Agclimate telecon 2015-11-03

Agenda (Joint with Energy & Climate Work Group)

Winter 2016 Meeting: preparation for our sessions

First session proposal: Workshop to develop CRT (Climate Resilience Toolkit) Case Studies demonstrating climate resilience
First session speakers
- For agriculture Case Study: TBD
- For energy Case Study: tentatively Paul Stackhouse or Jason Barnett (LaRC)
Second session proposal: Frontiers in Agricultural and Energy Data Collection and Application
Second session speakers
- TBD
Food/Energy/Water (FEW), Climate Corporation, ...

Minutes:

November 3rd, 2015 Telecon: Discussion Notes

Bill's notes (link above) do a great job summarizing the discussion, linking to specific outside sources, and highlighting Action Items.

Overall, this telecon meeting was to discuss our 2 ESIP Winter Meeting Session Proposals and identifying possible collaborations (for ESIP winter meeting or in the future) with Food Energy Water (FEW) nexus and Climate Corporation.

First Session Proposal (Workshop of CRT Case Studies): Discussion
We were joined by Paul Stackhouse and Jason Barnett from NASA's Langley Research Center who are working across both the agriculture and energy sectors with GIS based web tools and services. There were many opportunities identified in which their research and tool/service development and application could become a good platform to workshop/discuss as a Case Studies for the Climate Resilience Toolkit.

Identify the datasets and tools useful for Energy and Agriculture analysis/resilience planning
Demonstrate the Capabilities of these tools/services
Talk about specific Usage Examples

ACTION 1: Paul Stackhouse and Jason Barnett will decide on two topics for presentation (one on ag and one on energy) and send the presentation titles. Length of presentations and workshop style TBD.
ACTION 2: Bill will contact Glenn Bethel, remote sensing coordinator of the USDA - might be a good contact for either of the two sessions.

Second Session Proposal (New Frontiers in Ag/Energy Data): Discussion

Decided to keep the session title a bit more broad (not limited to only drones) and also to keep the three overarching topics (Data collection, Data Management and Data Application) for now, and to potentially narrow it down depending on what speakers we are able to have come for the session. Agreement that all three areas would be good to explore in this "new frontier".

ACTION 3: Bill will contact a researcher at Cornell who is using drones for corn phenotyping
ACTION 4: Bar will follow up with and contact Max Messinger - Drone use in agriculture and environmental sensing, Courtney Hammond-Wagner - web tools and cell-phone/mobile app tool for Agricultural Planning and Environmental Goals, and Jarlath O'neil-Dunne spatial analysis lab / drone operations use and remote sensing - to determine if they would present (and what they might be able to present) for this session.

Potential Future Collaborations
Food Energy Water (FEW) nexus and Climate Corporation Brian identified that the FEW group, they are in town two weeks after our winter meeting after ESIP, and could potentially fit well or have some overlap with our Agriculture and Energy groups? We could potentially look through the agenda and maybe look for local people who are speaking on food / energy / water issues local to DC that we could potentially invite?

Bill identified that it sounded like the FEW group would be at a level then our current proposed CRT workshop, and that we would probably hold off and discuss the possibility of working on this as a session for the summer ESIP session. Conclusion: FEW for the future perhaps, revisit for the ESIP summer meeting 2016.

Climate Corporation:
Is there overlap? Could they come and participate? More to discuss, possibly for the Summer ESIP meeting or possible in connection with our New Frontiers in Ag/Energy Data session - with their mobile app. Will follow up.

Attendees:
Bill Teng
Lindsay Barbieri (Bar)
Brian Wee
Nancy Hoebelheinrich
Jason Barnett
Paul Stackhouse
3 (?) other call-in’s