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April 42005

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Action Items

  • 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.)
  • 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 UNM/KU and 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; data needed about 4 to 5 datasets which could then be used to synthesized across regions to answer the same biological/ecological question at a national scale

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 --using the discussion
    • Have students work on creating real application workflows
  • 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
  • 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 – grassland biodiversity --



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This particular version was published on 06-Apr-2005 12:37:23 PDT by LTER.sromanello.