34  Patty, Kasia, Nora 15OCT2024

Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Attendees:

34.1 Field Work Planning

34.1.1 Phalen Lake Sampling

  • Reviewed and adjusted sampling points:
    • Removed points #4 and #10 due to redundancy
    • Confirmed point #5 location (near apartment building) is within park property based on Ramsey County Property Owners map
    • Reduced total points to allow 3-4 sites per day with current team, four days allocated
    • Will have 3 confirmed team members, potentially more

34.1.2 Residential Sampling Progress

  • 26 responses received to residential sampling form
  • 75% of responses from Hennepin County
  • Sites well distributed geographically
  • Planning to begin selecting sites for sampling
  • Strong response indicates potential high workload for spring

34.1.3 Upcoming Field Work (October 20)

  • Lake Harriet and Raspberry Island sampling planned
  • Schedule adjusted:
    • Morning: Complete Lake Harriet site
    • Afternoon: Raspberry Island sampling
    • Kasia to flag Phalen Lake sites for following week
  • Meeting time set for 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

34.2 Administrative Updates

34.2.1 Survey123 Access

  • Kasia’s access confirmed and working
  • Patty’s account needs to be recreated (previous credentials expired)
  • Added Kasia to TCMA urban soil mapping group
  • Access provided to all forms and feature layers

34.2.2 GIS/Mapping Requests

  • Team needs updated AOI shapefile
  • Patty to send:
    • Edited/smoothed AOI boundary file
    • SSURGO shapefile
  • Discussion of field map access and layer management

34.3 Project Collaboration Updates

34.3.1 New Team Member

  • Ryder Anderson (from Union, Missouri MLRA office) interested in joining project
  • Background: experience with DSP projects, urban soil survey work, R programming expertise, summer details in Minnesota
  • Potential roles: field work support, map unit design, data analysis, NASIS documentation

34.3.2 Randy Meeting (October 22)

  • Agenda items:
    • Questions about buried soils
    • Survey123 procedures
    • Horizon designation
  • Patty creating document for questions, team members to add questions before meeting
  • One-hour meeting planned with possible extension

34.4 Action Items

34.4.1 Immediate

  1. Nora
    • Prepare DSP project summary with Nic
    • Update meeting invitation for Randy meeting
    • Notify Gen about Randy meeting
  2. Patty
    • Send AOI and SSURGO shapefiles to team
    • Distribute question document for Randy meeting
    • Work with Danielle on GIS file transfers
  3. Kasia
    • Review TCMA urban soil mapping content
    • Update field schedule in shared calendar
    • Flag Phalen Lake sites

34.5 Next Meetings

  • Randy Meeting: October 22
  • Residential site selection planning needed
  • Field work coordination ongoing

34.6 Notes

  • Strong residential site interest indicates need for spring planning
  • Team adapting well to Survey123 implementation
  • Field season progressing efficiently
  • DSP project development continuing

Special Note: Congratulations to Patty on becoming a grandmother! Welcome, Baby Leo.