MDCB
Agenda, Fall 2007 Meeting
Portland, OR

Methods Board Meeting, Portland, OR, Oct. 23-24, 2007

Tuesday, Oct. 23 

Tuesday: (Oct. 23)

 

 
Time Subject Leader(s)  
8:30 a.m. Welcome Dennis Lynch, Director, Oregon-USGS Water Science Center  
8:40

Water Information Strategies workgroup -- collaboration w/ the Board

Curtis Cude and other WIS members w/ the Board  
9:45 Break  
10:00 WIS -- cont. All  
11:00 Future Directions for the Board Chuck Spooner  
11:45 LUNCH  
12:45 p.m. PHab data elements (detailed agenda) Revital K., Faith F., Jerry D.  
3:10 Break    
3:30 Event monitoring Eric V.  
Evening Dinner    

Wednesday, Oct. 24

Time (PDT) Subject Leader(s)  
8:00 a.m. Report-backs Event Monitoring: Eric V.  
8:20 (conc) NEMI Dan S.  
8:20 (conc) Volunteer monitoring
Eric Russell, SurfRider Foundation  
9:00 Pacific Northwest Monitoring Partnership (Web site) Jen Bayer  
10:00 Break  
10:15 (conc) Volunteer monitoring Eric R.  
10:15 (conc) PHab data elements Revital and Faith  
Noon LUNCH  
1:00p.m. Breakout Groups    
 

PHab data elements

 

 
  Volunteer monitoring    
3:00p.m. Break  
3:15 Report backs PHab -- RK, FF, JD
Volunteer -- ER
NEMI: DS
 
3:30 Future of the Board -- Brainstorming session All  
4:30 Conference planning  
5:30 Adjourn  
Evening Field trip  

PHab Data Elements Detailed Agenda

Tuesday: (Oct. 23)

 
Time (PDT) Subject Leader(s)  
12:45 p.m. Intro & Background of PHab workgroup Revital K. and Faith F.  
1:05 p.m. History of Data Elements & the Board Jerry Diamond  
1:25pm WQX Overview and Update Dwane Young  
1:45 USGS BioData database Pete Ruhl  
2:05 BioData Spatial Framework
-- Proposal document
-- Sampling Unit Cardinality Pt. 1 || Pt. 2
Mitch Harris/Jana Stewart  
2:25 Spatial elements relations Revital Katznelson  
2:45 Break    
3:00

Where do we go from here? How do we get there?

Main goal of the rest of the meeting: Develop strategy for generating the PHab data element list

Steps to get there:
- Define decision-making process
- Are missing anybody? Who?
- Do we have all the prelim data needed?
- Draft PHab list (2005)
- Spatial framework - critical element
- Generate draft list by March '08
- Review process?
- Workshop at May '08 Conference?
- Define steps, assign tasks/responsibilities, make timeline

All  
5:00 Adjourn    
       

Wednesday, Oct. 24

Time (PDT) Subject Leader(s)  
10:15 a.m. Phab working session (cont)    
Noon LUNCH  
1:00p.m. PHab data elements (cont)    
3:00p.m. Break  
3:15 Report backs    

 

 

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