[ECOLOG-L] JpGU 2019 Session A-CG32: Global Carbon Cycle Observation and Analysis (May 28, 2019, Chiba, Japan)

2019-01-14 Thread Forrest M. Hoffman
Dear Colleagues,

We would like to call your attention to the following session at the
upcoming Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) 2019 Meeting in Chiba (very close
to Tokyo) on 26–30 May 2019:

*Global Carbon Cycle Observation and Analysis (A-CG32)*
Scheduled on May 28, 2019
http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2019/SessionList_en/detail/A-CG32.html
/- Joint Session with AGU, EGU, and AOGS/

Conveners:
  Kazuhito Ichii (Chiba University)
  Prabir Patra (JAMSTEC)
  Forrest M. Hoffman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
  Makoto Saito (NIES)

We welcome contributions from a wide range of studies including in-situ
observations, remote sensing and modeling approaches (including top-down
and bottom-up approaches) at different spatial scales that link to
estimation of GHG (e.g. CO_2 , CH_4 , N_2 O) budgets at global and
regional scales, including land, ocean, and atmosphere. Human related
emissions, such as fossil fuel emissions, land use change, fires, are
also of interest.

Please consider submitting an abstract to this session. Also, May in
Japan is one of the best seasons to visit!  The abstract deadlines are 3
February 2019 (early submission) and 19 February 2019 (final
submission). If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact one
of the conveners listed above.

Detailed information about the conference (abstract submission, venue,
etc.) is available at http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2019/

Thank you very much for your attention!

Kazuhito Ichii (Chiba University)
Prabir Patra (JAMSTEC)
Forrest M. Hoffman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Makoto Saito (NIES)


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Climate Change Science Institute
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Building 4500N, Room F106, MS 6301
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6301
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[ECOLOG-L] 2018 AGU Fall Meeting Special Session on Understanding phenological responses and feedback in terrestrial vegetation: patterns, mechanisms, and consequences

2018-07-29 Thread Forrest M. Hoffman
Dear Colleague,

We are writing to call your attention to a special session at the AGU
Fall Meeting titled, “Understanding phenological responses and feedback
in terrestrial vegetation: patterns, mechanisms, and consequences”. This
session will highligh trecent advances in characterizing the
spatio-temporal patterns in vegetation phenology with traditional and/or
novel monitoring approaches (e.g., satellite, drones, webcams,
fluorescence), and underlying mechanistic processes. Please consider
submitting a contributed abstract to this session from the AGU Fall
Meeting website at
https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/abstract-submissions/. The deadline for
abstract submissions is August 1, 2018.

Full details of the session are described here:

*B091: Understanding phenological responses and feedback in
terrestrial vegetation: patterns, mechanisms, and consequences*

*Session ID#:* 52969
*Conveners:* Jitendra Kumar (ORNL), Xiangtao Xu (Princeton U.),
Forrest M. Hoffman (ORNL), and Min Chen (Harvard U.)

Vegetation phenology is an integrated and sensitive indicator of
ecosystem health and function that responds to growing conditions,
disturbance, and climate change. Changes in phenology can also exert
feedbacks on ecosystems and to the climate system by regulating
vegetation dynamics and key land surface processes. This symposium
draws upon recent advances in characterizing the spatio-temporal
patterns in vegetation phenology with traditional and/or novel
monitoring approaches (e.g., satellite, drones, webcams,
fluorescence), and underlying mechanistic processes. In addition,
the session is looking forward to studies targeting accurate model
representations of vegetation phenology at all scales, and/or
investigating the phenological implications to key land surface
processes and the societal sector. Abstracts reflecting the
increasing research efforts across diverse biomes, including
tropical forests, tundra and terrestrial-aquatic systems in addition
to the temperate biome, are encouraged.

*SWIRL Theme:* Climate

*Cross-Listed:* GC - Global Environmental Change

*Index Terms:*
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics
0476 Plant ecology
0480 Remote sensing

*Confirmed Invited Presenters:*
William W. Hargrove, USDA Forest Service
Matteo Detto, Princeton University

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/52969

Please forward this message to others who may be interested in
participating in this session. We hope to see you in Washington in December!

Thank you!

