Day 1 of the conference

After the social held at the BC Museum last night, today seemed to go by in a whirl. We started with the opening presentations by the great and the good, which included a video presentation by Prince Charles (he's a passionate supporter of the Save the Albatross Campaign). The conference is organised in five parallel sessions, so people charge about between different halls, so many of the 850 or so delegates charge off at the end of each talk to see the next one they've marked off on their agenda.

I'm heavily involved in what are called the Legacy Workshops, designed to link up different databases around the world using the internet and through clever technology, create what would appear as a World Seabird Database. We hear the first of these presentations and the discussion of how this might progress. I'm starting to feel quite nervous about my workshop and how it's all going to go tomorrow.