Current Meeting 10/24/2013, 10 AM- MOUNTAIN TIME.  Video Conference via WebEx

PLEASE WRITE YOUR NAME BELOW AND Comments to agenda items DURING CALL to help take notes/minutes.

Attendees: 
* Jennifer Dansie
* Rod Sheets
Dave Pollock
*Joe Capesius
Peter Griffiths
*Alan Ward
*Mike Ierardi

*- video camera

Not able to attend: 
 
✲  Next meeting:  January 23rd, 10 AM  Mountain Time

Agenda Items:
Add external links to STED page- done
Alan to send out follow up email on Streaming memo- done 9/25
Memo for STED website promotion to Jerad to send out to WMA.- sent to Jerad 10/18.  Made a few adjustments to the memo and send 10/24, Hopefully, Jerad will still send it out this week.

Alan writes: Put memo on STED website and have Jerad reference the link in an all Water Mission Area email.
Alan writes: Same thing with Jerad’s email regarding training approvals!

Try to do one of next meetings using Adobe Connect- OED to let us know if this is possible- more info possibly by next call.  Email to Alan and Russell on 8/19 to discuss.

Membership and Rotation
            Lynn Taylor to rotate off.  I am working with Dane Ohe on a replacement. 

 NTC
RFP process- Should STED recommend RFP to WATER only this year for AI training (CARP)??  The RFP has not been approved by Headquarters yet.  This is a good idea, if there are no other priorities for TEL development in Water.  Think about other classes that need to be developed or re-developed.  Monies must be spent within the fiscal year.
            -Waiting on guidance on money and support.  NTC has sheltered some money….  CARP may not be able to use money with fiscal year, so timing might be off for this WY.
Think about other TEL development?
Joe C to talk to Joe N.

            Video Streaming Memo- Sent by Jared to Water Mission Area leads (technical office chiefs, NRP, etc).  Sent May 9, 2013.  
            AI-  Alan will compose a  follow up email.  Jerad  sent email on 9/25.

CARP Training – STED’s role?
            Update- TEL possibility.  CARP is likely going to use TEL.

10/22/13
Not a lot to add, Jen.
-We've identified about 35 supertrainers, though we still have to get full buy-in from their WSCs.
-Gary Wilson and I are preparing a presentation for the next DBA lunch (early Nov) that will give the DBAs an idea of what their roles will be with AQUARIUS. (Note that since there really won't be any database administration in this role, we've started calling them LDMs (local data managers) rather than DBAs.)
-We're planning a meeting in January to really hit the curriculum development hard, though of course we'll be working with a moving target as long as development is still occurring.
-No work on TEL yet, except that three of us have evaluated the training videos that the contractor uses and found them somewhat useful in a general way. They aren't 508 compliant.
-We were given everything that Environment Canada uses for their AQUARIUS training and are in the process of evaluating it for our training purposes.

Thanks,

CARP- Very rough timeline (which will be refined and added to the Plan):
Planning: now
Developing materials: Oct 2013-Aug 2014
Pilot deployments/training: Sep-Nov 2014
Final refinements: Nov-Dec 2014
Deployment starts: Jan 2015
Deployment ends: June 2015

TEAM- Any other  ideas as to what you see as a good way to use online training to reach users during the Roll out (and beyond) of the new Aquarius software??

WEBSITE-
Promotion-  
Email to Director and IT groups has been sent 10/18.
When should we send email to the employees with the STED presentation???
            Jen would like to see this done next week, so that employees can use STED for their IDPs this WY.  Jen to add Data Chiefs to email and one sentence about supervisors..
Email to all techs and hydrologists to use the STED page for finding training.PRESENTATION- Already on Google Drive.   NEEDS FINAL REVIEW
                       
Web pages-   Suggestion: Go through the website every few weeks and click on links to ensure quality.  If you find any mistakes or outdated information, please send an email to Mike and Jen

Is there a way to track what links are being used?  If links are not being used, should be remove them, etc.
Mike to explain/define the reports with live demo.
Summary: the sted web site appears to be used consistently through the year. April seems to be the highest used month. October seems to have fell short in hits because of the furlough.

Busiest month: Jan 2013 (6,905 requests for pages).

External Training links has been added.

Round Robin- Please share ideas.
Data conference- week of Sept 8, 2014, National hosted by ?
Data chiefs meeting in Reston- National  meeting  October 22-24th, pending approval. 

Data chiefs will be working on CARP stuff in future.

GW- working on internal training page.
Rod- Data committees to merge into one National data committee.

Alan- 42% reduction.  7 WMA classes for 2014.  Still need to get approval for classes from Jerad.  Streaming.  Annual report is done.

Greg- Dollars are tight and need to get word out on online, streaming, saving time.

Current Action Items:
Jen email Jerad about Data chiefs- webpage promotion- done 10/24
Draft email to WMA employees, finalize presentation.

 
✲  Next meeting:  January 23rd, 10 AM  Mountain Time

Final external links used
http://water.usgs.gov/usgs/STED/ext_training.html

USGS
 
Useful training links, including instructional videos, self study modules:
            http://gallery.usgs.gov/video_collections/Water
            groundwater training-->http://water.usgs.gov/usgs/ogw/training.html  
                        Geophysics-->http://water.usgs.gov/ogw/bgas/schedule.html  
            surface water training-->http://water.usgs.gov/usgs/osw/training.html  
                                                http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2007/3099/                     http://wwwrcamnl.wr.usgs.gov/sws/SWTraining/Index.htm   
            water quality training-->http://water.usgs.gov/usgs/owq/training.html  
 
 
External Links to Training- "Hypertext links and other references to non-USGS products and services are provided for information only and do not constitute endorsement or warranty by the USGS, U.S. Department of the Interior, or U.S. Government, as to their suitability, content, usefulness, functioning, completeness, or accuracy."
 
 
Links to many external training opportunities
            http://www.usgs.gov/humancapital/ecd/ecd_trainingsources.html
 
Specific to Hydrologic Instrumentation (this is just a sample of manufacturer’s websites in no particular order- please let us know if you have a good website and the STED can add it)
            SONTEK:http://www.sontek.com/training.php  
            SUTRON:http://www.sutron.com/customerservice/trainingPresentations.htm  
            Campbell Scientific:http://www.campbellsci.com/training  
            YSI:http://www.ysi.com/events.php  
            HydroLab:http://www.hydro-systems.com/training/overview  
            Vaisala:http://www.vaisala.com/en/services/training/Pages/default.aspx  
            RD INstruments:http://www.rdinstruments.com/learning_center.aspx  
            In-Situ:http://www.in-situ.com/resources  
             
 
 
 
 
 
Specific to hydrologic technician training:
            Gateway Community college:http://www.gatewaycc.edu/hydrologic-studies  
            Spokane Community college:http://www.scc.spokane.edu/?waterres  
Specific to Chemistry
            http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/#chemistry  
Specific to Hydrology/geology
            http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/#earth-atmospheric-and-planetary-sciences  
Specific to Biology
            http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/#biological-engineering
            http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/#biology
 
 
General--to Chemistry, Energy/Earth Science, Engineering, Physics and Statistics/Data Analysis (Google Chrome only)     
https://www.coursera.org/courses?orderby=upcoming&lngs=en&cats=energy,ee,physics,chemistry,stats