2023 ER-DGVM-C Schedule

by | Aug 7, 2023 | Uncategorized

Schedule

The schedule for the Eastern Regional Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling Conference can be found and downloaded below. All events will take place in the MBL Swope Center (#15 on map). Plenary talks and discussion are in the Swope Meigs Room. Posters will be shared in the Swope Poster Area. To see the oral and poster session schedule, follow this link.

Conference Program Booklet

Keynote Speakers

Jennifer A. Holm 

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Research Site

Natasha MacBean

Western University
Research Site

Minkyu Moon  

Boston University
Research Site

Paul Moorcroft  

Harvard University
Research Site

FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023
4:00-6:00 pm Check-in at MBL Swope Center, 5 North Street in Woods Hole. (#15 on the map), set up posters in the Swope poster area
6:00-7:00 pm  Dinner in dining hall
7:00-7:10 pm  Welcome and Opening Remarks in the Swope Meigs Room
7:10-8:45 pm  FRIDAY EVENING ORAL SESSION: DYNAMICS, DATA & DEMOGRAPHY
8:45 pm – late  POSTERS MIXER SESSION

SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023
7:00-8:15 am  Breakfast in dining hall
8:15-10:00 am  SATURDAY MORNING ORAL SESSION 1: PHENOLOGY & TEMPERATURE
10:00-10:10 am  Group photo
10:10-10:30 am  Coffee break
10:30-12:00 pm  SATURDAY MORNING ORAL SESSION 2: GROUP MIP ACTIVITY
12:00-1:00 pm  Lunch in dining hall
1:00-3:45 pm  FREE TIME for impromptu meetings, walks, soccer, etc.
3:45-4:00 pm  Pre-talk snacks by POSTERS
4:00-5:00 pm  SATURDAY AFTERNOON ORAL SESSION 1: DATA ASSIMILATION
5:00-5:50 pm  SATURDAY AFTERNOON ORAL SESSION 2: MODEL PARAMETERIZATION
6:00-7:30 pm  Dinner in dining hall
7:30-late pm  SATURDAY EVENING SESSION: POSTERS MIXER SESSION
SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 2023
7:00-8:15 am  Breakfast in dining hall
8:15-9:25 am  SUNDAY MORNING ORAL SESSION 1: HUMAN-NATURAL INTERACTIONS
9:25 – 9:40 am  SUNDAY MORNING ORAL SESSION 2: REMOTE SENSING OF VEGETATION
9:40-9:55 am  COFFEE BREAK
9:55-10:55 am  SUNDAY MORNING ORAL SESSION 2 continued
10:55-11:10 am  Student and postdoc presentation awards, announcement of next co-chairs and date
11:10-12:00 pm  Conference feedback and general discussion
12:00-1:00 pm  Lunch in dining hall

-Conference End-

Oral and Poster Schedule

Past Events

by | Aug 7, 2023 | Uncategorized

Past Events

The inaugural Eastern Regional Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling Conference took place on March 24-26, 2023. To foster frequent, reliable collaborations and interactions, we will organize this meeting annually. To learn more about past conferences, explore more below: 

    Events

    DVMOC Logistics

    by | Mar 21, 2023 | Uncategorized

    Venue & Directions

    About the venue

    The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is dedicated to scientific discovery – exploring fundamental biology, understanding biodiversity and the environment, and informing the human condition through research and education. Founded in Woods Hole, Massachusetts in 1888, the MBL is a private, nonprofit institution and an affiliate of the University of Chicago.

    Getting to MBL

    Woods Hole is a small seaside town for which there is a Peter Pan charter bus service from New York City, Providence, and Boston, with other stops. The Marine Biological Laboratory is about a 6-minute walk from the bus and ferry terminal.  For those who are driving, there is ample parking at MBL. An Event parking lot is available with MBL-issued permits for approximately 30 cars. Permits are complimentary and are available at check-in on a first come first serve basis. Additional information can be found here: https://www.mbl.edu/about/local-area-information/travel-information

      Location

      Conference address:

      Swope Center
      5 North Street
      Woods Hole, MA  USA

      Registration location:
      Registration check in takes place in the main lobby of the Swope Center – 5 North St, Woods Hole MA 02543

       

      Parking

      Parking is available at the Bar Neck Lot (33 Bar Neck Rd)

      Weather

      Woods Hole is a seaside village, and the weather can vary widely day to day (even hour to hour). You can expect temperatures to typically be a few degrees cooler than inland. A raincoat is handy for unexpected showers. Winters can range from blizzard conditions to mild.

