AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section
Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
September 11, 2020
Attendees: Kayla, Paul, Rebecca, Tiffany, Dan
- Virtual AFS meeting
- FITS Related Symposia
- Action Item (Paul): Send reminder to members about FITS related symposia
- Big Data symposium (Dan)
- “Merging Data Science and Fisheries and Aquatic Science to Solve Big Problems”
- No live session
- Presentations will be available online
- We will share more details as they become available
- “Bayesian Inference: Applications and Interpretation”
- “Using Autonomous Systems in Fisheries Management-What We Can Learn from the Past to Create a Sustainable Future”
- Big Data symposium (Dan)
- CEC workshop (Paul)
- No response to our email
- FITS annual business meeting (Paul)
- Action item (Paul): Send reminder to membership about meeting and send information that can be viewed ahead of time (Agenda, Reports and Minutes)
- Action item (Paul): Reach out to Julie and Jodi for reports on respective committees and attending the FITS business meeting.
- CFTC online (Rebecca)
- Going well
- Call with Exhibitors to demo the CFTC
- All bugs are worked out and works nicely
- We are working on building content
- Citizen Science Task Force (Paul)
- ExCom reviewed the proposal and agreed that FITS could be of help.
- FITS will be involved in sending Calls for Volunteers in the future
- Other business
- Feedback on by-law change (Paul/Kayla)
- No feedback
- Resource Policy Committee rep search (Paul/Kayla)
- Highlight in Business Meeting
- Call for Communications Coordinator for FITS (Paul/Kayla)
- Highlight in Business Meeting
- Feedback on by-law change (Paul/Kayla)
- Action Item (Paul): Send reminder to members about FITS related symposia
- FITS Related Symposia
Next Meeting is October 9th
