Summary

Lake Metabolism Project

VTC 29/30 September 2004

Present:

TFRI: Hen-biau King (phone)

NTL: Tim Kratz, Tim Meinke

U WI: Paul Hanson, Dave Balsiger, Sheng-Shan Lu

NCHC: Hsui Mei Chou, Julian Chen, Grace Hong

UCSD/SDSC: Longjing Ding, Tony Fountain, Brandon Smith, Peter Arzberger

Next VTC:

- To be determined, but either during time that Tim, Peter and others will be in Taiwan, or the week of 1-5 November

Action Items:

- Hen-Biau King to forward minutes of East Asia Pacific ILTER meeting

- All people going to Kenting to send Grace Hong: Date of Birth, Home Address, Passport Number

- Final agenda for travel to be completed

o Dave Balsiger might spend Thursday 21 October at NCHC talking with Hsui Mei about data components (in particular QA/QC module Brandon Smith developed)

o When will group visit Hen-biau? Will that be in Kenting?

- Materials for YYL trip

o Charles indicated that additional oxygen sensors have been ordered and should arrive by October 8.

o Tim will plan to take biological samples that have been collected since Matt left back to Wisconsin

- Web services for Metabolism: will try to have rough material from U WI to SDSC this week, and a rough web service (perhaps without interface) by a week later

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Other Discussions:

- Tim discussed e-mail circulated before vtc about analysis of chlorophyll and dissolved oxygen data from YYL. See notes.

o One comment made post discussion is that this example motivated need for sensor development (to capture missing data). For example, we were unable to collect samples for water chemistry and biology during the week of August 12 because of the typhoon. In contrast, we have data from sensors on the buoy during this time. This is an example of where having capability for sensing additional variables would be valuable scientifically

- Sheng-Shan Lu to think of whether travel to SDSC would be valuable for building his capacity.

- If Alan Lai needs additional travel to build capacity when in US, please discuss with Hen-biau