Jitendra, Xiangtao, Forrest, and Min

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Senior Computational Earth System Scientist
Computational Earth Sciences Group
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Building 4500N, Room F106, MS 6301
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6301
forr...@climatemodeling.org
ORCiD -0001-5802-4134 <http://orcid.org/-0001-5802-4134>
http://www.climatemodeling.org/~forrest
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[ECOLOG-L] 2018 AGU Fall Meeting Special Session on Integrated Understanding of Climate, Carbon, Nutrient Cycles, Human Activities, and their Interactions in Terrestrial Ecosystems

2018-07-22 Thread Forrest M. Hoffman
Dear Colleague,

We are writing to call your attention to a special session at the AGU
Fall Meeting titled, “Integrated Understanding of Climate, Carbon,
Nutrient Cycles, Human Activities, and their Interactions in Terrestrial
Ecosystems”. This session will highlight the influence of global carbon,
water, and nutrient cycles in terrestrial ecosystems on future
atmospheric CO_2 concentrations, quantifying climate–carbon cycle and
human activity feedbacks, and benchmarking of Earth system models
(ESMs). Please consider submitting a contributed abstract to this
session from the AGU Fall Meeting website at
https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/abstract-submissions/. The deadline for
abstract submissions is August 1, 2018.

Full details of the session are described here:

*B040: Integrated Understanding of Climate, Carbon, Nutrient Cycles,
Human Activities, and their Interactions in Terrestrial Ecosystems*

*Session ID#:* 44420
*Conveners:*/Forrest M. Hoffman (ORNL), Xiaojuan Yang (ORNL), Atul
K. Jain (U. Illinois), and Danica Lombardozzi (NCAR)/

Assessments of coupled climate–carbon cycle simulations indicate
that terrestrial carbon cycle feedbacks are highly uncertain and
could significantly alter the rate of atmospheric CO_2 increase and,
therefore, climate change over the next one hundred years. The
terrestrial carbon cycle is directly affected by increasing
atmospheric CO_2 levels and by climate change, and, further, is
altered indirectly by feedbacks from potentially limiting nutrients
(e.g., nitrogen and phosphorus). Changes in CO_2 concentration and
climate can affect the availability of these nutrients, and
anthropogenic disturbances—such as tropospheric ozone, nitrogen
deposition, and land cover and land use changes—also influence the
carbon cycle, nutrient cycles, climate change, and the strength of
their interactions. This session will focus on an integrated
understanding of carbon, nutrient cycles, climate change, human
activities, and their interactions and feedbacks to climate in
terrestrial ecosystems.

*Cross-Listed:*
GC - Global Environmental Change
H - Hydrology

*Index Terms:
*0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0466 Modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0469 Nitrogen cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

*Confirmed Invited Presenters:*
Anna Harper (University of Exeter)
Tea Thum (MPI for Biogeochemistry)

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/44420

Please forward this message to others who may be interested in
participating in this session. We hope to see you in Washington in December!

Thank you!

Forrest, Xiaojuan, Atul, and Danica

-- 
Forrest M. Hoffman
Senior Computational Earth System Scientist
Computational Earth Sciences Group
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Building 4500N, Room F106, MS 6301
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6301
forr...@climatemodeling.org
ORCiD -0001-5802-4134 <http://orcid.org/-0001-5802-4134>
http://www.climatemodeling.org/~forrest
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[ECOLOG-L] DEADLINE EXTENDED - CFP: Seventh Workshop on Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS 2017)

2017-08-07 Thread Forrest M. Hoffman
Greetings Colleague,

We have extended the submission deadline for papers submitted to the
Seventh Workshop on Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS 2017).
Please consider this opportunity for presenting your work in developing
or apply data mining methods to Earth and climate science domains.
Student and postdoc papers are very welcome.

Forrest



** CALL FOR PAPERS ***
*** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ***
**Seventh Workshop on Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS 2017)**
**https://www.climatemodeling.org/workshops/dmess2017/**
**
**Co-conveners: Forrest M. Hoffman, Auroop R. Ganguly, Jitendra Kumar,
and Richard Tran Mills**
**
**New Orleans, Louisiana, USA**
**November 18–21, 2017**
*** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * **

