Agenda

• Breakfast (served in EA 2007)

• Welcome to Mount Royal
• Meeting background, expectations & workplan
• Introductions [participant list]
• PCMIP background and progress including:
• Methods overview [Presentation]
• Introduction of "Practical Benchmarking"

Linked background slides

• Worked example for discussion [Presentation; white paper]
• Worked example for discussion [Tipton & Nolan]
• Discussion and brainstorming on methods, data, and benchmarks
• Revisit goals - Proposed workflow and writing strategy

Linked workflow slides

• MRU welcome from both:
  • Michael Quinn, Associate Vice President of Research, Scholarship and Community Engagement
  • Karim Dharamsi, Chair, Department of General Education

• Benchmarking approaches [Basil, some background - 20 mins]
• Breakout into working Groups:
  • Rotating groups asking questions around the "key questions"
    • How might models behave under different conditions?
    • What are characteristics of good datasets for testing (or dataset suggestions)
    • What would tests look like for these conditions?

• Choosing and describing datasets
• Broadly available datasets (NA MPD, European Pollen Dataset, others?)
• What do they test? What common standards do we need? What climate data, or secondary proxy data do we use?
• How are the repositories structured? READMEs, data folders, taxon translation tables, &cetera.
• Group debrief of the breakouts focusing on the question/dataset interface (what are the most well resolved questions, what are the best datasets?)
• Go through questions (e.g., no-analogue)
• Suggest datasets (e.g. NAMPD)

Linked dataset slides

• Disperse and free time

• Meet in lobby to travel to dinner (hosted by Andria and Matt)

• Breakfast (served in EA 2007)

• Recap
• GitHub Introduction (30 minutes)
• Breakout into working groups
  • Datasets (1 dataset prepped already)
  • Workflow
  • Literature (some paper drafting, and literature collection/description)
  • Documentation

• State of the Workshop - Restating Goals, revising timelines & breakout roles

• Working group updates
• Breakout into working groups

• Breakout into working Groups Continued (The Revenge)

• State of the workshop
• What’s working, what isn’t?
• Short term priorities for tomorrow?
• Revisit goals & anticipated product list
• How will credit be assigned for products?
• What are long term individual assignments
• How do we manage accountability going forward

• Meet in lobby to travel to dinner at Last Best Brewing & Distilling

• Breakfast (served in EA 2007)

• Recap goals & final discussion
• GitHub cleanup &cetera
• Troubleshooting
• Working groups

• Breakout into working groups

• Meeting wrap-up
• State of the Working Groups
• State of the Meeting
• Accountability