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3rd Annual

Dynamic Vegetation Modeling and Observations Conference

Scaling Process-Based Understanding: From Principles to Practices

April 9-11, 2025

The Dynamic Vegetation Modeling and Observations Conference (DVMOC, formerly the Eastern Regional Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling Conference, ER-DGVM-C), was established in 2023 to foster interchange among scientists, postdocs, and students who conduct research in modeling, lab and field studies, remote sensing, and data science related to understanding vegetation and land biophysical and biogeochemical dynamics from the molecular to global scales. The conference focus is particularly on dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) that couple with surface hydrology and/or atmosphere models, and the data and process studies that are needed to inform model physics, parameters, and provide boundary conditions.

This collegial, 2-day conference is held every spring in the retreat-like setting of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. The DVMOC format promotes substantial time for discussion during talks, over meals, poster sessions, and evening mixers, with always an afternoon free for impromptu meetings and to enjoy the seaside ambiance of Woods Hole. The conference especially encourages early career scientists to gain valuable feedback on their work in a supportive environment. It provides a forum for all to have the opportunity to connect with others with diverse expertise in the very multidisciplinary endeavor of understanding terrestrial ecosystem dynamics in the context of the Earth system. While the venue is most convenient for those in the Eastern U.S., it is certainly open to any who wish to attend from outside the region.

We are excited to announce that the 3rd annual Dynamic Vegetation Modeling and Observations Conference (DVMOC), themed “Scaling Process-Based Understanding: From Principles to Practices,” will be held APRIL 9–11, 2025, at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. The 2025 co-chairs are Xiangtao Xu (Cornell University), Paul Moorcroft (Harvard University).

Thanks for attending!

Congratulations to the awardees of the best early career oral and poster presentations!

Best Graduate Student Oral Presentation

Characterizing Spatiotemporal Drivers of European Spongy Moth Defoliation Using a Novel Satellite-Based Algorithm. Cameron Scholl, Cornell University

Best Postdoc Oral Presentation

Evapotranspiration modeling from Water-Energy-Carbon coupling: Synergistic use of thermal land surface temperature and solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence from remote sensing. Jingyi Bu, University of New Hampshire

Best Graduate Student Poster

Environmental Drivers of Tropical Tree Growth: Model-Data Comparison at a Wet Tropical Forest. Yixin Ma, Cornell University

Best Postdoc Poster

The Impacts of Wind Disturbances on the Amazon Carbon Sink through Data-Driven Synthesis. Yanlei Feng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology