Orange County Beekeepers Association

On April 9th at 7PM, Anya McGuirk will present “Monitoring the SAS Hives: Lessons Learned”.  SAS is currently monitoring hive weight, internal temperature and humidity, acoustics, and bee activity using computer vision.  The goal of the SAS project is to demonstrate SAS analytics and real-time alerts on streaming data—at the edge (at the hive).  Anya will share some of their learnings thus far.

Anya McGuirk is a Distinguished Research Statistician in the Internet of Things R&D Division at SAS. She joined SAS and moved to NC in September 2004. Prior to that, Anya was a Full professor at Virginia Tech with a joint appointment in the Departments of Agricultural and Applied Economics, and Statistics.  Anya received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in Agricultural Economics and her MSc. from University of Reading (England) where she studied as a Marshall Scholar.  Anya was raised on a large farm in Bel Air, Maryland with her 14 siblings.  Currently she lives on a small farm in Holy Springs, NC  where she gardens and hangs out with her bees and dogs, nerding out on bee data. 

If you’d like to attend the meeting, send an e-mail to cdonley33 at gmail.com and Carrie will send you the link. (We’re working on controlling zoombombing-this is a work in progress. We’re all good people and can figure this out. If you’re stuck on the technology, let Carrie or Jessica know, or ask the list serve/google group/gossip email thingy, and we’ll work you through it.-Jessica)

Let me know if you have questions, and I hope you can join the meeting now that it’s on zoom!

Carrie

OCBA monthly meetings will still be happening every 2nd Thursday of the month! We will be meeting by Zoom instead of meeting in person, as a way to continue to learn about bees, and share with each other, while practicing social distancing.  It’s also a great way for people to join us who may not normally be able to because they live far away, they can’t get a ride to the meeting, etc.  We hope to keep our strong OCBA community active during this time while we’re staying at home.

You may join meetings up to 15 minutes in advance so that you’ll have plenty of time to make sure your connection is working properly.  We ask that you mute your microphone especially during the speaker’s presentation in order to avoid unexpected disruptions.  We will not have our regular social time at the beginning of the meeting, so our speaker will begin close to 7PM, and we’ll follow that up with the business portion of the meeting including updates on education, outreach, clusters, collaboratives, and the website redesign group.  We will be recording meetings so that people can view the meeting at a later time if they can’t attend in person.

We recommend that you download Zoom before the meeting to save you some time.  Below is a link to do so.

https://zoom.us/download

The monthly membership meeting of March 12, 2020, has been cancelled. Dr. Olav Rueppell will be rescheduled at a later date. More information will be posted within the next day or two.