FLARE 2017 Meeting_03
Date: January 25, 2017
Time: 10:30AM-noon
In attendance: JT, Suhyun, Andrew, Chuan, Jon, Anil, Anne, Meg
AGENDA AND MINUTES
10:30-10:40
(MI time) Riddle
10:40-10:45
Question of the day: Chuan, will you manage the meeting? ^^
10:45-10:55
FLARE Social media and website update
-Forest guessing game will be bi-weekly
-FLARE 2016 short video in progress
10:55-11:15
Project Updates
- Ghana *Suhyun/Arun
-Andrew- started basic mapping with Suhyun, will work to combine data (census and other survey data)
2. Indonesia *Anil/Arun
-Anil- Waiting to hear back from DFID group for feedback & data, might do another household data collection, might use some of JT’s data at the village level, update: potentially have village level data in south Sumatra and household data in West Jambi… Could contact an NGO JT knows for more information.
3. Ethiopia *Jon – SAE & measures of well-being
-Jon- working on small area estimation, relating household data to census data through choosing wellbeing indicators
4. India *Jennifer/Meg
-Jennifer (and Falak) moving forward with enumerator training. December data completed and ready to be entered to Qualtrics.
-Team needs around 5 tablets – get in Nepal?
-Meg to update harvest data survey
11:15-11:30
- LRR *Chuan/Jon/Andrew/Meg/Arun
-Chuan will be in Tanzania Feb 14- March 4, and will start selecting target sites for survey
-Jon-twitter ready to be added to the website: Land_SEAS
-FLARE peoples page updated still missing photos
-Sponsor icons added to website
2. Nepal *Anil/Meg/Arun
-2015 data needs to be merged, Anil will map it again and put it on the Q drive
-Meg will follow up with Birendra
11:30-11:40
- Quarterly Post-Doc report
-Postdocs to submit to Arun by end of January
2. Quarterly DFID Report
-Any updates will be sent to Chuan
11:40 – 11:50
- FLARE 2016 Feedback
-Will help guide us as we plan for next conference, people don’t want as many parallel sessions
Send all your FLARE photos/videos to Meg, she is preparing a video of the 2016 conference
11:50- 12:00
- New project: Environmental/spatial datasets *Arun/Anil/Andrew/Jon
-Anil and Arun working on new project with six countries in sub-saharan Africa, Andrew is working on rainfall datasets, working on finding other applicable datasets, Jon will test flooding datasets to see if that could work
2. Research materials inventory
-Meg to create a log sheet for tablets and other FLARE research equipment to easily track items