Alexey-Ben meeting 2018-09-05

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Two week horizon:

• @ashiklom to request access to PIC
• @bpbond to request project PIC allocation~
• Talk with VCU folks about standing up a Slack
• Ben to forward Alyssa's GCAM meeting invite email, and Alexey will attend (mid-October)
• Set up standing meeting time

Two months:

• Hector and Hector-related papers, including ~~Hartin et al 2015~~ and ~~2016~~, ~~Lynch et al. 2017~~, Kravitz et al. 2018, and Link et al. 2018
• Clone and build: https://github.com/JGCRI/hector
• Touch base with Robert (current reset/MCMC work) and Mike (vis-à-vis PEcAn) re plans
• Probably 10% of time?
• Alexey PhD chapters–keep 'em moving. Ch. 2 (rework for resubmission); Ch. 3 (add data, consider venue); Ch. 4 (ED radiative transfer; AGU talk). Another 10% of time (and obviously longer than two months)
• Work towards setting up a PEcAn node on PIC. This will involve some research and talk with IT support (especially wrt always-running daemon) (40%)
• Begin assembling any necessary data for first-year FoRTE paper (10%)

Two years:

• Pauling Fellowship, probably fall 2019, but @ashiklom to investigate whether makes sense to apply this fall
• Think about summer 2019, and talk with @atkinsjeff re fieldwork plans and possible cross-lab collaborative work (10%)
• First-year FoRTE paper running PEcAn at UMBS
• Mentoring, as needed, for junior staff

Other:

• Discussed Ben's time allocation–very low on FoRTE
• Charging protocols
• Alexey to think about 2019 meeting(s) to attend
• VCU Google Drive

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Other stuff?

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Week 1 updates:

• Hector
  • Read Hartin et al. 2015 and 2016 papers
  • Downloaded, compiled, and successfully ran tests
  • Generated some output and plotted with R
  • Opened two small PRs -- one documentation fix, and one Makefile revision. Also, one wiki addition related to outputs bug.
• FoRTE -- No updates
• Dissertation residuals
  • Selected Ecology Letters for Chapter 1 resubmit. Reviewed and took notes on requirements.
• Other
  • PNNL onboarding and training
  • In contact with PNNL IT/Research Computing about a cluster node for running PEcAn
  • Set up instance of PEcAn on my work machine for local testing and development while PIC discussions are ongoing