Funding target reached - thank you!

Our minimum funding target of $3000 has just been reached so our project will definitely be going ahead! We would like to say a big thank you to everyone that pledged money. Every pledge made a difference but special thanks to Constellation Brands and Zach Berkowitz for pledging 50% of the total by themselves. Monica and I have been thinking about, and seeking funding for, this project for around 18 months now and its satisfying to finally be in a position to collect data. 

The project will be run over the course of 2017 but the initial steps can now be put in motion. On 20th December we are convening a group of Napa viticulture experts to develop suitable measures for assessing team performance on two vineyard tasks (pruning & canopy management). These will then be implemented alongside other team measures during data collection.

We will also now begin working on the forms to get ethical clearance - compulsory when collecting any data from humans. This should be a formality but there is a bureaucratic process that can take a period of weeks.

Thanks again for the support and we will continue to post updates & results as they become available.

Malcolm