Oral and Poster Schedule

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Western University
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Boston University
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Harvard University
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All talks will be held in the Meigs Room, next to the Dining Hall of the Swope Center, MBL.

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 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 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 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