Re: [AGA-sc] Response from KL!

[Larry Lampert <l_lampert@yahoo.com>]

I am with Scott on this. Although I would still be
interested in hearing about terrestrial mosses as well
I am not sure that the bulk of our attendees will.
Remember, this will likely be a talk about the
phyologeny, habitat, etc of mainly terrestrial mosses.



I am not in favor of exceeding the $1800 budget. If we
can't stay under budget I think we need to push either
him or Dave back to 2007. 

Either way this is still all good since we now have
another potential AGA speaker for this year or next.

Regards,
Larry




--- "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com> wrote:

> This is a bit comforting and a bit unsettling. Yes,
> he speaks English and can give presentations.
> However, Oy! It's a lot of money for mosses and
> mostly terrestrial at that. And it's a lot of money
> added on top of Wilson. 
>  
> Do we *want* to ask him? He's definitely a great "B"
> side of the record. 
>  
> Otoh, SF has some ardent moss fans but otoh,  SF
> isn't putting up dime one for this event. We have
> $1800 in the budget for speaker travel. Do we think
> this will be within budget? Are we getting a major
> draw for the money?
>  
>  
> sh
>  
> 
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Erik Olson" erik@thekrib.com
> 
> 
> > Well, this sounds more plausible.  What do y'all
> think?
> >
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:19:33 -0800
> > From: Loh Kwek Leong <timebomb@pacific.net.sg>
> > To: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
> > Subject: Re: Question about Prof. Tan
> >
> > Hi, Eric,
> >
> > Nice to hear from you.
> >
> > Professor Benito Tan speaks and writes English. 
> He's a Filipino by birth 
> > but American by nationality.  He teaches Biology
> in
> > one of our universities but his expertise is
> mainly on the bryophytes in 
> > the Malesian region.  The prof is also a recipient
> of the Richard Spruce 
> > award for his work on mosses.  Only recently, he
> was made vice-president 
> > of the association of bryologists or something
> > like that.
> >
> > He gives presentations often but I'm not sure if
> they are the kind AGA 
> > members would be interested in.  Most mosses
> > are terrestrial, you see, and the professor,
> before he met us, knew only 
> > of one aquarium moss and that is Java Moss.
> > He's quite fascinated though by the variety of
> aquarium mosses now 
> > available and is currently working on a book on
> the native mosses of
> > Singapore.  I've seen one of the prof's
> presentation in his laptop and it 
> > talks mostly of the life cycles of various
> terrestrial
> > mosses.  There's one moss, by the way, which is
> named after him.
> >
> > The prof is a busy man so although I'm quite sure
> he will be interested in 
> > giving the talk, there's a possibility he won't be
> able
> > to make it.  If the professor is available,
> however, I can help him by 
> > providing the pictures and samples of live mosses.
> > You can tell him that when you write to him.  The
> prof's email address is:
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