Mar 26-28, 2018
Land and Biosphere Modeling
California Institute of Technology
| Time | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Coffee/Check-in | |
| 8:30 - 8:35 | Workshop Goals | Tapio Schneider (Caltech/JPL) |
| 8:35 - 9:00 |
Grand Challenges in Ecosystem Modeling
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David Schimel (JPL) |
| Ecosystem Dynamics and Couplings | ||
| 9:00 - 9:30 |
Written in Stone? C, N, P Interactions in Land Surface Ecosystems
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Benjamin Houlton (UC Davis) |
| 9:30 - 10:00 |
Revamping the Land in ESMs: Where Remote Observation and Conservation of Energy and Mass Meet Ecology
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Nancy Kiang (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Processes, Complexity, Dynamics, and Scaling: Using Data to Tackle These Modeling Challenges
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Mathew Williams (University of Edinburgh) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Canopy Structure, SIF, and Photosynthetic Capacity
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Joe Berry (Carnegie Institution, Stanford) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Terrestrial land surfaces-a pot pourri
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Graham Farquhar (Australian National University) |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch (Keck Center Courtyard) | |
| 1:00 - 1:30 |
Community Modeling Tools for Predictive Ecosystem Assembly
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Rosie Fisher (National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
| 1:30 - 2:00 |
Land and Biogeochemical Model Evaluation Using the ILAMB System
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James Randerson (UC Irvine) |
| 2:00 - 2:30 |
Potentials and Pitfalls for Using Chlorophyll Fluorescence on the Observational and Modeling Side to Constrain the Carbon Cycle
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Christian Frankenberg (Caltech) |
| 2:30 - 3:00 |
Incorporating Land Use and Land-Cover Change Consequences on Land-Surface Dynamics
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Benjamin Poulter (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 3:30 - 5:00 | Roundtable discussion (Nick Parazoo coordinator) | |
| Time | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Interactions Between Carbon, Water, and Energy Cycles | ||
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Regional Climate Sensitivity and its Modulation by Land Surface Processes
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Sonia Seneviratne (ETH Zurich) |
| 9:00 - 9:30 |
Precipitation and Vegetation Regulation of the Continental Hydrologic Cycle With Rising CO2
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Pierre Gentine (Columbia University) |
| 9:30 - 10:00 |
Advances in Hydrology and Permafrost
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David Lawrence (National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Future Biosphere Models for ESMs: Elegance, Pragmatism, and Emergent Constraints
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Peter Cox (University of Exeter) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Fast and Slow Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Feedbacks
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Charlie Koven (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
A Model/Assimilation Framework for Investigating Carbon and Water Cycle Processes Through Multi-Tracer Assimilation of Satellite Data
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Anthony Bloom (JPL) |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch (Keck Center Courtyard) | |
| 1:00 - 1:30 |
Vegetation Induced Rainfall Variability and its Implication for Future Earth System Models
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Rong Fu (UCLA) |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | Views on Ocean and Ocean Carbon Cycle Modeling: How Models and Observations Come Together | Anastasia Romanou (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies) |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Roundtable Discussion (Junjie Liu coordinator) | |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Coffee | |
| How to Build a Better ESM: Process Complexity, Algorithm Design, and Data Integration | ||
| 3:30 - 4:00 |
Flexible Complexity as a Tool for Understanding the Role of Land in the Earth System
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Abigail Swann (University of Washington) |
| 4:00 - 4:30 |
Useful Engineering, Design, and Methodological Approaches for Building Earth’s New Digital Twins
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Matthew Smith (Microsoft) |
| 4:30 - 5:00 |
Multi-purpose, Modularized, Testable, and Fully Constrained Against Multiple Datasets: A Vision for the Future of Land Surface Model Development
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Natasha MacBean (University of Arizona) |
| 5:00 - 5:10 |
NASA Headquarters’ Strategy on Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems
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Kathy Hibbard (NASA) |
| 6:00 | Workshop Reception and Dinner (Caltech Athenaeum, building #61) | |
| Time | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Optimality Principles in Earth System Models: More Complexity Without More Parameters
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Silvia Caldararu (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry) |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Investigating the Terrestrial Water Cycle With Satellite Data: What Level of Process Description is Needed? | John Reager (JPL) |
| 9:30 - 10:00 |
Lessons from Recent Developments of the ORCHIDEE Land Surface Model to Improve ESM Simulations
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Phillipe Peylin (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:45 | Round Table Discussion (John Worden coordinator) | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Workshop Outcomes and Next Steps | David Schimel, Tapio Schneider, John Worden |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch (Keck Center Courtyard) | |
| End of formal workshop program | ||
| 1:00 - 4:00 | Informal discussion of follow-up plans among participants who will stay through Wednesday evening (Keck Center, Black Hole Conference Room, Tolman House) | |