2nd Annual
Eastern Regional Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling Conference 

Predicting Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change: Linking Models and Measurements

April 5-7, 2024

The next Eastern Regional Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling Conference (ER-DGVM-C) will be held April 5-7, 2024 at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. The 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 ER-DGVM-C 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.

Thanks for attending!

Congratulations to the awardees of the best oral and poster presentations:

• Best Graduate Student Oral Presentation: Phenologies: Defining seasons through different indicators in land-atmosphere interactions perspective. Rong-Yu Gu, Columbia University
• Best Graduate Student Poster: Mapping bird-friendly coffee farms using remote sensing and machine learning. Francesca Lingo, CUNY Graduate Center
• Best Postdoc Oral Presentation: Sustaining Savanna Stability: Browsing Herbivores and Functional Diversity as Keys to Resilience. Katja Irob, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Best Postdoc Poster: Rapid and accurate automatic segmentation of individual trees from terrestrial laser scanning point cloud. Tao Han, Cornell University

Keynote Speakers

Xiangtao Xu

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Cornell University
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Please contact aimes@futureearth.org if you would like to sponsor the 2024 conference. We will provide guidelines for sponsorship.