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For talks and breakout discussions, we will use zoom. You can download it for free here. Please be sure to update your zoom client to the latest version, to enable moving between breakouts independently.
For the poster sessions, we will use a virtual conference venue on the Gather platform. We strongly recommend that you take a bit of time before the meeting, to try out the space in gather and get familiar with the features. The 30 second tutorial is also good! It’s best (and most fun) to join together with a colleague to make sure that your camera and microphone work ok.
Links to zoom and gather will be shared via email closer to the meeting.
Monday, September 20
| Time (Pacific) | Meeting Agenda |
| 8:30 AM | Welcome Session
Welcome and announcements from the Conference Chairs Sebastien Biraud: AmeriFlux Management Project Update |
| 9:00 AM | Session 1 – Water: Keynote talk Rafael Poyatos: Transpiration of trees and forests using the SAPFLUXNET database: from species-level water use strategies to the quantification of ecosystem transpiration |
| 9:20 AM | Session 1 – Water: Contributed talks Jacob Nelson: Trends and developments in water flux partitioning at ecosystem scale (10 min) Mallory Barnes: Thermal remote sensing for terrestrial ecosystem science (10 min) Camilo Rey-Sanchez: Combining ECOSTRESS, CubeSats and footprint modelling to improve the estimates of evaporation in Corn and Alfalfa fields (10 min) |
| 10:00 AM | 15 min break |
| 10:15 AM | Address by Jennifer Arrigo, Department of Energy |
| 10:30 AM | Breakout discussions – parallel breakouts
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| 11:15 AM | Breakout report back |
| 11:30 AM | Poster Session 1
Join us on gather to view and discuss posters, talk to vendors, reconnect with colleagues or meet new collaborators! More here. ATTENTION: This year’s virtual conference venue will offer a ‘Jobs Lounge’ – if you want to share a job ad, please let us know! More here. |
| After hours | |
| 12:30-1:30 PM | Career mentor panel for Early Career Researchers
Hear about career trajectories from different members of the AmeriFlux community and ask your questions directly in small breakout rooms. Separate registration required through this link. Panelists:
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Tuesday, September 21
| Time (Pacific) | Meeting Agenda |
| 8:35AM | Welcome Day 2 – Logistical announcements |
| 8:45 AM | Session 2 – Natural Climate Solutions: Keynote talk Caroline Normile: Translating terrestrial carbon cycle science from the field to federal policy: challenges and opportunities for nature-based solutions to advance meaningful climate mitigation |
| 9:05AM | Session 2 – Natural Climate Solutions: Contributed talks
Team Talk – Jeffrey W. Atkins, Cameron Clay, Chris Gough, Lisa Haber, Laura Hickey, Kayla C. Mathes, Kerstin Niedermaier: Promoting forest carbon cycling resilience to disturbance: Lessons learned and management recommendations from the US-UMB and -UMd Ameriflux site (15 min) Susanne Wiesner: Combining Remote Sensing Models and Eddy Covariance to Monitor Natural Climate Solutions in Agricultural Production Systems (10 min) Team Talk – Thomas Fenster, Patty Oikawa: Examining Climate Mitigation Practices at the Ecosystem Scale: Carbon Cycling, Methane Uptake, Evapotranspiration and Phenology Responses to Compost Application in a Grazed Grassland (15 min) |
| 9:45 AM | Breakout discussions – parallel breakouts
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| 10:30 AM | 30 min break |
| 11:00 AM | Panel Discussion: Awareness and Action for Inclusive Fieldwork Panelists:
Moderation: Avni Malhotra, University of Zurich |
| 11:45 AM | DEI breakout discussion on safe and inclusive fieldwork |
| 12:15 PM | Breakout report back |
| After hours – Parallel events: | |
| 12:30-2:00 PM | Beyond the Professoriate Workshop for Early Career Researchers (90 min)
Join this workshop to get your questions answered, hear success stories, and discuss career opportunities beyond professorship! Separate registration required, through this link. |
| 12:30-1:30 PM | AMP Helpdesk: Tech and Data Services for your research
How can AmeriFlux Tech and Data Services benefit your research? Find out in this session. AMP Team members will review basic services, highlights from this past year, and upcoming activities. Then, we’ll break into groups for informal discussion and questions. Slides here. |
Wednesday, September 22
| Time (Pacific) | Meeting Agenda |
| 8:35 AM | Welcome Day 3 – Logistical announcements |
| 8:45 AM | Session 3 – Open Science Session: Keynote talk Ben Halpern: Priorities for synthesis in ecology and environmental science |
| 9:05 AM | Session 3 – Open Science Session: Contributed Talks
Team Talk – Kenneth Davis, Clair Jin, Natasha Miles, Samantha Murphy, Eli Vogel, Kai Wu: Urban eddy-covariance: Why, how and where (15 min) Steve Kannenberg: Drought-induced decoupling between tree growth and carbon uptake impacts forest carbon turnover time (10 min) Team Talk – Kyle Delwiche, Trevor Keenan, David JP Moore, Kim Novick: The FLUXNET Coordination Project: A new initiative to support global network-enabled science (15 min) |
| 9:45 AM | Breakout discussions – parallel breakouts
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| 10:30 AM | 30 min break |
| 11:00-11:30 PM | Social Mixer in Gather
Take our Trivia/Networking challenge, or just mingle and catch up in Gather! |
| 11:30 AM | Poster Session 2
ATTENTION: This year’s virtual conference venue will offer a ‘Jobs Lounge’ – if you want to share a job ad, please let us know! More here. |
| 12:30-12:45 PM | Breakout report back and Closing session |