September 2019 Brownbag
The first brownbag for the fall 2019 semester was held in March 7, 2019. There were a lot of updates from all corners, and the meeting took place for about an hour and a half. For the context of the project, it was an extremely busy schedule for the engineering modelling team, as they had to finish all model simulations to get the seasonal forecast ready in time.
The meeting first heard from the undergraduate participants, on their invaluable experiences from the Ethiopia summer field visit. For all the undergraduate students, it was their first visit to a new continent! It was decided that they will submit a reflection report based on their visit. Also, interested undergraduate students would be provided with the opportunity to continue research within the NSF PIRE project.
There were discussions on the individual research updates. Genevieve Rigler, an undergraduate student from UConn recently attended a conference in the University of Oklahoma and presented a poster on the PIRE Citizen Science project. Xinyu Lin, another undergraduate student who is committed to doing her thesis with the PIRE project will also continue her research for the next two semesters.
The graduate student team discussed in very detail about the development of the dry season Forecast Bulletin. The social science team from Ethiopia remotely connected for the meeting and provided valuable updates on the feedback they received from the initial forecast dissemination. A few updates to the existing draft bulletin was discussed and accepted. The engineering team talked about their model findings in very brief. Overall it was decided that in the next Brownbag they will continue discussions on inter-disciplinary research, agent based modelling techniques, and on ideas of how to improve the forecast bulletins from now on.
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Published: October 19, 2019