Science and Technical Employee Development Team (STED)

Agenda
Date: August 9, 2012
Time: 2-4pm Eastern
Bridge: 703-648-4848
Code: 97727
WebEX: NONE

Attendees:

Agenda Items:

Tech Memo was sent out
Booth at Portland conference
Streamgaging Class – how did it go?
Future TEL suggestions
AI – Nicole to ask Franceska about whether Guidelines for Operation & Computation of Records of Continuous Water-Quality Monitors would be a good candidate.
AI – Jim will bring up the rest of the classes at the next OSW meeting to discuss their potential for TEL.

• Guidelines for the Operation & Computation of Records of Continuous Water-Quality Monitors
• Surface-Water Records Computation
• Statistical Methods for Environmental Data Analysis
• Streamflow Record Computation using ADVM’s and Index-velocity Methods
• Advanced ADCP Applications
• Indirect Measurements of Peak Discharge

Round Robin

Next meeting: October 18, 2012 at 2:00 pm EST.

Discussion and Action Items

Training:

AI: Nicole – Work with Alan on an RFP process and a document describing a plan of suggested TEL classes that may be threatened in the near future with the 20% reduction in travel and find an audience to gain leverage

Web Page:

AI: Set up schedule and assign members the monthly duty of checking web pages for errors.  Find tools that can be used to scan pages for dead links (Nicole).

Interaction with Data Committees:

AI: Work with CRACD to assure that as they start to develop cheat sheets and tip sheets that there is a cross reference to their pages from ours and vice versa  (Jen).

AI:  Determine equipment needs and identify network issues at office that may interfere with video streaming - Reach out to those involved in streaming and video conferencing options to test and plan for how to optimize these options to extend the training beyond the traditional classroom and still be effective.

AI: Tip Sheets? Field Manuals? Lecture Series?