Biodiversity 2012 flyers

[Amit Kurien]

Hi people,

Here are the flyers (plus the YETI logo).

Amit

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dheeksha Rabindra <dheeksha...@atree.org>
Date: Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: Biodiversity 2012 flyer
To: Amit Kurien <amit....@atree.org>


Hey Amit,

Find the the docs attached. 

Cheers

Dheeksha

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Amit Kurien <amit....@atree.org> wrote:

Hi Dheeksha,

Do send me a copy of the flyer. I would like to email it to the others involved with YETI.

Amit



--
Amit John Kurien
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
PhD candidate

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)

Royal Enclave
Srirampura, Jakkur Post
Bangalore - 560064
Tel: Office: +91-(80)-2363-5555;   www.atree.org
Skype id: amitkurien
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

[V.V. Robin]

:) quite cool that yeti is alongside these bigwigs :)

V. V. Robin
Website: www.skyisland.in

<bioasia4.pdf><biosaia3.pdf>

[Amit Kurien]

Hi people,

There might be an LOCs (local organising commitee) meeting at ATREE on 21st June where a few from Delhi and other here at Bangalore will be present to discuss things. Gladwin told me that he will let me know the exact date.

I guess the question for us now is - what can YETI do? Given that no info on the schedule is still in place, we could suggest some ideas to them at the meeting if a few sets of ideas are thrown in and hashed out ahead of time. Since most of you know the regular stuff that these conferences host, some different should be appreciated, I think.

Will get back as and when I get more info. Throw in some ideas in the meantime.

Amit

[M O Anand]

Agree with Robin. Looks cool!

--
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Research Scholar

National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
http://www.ncbs.res.in/
AND
Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore
http://conservation.in/
-----------------------------------------------------------------

[Chandrima Home]

ha ha nice one Joy.....The flyers look good...but is the theme going to be about the Himalayas??? Any clue since both the flyers has pictures depicting them :)

---

From: "Joyshree Chanam" <j...@ces.iisc.ernet.in>
To: yeti-m...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 8:28:28 PM
Subject: Re: Biodiversity 2012 flyers

the non-abominable snowman made a giant leap!!:)

> --
> This message has been scanned for viruses and
> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> believed to be clean.
>
>


--
Joyshree Chanam
Ph.D student
Centre for Ecological Sciences
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore - 560012
Karnataka, India
http://ces.iisc.ernet.in


--
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.

[Joyshree Chanam]

the non-abominable snowman made a giant leap!!:)

> Agree with Robin. Looks cool!

[Hari Sridhar]

Here are my suggestions:
1. Organise a separate student symposium like they did at the canopy
conference in Bangalore (http://www.canopy2009.org/html/cscape.html)
However, we should discuss if it is a good idea to separate the students
from the rest.

2. Organize a mentorship programme
(http://www.atbc-scbafrica2011.org/grants-awards/mentorship-programs/) -
something we wanted to do at YETI but didnt.

3. Facilitate the formation of small focused discussion groups during the
conference.

4. Organize not-so-serious activities like at YETI - study area map,
graffiti board etc.

> --
> This message has been scanned for viruses and
> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> believed to be clean.
>
>

--
Hari Sridhar

[anagh purandare]

i liked the idea no 2 and it might add to the experience of participants and help YETI as well about the feasibility of the event.

and along with the mentorship we could convert it into the small group discussions along with the mentor. in fact mentor meeting itself could be turned into small discussion group.

i am not sure how others will react to the idea of not so serious work but i think we could concentrate on hari's ideas no 2 and 3 and if there still work force and enthusiasm for idea no 4.

anagh

--
Anagh


-----
Scientist must also be like a child. If he sees a thing he must say that he sees it; whether it was he expecting to see or not, otherwise he will only see what he is expecting.---Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[V.V. Robin]

Someone should add the volunteers from this YETI (emails on wiki) on this google group, otherwise its funny! Alternatively...take this to the wiki. On a new page for discussion. That way all comments in one place and no series of emails.

Agree with Anagh abt 2&3. 1&2 would be a mini-yeti or too much like yeti....unless thats what we want

V. V. Robin
Website: www.skyisland.in

Tel: +1(919) 444-2297

[Amit Kurien]

Not been thinking hard enough, but few points below....

On 15 June 2011 13:10, Hari Sridhar <ha...@ces.iisc.ernet.in> wrote:

Here are my suggestions:
1. Organise a separate student symposium like they did at the canopy
conference in Bangalore (http://www.canopy2009.org/html/cscape.html)
However, we should discuss if it is a good idea to separate the students
from the rest.

These guys are planning one anyways, unless we want to suggest otherwise.
Not sure if this is possible - but do we want to try an 'Asking a good question' by an international ecologist?

2. Organize a mentorship programme
(http://www.atbc-scbafrica2011.org/grants-awards/mentorship-programs/) -
something we wanted to do at YETI but didnt.

- Nice, appropriate! But the ATBC is trying this one too, I believe. Does anyone know how they are doing it? We could try it differently.
- Get a few gutsy Mentors to present cases of 'failure' (or an important non-academic lesson, but important for conservation) in their own professional lives, and lessons learnt for research & policy. Why don't journals appreciate sections of this kind? We could help raise questions. Hari is the best person to talk about it. RG at CES apparently had some things to say about it, right Hari?

