[bionet.agroforestry] Bioeconomic Agroforestry Modelling Progect

jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller) (02/06/91)

 > IN THE WAY OF AN INTRODUCTION, THIS COMPUTER ( AND OPERATOR) BELONG TO THE
 > BEAM PROJECT (BIOECONOMIC AGROFORESTRY MODELLING PROJECT). WITHOUT EXTENSIVE
 > DETAIL, THE PROJECT'S GOAL IS TO DEVELOP A SERIES OF COMPUTER BASED GROWTH/
 > ECONOMIC MODELS FOR USE BY RESEARCH STATIONS AND EXTENSION AGENTS.
 > THIS PROJECT IS DIRECTED BY TERRY THOMAS WITH PETER BEZKOROWAJNYJ ON BIO
 > AND PAUL WOJTKOWSKI ON KEYBOARD.
 > FOR MORE INFORMATION SEND A MESSAGE AND, IF I CAN FIGURE OUT HOW THIS MACHINE
 > WORKS, A REPLY WILL BE FORTHCOMMING.

   All right!  Some activity in bionet.agroforestry at last!  We're receiving
you at crom2, a public access Unix site in Athens, Georgia, USA.  crom2 is de-
voted to computing in all areas of biology.  Most of what we have pertains to
molecular biology but we're very much interested in intact organisms also and
in ecology/ethology/behavior (this in spite of the hard words S. Luria has said
about, sniff, "nature study.")  Athens is where the University of Georgia is
located; U.Ga. has quite a large school of forest management since timber plan-
tations are a major industry in this state.
   I for one am interested in anything you want to say about your project and
will keep any information you care to send me online here and post notices in
the forestry school that they're available to be read over here.  It may be
that someone in the department is doing similar work and would like to swap
experiences.                            
                                           James P. H. Fuller
                                       jim%crom2@nstar.rn.com

P.S.  You have your caps lock key on.  May I suggest without offending that
since the range of expressiveness is so limited in email most people reserve
all-caps messages for WHEN THEY WANT TO SHOUT ABOUT SOMETHING.

                                                       -- Jim 

kristoff@genbank.bio.net (David Kristofferson) (02/07/91)

>   All right!  Some activity in bionet.agroforestry at last!

We set this newsgroup up as a result of a vote of the readers.  We
can't force anyone to use it.  The level of activity is up to each of
you out there who decides either to use this tool or let it lie idle.
If it is idle for a very prolonged time our policy is usually to shut
the group down.

				Sincerely,

				Dave Kristofferson
				GenBank Manager

				kristoff@genbank.bio.net

yfcw14@castle.ed.ac.uk (K P Donnelly) (02/07/91)

>   All right!  Some activity in bionet.agroforestry at last!

Someone (me) from the Forestry Commission Northern Research Station,
Edinburgh, Scotland is reading bionet.agroforestry too, on Edinburgh
University Computing Service's central Unix machine.  I am just a
computer programmer.  Our researchers, some of them with interests in
agroforestry are just starting to move across to the EUCS Unix machine
will have access to bionet.agroforestry there and I would have expected
some of them to read it.  The bother is that we are just about to get
our own computer, which won't have a newsfeed, and to get the money to
buy it, my boss may have promised to cut our EUCS computing budget to
very little.  We'll just have to see how it goes.

   Kevin Donnelly