2015-DSM-Madison

material related to the presentations and book chapters we are responsible for presenting at the 2015 Digital Soil Morphometrics conference

TODO

Presentations.

1. Aggregate Representation of Genetic Soil Horizons

2. AQP for Digital Soil Morphometrics

3. Digital summaries of legacy pedon descriptions

I am on-board 100% for the first two, and I am co-author on number three. I don't have time to write the chapter for 3, but may have time for 1 and 2.

Since we have a lot to do, would you like to divy-up the work and adjust authorship accordingly? Basically, you take first author on one and I will on the other. Or we can put in 50-50 and flip a coin on who is the leading author.

Status.

The first paper in the list is likely the most interesting-- or at least I think that it is. This should receive the most amount of effort in terms of outlining the novelty and practical applications. I have plenty of examples as we have been using this approach for the last couple of years (in some areas of the US) to aggregate pedon data. I suggest that we get the presentation figured out, then write the paper to follow. What do you think?

Next, the AQP presentation should be fairly simple as we have a lot of material to draw from. I haven't heard back from Alfred, but I am assuming that we have 15-20 minutes for each presentation. A comfortable mixture of (small) code chunks + figures, with a couple slides of major points should be appropriate for the expected audience. The AQP chapter is another matter. I do not want to re-hash the Comp. & Geo.Sci. paper from 2013. A decent description of the SPC class and general morphometrics-related tasks is currently missing. However, do we have time to write this chapter? One one hand, I think that a chapter on AQP is a MUST for any book on digital morphometrics. On the other, time is limited and the 2013 article + R package documentation are fairly complete.

Plans

1. May 4 thru 8:

• outine hz-prob presentation [done]
• outline AQP presentation
• decide on what platform to use for presentations (.Rpres) / papers (markdown / pandoc)
• decide on revision control method (github)

2. May 11 thru 15:

• draft presentations done:
  • hz-prob
  • AQP
• [] collect references for both papers in bibtex format
• outline both papers
• [] figures for both papers

3. May 18 thru 22:

• [] finish presentations:
  • hz-prob
  • [] AQP (yikes, not done!)
• [] 50% goal for both papers (yikes, not done!)

4. May 25 thru 29: this is a short week for me

• [] finish both papers
• [] proof presentations / final adjustments:
  • hz-prob
  • [] AQP
• [] testing

Suggestions / Notes:

1. While not ideal, I have been fairly happy with the RSudio presentation format (.Rpres)-- after significant adjustments to the default style. However, this only makes sense if we are going to include R code in our presentations. If not-- well, beamer would be fine.

2. I can no longer access the https://code.scenzgrid.org/svn/hz-prob SVN repo, it could be that I need to update my password. If we can get this working I am fine with using this or a related repo for our presentations / papers.

3. Word is the requiured submission format, therefore we should probably try using a variant of Markdown that can deal with references. This looks promising:

http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/authoring_bibliographies_and_citations.html

Wow. That is a lot to do.