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# Project Hour

Boards:
- [Incubators](https://github.com/orgs/cct-datascience/projects/7)
- [Funded](https://github.com/orgs/cct-datascience/projects/9)

## Meeting structure

15-30 minutes (as efficiently as possible)
- Review incubator board and non-incubator board via brief status updates with a focus on any changes and blockers
    - Challenges, next steps, new projects

Remaining time
- Coworking on project
- If no coworking opportunities, solo work on a project

Optional
- ~~Discuss incubator or project processes as a group~~ Do this during group processes hour

## Ongoing discussion topics

- Defining our level of involvement in dissertation projects or other grad student projects, and documenting this somewhere
- Project planning (plans, estimation, scope, etc.)
- Review project plans periodically (set cadence)

## Meeting notes

Rolling, reverse chronological notes for each meeting

### Next time

- Do we want do this type of work (coaching), that's one-on-one coaching that's between drop-in hours and incubator?
    - Might not be enough time to really help people learn
- geotargets hours

### 2024-10-25

Project follow-ups:

- Talk to people 0.1-1yr after project completion
- Motivated by *C. diff* incubator that got abandoned and re-made from scratch, GSI dashboard that is meant to have longevity
- Remind people we can continue to support them and do additional projects

Action items:

- [ ] Update processes for project wrap-up to include a step to add an issue to board 6 months (12 sprints) out to remind us to follow-up
- [ ] Create list of questions to ask in follow-up (email)
- [ ] Follow up on GSI dashboard project (wrapped about 6 months ago)



### 2024-08-14

- rnpn
    - Waiting to dig into project plan until there is more clarity around: scope of work; potential for funding; potential for additional hires/collaborators?
- Add drone work once the goals and projects are clear

### 2024-07-03

- Bayesian tree ring project w/ Margaret Evans
- Fish app incubator -> completed
- Reconnect with Eldridge Wisely in/before the fall

### 2024-06-06

- Possible consultations with Vish about C diff app
- New proposals: NSF cybertraining w/ TAMU

### 2024-05-22

*Possible incubator project with Eldridge Wisely*
- GitHub repo: https://github.com/EWisely/GitHub_Galapagos_Menu
- Possible difficulties
    - Dependencies, e.g., CRABS (Python run on command line)

### 2024-05-08

#### Incubators



#### Funded


### 2024-04-24

#### Incubators

- Pinged volcalc collaborators
- GSI almost done (blog post)
- Date palm transpiration closed
- Still need to talk to Scott re: fish app
- Red squirrel: most recent survey data is up; waiting for old data curation (almost there!)
- Mountain lion: we don't have capacity at the moment, and waiting to hear back from collaborators
- rnpn: Temporarily, thermal calendars is higher priority
- Others can stay in planning

#### Funded

- Volcalc: nearing completion. Outstanding PR to check validity of mol files; going to attempt CRAN submission again.
- PSInet: >120 datasets, moving towards author QA + database design
- FIA: On pause; looking for next steps
- AZmet: Need to check in with Dave re: infrastructure
- Thermal Calendars: Eric needs go ahead on GDD methods. Otherwise, next step will be generating models/figures for a paper.
- SPARC'd: Fixing assorted problems (build w/Java; restricting user-editable fields; following-up on data quality checks).
- LLM/Rangeland Docs: Met with Nirav about chatbot to learn about LLMs in academic context; need to schedule follow-up meeting to talk about details of implementation + cost


#### Other

- Renata met with Osas 4/23 and handed off code

### 2024-03-13

**Osaretin Olurotimi help**
- Professor in Ag and Resource Economics
- Project on effects of climate on children in Uganda
- Need to download climate data & wrangle
    - Some code from previous collaborator
    - She is learning R
- Renata will work with her


**Theresa Crimmins project**
- Project plan being drafted: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EvFNFU1tLrxSgH1E0oWB2wenkYZrI92LE7dl0nxZRio/edit
- Project plan doesn't include work on paper?
- Slow start during March, starting to figure out data and create issues
- Eric will probably be lead, Renata and Eric will hand it back and forth
- Need Theresa to remind us about how to get the data to start working


**Rangeland docs project**
- Started as incubator using ML to classify documents
- Followup funding to use LLMs *somehow*
- 25k for now through september

### 2024-02-14

- Decide who would be second on rnpn incubator (and determine approximate start date)
    - We might delay the start of this until Jeff Switzer has more capacity and to dovetail with thermal calendars project (earlier start date)

### 2024-01-03

- Eric had an idea about the saguaro data involving citizen science, but doesn't know if its appropriate or if we already talked about it.
- What more do we need to know about these projects? 
- New possible project #1: TRIF carbon dataset project with Dave Moore
    - Estimating carbon stocks and fluxes across state of Arizona
    - Start with stocks, have identified 10 datasets; shouldn't need to derive carbon values?; challenge is to summarize across different spatial and temporal extents and get confidence across states
    - Broader project covers natural, crop, and geological; wants to seek other funding to expand across North America and then globally 
    - Start this month; other collaborators are two current grad students (Charlie Devine & someone else) + incoming postdoc
    - Page 2-3 of AIR proposal
- New possible project #2: CASC project work with Theresa Crimmins
    - Part 1: calculate average and this year estimate emergence of invasive insects in the northeast; they have Python scripts to calculate these raster products, just need updated variables; they might do this
    - Part 2: publish 2 papers, one data publication (they have some experience with) and publication on trends across time and space; made it clear that they would need to lead the research pub; latter can be done in R if we want
    - Work wouldn't start until spring (April / May) or summer, they need to gather more stakeholder info
    - Page 9 of CASC proposal


### 2023-11-22
- Kristina needs to follow up with Dan McDonald, Theresa Crimmins, and Melissa Curran
- STAC catalog moved to Done
- Fish App need to solidify maintenance and other ongoing efforts

### 2023-10-25

- Moved Green Stormwater Infrastructure / Vanessa Buzzard into "in progress"
- 