      Check In

      All meetings check in at the MBL Swope Center, 5 North Street in Woods Hole. (#15 on the map) The Front Desk will provide your event ID badge, parking permit and event information.  Housing check-in is after 2:00pm on the date of your scheduled arrival. The Front Desk is usually open 8am – 5pm on arrival day.  After 5pm, the MBL Security (508-289-7217) can be called for housing check in. Conference parking spaces are available in the Bar Neck Lot (#19 on the map). Permits for overnight parking are available at the Swope Front Desk.

      Conference Policies

      You will be required to sign and acknowledge receipt of these policies prior to participating in the meeting. This includes information about complying with MBL’s COVID-19 policy. For more information, refer to their guidelines here. 

      Wireless

      The MBL offers wi-fi throughout the campus. The “MBL-GUEST” network is extremely easy to use and is very similar to systems that are widely deployed in hotels and Internet cafes. This wireless network has limited access to any MBL network resources, such as internal web pages, printers, and other shared devices. Click here for network login instructions.

      Site Map

      Campus Maps can be found here: https://www.mbl.edu/about/campus-facilities-resources/campus-maps

      Oral and Poster Schedule

      by | Mar 17, 2023 | Uncategorized

      Oral and Poster Schedule

      Keynote Speakers

      Jennifer A. Holm 

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
      Research Site

      Natasha MacBean

      Western University
      Research Site

      Minkyu Moon  

      Boston University
      Research Site

      Paul Moorcroft  

      Harvard University
      Research Site

      Conference Program

      All talks will be held in the Meigs Room, next to the Dining Hall of the Swope Center, MBL.

      FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023

      FRIDAY EVENING ORAL SESSION:  DYNAMICS, DATA & DEMOGRAPHY

      7:00 Welcome and opening remarks
      7:10 Ben Poulter (NASA/GSFC) Maintaining process in a data-driven world: Applications to dynamic global vegetation modeling, examples with LPJ-wsl
      7:35 Nancy Kiang (NASA/GISS) Vegetation demography modeling for canopy radiative transfer and carbon
      7:55 KEYNOTE: Jennifer Holm (LBNL) Demographic vegetation models for capturing forest regrowth and carbon sink solutions
      8:40 POP-UP TALKS
      8:45 till late FRIDAY EVENING POSTER SESSION & MIXER

      All talks will be held in the Meigs Room, next to the Dining Hall of the Swope Center, MBL.

      FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023

      FRIDAY EVENING ORAL SESSION:  DYNAMICS, DATA & DEMOGRAPHY

      7:00 Welcome and opening remarks
      7:10 Ben Poulter (NASA/GSFC) Maintaining process in a data-driven world: Applications to dynamic global vegetation modeling, examples with LPJ-wsl
      7:35 Nancy Kiang (NASA/GISS) Vegetation demography modeling for canopy radiative transfer and carbon
      7:55 KEYNOTE: Jennifer Holm (LBNL) Demographic vegetation models for capturing forest regrowth and carbon sink solutions
      8:55 POP-UP TALKS
      9:00 till late FRIDAY EVENING POSTER SESSION & MIXER

      SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023

       SATURDAY MORNING ORAL SESSION:  PHENOLOGY & TEMPERATURE

      8:15 KEYNOTE: Minkyu Moon (Boston University) Observing and modeling vegetation phenology using remote sensing and data-driven model
      9:15 Xiaoting Li (Cornell University) Empirical methods underpredict temperature sensitivity compared with warming experiments and mechanistic modeling over alpine grassland
      9:30 Jen Diehl (Northern Arizona University) Opportunities Using Thermal Imaging
      9:45  Jiangong Liu (Columbia University) Widespread Evidence for the Thermal Acclimation of Canopy Photosynthesis
      10:00 GROUP PHOTO
      10:10 COFFEE BREAK

      SATURDAY MORNING BREAKOUT SESSION: GROUP MIP ACTIVITY

      10:30-12:00 Interactive MIP activity (Everyone)

      SATURDAY AFTERNOON ORAL SESSION 1: DATA ASSIMILATION

      3:45 PRE-TALK SNACK BREAK BY POSTERS
      4:00 KEYNOTE: Natasha MacBean (Western University) 15 Years of Development of the ORCHIDEE Data Assimilation System: Progress and Future Directions