3. Facilitate the formation of small focused discussion groups during the
conference.

4. Organize not-so-serious activities like at YETI - study area map,
graffiti board etc.

will try and see if I can chip better.

[Rutuja ChitraTarak]

One more comment below...

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Amit Kurien <amitk...@gmail.com> wrote:

Not been thinking hard enough, but few points below....

On 15 June 2011 13:10, Hari Sridhar <ha...@ces.iisc.ernet.in> wrote:

Here are my suggestions:
1. Organise a separate student symposium like they did at the canopy
conference in Bangalore (http://www.canopy2009.org/html/cscape.html)
However, we should discuss if it is a good idea to separate the students
from the rest.

These guys are planning one anyways, unless we want to suggest otherwise.
Not sure if this is possible - but do we want to try an 'Asking a good question' by an international ecologist?

2. Organize a mentorship programme
(http://www.atbc-scbafrica2011.org/grants-awards/mentorship-programs/) -
something we wanted to do at YETI but didnt.

- Nice, appropriate! But the ATBC is trying this one too, I believe. Does anyone know how they are doing it? We could try it differently.
- Get a few gutsy Mentors to present cases of 'failure' (or an important non-academic lesson, but important for conservation) in their own professional lives, and lessons learnt for research & policy. Why don't journals appreciate sections of this kind? We could help raise questions. Hari is the best person to talk about it. RG at CES apparently had some things to say about it, right Hari?

Nice ideas. Perhaps mentors could also talk about 'How to train yourself in research when you don't have a mentor?' No idea how will they go about it :) , but seems kinda useful to many, when opportunities of getting into a 'good' research training institute are limited.

[Amit Kurien]

Hi,

The meeting with the other LOC members is on 22nd, Wednesday. If there are a few who are free in the evening do come for it.

Amit

P.S. - a YETI wiki page has been initiated along with the yetigau wiki for the SCB Asia 2012 updates. However, since meetings are going to be attended by folks at Bangalore, the alerts can be over email.

[Hari Sridhar]

Given that one of YETI's main motivations is to reach out ecology
expertise and resources to people who dont have access to it I was
wondering whether we should focus on this at SCB as well. Maybe we should
think of ways in which to reach SCB to people who are not going to be
present at the venue - videos/audio/transcripts of plenaries, interview
prominent ecologists who attend, get them to write up short pieces for
YETI etc. Maybe we can think of other ways of reaching this out to the
YETI network of students? I think this is a good way of highlighting the
YETI "brand". Other regular activities of the conference we can anyway
help in as individuals. Whatsay?

[Madhura Niphadkar]

I completely agree with Hari, what a great idea! Especially since they will be able to give free or discounted entry into the conference for only a limited no of students, it may be useful to have something like that set up.

Madhura

-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-
Madhura Niphadkar
Sr Research Associate
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)
Bangalore, India
Phone: +91-80-23635555 Ext. 309
Site: www.atree.org

[M O Anand]

What an idea sir-jee!

[Joyshree Chanam]

i third madhura and MO...my sentiments exactly:)

> What an idea sir-jee!
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Madhura Niphadkar <
> madhura....@atree.org> wrote:
>

>> **

>> Karnataka, Indiahttp://ces.iisc.ernet.in

>>
>> --
>> This message has been scanned for viruses and
>> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
>> believed to be clean.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Anagh
>>
>>
>> -----
>> Scientist must also be like a child. If he sees a thing he must say that
>> he sees it; whether it was he expecting to see or not, otherwise he will
>> only see what he is expecting.---Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>>
>>
>> --
>> This message has been scanned for viruses and
>> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
>> believed to be clean.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Research Scholar
>
> National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
> http://www.ncbs.res.in/
> AND
> Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore
> http://conservation.in/
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>

> --
> This message has been scanned for viruses and
> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> believed to be clean.
>
>

--
Joyshree Chanam

[Rutuja ChitraTarak]

Fourth!

[Vidyadhar Atkore]

Dear all,

Sorry I could not follow it up with you guys because am still in the field. As Hari said, we should try reaching out students either formally or informally..

Hari and people who have not visited ATREE:--, I think this is proper invitation for you guys to visit ATREE and have lunch, isnt it? :-)

Regards
Vidya

--
Vidyadhar Atkore

PhD candidate

ATREE, Bangalore

Tel No (Off): 080-23635555 Extn. No: 301
Mob No: 08971902816 & 09482879713
www.atree.org
http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/kslab/vidya.htm

http://wildfishes.blogspot.com/2010_10_01_archive.html

[Amit Kurien]

Hi,

Hari and I met with the LOC members yesterday (22nd June). They are at the starting stage of identifying international committee members and so on. Two points that were substantive for YETI emerged:

1) We expressed YETI's interest for making SCB Asia 2012 a more public appeal (about which Hari wrote earlier), and the idea was received well (lot of heads nodding!)
2) Suhel was keen on the idea that the event ought to have something new to showcase.

The minutes of the meeting will be circulated when we get it from the SCB secretariat.

Amit