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Hi Susan,<br>
<br>
I wanted to catch you up on our call with Karl yesterday. We made the
following decisions, pending your approval:<br>
<br>
1) Do away with the Babase 2.0 raw Farenheit weather data
column/records collected for the min_max records. These records have
already been converted to Celsius and exist in our excel sheet as
such. Precision and accuracy documentation on them is sketchy so we
gain little by converting the current C records back to F, storing the
raw F records in the database, and then having Babase run a program to
read everything as C. <br>
<br>
2) Do away with the "Baboon Camp A: lower gauge" records that were
kept for ~6 months to compare the upper and lower thermometers. I will
keep these comparison files in a separate excel sheet, but Babase will
hold only records for the Baboon Camp B upper gauge. (see further
notes on the station abbreviations below).<br>
<br>
3) Using an aerial photograph, Jeanne showed me the 4 approximate
locations that temp gauge has had within the current camp. The naming
of these station is confusing but here is the rough outline of a
support table we propose to incorporate into Babase (the first 5
rows). The view people should use to browse the data will only show
the station abbreviations. We chose the alphanumeric combination to
show that the min_max gauge has moved 4 times within the current Baboon
Camp. Can we get your input on the names and the proposed
deletion/renaming of the upper and lower gauge values (see notes below)?<br>
<br>
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<col style="width: 71pt;" width="94"> <col style="width: 170pt;"
width="226"> <col style="width: 243pt;" width="324"> <tbody>
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<td style="height: 12.75pt; width: 71pt;" height="17" width="94">abbreviation</td>
<td style="width: 170pt;" width="226">station name</td>
<td style="width: 243pt;" width="324">notes</td>
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<td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17">OT</td>
<td>Ol Tukai</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17">
<td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17">BC1</td>
<td>Group Ranch Campsite A</td>
<td>located just S of the current (2008) kitchen cabin within the
Baboon Camp</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17">
<td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17">BC2</td>
<td>Group Ranch Campsite B</td>
<td>located just N of the current (2008) kitchen cabin within the
Baboon Camp</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17">
<td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17">BC3</td>
<td>Baboon Camp A</td>
<td>located about halfway between the current (2008) kitchen
cabin and the current (2008) weatherhawk station within the Baboon Camp<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17">
<td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17">BC4</td>
<td>Baboon Camp B</td>
<td>Located ~10 m S/SW from the current (2008) weatherhawk
station within the Baboon Camp<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17">
<td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"><br>
</td>
<td>Baboon Camp B: upper gauge</td>
<td>this station distinction will be eliminated and the station
will simply be "Baboon Camp B"</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17">
<td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"><br>
</td>
<td>Baboon Camp B: lower gauge</td>
<td>These records will be removed from the min_max table in
Babase but kept in a separate file if someone wants to compare.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br>
4) For sporatic missing times, Karl will run a little program to
calculate the average time of reading for that month and use this to
populate the empty field. Where there are months or year of missing
times ('71-'76), Jeanne proposed to fill the empty fields with 07:00.
We will have a new column in the weather tables to indicate that these
are estimated times. It will be called "est. time" and be filled in as
Y or N.<br>
<br>
5) The current weather tables have a rg_span column that does a
calculation to tell the span of time between rain gauge readings.
Using an estimated time will created an estimated values in this column
so we need another column to indicate where these estimates occur.
This new column will be "est rg_span".<br>
<br>
6) We need to build a "Users Guide to the Min_Max_Rain data" because
there is a good deal of support documentation that users need to read,
but it doesn't fit into the scope of Karl's technical documents,
current field protocols, or data management protocols. Any ideas about
where to keep this (the wiki perhaps?)<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
I think that's all for now.<br>
Many thanks,<br>
Tabby<br>
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Tabby Fenn
Research Assistant
Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
401 Guyot Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
609 258-6898 (Ph)
609 258-2712 (Fx)</pre>
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