Attendees:

  • Aaron Bergstrom
  • Cathy Blake
  • Carrie Brown
  • Jennifer Clarke
  • Joe Colletti
  • Alice Delage
  • Ivo Dinov
  • Moira Dowling
  • Bill Gropp
  • Melissa Haynes
  • Valentin Pentchev
  • Franco Pestilli
  • James Reecy
  • Lior Shamir
  • Kimberly Zarecor

Action items
AllThink in advance about topics that the SC should discuss



 DISCUSSION 

  1. Old business
    1. No new items for newsletter and blog

  2. New business: MBDH Phase 2

    1. Questions from NSF received and responses sent by Feb. 28

    2. Draft cooperative agreement received from NSF. Send back separately with comments from each institution.
    3. Website news: new priority areas pages and various links off it - let Alice know if anything is missing

  3. Updates from the MBDH DigAg priority area and next steps

    1. Presentation from Joe Colletti (ISU), James Reecy (ISU), Carolyn Lawrence-Dill (ISU), Aaron Bergstrom (UND), Jennifer Clarke (UNL/UNO)
      View the slides (PDF version): SlidesDigitalAgJC-ab-plus-v2.pdf

      1. Some highlights: 

        1. Area of growth: Precision Livestock Farming (PLF)

        2. UASPSE Spoke Project connection with Arrell Food Institute 

        3. Ongoing Unmanned Data Mondays Webinar

        4. DigAg All-hands Meeting on August 21, 2019 at KSU

    2. Question from Kimberly on advantage of RCN to develop community approach. Response: MBDH helped to connect people and issues in early planning stages and provided the initial funding to get people with similar interests together. RCN then helped connect to new sources of funding

    3. Question from Alice on how can MBDH central office continue to support in next stages. Response: further engage community around data, and point to resources and projects. 


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