      SATURDAY AFTERNOON ORAL SESSION 2: MODEL PARAMETERIZATION

      5:00 Yanlan Liu (Ohio State University) Large Divergence of Projected Arctic Plant Composition and Productivity due to Functional Trait Uncertainty
      5:15 Xiangtao Xu (Cornell University) Constraining simulated tropical tree growth sensitivity to CO2 fertilization and climate variability by integrating tree ring records
      5:35 Nicolas Venjean (Spectral Evolution) Invasive Species Monitoring With UV-Vis-NIR Spectroscopy
      5:50 POP-UP Talks
      7:30-late SATURDAY EVENING POSTER SESSION & MIXER

      SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 2023

      SUNDAY MORNING SESSION 1:  HUMAN-NATURAL INTERACTIONS

      8:15 Elena Shevliakova (GFDL) Why would an Earth System Model benefit from a vegetation dynamics component? Some insights from the NOAA/GFDL ESM4.1
      8:35 Kathy Hibbard (NASA ESD/ Terrestrial Ecology) Terrestrial Ecology now and models of the future: a helicopter view from HQ
      8:50 Sonali McDermid (NYU) Eating our cake without losing it: exploring sustainability in agriculture and food security with land modeling
      9:10 Levente Klein (IBM) Urban Forests for Carbon Sequestration and Heat Island Mitigation

      SUNDAY MORNING SESSION 2:  REMOTE SENSING OF VEGETATION

      9:25 Wenge Ni-Meister (CUNY Hunter College) Quantifying Aboveground Biomass In The Continental U.S. Using GEDI Waveform Measurements
      9:40 COFFEE BREAK
      9:55 KEYNOTE: Paul Moorcroft (Harvard University) Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Development of a Predictive Science of the Biosphere
      10:55 Student and postdoc presentation awards, announcement of next co-chairs and date
      11:10 – 12:00 Conference feedback and general discussion

      Abstract Submission

      by | Mar 1, 2023 | Uncategorized

      Call for abstracts:

      The call for abstracts has been extended to March 6! We invite you to share your latest research! This year’s conference theme, “Bringing together modelers and empiricists to advance process-based models,” will guide the discussions, with session themes shaped by submitted abstracts. Example topics include, but are not limited to:

      • Forest demography and biodiversity 
      • Forest carbon, water, and energy cycling
      • Disturbances (fire, land use change, etc.)
      • Ecological remote sensing
      • Plant ecophysiology (e.g. phenology, plant hydraulics, above-below ground coupling)
      • Land-based future carbon sink solutions
      • Agricultural land management
      • Model Intercomparison Project protocols

      Use the following instructions to submit your abstract:

      1. Please download and use this template for your abstract submission:

      Download the abstract template

      2. Submit your abstract using the following form. This form requires a Google account to log-in and upload your abstract file. If you are unable to use the Google form, please email your abstract to hl3147(at)columbia.edu.

      Submit your abstract

      2026 Key Dates:

      January 13: Abstract submissions open

      March 2: Registration and MBL lodging reservations open

      EXTENDED March 6: Abstract submission deadline

      March 13: Deadline for early bird registration 

      March 20: Deadline for registration and MBL lodging reservations

      March 31: Deadline for virtual registration

      April 8-10: Conference dates

      DVMOC Reservation

      by | Jan 25, 2023 | Uncategorized

      Registration and Lodging Reservation at MBL

      The 2026 Dynamic Vegetation Modeling and Observations Conference will take place at the Marine Biological Laboratory’s Swope Conference Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The Swope Conference Center offers on-site lodging and a dining cafeteria, where conference participants can share meals and foster conversation and collaboration.

      The conference fee includes:

      • Access to the full scientific program
      • Two evening poster session mixers
      • Coffee and snack breaks

      On-site lodging at MBL covers your selected room and all meals for the duration of the conference. See below for an overview of our 2026 prices.

      Early bird registration prices are available through Friday, March 13, 2026. After this date, meeting registration fees will increase by $50.

      Virtual Registration

      Please provide your contact information using the link below to begin registration. After submitting this form, you will be directed to the Marine Biological Laboratory’s website to complete your virtual registration and pay the $50 conference fee.

      In-person registration and lodging reservations are now closed. Virtual registration will close on March 31, 2026, at 6:00 PM ET.

      Register (Virtual)