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re: Welcome to the Research Blog

Rick Curtis — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:39:20 GMT

Paul Van Horn gave us permission to reprint your research work here - www.outdoored.com/.../Article.aspx and we've created a new Leave No Trace & Sustainability Forum to diiscussion environmental sustainability issues. www.outdoored.com/.../39.aspx

re: Welcome to the Research Blog

little_beaver66 — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:54:05 GMT

check it out....sustainable model ASAP

as sustainable as possible. great job

its under features

re: Conferences

Jay Roberts — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:19:58 GMT

Brent:

Great post. The winds of change are in the air. I posted on this a couple of weeks ago (see Can't We All Just Get Along?). I spent a good deal of time working the crowds at both AORE and AEE and found considerable agreement on the value of merging. However, I also found some resistance (not entirely illogical mind you) from both associations leadership. There will have to be real work to integrate these two cultures. But the benefits far outweigh the challenges.

One possible place to start: a megaconference in 2010. This should be far enough out that we can get everyone on board. We get AEE AORE, Risk Managers, and possibly ACCT and WEA to all agree to hold a conference in the same location with an executive committee tasked with figuring out the logistics and financials. My guess? Once everyone sees how great it is to have everyone under one roof (including vendors), I bet you we never go back.

We are member driven associations, if members want this, we need to push for it. United in 2010!

re: Blog, Blogger, Blogging

Traveler — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:52:23 GMT

Great observations Brent. I did a similar exercise once I arrived at Colby College and it was revealing. I actually have broken each day of our 4-day orientation program into 6 hour segments. This is then linked with accurate mapping based on the 6-hour timeframe and the appropriate SAR resources in each of my 53 locations.

This approach allowed me to delineate some additional data including vehicles issues, mapping issues, reservation issues, and some interesting items like requests by students to come home, etc. What few issues have arisen have been in the beginning (0-18 hours) and then again in the last 12 hours for some of the same reasons you have mentioned.

Jonathan