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Many of you may be aware that the Paleontological Society, with support from NSF, is organizing a workshop and a series of research forums that will focus on formalizing Future Research Directions in Paleontology (FRDP). The first of these forums was held at the NAPC in Halifax. Following that forum, I produced a very basic initial document for establishing a strategic plan for paleontology over the next ten years. The aim of this document (and of the FRDP) is not to lay out specific research proposals. Instead, it is to provide a format for discussion of our long-term goals as a field and how we can best reach them. I have set up the document as a "Wiki" at http://paleontologyplan.pbwiki.com. If you are not familiar with wikis, this is a webpage that can be edited by anyone with password access (the password is phacops). All changes are tracked, including who makes them. This mechanism will allow broad and open participation in the FRDP process by members of the paleontological community. If you do edit the Wiki, please indicate on the "Front Page" what section(s) you worked on. For more information on the FRDP, please contact David Bottjer at: dbottjer@usc.edu. Contact me for questions on the wiki. - Roy -- Roy E. Plotnick Professor Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Illinois at Chicago 845 W. Taylor St. Chicago, IL 60607 plotnick@uic.edu office phone: 312-996-2111 fax: 312-413-2279 lab phone: 312-355-1342 web page: http://www.uic.edu/~plotnick/plotnick.htm "The scientific celebrities, forgetting their molluscs and glacial periods, gossiped about art, while devoting themselves to oysters and ices with characteristic energy.." -Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
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