First OCS AGM and Social Event

Wednesday 30th August 2006

CSIRO Marine Laboratories Auditorium,
Castray Esplanade, Hobart, Tasmania

1000-1300       1st OCS Annual General Meeting
 

Agenda items (initials of convenor following):

  • Notification of the new Executive Council (President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary) and election of council officers (no less than 3) (SI)
  • Membership and Treasury report (PK/CD)
  • Newsletter report (including election of a Newsletter Editor) (MT)
  • Website report (CA)
  • Inaugural conference 2007 (including election of conference officer and formation of conference organising subcommittee)
  • Funding opportunities
  • Future OCS administered grants and funds
  • Other business
  • AGM Minutes

1300-1400       Lunch (provided by OCS in the CSIRO cafeteria for those attending the AGM only)

1400-1700       Informal Meeting of the OCS

1400 Welcome and the vision of the OCS
Sarah Irvine.
  
1415 New president’s welcome    
1430
Presentation 1
John Stevens
Australasian chondrichthyans: what have we learnt in 350 years.
1500 Presentation 2 Malcolm Francis Chondrichthyan research and management in New Zealand
1530 Presentation 3 Terry Walker Chondrichthyan research and management in the Pacific
1600 Guest Speaker Michelle Heupel The Secret Lives of Sharks: What They're Doing When We're Not Looking.
       
1630 General discussion on the direction of the OCS
1700 Meeting close

1730                Post meeting drinks. Venue:       Bar Celona, Salamaca Square

1900                OCS Social dinner and evening. Venue:        Blue Skies restaurant in Hobart,       Tasmania.