Invitations to come to New York and Survey data

Okay - so we kind of decided that we would invite people to come to New York in November in time for our symposium. Maybe November 9th/10th until November 18th. That will give them some time to rest up, for us to meet with them and talk about out progress thus far, to see our presentation at the symposium, and to talk about the future of the project and their possible involvement.

We want to come up with
1) overall, large-scale project goals that will require their help to accomplish; a larger macro level framework in which the micro level stuff can be embedded
2) really distinct, small questions that can be achieved while they are here or soon after. These should be questions that are embedded in the larger framework, but are useful to address very specific aspects of our research.

One thing that I think we should definitely talk about is the survey data that FK had suggested collecting on the microlevel. If it only takes a couple thousand to do it, we should take advantage of it and work with them to get it done.
The other thing that I would like to see done, which may also be quite cheap to accomplish in India is the collection of some biodiversity data in the different types of ag fields. This could be done in Bihar in different types of ag land where there is information on what is being grown where, as well as those larger scale rice fields. I think we can get grad students of researchers to work with us on this for very little money. And I think someone with good insect expertise at a nearby university would be ideal. Maybe they know someone in Bihar that would be interested in that type of project.