*Workshop Description:*

Spanning many orders of magnitude in time and space scales, Earth
science data, from point measurements to process-based Earth system
model output, are increasingly large and complex, and often represent
very long time series, making these data difficult to analyze,
visualize, interpret, and understand. An “explosion” of heterogeneous,
multi-disciplinary data–including observations and models of interacting
natural, engineered, and human systems–have rendered traditional means
of integration and analysis ineffective, necessitating the application
of new analytical methods and the development of highly scalable
software tools for synthesis, assimilation, comparison, and
visualization. For complex, nonlinear feedbacks among chaotic processes,
new methods and approaches for data mining and computational statistics
are required for classification and change detection, model evaluation
and benchmarking, uncertainty quantification, and incorporation of
constraints from physics, chemistry, and biology into analysis. This
workshop explores various data mining approaches and algorithms for
understanding nonlinear dynamics of weather and climate systems and
their interactions with biogeochemical cycles, impacts of natural system
responses and climate extremes on engineered systems and interdependent
infrastructure networks, and mitigation and adaptation strategies for
natural hazards and infrastructure and ecosystem resilience. Encouraged
are original research papers describing applications of statistical and
data mining methods that support analysis and discovery in climate
predictability, attributions, weather extremes, water resources
management, risk analysis and hazards assessment, ecosystem
sustainability, infrastructure resilience, and geo-engineering. Rigorous
review papers that either have the potential to expose data mining
researchers to commonly used data-driven methods in the Earth sciences
or discuss the applicability and caveats of such methods from a machine
learning or statistical perspective, are also desired. Methods may
include, but are not limited to cluster analysis, empirical orthogonal
functions (EOFs), extreme value and rare events analysis, genetic
algorithms, neural networks and deep learning methods,
physics-constrained data analytics, automated data assimilation, and
other machine learning techniques. Novel approaches that bring new ideas
from nonlinear dynamics and information theory, network science and
graphical methods, and the state-of-the-art in computational statistics
and econometrics, into data mining and machine learning, are
particularly encouraged.


  Program Committee Members:

  * *Michael W. Berry* (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA)
  * *Bjørn-Gustaf J. Brooks* (USDA Forest Service, Asheville, North
Carolina, USA)
  * *Nathaniel O. Collier* (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, USA)
  * *Auroop R. Ganguly* (Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts,
USA)
  * *William W. Hargrove* (USDA Forest Service, Asheville, North
Carolina, USA)
  * *Forrest M. Hoffman* (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, USA)
  * *Jian Huang* (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee USA)
  * *Evan Kodra* (risQ Incorporated, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
  * *Jitendra Kumar* (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, USA)
  * *Vipin Kumar* (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
  * *Miguel D. Mahecha* (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena,
GERMANY)
  * *Richard T. Mills* (Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA)
  * *Steven P. Norman* (USDA Forest Service, Asheville, North Carolina, USA)
  * *Sarat Sreepathi* (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, USA)
  * *Vamsi Sripathi* (Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA)
  * *Karsten Steinhaeuser* (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, USA)
  * *Min Xu* (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA)


  Paper Submission:

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of up to 10 pages

[ECOLOG-L] 2017 AGU Fall Meeting Special Session on Integrated Understanding of Climate, Carbon, Nutrient Cycles, Human Activities, and their Interactions in Terrestrial Ecosystems

2017-07-11 Thread Forrest M. Hoffman
Dear Colleague,

We are writing to call your attention to a special session at the AGU
Fall Meeting titles, “Integrated Understanding of Climate, Carbon,
Nutrient Cycles, Human Activities, and their Interactions in Terrestrial
Ecosystems”. This session will highlight the influence of global carbon,
water, and nutrient cycles in terrestrial ecosystems on future
atmospheric CO_2 concentrations, quantifying climate–carbon cycle and
human activity feedbacks, and benchmarking of Earth system models
(ESMs). Please consider submitting a contributed abstract to this
session from the AGU Fall Meeting website at
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/programs.html. The
deadline for abstract submissions is August 2, 2017.

