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AGENDA Missouri Bird Conservation Initiative Conference

August 15 and 16, 2008
DAYS INN - Columbia, Missouri

CONFERENCE THEME –RENEWABLE ENERGY: IS IT FOR THE BIRDS?

Friday
5:00 pm	Registration (be sure to ask for cards to pose questions for our expert panel on Saturday afternoon as part of a group discussion on the issues surrounding renewable energy)
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm	Social Hour with snacks
7:30 pm – 8:00 pm	Open Annual Meeting/remarks/housekeeping = Gene Gardner (Open Silent Auction) 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Renewable energy issues and their impacts on wildlife.
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm	Joseph Fargione, (Central U.S. Region Science Director for TNC)
9:00 pm – 10:00 pm	Continue Social
Saturday
7:15 am	Continental Breakfast for ALL conference registrants
8:00 am – 8:20 am	Opening and highlights of the year Kelly Srigley Werner, Chair, MoBCI Steering Committee
8:20 am – 9:30 am	2, 20-30 minute presentations on renewable energy issues Patrick Mulvhill (Abengoa Bioenergy Process Engineer). Cellulosic ethanol Steve Mahfood (TNC contractor) Carbon sequestration.
9:30 am – 9:50 am	Project poster session combined with break
9:50 am – 11:15 am	3, 20-30 minute presentation on renewable energy issues. Brian Obermeyer (Flint Hills Project Director TNC) Wind energy Hank Stetzler (University of Missouri Extention Forester)Small diameter round fuel Joseph Fargione, (Central U.S. Region Science Director for TNC)
11:15 – 12:30 pm	Lunch with presentation (close silent auction). (Kelly will line up speaker to do bioenergetics on migration and plug the “we are wetlands” initiative)…cards handed out at registration will be collected and organized for the moderator as part of the group discussion in the afternoon
12:30 pm – 1:15 pm	MoBCI General Assembly, Chair, Linda Tossing
1:15 pm – 2:30 pm	Panel discussion from questions on cards collected prior to lunch.
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm	Subgroups meet for brief updates on progress.
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm	Project poster session combined with break.
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm	Wrap-up and Closing