congressional Science Fellowship Flyer
• Update on President's Fiscal Year 2000 Budget Request
• AGI Climate Change Statement
• Congressional Natural Hazards Caucus Proposal
• Lobbying: Memo and Geotimes "Political Scene" Column

8 a.m.

Continental breakfast

Where We Have Been and Current Concerns

8:30 am	Introductions and Preliminary Business	Murray Hitzman, Committee Chair
	Approval of Reports from 9/98 and 10/98 meetings Review of GAP finances
9:00 am	Update on Recent GAP Activities	GAP Staff
	Congressional Visits Day Summer and Semester Internships Congressional Fellowship Selection Geotimes Special Issue Appropriations and Other Legislation to Watch
9:45 am	Update on AGI Geoscience Data Preservation Efforts	Marcus Milling
10:00 am	Update on Earth Science Week and AGI Outreach Plans	Julie Jackson
10:15 am	Reports from Member Societies
	Priority Issues Shared Concerns and Ideas Mobilizing Society Memberships
11:45 am	Discussion of Geoscience Advocacy -- What We Can Do
12:15 pm	Working Lunch at AGI

Where We Are Going

1:00 pm	Presentation by AGI Congressional Science Fellow David Wunsch
1:30 pm	AGI Climate Change Statement -- What Next?
	Additional member society sponsorship Geotimes and Environmental Awareness Series Consensus conference
3:15 pm	Developments with Congressional Natural Hazards Caucus
3:45 pm	Discussion of Upcoming AGI Activities/ Set Next Meeting
	CNSF Congressional Exhibition
4:00 pm	Adjourn

Contributed by David Applegate, AGI Government Affairs.
Posted April 16, 1999

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