1. Outreach & 10th Anniversary Update
AOOS Board Meeting
Oct 17, 2014

2. Website traffic Users: 19,900 Sessions: 41,500 Avg session time: 3:17
Page views/session: 2.54
Online feedback: 25 since March
160 or 170 on big days recently.
Weekends around 45

3. Facebook 175 friends 3+ posts/week Post 3 or more times a week.
Start week with 10th anniversary factoid

4. 10th Anniversary homepage corner
Highlighted 36 events so far

5. Short Film Contest 10 min or less $1,000 grand prize
32 entries (8 youth)
Marathon viewing session.

6. Film Contest Winners Youth
Winner: Wilderness Explorers Day Cruise, Arina Filippenko
Best treatment of a complicated subject:
Kodiak Crab Divers and Hatchery Red King Crab, Marina Cumminskey
General
Judges Choice: Siblings at Sea, Charlie Ess
Honorable Mention: Grateful for Salmon, Margaret Bursch. link
Gyre: Art from a Plastic Ocean, JJ Kelly
Best Editing: The Science Behind Managing Shark Populations in Alaskan Waters, DeAnna Morris
Best Videography: Spring Passage, Patrick Farrell
Youth will get go-pros
Judges choice $1000; honorable mention $300.

7. AOOS 10th Anniversary Celebration
Anchorage Museum, Nov 19th
AOOS remarks & film
Craig Matkin: predation
Four winners from the film contest
Reception
*RSVPs from Board
*Ideas for music