ANNUAL MEETING
NEW ORLEANS, LA
PRELIMINARY INFORMATION
FEBRUARY 9 – 12, 2012
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HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS: Hotel Monteleone 214 Royal Street New Orleans, LA 70130-2201 Ph: (504) 523-3341 Fax (504) 681-4491 Rate of $169 single or double will be honored February 7th – 12th, 2012 Cut-off date January 17, 2012
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Airport Shuttle meets every flight coming into Louis Armstrong International Airport. Proceed from baggage claim to the transportation center for shuttle service. Fee is $20 one-way and $38 for round trip – both are per person fares. Arrangements can be made via the Hotel Monteleone website.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8th Evening, exact time TBD
Informal “get-together” at the Carousel Bar located in the hotel for those members who have arrived.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9th 8:00am – 9:00am Hotel Monteleone, Iberville Room
8:00am – 9:00am Business Meeting and Continental Breakfast for Members
9:00am – 10:15am Ford Bell, President of the American Association of Museums, and Bonnie Styles, Commissioner and Chair of the AAM Accreditation Commission, will lead a discussion on the new Accreditation process.
10:15am – 11:00am Todd Boyette, Director of Morehead Planetarium & Science Center, and John Durant, Director of MIT Museum and Founder of Science Festival Alliance, will lead discussion on Science Festivals.
11:00am – Walk to the Insectarium – 3 Blocks
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11:00am INSECTARIUM The Audubon Institute Insectarium, located in the U.S. Custom House on Canal Street, encourages you to use all five senses as you explore North America’s largest museum devoted to insects and their relatives. You’ll discover why insects are the building blocks of all life on our planet and along the way, you’ll be shrunk to bug size; and wander through a mysterious Louisiana swamp. http://www.auduboninstitute.org/visit/insectarium LUNCH ON YOUR OWN |
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1:30pm – 3:30pm AQUARIUM Presentation on the Aquarium, the Audubon, and Katrina challenges by Director Karyn Kearney, Executive Vice President and Manageing Director of the Audubon Nature Institute. Located on the Mississippi River adjacent to the French Quarter Audubon Aquarium of the Americas immerses you in an underwater world. The colors of a Caribbean reef come alive in our walk-through tunnel, while our penguins and Southern sea otters enchant you with their antics. Touch a sting ray, feed a parakeet, and marvel at our gigantic sharks, tarpon, and rays in the 400,000 gallon Gulf of Mexico Exhibit.
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http://www.auduboninstitute.org/visit/aquarium
4:00pm – 5:00pm WORLD WAR II MUSEUM Presentation by Dr. Gordon “Nick” Mueller on the World War II Museum’s $350 million dollar capital expansion campaign, followed by a self-guided tour. http://www.nationalww2museum.org/expansion/index.html 5:00pm – 6:00pm Presentation by Tom Owen, Vice President and Senior Designer PGAV Destinations, on the topic of audience engagement in planning and exhibit development. 6:00 pm – 7:00pm Reception in the “Stage Door Canteen” at the World War II Museum
8:00pm Dinner at Bayona
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10th 9:30am – 11:30am Hotel Monteleone, Iberville Room Presentation by John Barry, author of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, who is an expert on flood control, disaster management strategies, and developing resilient communities. His discussion will address these issues.
11:30am LUNCH FOR ATTENDEES Presentation by Michael F. Park, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Chief of Task Force Hope. |
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12:30pm Meet in Hotel Lobby for Bus 1:00pm – 5:00pm U.S. Army Corp of Engineers
Tour led by Park who is responsible for overseeing the Corps’ $14.6 billion Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System work in New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana, and the long-term planning of coastal restoration and hurricane damage reduction. 5:00pm Return to Hotel via St. Bernard Parish, Lower 9th, to view the neighborhood decimated by Katrina and being rebuilt with the assistance of Actor Brad Pitt.
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Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Surge Barrier http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/pd/projectslist/home.asp?projectID=300
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11th 9:00am – 10:00am Hotel Monteleone, Beauregard Room Presentation by Samuel Taylor, Director of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, on Transformative Strategic Planning and the radical reconstitution of the way the 116-year-old organization operates, creating five new "centers" to encourage its scientists and staff to do more multidisciplinary research and projects.
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10:30am Meet in Hotel Lobby for Bus 11:30 am Lunch for Attendees at TBA 1:30pm – 3:30pm Tulane Natural History Collections Facility Behind-the-scenes tour led by Dr. Henry Bart, Director of the Tulane Museum of Natural History. 3:30pm Board Bus 4:30pm Arrive Back At Hotel
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