20110902: Student Fellow Call

Student Cluster

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)
    • Semantic Web? demo or presentation?
  • Tie theme to collaboration - connections.
  • Action - Fellows take ideas back to the clusters and get their input.
• Student involvement
  • Need to make a flyer
  • Decide which schools/departments are needed.
  • Poster competition - good practice opportunity
  • Oleg - heading up poster competition/engage local schools.
  • Brent - Look over the agenda; Work with Oleg, Tom, Eric to identify spots for discovery, IQ and semantic web.
  • Jesse - will spearhead the communication climate change to
  • Tom - Introduction speaker of tying groups together
  • 3 talks w/20 mins each for both sessions - 6 talks total.