20110902: Student Fellow Call

Recording of the Call

• Meeting Feedback
  • Teacher workshop big success
  • Difficult communicating technical details to general public.
  • ESIP Welcoming - Do something at the very beginning ice breaker; Lots knew each other, but didn't know fellows.
    • Pubcrawl was helpful for meeting.
• General Committee feedback
  • Clusters well-organized hard to find a fit
• Climate Half-day Workshop at Winter Meeting 2012
  • Use climate as theme to tie collaboration areas together
  • Related activities: Communicating Climate Change using new technology tools; Energy Climate Workshop
  • Carol/Erin - responsible for logistics
  • Connections between clusters/climate
    • Thousands of datasets coming out. No one is documenting - who participated in creating algorithms, whose using; no documentation
    • Glacier - IPCC, analysis didn't cite data;
      • Could tie to semantic web; data quality
    • Engaging public in climate observation (rain gage data; post pictures)
    • Communicating climate change and what can they do to participate (engage)
  • Tie theme to collaboration - connections.
  • Action - Fellows take ideas back to the clusters