April 42005

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.

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;

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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April 42005

Action Items

Notes

The course should be held at 3-4 of the SEEK institutions.

Class format was discussed

KEY ISSUES