Agclimate telecon 2014-02-04

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.

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