Agenda: Remote Sensing and Fluxes Upscaling for Real-world Impact

***Please note that the schedule is tentative.

Time: July 9-10, 2024

Venue: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Online

Day 1

TimeSessionTopicSpeakersTitle
8:45 - 9:00WelcomeWelcome Organizing CommitteeWelcome and Introduce to the workshop
9:00 - 10:30Session 1: Within site scaleKeynote (20 min)Ankur Desai (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Your site is not so special, or is it? Scaling fluxes from the specific to the general and back again.
Science/App talk (10 min)David Durden (NEON)From the plot to the plane: NEON's integrated scaled design
Science/App talk (10 min)Kevin Tu (Kateri Environmental)Bridging the gap between science and social benefit: Eddy flux for measurement, reporting and verification of grassland carbon sequestration
Q&A
Breakout (40 min + 10 min)Breakout discussion
10:30 - 11:00Break
11:00 - 12:30Session 2: Landscape / regional scaleKeynote (20 min)Troy Magney (UC Davis)Scaling evergreen forest photosynthesis from the needle to the tower to space
Science/App talk (10 min)Housen Chu (LBNL)TBD
Science/App talk (10 min)Levente Klein (IBM)Foundation Models for Vegetation Growth and Carbon Sequestration
Q&A
Breakout (40 min + 10 min)Breakout discussion
12:30 - 13:30Lunch and engagment with speakers
13:30 - 15:00Session 3: Global scaleKeynote (20 min)Jacob Nelson & Samuel Upton (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry)Reconciling Atmospheric Carbon and Water Fluxes: Integrated Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches with FLUXCOM-X and X-BASE
Science/App talk (10 min)Tammy Yuan (LBNL)Wetland CH4 Emissions Upscaling by Causality Guided Machine Learning: from Regional to Global Scale
Science/App talk (10 min)Robert Granat (CarbonSpace)Flux Estimation Solutions and Impacts in the Food and Beverage Sector
Q&A
Breakout (40 min + 10 min)Breakout discussion
15:00 - 15:30Break
15:30 - 17:00Session 4: Linking/integrating across the scales (sites to regional/global)Keynote (20 min)Youngryel Ryu (Seoul National University)Beyond Boundaries: The Future of Land Surface Fluxes through Hyper-Resolution Remote Sensing across Space, Time, and Spectrum
Science/App talk (10 min)Stefan Metzger (AtmoFacts)Linking Realms from Ground to Orbit: Matching Fluxes and States Across Scales
Science/App talk (10 min)Carolina Lisboa (Verra)Harnessing Remote Sensing and Flux Measurements for Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and Agricultural Land Management (ALM) Methodologies
Q&A
Breakout (40 min + 10 min)Breakout discussion
17:00Adjourn

Day 2

TimeSessionTopic / Title
8:45 - 9:00WelcomeWelcome remark
9:00 - 10:00Hands-on tutorial #1Within site scale
10:00 - 10:15Break
10:15 - 11:15Hands-on tutorial #2Upscaling to regional-scale
11:15 - 11:30Break
11:30 - 12:30Hands-on tutorial #3Upscaling to continental-scale
12:30 - 13:30Lunch
13:30 - 14:00Workshop Summary Summary of the workshop
14:00 - 15:00Wrap-up DiscussionFuture workshop topics, requests, and other ideas
15:00 - 16:00Field tripVisit LBL facilities
16:00Adjourn