| Aug 2 (Thu) |
afternoon |
Travel / Arrival Day |
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6:00PM - 6:30PM |
Cash Bar and Introductions |
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6:30PM - 7:30PM |
Dinner Served |
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7:30PM - 9:00PM |
Information Management: Where are we coming from and where are we going?
Susan Stafford, John Porter, Don Henshaw, Karen Baker, Florence Millerand, James Brunt, and Barbara Benson |
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| Aug 3 (Fri) |
7:30AM |
Continental Breakfast Served at Crowne Plaza (available through AM break)
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8:00AM - 8:45AM |
Review of Agenda, Meeting Goals and Updates (Kaplan, Gries) |
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8:45 AM - 11:00AM |
“Town Hall”
10 minute Presentations from Panelists:
Mike Goodchild, Director, Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science,
University
of
California,
Santa Barbara
Mike Frame, USGS, NBII
Peter McCartney, NSF
Judy Cushing, Grasslands Data Integration Project
~9:30 - 15 Minute Break, beverages refreshed
“Town Hall” GIS/IM/RS Panel Discussion: Meeting the Challenges of Integrating LTER long-term, GIS and Social Science Data
Facilitated and Summarized by Stafford |
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11:00AM - 11:30AM |
5 minute Presentations on Planning-oriented Working Groups
1. CI Planning/Critical Network Functionality, Facilitator(s): Benson, Vanderbilt
2. IMC/LNO Partnership and Collaborations, Facilitator(s): Melendez-Colom
3. IMC Reorganization and Governance, Facilitator(s): Gries, Kaplan
4. GIS self organization, Facilitator: Valentine |
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11:30AM - 12:45PM |
Lunch on your own
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12:45PM - 1:30PM |
EcoTRENDS (Servilla, Laney)
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1:30PM - 2:00PM |
New IM website (TOC, Identify editors), (Gries) |
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2:00PM - 2:45PM |
Working Groups
1. CI Planning/Critical Network Functionality, Facilitator(s): Benson, Vanderbilt
2. IMC/LNO Partnership and Collaborations, Facilitator(s): Melendez-Colom
3. IMC Reorganization and Governance, Facilitator(s): Gries, Kaplan |
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15 Minute Break for participants to change rooms |
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3:00PM - 3:45PM |
Working Groups
1. CI Planning/Critical Network Functionality, Facilitator(s): Benson, Vanderbilt
2. IMC/LNO Partnership and Collaborations, Facilitator(s): Melendez-Colom
3. GIS self-organization, Facilitator: Valentine |
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3:45PM - 4:00PM |
5 minute Working Groups Report |
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4:00PM |
Snack Break |
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4:30PM - 6:00PM |
Demo and Poster Session, Facilitator: Walsh |
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| Aug 4 (Sat) |
7:30AM |
Continental Breakfast Served at
Crowne
Plaza
(available through AM break) |
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8:00AM - 8:15AM |
Agenda Review |
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8:15AM - 9:00AM |
15 minute Reports from Partners & Committees – Identify new challenges and opportunities, LNO (Brunt), NISAC (Sheldon), and NEON (Peterson) |
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9:00AM - 9:30AM |
Call with Henry Gholz |
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9:30AM |
10 minute introductions to Process and Product Working Groups |
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10:15AM |
15 minute Break, beverages refreshed |
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10:30AM - 11:45AM |
Product Oriented Working Groups
1. Controlled Vocabulary, Facilitator: Porter
2. Unit Dictionary, Facilitators: Ackerman, O’Brien, San Gil, and Walsh
3. QA/QC - Real-time Data, Facilitators: Sheldon and Henshaw
4. GIS a) recommendations of basic spatial information for all sites b) enhance georeferencing of information and c) mapping and analysis tools to facilitate research, Facilitator: Valentine |
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11:45AM - 1:00PM |
Lunch on your own |
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1:00PM - 2:00PM |
IM Business Meeting (Kaplan, Gries) |
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2:00PM - 3:15PM |
Product Oriented Working Groups
1. Controlled Vocabulary, Facilitator: Porter
2. Unit Dictionary, Facilitators: Ackerman, O’Brien, San Gil, and Walsh
3. QA/QC - Metadata and Synthesis, Facilitators: Sheldon and Henshaw
4. GIS a) recommendations of basic spatial information for all sites b) enhance georeferencing of information and c) mapping and analysis tools to facilitate research, Facilitator: Valentine
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3:15PM - 3:45PM |
5 minute Working Groups Report |
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3:45PM |
Snack Break |
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4:00PM - 4:30PM |
Meeting Wrap Up and Identify Action Items (Kaplan, Gries) |
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4:30PM - 6:00PM |
Demo and Poster Session, Facilitator: Walsh |
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| Aug 5 (Sun) |
morning |
Travel Departure Day |
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8:00AM - 10:00AM |
IMexec Breakfast meeting in hotel restaurant |
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8:00AM - 1:00PM |
Large Room Available for Break-out Group Sessions, if people would like to self-organize. Note that Sunday evening hotel rooms will not be supported. |
