Attendees:

  • Bill Gropp
  • Valentin Pentchev
  • Alice Delage
  • Aaron Bergstrom
  • Lior shamir
  • Jim Barkley
  • James Reecy
  • Ivo Dinov
  • Carrie Brown
  • Melissa Haynes
  • Kimberly Zarecor
  • Brian Athey
  • Moira Dowling
  • Joe Colletti

Action items
AllThink in advance about topics that the SC should discuss
BillCheck on NSF invitation to PI meeting
Hub Director's office

Set up a meeting with Indiana and ISU on smart communities


 DISCUSSION 

  1. NSF review of "next phase" proposal
    1. Review ongoing. Bill received a ping about an overdue report, so optimism is allowed

  2. Upcoming MBDH activities:

    1. Is there any gaps in list of events and what we should participate in?

  3. MBDH All-Hands Meeting 2019 IF the next phase is awarded

    1. Oct. 28-30 in Chicago

  4. DS efforts in your organizations (new projects, events, etc.?)

    1. UNL has a Datapalooza coming up this month: https://hcc.unl.edu/datapalooza-2019

    2. NSF invitation to PI meeting? Bill to check
    3. DigAg
      1. Carolyn Dill stepping back
      2. . DigAg Spoke on Precision Livestock Farming, create a subgroup 
      3. Starting webinars next term
    4. Being more productive in Steering Committee meetings: thinking in advance about topics that we can discuss
    5. How to use the hub as a networking and advertising tool in a more effective way
      1.  ISU workshop this summer
    6. Make sure that linkages happen from the MBDH website 
      1. DigAg website used to point to the community - people can express their interest to be part of it that way
    7. In the next phase, spoke leaders could reach out to the community and ask for what are collaborations interests in their areas. Results could be published on MBDH website with regular updates to help people find collaborators
    8. Show the MBDH as an aggregation point to the network, a resource hosting a wide range of collaborators and projects

  5. Any remaining questions on last SC meeting’s new Hub structure presentation?
    1. How do researchers that don't work in their institution's main priority area engage with other hub's institutions that lead them instead?
      1. idea was to have a unit responsible for advancing priority areas
      2. set up a meeting with Indiana and ISU on smart communities
    2. In parallel, how do institutions take contributions from partners out of their direct priority area?
    3. How to develop cross promotion of activities

    4. Seed funding for priority areas will allow to do innovative things 

    5. National coordination entity


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