Difference between revisions of "Agclimate telecon 2014-02-04"

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Meeting Lead: Bill Teng
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attendees:Erin, Bill, Arif Albayak, Nancy H., James Hemby, Reid Boehm
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1st item:
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discussing possible shift in time of telecom due to schedule conflicts
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Doodle poll
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Wednesday at 11 or Tuesday at 4  send out with 2 slots
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2nd item:
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discussing data projects and data archives NAL (Simon Liu)
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item 3
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Introduction of  student fellow Reid Boehm
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Doctoral student in Info Sci. at University of Tennessee, writing dissertation in agricultural information management
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item 4
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collaborations with USDA from ESIP
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Purpose to find out what is going on outside as well as in- review of literature and other resources
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CCPO Bill Hohenstein- focus with LTAR
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1. Go through all the agencies and summarize what they are all doing in this area
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2. Nancy brought up last meeting other groups: commodity companies etc.
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3. Reid review of scientific literature
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useful review of the landscape of efforts
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Leading to
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Gap Analysis:
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Needs of LTAR and what ESIP can fill
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Question from Erin about GEOSS task connection- another area to think about
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Also Brian Wee and Mark Parsons RDA - Wheat Interoperability Working Group
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Previous action Chris Lynnes- How to engage with LTAR collaboratory area - with Earth Science Collaboratory- may not be ready yet. Perhaps get back with Mark Wahlbridge to find out about tools needs first
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Nancy asked did you have any wiki page form for reviewing?
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Bill - this is more just typical review about what people are doing
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Talking about the summer meeting in Copper Mountain- Mark Wahlbridge spoke last summer, planning to meet again and speak with him again, narrowing down more needs that we can fill
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Also as a speaker: Simon Liu - preview of the archive plans - also Brad Doom from HQ perspective
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Reid suggests For meeting have a concept map - to see gaps of information work
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Reid - action item to send example to cluster
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We will aim to have this review of projects and literature plus group map of concepts, plus focus on needs of LTAR
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Nancy- another thing would be to expand who would be active in the group- perhaps by invitation- maybe outreaching to some of these other organizations
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Organizations in Colorado, others
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Bill- as we do the review we can keep that in mind - maybe regional for LTAR
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Colorado department of ag - drought monitoring may be a good place to look for participation
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Look at particular local groups, universities, quashi, connection to GEOSS
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Also if you can think of anybody from respective organization wants to participate
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Sending out the Doodle poll for 2 specific times for meeting
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Meeting next month first week in March, day and time: TBD

Revision as of 10:55, February 4, 2014

Back to Ag & Climate Workspace Agenda:

  • Possible (?) shift of telecon time to later in the day (still 1st Tuesday of month)
  • Refresh from Dec. telecon
    • From Brian Wee's presentation on NEON: Interoperability is one area where this Cluster and LTAR probably can best collaborate in a mutually beneficial way (e.g., all measurements consistently done for all sites). LTAR is cognizant of the need for interoperability.
    • From our Cluster's previous discussions, the other two promising areas of collaboration are data products and data archive.
  • Introduce Reid Boehm, new Student Fellow for our Cluster; Doctoral student at U TN; thesis topic: agricultural information
  • Cluster's 2014 plan
    • (1) Inventory of relevant ESIP capabilities

Previous Action: Bill will email request to esip-all re: any members who have collaborated or are collaborating with any USDA agencies.

    • (2) Review of literature and other sources on external (to ESIP) work on climate effects on agriculture
      • Science literature (Reid et al.)
      • USDA agencies, CCPO (Bill et al.)
      • Other sources (e.g., state orgs., Library of Congress) (Nancy et al.)
    • (3) Gap analysis (needs of LTAR) that ESIP can fill

Previous Action: Bill to follow up with Jeff McWhirter on RAMADDA. <== Decided to hold off a bit.

  • Cluster session at ESIP Summer 2014 Meeting, Copper Mtn, CO
    • Possible speakers: Mark Walbridge (LTAR), Simon Liu (NAL), Brad Doorn (NASA HQ, Applied Sciences Program-Water Resources and Agriculture)

Action: Bill to contact all 3 for their availability

    • Other speakers?
    • What should we aim to accomplish?

Participants: Reid B., Arif A., Erin R., Nancy H., James Hemby, 1 other (?), Bill T.

Minutes:
Meeting Lead: Bill Teng attendees:Erin, Bill, Arif Albayak, Nancy H., James Hemby, Reid Boehm 1st item: discussing possible shift in time of telecom due to schedule conflicts Doodle poll Wednesday at 11 or Tuesday at 4 send out with 2 slots 2nd item: discussing data projects and data archives NAL (Simon Liu) item 3 Introduction of student fellow Reid Boehm Doctoral student in Info Sci. at University of Tennessee, writing dissertation in agricultural information management item 4 collaborations with USDA from ESIP Purpose to find out what is going on outside as well as in- review of literature and other resources CCPO Bill Hohenstein- focus with LTAR 1. Go through all the agencies and summarize what they are all doing in this area 2. Nancy brought up last meeting other groups: commodity companies etc. 3. Reid review of scientific literature useful review of the landscape of efforts Leading to Gap Analysis: Needs of LTAR and what ESIP can fill

Question from Erin about GEOSS task connection- another area to think about Also Brian Wee and Mark Parsons RDA - Wheat Interoperability Working Group

Previous action Chris Lynnes- How to engage with LTAR collaboratory area - with Earth Science Collaboratory- may not be ready yet. Perhaps get back with Mark Wahlbridge to find out about tools needs first

Nancy asked did you have any wiki page form for reviewing? Bill - this is more just typical review about what people are doing

Talking about the summer meeting in Copper Mountain- Mark Wahlbridge spoke last summer, planning to meet again and speak with him again, narrowing down more needs that we can fill Also as a speaker: Simon Liu - preview of the archive plans - also Brad Doom from HQ perspective Reid suggests For meeting have a concept map - to see gaps of information work Reid - action item to send example to cluster

We will aim to have this review of projects and literature plus group map of concepts, plus focus on needs of LTAR

Nancy- another thing would be to expand who would be active in the group- perhaps by invitation- maybe outreaching to some of these other organizations Organizations in Colorado, others Bill- as we do the review we can keep that in mind - maybe regional for LTAR Colorado department of ag - drought monitoring may be a good place to look for participation

Look at particular local groups, universities, quashi, connection to GEOSS Also if you can think of anybody from respective organization wants to participate

Sending out the Doodle poll for 2 specific times for meeting

Meeting next month first week in March, day and time: TBD