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Current Membership
Information
General Member responsibilities:
All members are encouraged to become
a Nutrition advisor or co-advisor for and SSP or TAG.
Responsibilities of SSP/TAG Nutrition Advisor (volunteer
position):
- Serve for a three-year term (renewable by vote of
confidence of SSP/TAG)
- TAG Nutrition Advisor should be aware of activities of
species advisors falling under the TAG group – suggest species advisors and
encourage active participation; excellent two-way communications is crucial
between SSP and TAG advisors
- Provide annual summary of activities (limited to no
more than one page) for SSP/TAG Chair; copy to NAG Chair for AZA report
- Annually conduct comprehensive literature search and
update bibliography for your species -- to be submitted to SSP/TAG Chair and
AZA Information Officer (if not initiated, establishment of these resources
is highly recommended)
- Lead and participate in the development of the
nutrition section of the husbandry manual. Review existing nutrition section
of husbandry manual annually, and update as needed (at least once per 5
years), following the established NAG review procedures
- Ensure that the nutrition section and all written diet
husbandry, feeding guidelines and updates are submitted to the NAG vice-chair
for review in a timely manner
- If asked, assist with review of nutrition-related
research proposals to the SSP/TAG
- Facilitate review of any
NAG Fact Sheets pertaining to
your species group
- Post SSP/ TAG Action Plan and encourage appropriate
research activities addressing nutrition issues through listing on
NAGNOTES
(and other appropriate listserves)
Current Activities:
Conference coming in 2003... Hope
you can be there!
NAGnotes listserve
The NAG has an AZA listserve called
Nagnotes which is available to all NAG
members who have e-mail. The listserve allows for communication of NAG projects
and events as well as a place for members to post feeding and nutrition
questions for answers from other NAG members.
- To update your membership information write to
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- For more information on becoming a member write to
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Subcommittees
The NAG has the following active subcommittees:
- Avian Handrearing
- Critical Care/Clinical Nutrition
- Conference Subcommittee
- Food Use and Behavioral Enrichment
- Food Composition
- Infant Diet and Handrearing
- Nominating Subcommittee
- Technical Papers
- Web Site
For additional information, follow the link above.
Steering Committee
The NAG EC is composed of 9 members. Follow the link above for further
information.
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Nutrition
Advisory Group
