At ICTA on Wednesday we held our weekly student meeting. All of us gave updates on the status of our projects and the group helped troubleshoot issues where possible. In the most basic terms: Sarai and Kelley are busy collecting as much useful data as possible while refining their methods. Olivia is awaiting IRB approval to send out her SNA survey while simultaneously creating a survey for the 'Envisioning Report'. Kayla is working her way through the first iteration of her ENA, troubleshooting and improving the process so that her analysis is as informative as possible. Read their blog posts for greater detail! I don't want to misrepresent them :)
As for me, I have now acquired enough literature-based assumptions and methods to generate a few basic water budget calculators and I have collected enough data to begin some of the most basic estimates for urban agriculture water demand and rainwater harvesting potential. Terakee Farms remains my primary case study, through which I plan to experiment with the method and eventually apply towards other case studies. While I am continuing to improve my methods, assumptions, and data sources; I can now begin to develop specific infrastructure alternatives for Terakee Farms. Developing and comparing alternatives, along with improving my method, will be my primary time allotment for the foreseeable future. I look forward to my meeting with Anna, Marti, and Marie tomorrow (Thursday) to discuss improvements to my current method and to layout some 'next steps'.
Fun fact of the day: the Catalan phrase of the week is "si us plau" or "sisplau" which means "please".
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