Summary of
VTC
April
12, 2005:
April 11, 2005: US
Present:
Academia
Sinica: Charles Chiu
NCHC:
Fang-Pang Lin, Hsiu-Mei Chou, Julian Chen
TFRI:
Chau-Chin Lin, Sheng-Shan Lu
UW -
Madison: Stuart Jones (Grad Student, EAPSI), Luke Winslow (Undergrad), Owen
Langman (Undergrad), Trina McMann, Paul Hanson, David
Balsiger, Barbara Benson
UCSD:
Daniel Leu (PRIME Student), Longjiang Ding, Peter Arzberger
Next
meeting:
Monday
9 May at 2030 DC/ 1930 WI/ 1730 CA --- Tuesday 10
May
at 0830
Thank you:
To NCHC for being able to pull together the vtc on short notice. Congratulations. You did so well, how about next time? J
Notes
from Meeting
1. General announcements and introduction of new
people and
2. Summer student projects including possible
travel schedules/logistics/science:
Stuart
Jones (Grad Student, EAPSI program): carbon cycling,
Travel
- can travel whenever he needs do (he got EAPSI)
June 26 - July 3 (Cultural education, part of EAPSI)
Luke Winslow (Undergrad): Weekly trips to lake - measure oxygen patterns under various UV conditions.
Owen Langman (Undergrad, CS major, fourth year): Two components to his job
- work on orb - set up, will stop in
- pda stuff: Program PDA to help with data downloads
Will
try to come to
Daniel Leu (Undergraduate student, UCSD): Several possible projects
- Develop tools to add new sensor sites to existing wireless backbone
- Develop way to update database with lab data (scripts or forms)
- Work on Field Server (Fang-Pang explained a bit)
Trina
McMann: Professor, UW- Madison. Interested
in microbial populations of lakes (?)
3. Communcations / Sensor / Buoy Update
a.
Academia Sinica
Need
new sensors (Oxygen?)
b.
NCHC-YYL buoy status report
Batteries
replaced
Issue
has to do with communications
Take communications experts
May need to have another relay between AS Field Station and Met
Station.
Discussion about Sampling and Students:
In
June, start sampling once every 2 weeks. [ problem is
getting a car, may not be that often]
Once
Students show up, once a week … We can sample once per week.
Question
about new program on dataloger:
Is there a copy of the program archived? This will be important to go back and look at data from this time period.
Answer:
Yes.
4. Report on March 7-10 meeting in
Two parts of the meeting
- Lakes (10 lakes represented)
- Coral Reefs (4 reefs represented)
There
is agreement to meet again in March/April 2006, likely in Townsville
Summary for Lakes
Science
(A)
·
Define science that can be done with system
· Write joint scientific paper
Paul
Hanson described this in more detail, but basically, there are a half dozen sites willing to donate data. With these data
the group will look at algal dynamics based on physical properties [MAY NEED IMPROVING]
Deployment
of sensors (D)
·
Identify lakes ready to deploy sensors AND have
system to automate upload of data from sensor to database
·
Send spreadsheet out about deployment of
sensors, data flow to lab, flow into database, registration of database (
·
Determine path forward from excel to access to
other relational database (if needed)
Network
Interface to Data (C)
·
Harden registration page
·
Develop use cases to query interface
·
Develop / improve interface page
Services
on Data (B)
·
Harden visualization services
·
Harden lake metabolism service
Modeling
(B)
·
Integrate one dimensional circulation modeling
with lake metabolism
·
Produce visualizations
·
Compare three dimensional circulation models,
parallelize
Policy
(C)
·
Develop principle underlying assess and use
policy
·
Develop access policy for network (local,
internal to network, community)
·
Start with “non-controversial data”
Network
Level Activities (C)
·
Create name of group
·
Create mail-server
·
Create web presence
·
Determine location / time of next meeting
·
Note: Very likely we’ll meet in Australia
March/April 2006
·
Develop prospectus for groups to use to seek
funding
·
In particular, look at funding for meetings
·
Identify other barriers to working as a group:
·
Travel? Data Access/Sharing Policies? Funding
for resources?
·
Construct (collectively) basic principles /
approaches / framework for using/sharing distributed resources (management)
·
Create a design document for architecture (and
what others need to do to join)
Summary for Coral Reefs (summary
still being written)
- Group agreed on common variables to share.
- There is a plan to get people to work
together (and will meet during summer)
- There was a common interest in technology of
video under water
5. Publication of results from first year of
data
Premise
of paper - reasonably good evidence - mixing event form Typhoon reset algal and
microbial population. Try to link temperature to algal and microbial population
-
Work
into publication (sometime soon):
In
past - be inclusive on the authorship, but present best science story from all
the work. …
Charles
commented for the need to focus on parameters .. before we do paper