[LTER-luq] Fw: Re: minimal field lists for specific studies

[Eda C. Melendez-Colom]

 hi,

Please read the below message where I explain why I did not attend last year's annual meeting and will not attend this year's.


This year is particularly important for me because I will be working with pteridologists in their effort to network and share their data.


I write this because I don't want you to get funny ideas of me leaving my job any time soon. Apparently because of a bad joke I made in my last presentation to the LUQ community, some of you got the idea that I was retiring soon...that will have to happen some day, all of us will have to retire eventually but when I decide it, I will plan for it and whoever is my boss will know in advance...


I hope you have a great meeting!


EDA

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From:"McDowell, Bill" <Bill.McDowell at unh.edu>
Date:Sun, May 31, 2015 at 7:22 pm
Subject:Re: [LTER-luq] minimal field lists for specific studies

Enjoy the meeting. Sounds great!

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On May 31, 2015, at 6:22 PM, Eda C. Melendez-Colom <edacorreo at yahoo.com> wrote:



Thanks Bill.


Unfortunately, I will not be at this year's Annual meeting either. Last year I attended a Convention on Drupal, the platform we use as our website and at the same time our Information Management System. 


This year, I will be part of a workshop: "Field ecology of ferns: a call for new standard methods and opportunities for collaboration among pteridologists” in Washington D.C., June 5th 2015.


Although I like participating in our annual meetings since it is my opportunity to talk and learn from LUQ's scientists, I am looking forward to participating in this international event for which I had the honor to be invited.


Nevertheless, except for Friday morning and early afternoon, I will be available by email, phone and Skype, if necessary.



EDA

PS Bill: I copied the rest of the group to inform them about my absence next week. 



From: McDowell, Bill <Bill.McDowell at unh.edu>; 
To: edacorreo at yahoo.com <edacorreo at yahoo.com>; 
Subject: RE: [LTER-luq] minimal field lists for specific studies 
Sent: Sun, May 31, 2015 6:26:40 PM 


OK, I look forward to seeing you this week. Bill

 

William H. McDowell

Professor of Environmental Science and Presidential Chair

Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire

Director, NH Water Resources Research Center (http://wrrc.unh.edu/)

(603) 862-2249 bill.mcdowell at unh.edu

 

From: edacorreo at yahoo.com [mailto:edacorreo at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 9:58 AM
To: McDowell, Bill
Cc: Luquillo's PIs
Subject: Re: [LTER-luq] minimal field lists for specific studies

 

Sorry. I misunderstood a question from a scientist that was really asking about a list of essential fields to document a biological data set. In other words, he was asking about metadata and not data. 
I guess the word "metadata" is not really widely used and since he asked for a minimal list of fields for data files, I thought for some areas of  investigation there might be a minimal list of measurements investigator should do when conducting a specific experiment. I realized he was talking about metadata after we talked about it some more.

Thank you for telling me you did not understand my question...probably nobody did and I can clarify it to the rest of the group.

EDA
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From: "McDowell, Bill" <Bill.McDowell at unh.edu>
To: "Eda C. Melendez-Colom" <edacorreo at yahoo.com>
Subject: [LTER-luq] minimal field lists for specific studies
Date: Sat, May 30, 2015 6:58 AM


Sorry. Don't really understand the question. Bill

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On May 29, 2015, at 5:31 PM, Eda C. Melendez-Colom <edacorreo at yahoo.com<mailto:edacorreo at yahoo.com>> wrote:

Hi,

Do we  prepare lists of minimal amount and type of measurements to take depending on the field of study?

Maybe another way to put it is a list of minimal data fields in a table for specific data set types.

Thanks,

EDA

Eda C. Melendez Colom
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LTER Program
University of Puerto Rico
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