NCEAS Group 2 TO DO tasks

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Task 1 (T1)

Objectives: Define the drought from 1895-present
Data: PSDI http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/catalog/climind/pdsi.html
Who: Tim, Antonio
What: Summary statistics and trends, plots.
Link: http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/wwdt/time/

Task 2 (T2)

Objectives: Drought impacts on C uptake
Data: MODIS 8-day composite GPP, NPP (MOD17, MOD17A2) // 2000 - 2014 (July)
Who: Mirela, Paul, Tim, Debora, Leah
What: Get Data;
Notes: Can we use NCEAS services to process? -YES

Task 3 (T3)

Objectives: C balance
Data: FluxNet (flux files: water and CO2)
Who: Sparkle
What: How many sites?; time span; site location

Task 4 (T4)

Objectives: Assess existing Land Cover datasets and ID the best to use
Data: CDL, NLCD, LandFire, MODIS LC, NASS
Who: Sara, Leah, Mirela, Vicken
What: classification scheme

Task 5 (T5)

Objectives: CA water allocation + Ground Water levels
Data:
Who: Vicken
What:

Task 6 (T6)

Objectives: RUE - Rain Use Efficiency
Data: PRISM, rainfall maps from ca.gov
Who: Tim, Mirela
What: download monthly - per season

Task 7 (T7)

Objectives: Literature Review + CA specific
Data: look up stuff
Who: Vicken, Leah
What:

Note: Group agreed on reporting subgroups workflows on data gathering and processing to all group participants

Note: Some references about authorships contribution:

Jake F. Weltzin, R Travis Belote, Leigh T. Williams, Jason K. Keller, and E Cayenne Engel 2006. Authorship in ecology: attribution, accountability, and responsibility. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4: 435–441. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/1540-9295(2006)4[435:AIEAAA]2.0.CO;2
Prabhakar, T. (2014). Authorship Matrix: A Rational Approach to Quantify Individual Contributions and Responsibilities in Multi-Author Scientific Articles. Sci Eng Ethics. 20: 345–361. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007%2Fs11948-013-9454-3
Tscharntke T, Hochberg ME, Rand TA, Resh VH, Krauss J. (2007). Author sequence and credit for contributions in multi-authored publications. PLoS Biology. 5:e18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050018.