Class2010Feb12

**Class Assignments and Agenda for Week 5, 2010 Feb 12**
Class meets from 9:10 - 11:55A in 3214 Jordan Hall on the NCSU Campus. You are free to bring food and drink to this classroom.


 * The major objectives for this session are to ...**
 * Clean up outlines and make decisions about direction
 * how deep into ecosystem services valuation?
 * Solidify conceptual concepts for each page - what's on each page? Can we make a template?
 * Decide how to handle mapping and GIS data analysis- we need some kind of system for requesting analyses (of the people on our team who know how to do them) in a timely manner.


 * Things to do before class**
 * Have outlines uploaded by noon Tuesday 9 Feb (each team)
 * Send outline to TLC for comment by midnight Tuesday (Hess)
 * Continue working on collecting data


 * Consent Agenda** - this means there's no discussion on these items, unless someone disagrees.


 * Deadlines and milestones were amended and adopted and are documented on the calendar / milestones page
 * We will not meet at Duke or UNC-CH because of logistical difficulties and the Duke and UNC-CH students graciously noted that there were but three of them and they are not put out by coming to NCSU once a week.
 * Ginevra really likes cookies
 * We need to decide on whether and how we would take an ecosystems services approach (in the sense of formally monetizing them) soon - InVEST is on the table for discussion - http://www.naturalcapitalproject.org/toolbox.html#InVEST
 * Have we received data source info from Leigh Ann **Cienek** as she'd promised to put on TLC's FTP site? (NO - coming with outline comments)


 * Annotated Agenda**

Create Agenda (9:25)
 * 1) Review Contact Log (sidebar of wiki)
 * 2) Add a page to the wiki before the contact log which provides space for us to list who we are //planning// to call so that we don’t bombard the same person over and over <>
 * 3) Brunell showed us how to use it
 * 4) Transfer idea to data collection and website collection
 * 5) Discussed how to sort the information on the spread sheet
 * 6) By last name of contact
 * 7) Brunell showed us all how to create the form
 * 8) Create new - form
 * 9) The form creates a spread sheet automatically
 * 10) The only drawback is that the form cannot be reorganized easily if you forget to enter a field when you initially create the form
 * 11) RefWorks for bibliography
 * 12) Use RefWorks to keep track of references
 * 13) Keep separate RefWorks for each group
 * 14) Map Units
 * 15) Use miles for report
 * 16) Use SI units parenthetically
 * 17) Data Collection Log
 * 18) Add field for file type
 * 19) Add field for hyperlink to data
 * 20) Don’t need “Analyses Run”, will keep track on spread sheet or within metadata
 * 21) Data on the actual data
 * 22) Brief description of data
 * 23) Put into the same format as the contact log google doc?
 * 24) Give everyone access to the google doc so people can edit as needed
 * 25) Katherine’s mock up
 * 26) Looks good!
 * 27) Over all introduction
 * 28) Side bar with TCLs goals
 * 29) General title across the top
 * 30) Educational boxes
 * 31) Maps, tables, and graphs and description of why it matters
 * 32) Resources and notes at the end
 * 33) Leigh Ann is putting data sources in the outline as she reviews it

Team Time (9:55) Reconvene (11:20) Wrap Up (11:40)
 * 1) Questions developed in small group sessions
 * 2) What is a park?
 * 3) Triangle Greenway Council
 * 4) Triangle Greenway Council
 * 5) InVEST- yes or no?
 * 6) Data is fairly easy to come by—use averages from papers already published
 * 7) Concern is that the model takes time to run and may bog us down
 * 8) Maybe do carbon and erosion control?
 * 9) Decide by next week whether this is feasible
 * 10) Page Structure Concepts
 * 11) Name of Measure
 * 12) Why does this matter? (Why important?)
 * 13) Educational elements
 * 14) What does it show? (finding/results)
 * 15) Graph/table/map
 * 16) Text interpretation of key points
 * 17) Trends (if available)
 * 18) Interpretation against standards (if available)
 * 19) Technical
 * 20) How measured
 * 21) Analysis notes
 * 1) Next week
 * 2) House Keeping Stuff
 * 3) Work day with TLC 1-4PM
 * 4) TLC comments back on the outline
 * 5) Thoughts on INVEST
 * 6) Each Group Should Post on the Wiki by Thursday at noon:
 * 7) Identify external reviewers for the sections
 * 8) Identify potential audience for final presentation
 * 9) Nail down data sources
 * 10) Create mock up of graphs and charts for your section
 * 11) Start with most important figures
 * 12) Creating a wish list of sorts
 * 13) Sample graphs/tables to guide the data needed


 * Notes**