[HubbardBrook] SCC Minutes 4/7/15

[Ruth D Yanai]

April 7, 2015
SCC meeting
Attending:  Ruth Yanai, Scott Bailey, John Campbell, Lindsey Rustad, Lynn Christenson, John Battles, Gary Lovett
Pam Templer by phone
Not Ivan Fernandez, Melany Fisk, or Charley Driscoll

Review COS membership annually
Scott, as RAC chair, usually offers names of new investigators who have proposed projects at the site. This year, all RAC proposals are from existing members. Otherwise, we ask if anyone knows of any existing investigators who are missing from the COS. And we make a list of inactive members for the chair to check in with to see if they want to stay on the COS. I would say that the list is fairly heavy toward the inactive side right now, which may not be that desirable. Maybe some of the discussion should focus on how to encourage existing members to be more active?
We approved the addition of Matt Vadeboncoeur , Eric Kelsey, and Jacqueline Hatala Mathes  to the COS.
John Battles will check with some of the inactive members to see if they want to be on the more general list rather than the COS list.

Encouraging people to participate
Dylan Parry (insects), ESF  --Ruth invited him, his student Wendy came.
Tom Horton (mycorrhizae), ESF --Ruth invited him, he wanted to come.
Hannah ter Hofstede, Dartmouth, sensory ecology, bats and insects
Jackie Mathes, Dartmouth, ecosystems, eddy flux, climate
Farrah Fatemi is back in Vt (St Michaels)  —Lindsey will contact her
Jennifer Talbot is a new professor at BU, microbiology  —Pam will contact her
Madeline Mineau has been working at HB, not coming to COS mts.  --John C will contact her.

Leadership
Pam and John B. were willing to co-Chair.  They will negotiate coverage for the quarterly meetings.
Thanks to our departing members, Ruth and Scott.

Changes to the format of the Cooperators meeting
Mary Martin will check with Suzanne, who used to help to get people registered on line and collect titles.
Timeline:  Announce in April, due by June 10.  Circulate the agenda by June 25.
Tim will still organize the talks, but he wants to have only 2 lengths (3 and 8, plus 2 minutes for discussion and transition).
How about moving the Wednesday afternoon meetings to Tuesday before the HBRF dinner?
Poster session will be Thursday after lunch.  Two blocks of committee meetings, 3-5 Tuesday and 3-5 Thursday.  Lynn will send us a proposed revision.
Scott would be happy to work with Tim on the scientific program.
Organizing lunch?  Could we get some graduate students to do in exchange for a free lunch?
David will come back with a recommendation.
Sign up graduate students to help Ian with logistics.  We need about 10 of them, give them a t-shirt.  Put it on the registration form, and give them specific times to help.  Scott will ask Ian.

Future COS meetings
July:  synthesis and integration, modeling and prediction, or “advanced analytical techniques” – Groffman, Driscoll, Aber, Richardson, Battles, Goodale, Yanai, Rastetter.  Focus it on a particular problem. Climate change?  Influence diagrams?  This could help with the LTER renewal.  “coherent conceptual model” and prediction, uncertainty, new tools. The bird group has two different simulation models.  Hydropedology.  Predicting trees
October:  Precipitation increase.  “Building an ark.”  More water, more dilute.  ET, WUE.  Heidi Abjornsen.  Who will lead?  John C.  Mark.  Hydropedology.  Lindsey will help.
Ideas for the future
--Multiple limitation study
--Soil freezing
--Aluminum
--H+ budget
--Resilience
--relating to new programs at NSF (get the list from Peter)  NEON, nexus, macrosystems
--Biodiversity, Matt Ayers, Windsor Lowe
--W2, invite Reiners, Likens, maybe.  50th anniversary

Minutes respectfully submitted by Ruth Yanai



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