SEEK Taxon Meeting 20030130

January 30, 2003 NCSA ACCESS Center Arlington, Virginia

A meeting of the SEEK project classification group PIs will be held in Arlington, Virginia next to the National Science Foundation at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ACCESS Center on Thursday January 30th at 9:00 to 5:00 Eastern Time. Their phone number is: (703) 248-0072. Site URL: http://calder.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ACCESS/

We will have an IP Polycom video teleconference unit in our meeting room and of course network connections. Matt and Bill, if you call us at the center or on my cell phone when you reach your offices we'll give you the IP number to video in then. KU developers will also 'televideo' commute to the meeting from Lawrence.

The agenda will be organized around resolving the specific modeling, design, service, and functional requirements for managing taxonomic classification concepts and nomenclature as part of the SEEK data integration and analysis environment.

Present in person for all or part of the time will be:

• Jesse Kennedy, Napier University, Edinburgh
• Bob Peet, University of North Carolina
• Crispen Wilson, Conservation International
• Jim Beach, University of Kansas
• Dave Vieglais, University of Kansas
• Sylvia Spengler, National Science Foundation

• Matt Jones, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
• Bill Michener, Long Term Ecological Research Network
• Greg Vorontsov, University of Kansas

Full details: http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VEG/homepages/tcoffin/ACCESS/directions.html

What you need to know to take the Washington Metro - EASY!

The ACCESS center is located in the building right at the top of the escalator for the Washington underground Metro Ballston stop on the Orange line. Orange line trains can be caught at the Rossyln station, where they meet the blue line trains. Take the VIENNA orange line train (which is only west) from Rossyln to the Ballston stop. Once you emerge to ground level on the escalator, go directly forward into the office building, and walk about 100 feet toward the back into the lobby, elevators will be on your right through some glass doors, go to the 8th floor, suite 800 and you will be there. Can't miss it.