Date: January 11, 2017
Time: 10:30AM-12noon
In attendance: Arun, Suhyun, Andrew, Chuan, Jon, Anil, Meg
AGENDA AND MINUTES
(MI time)
10:40-10:50
One-sentence answer to: “What’s the best part of your Winter holiday break?” <just to fuel ourselves with positive energy>
10:50-11:00
Social media updates and plans moving forward
-Weekly monitoring with Emily
-Social media twists – request for minimum budget
-Shared folder for photos – please label (name, site name, project)
-Emily to still update IFRI accounts
11:00-11:10
Website updates
-New video posted by Emily (Marina Silvia FLARE 2016) – add hashtags when posting
-Researchers profile – completed, Meg to update FLARE website
-Remove previous registration info on FLARE meetings and start building on FLARE 2017 meeting
11:10-11:25
Plans for work in Indonesia and Ghana
*Indonesia
-Anil to follow-up on this
-Set-up a time to talk with Julie to discuss moving forward with data collection in Indonesia
-JT is coming back in 2 weeks
*Ghana
-LMLS extracted – locations where VPA is being implemented
-Suhyun to talk with Reem and ask what needs to be done
-Suhyun leaving on the 23rd
-When to launch extraction efforts in Ghana – TBD
*Indonesia and Ghana
-Short note on synthetic controls -> Push towards an elaborated document
-How to carry out synthetic control analysis on natural resources e.g. forests?; what dataset to use?
-Suhyun to share the related analysis in Brazil to Arun, can we use their approach? What dataset on drivers to deforestation to use? Hopefully, we could use this for Indonesia and Ghana projects
11:25-11:45
Other project updates/Issues/Concerns/Needs
-Jon: no undergrad attended last meeting for NSF project
-Jon to send a note to Dan and to check with Cathy for meeting with Dan every other week.
-Jon to create a twitter account for NSF project, send account info to Meg to help with managing it
-Florida meeting scheduled on Fridays (every 2 weeks), from 9-11a.m. (1hour to talk about Ethiopia project and another hour for other important issues to tackle)
-Meg to continue working with Chuan on improving the LRR website; add tweet side bar
-What other works can we do with Land Transaction project?
11:45-noon
Quarterly DFID report (March)
-Arun to discuss next meeting
Postdoc quarterly report reminder (due Jan31st)