Full details of the session are described here:

*B041: Integrated Understanding of Climate, Carbon, Nutrient Cycles,
Human Activities, and their Interactions in Terrestrial Ecosystems*

*Session ID#:* 24541
*Conveners:*/Forrest M. Hoffman (ORNL), Xiaojuan Yang (ORNL), Atul
K. Jain (U. Illinois), and Sasha Reed (USGS)/

Assessments of coupled climate–carbon cycle simulations indicate
that terrestrial carbon cycle feedbacks are highly uncertain and
could significantly alter the rate of atmospheric CO_2 increase and,
therefore, climate change over the next one hundred years. The
terrestrial carbon cycle is directly affected by increasing
atmospheric CO_2 levels and by climate change, and, further, is
altered indirectly by feedbacks from potentially limiting nutrients
(e.g., nitrogen and phosphorus). Changes in CO_2 concentration and
climate can affect the availability of these nutrients, and
anthropogenic disturbances—such as tropospheric ozone, nitrogen
deposition, and land cover and land use changes—also influence the
carbon cycle, nutrient cycles, climate change, and the strength of
their interactions. This session will focus on an integrated
understanding of carbon, nutrient cycles, climate change, human
activities, and their interactions and feedbacks to climate in
terrestrial ecosystems.

*Cross-Listed:*
GC - Global Environmental Change

*Index Terms:*
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
040 Nutrients and nutrient cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]

*Confirmed Invited Presenters:*
James T. Randerson (University of California Irvine)
L. Ruby Leung (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session24541

Please forward this message to others who may be interested in
participating in this session. We hope to see you in New Orleans in
December!

Thank you!

Forrest, Xiaojuan, Atul, and Sasha

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Climate Change Science Institute
Computational Earth Sciences Group
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Building 4500N, Room F106, MS 6301
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6301
forr...@climatemodeling.org
ORCiD -0001-5802-4134 <http://orcid.org/-0001-5802-4134>
http://www.climatemodeling.org/~forrest
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[ECOLOG-L] 4th International Conference on Hydrology delivers Earth System Sciences to Society

2017-03-20 Thread Forrest M. Hoffman
Dear Colleague,

My apologies if you receive multiple announcements.

The *4th International Conference on Hydrology delivers Earth System
Sciences to Society* will be held in Tokyo, Japan on 16–19 May 2017. The
theme of the conference is /Climate Extreme and Global Energy, Water,
and Carbon Cycles: Improving and Integrating Knowledge across
Disciplines/. The objective of the meeting is to provide a forum for
strengthening exchange and collaboration across research initiatives and
disciplines in order to address emerging issues related to climate and
human society as a holistic system. A primary focus of the meeting will
be on climate extremes and their impacts in a changing climate.

For more information, please see the event website at
http://www.gewexevents.org/events/hesss4/

Forrest

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Climate Change Science Institute
Computational Earth Sciences Group
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Building 4500N, Room F106, MS 6301
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6301
forr...@climatemodeling.org
ORCiD -0001-5802-4134 <http://orcid.org/-0001-5802-4134>
http://www.climatemodeling.org/~forrest
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[ECOLOG-L] 2016 AGU Fall Meeting Special Session on New Mechanisms, Feedbacks, and Approaches for Improving Predictions of the Global Carbon Cycle in Earth System Models

2016-07-14 Thread Forrest M. Hoffman
Dear Colleague,

We are writing to call your attention to a special session at the AGU
Fall Meeting titled, “New Mechanisms, Feedbacks, and Approaches for
Improving Predictions of the Global Carbon Cycle in Earth System
Models”.  This session will highlight the influence of global carbon and
nutrient cycles on future atmospheric CO_2 concentrations, quantifying
climate-carbon cycle feedbacks, and benchmarking of Earth System
Models.  Please consider submitting a contributed abstract to this
session from the AGU Fall Meeting website at
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions/. The deadline for
abstract submissions is August 3, 2016.

*New Mechanisms, Feedbacks, and Approaches for Improving Predictions
of the Global Carbon Cycle in Earth System Models*

*Session ID#:* 12575
*Conveners:* /Forrest M. Hoffman (ORNL), James T. Randerson (UC
Irvine), ///Atul K. Jain (U. Illinois), /and J. Keith Moore (UC Irvine)/

Predictions of future atmospheric CO_2 levels are influenced by
global carbon and nutrient cycles, climate interactions, and
feedbacks. Relevant processes operate at different spatial and
temporal scales and vary across terrestrial, coastal, and marine
ecosystems. Uncertain biogeochemical feedbacks may be altered by
anthropogenic disturbance agents, including tropospheric O_3 ,
acceleration of the N and H_2 O cycles, eutrophication, and land
cover/use change. This session focuses on integrated understanding
of feedback mechanisms, methods for evaluating and benchmarking
process representations in Earth system models, and approaches for
constraining future climate projections (e.g., emergent constraints).

