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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.)
- Establish a working group page
- Set up meeting for every two weeks
Members of the SEEK Exec proposed establishing a working group to design and implement the distributed graduate seminar.
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.
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
- 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 – grassland biodiversity --
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