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| - Establish a working group to design the distributed graduate seminar\\ |
| - Establish an point person at each university for infrastructure (i.e., getting course number,advertising course, etc.0 |
| - Establish a working group page |
| + !!Action Items |
| + *Establish a working group to design the distributed graduate seminar\\ |
| + *Establish a point person at each university for infrastructure (i.e., getting course number,advertising course, etc.) |
| + *Establish a working group page |
| + *Set up meeting for every two weeks |
| + !!Notes |
| + Members of the SEEK Exec proposed establishing a working group to design and implement the distributed graduate seminar. |
| + !The course should be held at 3-4 of the SEEK institutions. |
| + Proposed institutions include UC Davis, UCSB, KU and UNM. |
| + Current point people |
| + *Bertram and Shawn, UC Davis |
| + *Mark Schildhauer, UC SB |
| + *Samantha Romanello and Deana Pennington, UNM |
| + *James Beach?!?!, KU |
| + due to scheduling issues link universities based on whether they run semesters:UNM/KU or quarters: UCSB/Davis. |
| + !Class format was discussed |
| + Parrallel seminars that are coordinated enough to meet and overlap; |
| + Shared curriculum; |
| + Classes should be both computer science classes and ecology classes; |
| + Each class could answer a regional biological/ecological question; |
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| + !KEY ISSUES |
| + Defining an interesting project from the ecology side that would also have an interesting enough computer science component. Suggestions included: |
| + *Comparing and contrasting and knowledge representation of key ecological/biological issues--i.e., having students create nonformal ontologies on underlying concepts and comparing these ontologies to look at the relationship between diversity and productivity. |
| + *Have students work on creating real application workflows -- Creating conceptual models in kepler based on data and comparing those models –- |
| + *replicating the KNB working group study on biodiversity/productivity different measure of diversity |
| + *Sampling properties of different types of species-area curves and how they reflect underlying ecological processes. |
| + *Comparing and contrasting the two common experimental approaches used in understanding of biodiversity and productivity -- manipulations of productivity and the alternation of the number of species or functional groups. |
| + Identifying individuals from both the computer science and biology/ecology side to assist in teaching the course -- |
| + *Bertram/Shawn |
| + *Town Peterson |
| + *Alan Hastings |
| + *Susan Gauch |
| + *Stephen Cox |
| + Students should be able to get a publishable paper from class participation.\\ |
| + Make sure the credit hours reflect the amount of outside class work.\\ |
| + Identify data that would be available before class starts. \\ |
| + Question should be scalable across regions to answer the same biological/ecological question at a national scale. |
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