Class2010Feb26

**Class Assignments and Agenda for Week 7, 2010 Feb 26**
Class meets from 9:10 - 11:55A in 3214 Jordan Hall Addition


 * The major objectives for this session are to ...**
 * Decide on physical page layout
 * Review - Where are we? How's it going? What needs changed?


 * Things to do before class**
 * Suggest ideas for report title - we really need a title and an introduction that will hook our audience and make it clear that this is not just another restatement of the same old stuff
 * Further evaluation of InVEST (Kevin, Ginevra, Aimee, George)
 * From george - WWF can only offer limited support this semester - they are working on a new release and are very tied up in that. Ricketts tells me carbon is easy enough to do by ourselves, but water is much more difficult.
 * Evaluation of Charlotte approach to putting some values on the protected lands (Katherine) [|Notes from Charlotte Presentation.docx], [|Economic Benefits of Conservation- Kevin Brice.docx]
 * Continue working on your sections (all)
 * I created a new directory and places for the report sections - visit SOE2010 Report (also in the nav bar). You will see that the outline pages are also linked here, but you should start collecting the "real" stuff on in the report sections (which are empty at the moment). As part of this, I renamed the outline pages by adding the word Outline to the end - so if you have bookmarks to the outline you will have to change them.
 * Get TLC data (Hess)
 * I have ... and can arrange to get to whoever needs ...
 * city-county open space (16Mb)
 * environment education (PDFs - they have no shape files) (11.1Mb)
 * greenprint (2.2Mb)
 * soils (395Mb)
 * usda common land units (113Mb)
 * voluntary ag districts (81Mb)
 * water access (2Mb)
 * Physical format of pages for each indicator reported should be firm by the end of class - Steve and Katherine will make a proposal.


 * Agenda**

Mostly it's up to y'all - we'll build the agenda in the morning.

Need to discuss data issues

Need to discuss page format

Report title

InVEST and similar

What else should we be doing? Other academic content? Readings? Discussions? What would you like?

How are things going - reflection / debrief - what's good, bad, what needs changed?

Another TLC workday is possible on either Fri 23 April or 30 April - will know which data is available by the time we meet.

Should we always have links <> open in a separate page, and include the title of the document or website linking to? <> Are we going to send thank-you notes to people who help us (maybe the thank you is a copy of the report?) <> For the title, can people put their ideas and then we vote for one? Majority rules? <<--Amanda Campbell >> <>

Mtg SOE 2.26.2010 (A. Campbell) 1. Invest discussion:
 * Notes**

Conclusion: We will wait to see if time allows for Ginevra to do the Invest study for carbon; at the least we will include some rough data on forest ecosystem service valuation in the introduction (ie. water and carbon) by using Charlotte report as a model (Katherine has list of data needs for that). We should include some numbers in the executive summary

Title: We have a lot of ideas. Keep thinking about it, add to the Wiki as you are inspired to, we will decide later on.

Layout: --Each section slightly different colors. --First page of each section contains TLC’s goals --Each indicator needs to have an explanation of why it’s important and why we chose it and how it’s measured --Topic areas under each section contain groups of indicators and description of current status --Final structure TBD—we will include elements on basic page structure on SOE outline, and how they settle out into clusters and topic areas is to be determined as we go.

Data needs: 1-Look at the ‘data resources’ page first 2-If not there, email Leigh Ann 3-If they have it they can send us to FTP site 4-If not, then we can proceed with other sources
 * We want to avoid using data without metadata.
 * George has data for today also

Any more data needs? àConnecting People and Nature--Fishable/swimmable. Fishable is covered under mercury, swimmable—George has Wake info on closings, water can tell us what is impairment type. àWater quality is covering irrigation use.

What about reviewers? · If they are not lined up yet, that needs to be finalized ASAP

Any more concerns? · Everyone is working hard and making progress. · Final Presentation—think about any other random people you want to invite, i.e., advisors.