Agclimate telecon 2016-03-01

Agenda (Joint with Energy & Climate Work Group) + notes from a "pre-telecon" last week

Following up on CRT Case Studies

Modifying current "template" to be more in the form of the "basic story" (i.e., this happened, then that happened, ..., oh, but then, ...)
Possibly reverse engineer existing CRT Case Studies to derive a template?
Defining "hand-off point"
Within-ESIP award(s) for best Case Studies (?)
Generalize to an ESIP-wide pipeline for CRT Case Studies (?)

Planning for Chapel Hill (ideas for sessions)

NCSE and its January conference with the theme, Food-Energy-Water Nexus (https://eos.org/editors-vox/the-proof-of-our-science-lies-in-the-telling); Nexus theme and the storytelling aspect. Get Brian's input.
Re-connect with USDA ARS LTAR. Its data system component is being done by a group at the NAL (National Agriculture Library), the same group that just became an ESIP member in January. Jeff Campbell, the lead for this component, was at the Winter meeting.
Continue with the case study theme, jointly with Energy & Climate.
- Forrest Melton (NASA Ames) couldn't participate in the Winter meeting, because of schedule conflicts. His could be one of the case studies.
- Ray Hunt could be another, thus connecting case study with UAV.
- Amir AghaKouchak (UV Irvine), who presented at ESIP Summer 2015, couldn't make the Winter 2016 Meeting. A possible for Summer 2016.

Bill's action item from Feb. telecon: Get status of Amir's case study ==> "Phu [UCI postdoc] is now writing an article for BAMS on a system designed for improving public access and use of remote sensing products (mainly precipitation information). Once his article is ready, I will initiate the discussion to get a case study out of it. Might take another month or two." So, Amir and/or Phu participating in another CRT Case Study Workshop in Chapel Hill is a possibility.

Minutes:
Meeting notes (from Chris)

Attendees:
Chris Beltz (Student Fellow)
Arif Albayrak
Rebecca Fowler
Nancy Hoebelheinrich
Bill Teng
Erin Robinson
Erica Zell