I attended a meeting on Monday with Annijka at Descartes and Nick at Dzyne where they discussed the current Descartes platform and the Wide Area Motion Imaging (Wami) data available. The primary Wami data originates from hurricane Florence which encompassed half of the eastern US seaboard. To minimize the problem, the intent is to focus on an Area of Interest (AOI) around Wilmington, NC with four or five samples taken along the path of destruction in Wilmington and nearby inland areas. Descartes is also looking at data originating from southeast Asia and San Juan due to the differences in infrastructure between different nations. Data is expected to be ready for Phase 2 kickoff.
I have also begun the "onboarding" process with the Descartes Platform which involves gaining access to the platform and working through the instructions and tutorials for using the platform. We have a bi-weekly tag-up meeting scheduled for tomorrow at 2pm where further introductions will be made.
In other news, I have researched integrating a Google calendar into slack which will allow us to establish a consistent teleconference. This should allow any lab member to join the set teleconference appointment each week without the need to deal with messy point-to-point calls and last minute coordination. Regular teleconferences will be established on Tuesday from 11a-12p for any paper meeting and on Thursday 2p-3p for the weekly lab meeting.