2020-01-14 Board Meeting

Agenda

Discuss New Workshops
- instructor training
- DC ecology
- DC geospatial
- Genomics
Discuss having another social at EPI before workshops start this semester
Report on REC workshops and progress
Dr. Michailidis and UFII collaboration/workshops
Travel grants and awards
Potential NEON collaboration

Board members: Eve Bohnett (chair), Brian Stucky (secretary), Vratika Chaudhary, Minghao Gong, Carla Mavian, Elise Morrison, Jenicca Poongavanan

Guests: Geraldine Klarenberg

Approved!

We still don’t have enough information to schedule the instructor training.
- Brian will contact Maneesha (again) and try to get a firm answer on a mid-March workshop. March 9-10 might be the only option for us.
- He will also contact Francois and Kari separate about availability.
REC workshops
- Geraldine and Jenicca are meeting with the IFAS dean on Thursday about workshop funding and goals.
- Need to set location for REC workshop.
Social sciences workshop
- Formerly the ecology workshop.
- Target February 10-11 for this one.
- Will host at UFII.
Geospatial workshop
- We will target March 30-31.
- Will host at UFII.
Genomics workshop
- Carla: Thinking of early April for this.
Elise will confirm the UFII reservations for all workshop dates.

Jenicca and Vratika have been working on this.
Planning on January 21 opening for applications, with deadline on February 4.
Evaluation committee will make decision by February 28, results announced on March 1.
Evaluation committee: Carla, Minghao, Elise

The informatics room is booked for January 29 from 11:30-1:30 for our spring social.
Please print and post the announcement flyer.
We will have a short slideshow running in the background during the social. Depending on attendance, we could also deliver a short presentation from the slides.
Eve found a Carpentries intro slide on the Web; she will convert it to a Google Slides presentation that we can collaboratively edit.
Brian will draft an email announcement.

We’ll see how the January social goes, then decide whether to host another at EPI.
Elise: Rather than holding another social, we could investigate hosting a table at EPI or other events. In terms of number of people we’d reach, that might be far more cost-efficient than hosting more socials.
Carla: EPI has a “Research Day” on February 13 at the Union that could be a venue for this.
Carla will contact EPI about hosting a table at EPI Research Day.

Felipe Sanchez, a fisheries masters student who works at NEON, contacted us about running a NEON workshop.
Felipe is planning to attend our next board meeting, and we’ll learn more then.