Archive: 2014 AmeriFlux Annual PI Meeting
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Sunday, May 4 through Monday, May 5, 2014, at the Bolger Center, Potomac MD
Meeting Agenda
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Time
Room
Activity
16:00
2nd Floor, outside SGH, Room 200
(16:00-19:00)
17:00
Dinner
19:00
SGH
Welcome – Peter Curtis & David Hollinger – Orientation to the breakout sessions, including hand drawn posters
19:15
111
World café – Peter Curtis – Career development for junior scientists in the fluxnet community
300
Discussion – Sebastian Wolf & Dennis Baldocchi – Data synthesis: making the whole more than the sum of the parts
400
Discussion – Jim Tang – Belowground processes and their linkage with aboveground eddy fluxes
Monday, May 5, 2014
Time
Room
Activity
07:00
2nd Floor, outside SGH, Room 200
Registration (7:00-9:00)
07:00
Breakfast
SGH
Poster Mounting – Mount posters any time before 16:00
08:00
SGH
Welcome – Peter Curtis & David Hollinger – Orientation & Announcements
08:05
SGH
DOE welcome – Gary Geernaert – Climate and Environmental Sciences Division: Strategic Planning & Executing the Plan
08:45
SGH
Invited talk – Deborah Huntzinger – Using observational data to evaluate global terrestrial biospheric models: challenges and opportunities? (pdf 2.4mb)
09:20
Coffee Break
09:40
SGH
Presentations – Adrien Finzi – Utility and vision for coupling belowground carbon dynamics to eddy-covariance measurements of ecosystem CO2 exchange with the atmosphere (pdf 1.1mb)
SGH
Sebastian Wolf – Synthesis of the 2012 U.S. drought: impact on ecosystem fluxes and implications for the future
SGH
Fred Huemmrich – Using optical signals to determine carbon fluxes (pdf 709kb)
SGH
Ankur Desai – How do we make AmeriFlux useful for ecosystem models? (pdf 1.6mb)
SGH
Jingfeng Xiao – Assessing uncertainty of ecosystem models using AmeriFlux observations (pdf 516kb)
10:25
Break and move
10:45
Breakouts
400
Discussion – Ben Bond-Lamberty – Better ways to deal with and share data
111
Discussion – Lianhong Gu & Bev Law – Extreme events, climate variability and ecosystem functions
300
Discussion – Russ Scott – Eddy covariance practices and instrument- tation—new advances, insights, and preserving the utility of long-term flux records
11:45
Lunch – “To-go” lunch boxes available at the Dining Room
12:30
field
UAV demo I – Jonathan Dandois
13:00
111
UAV demo II – Jonathan Dandois
TBA
Vendors
14:15
Break and move
14:30
Breakouts
400
Discussion – Margaret Torn – The Next Big Thing in carbon cycle science
300
Discussion – Kim Novick – Site- and network-level priorities for the collection and synthesis of biometric data
111
Discussion – Fred Huemmrich – Specnet and Fluxnet, combining optical and flux measurements
15:30
111
Breakout reports – Dave Hollinger
16:10
SGH
Poster session
18:00
SGH
Working Dinner (buffet) – Featured speaker & panel on New Initiatives in Carbon Cycle Science