1. Where to meet?
It might be easier to get together at the restaurant right at the conference venue, at the Marriott. According to the hotel website, the restaurant that will be open for breakfast is Stone's Throw. So, let us meet there. (An obligatory bureaucratic footnote that the AAG will not pay for the breakfast.)
2. Our focus will primarily be on developing ideas for the Committee to pursue next year. On that note, or perhaps even separately, we will also discuss a recent report that was published by the National Academy of Sciences. This report is titled Understanding the Changing Planet: Strategic Directions for the Geographical Sciences. The online access is not in the most easy-to-read format, at least for me, but it works. Given that we want to figure out what we could do next year, and beyond, and given the scope of this Committee, this report will be of utmost interest to us.
The few members who won't be able to join us, yes, please provide us with your thoughts/comments through emails. After the meeting, I will compile the ideas and share them with this Committee and we can collectively fine-tune them and appropriately shape an agenda for next year.
See you in