*Confirmed Invited Presenters:*
Heather Graven (Imperial College, London, U.K.)
Charles D. Koven (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley,
California, USA)

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12575

Please forward this message to others who may be interested in
participating in this session. We hope to see you in San Francisco in
December!

Forrest, Jim, Atul, and Keith

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Climate Change Science Institute
Computational Earth Sciences Group
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Building 4500N, Room F106, MS 6301
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6301
forr...@climatemodeling.org
ORCiD -0001-5802-4134 <http://orcid.org/-0001-5802-4134>
http://www.climatemodeling.org/~forrest
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[ECOLOG-L] Open Invitation for Remote Participation in the Second U.S. ILAMB Workshop (May 16-19, 2016)

2016-05-08 Thread Forrest M. Hoffman
Dear Colleague:

The second International Land Model Benchmarking (ILAMB) Workshop in the
U.S. will be held on May 16–18, 2016 for three full days in Washington,
DC, USA. More information about the meeting is available at
http://www.ilamb.org/meetings/washington2016/. While space is not
available for additional attendees in Washington, *we invite you to
participate remotely via webcast and to collaborate on writing a report
for the wider research community.*

  * *Workshop agenda:* A nearly final agenda for the workshop is now
available at
http://www.ilamb.org/meetings/washington2016/ILAMB_Agenda.html.
  * *Workshop report:* We will be using crowdsourcing to develop a
report for the research community resulting from the workshop. A
draft outline for the report is available at
http://www.ilamb.org/meetings/washington2016/ILAMB_Report_Outline.html.
This outline lists names of participants who have agreed to lead or
co-lead sections and lists names of chapter co-leads.
  * *Remote access instructions:* We will use the BlueJeans system to
webcast the plenary presentations and discussions scheduled to take
place in the primary meeting room.


*If you wish to participate remotely in the ILAMB Workshop, please
register by completing the form at http://goo.gl/forms/cepYWuW4OY.*
Instructions for connecting to the videoconference and accessing
workshop documents will be provided by e-mail.

We have an exciting meeting lined up, and we hope you will be able to
join the workshop remotely!

ILAMB Workshop Chairs:
/Forrest M. Hoffman, William J. Riley, James T. Randerson, Gretchen
Keppel-Aleks, David M. Lawrence, Dorothy Koch, and Renu Joseph/

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ILAMB Website: http://www.ilamb.org/



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2015-12-10 Thread Forrest M. Hoffman
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[ECOLOG-L] 2015 AGU Fall Meeting Special Session on New Mechanisms, Feedbacks, and Approaches for Improving Predictions of the Global Carbon Cycle in Earth System Models

2015-07-12 Thread Forrest M. Hoffman
Dear Colleague,

We are writing to call your attention to a special session at the AGU
Fall Meeting titled, New Mechanisms, Feedbacks, and Approaches for
Improving Predictions of the Global Carbon Cycle in Earth System
Models.  This session will highlight the influence of global carbon and
nutrient cycles on future atmospheric CO_2 concentrations, quantifying
climate-carbon cycle feedbacks, and benchmarking of Earth System
Models.  Please consider submitting a contributed abstract to this
session from the AGU Fall Meeting website at
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2015/abstract-submissions/. The deadline for
abstract submissions is August 5, 2015.

*New Mechanisms, Feedbacks, and Approaches for Improving Predictions
of the Global Carbon Cycle in Earth System Models*

*Session ID#:* 7745
*Co-Conveners:* Forrest M. Hoffman, Atul K. Jain, James T.
Randerson, and J. Keith Moore
*Co-Organized with:* Biogeosciences, Global Environmental Change,
Hydrology, and Ocean Sciences

Predictions of future atmospheric CO_2 concentrations are influenced
by global carbon and nutrient cycles, climate interactions, and
feedbacks. Relevant processes operate at different spatial and
temporal scales, vary across marine and terrestrial ecosystems and
remain uncertain. Moreover, feedbacks may be altered by
anthropogenic disturbance agents, including tropospheric O_3 ,
acceleration of the N and H_2 O cycles, eutrophication, and land
cover/use changes. This session focuses on integrated understanding
of feedback mechanisms, structure and function of critical and
vulnerable ecosystems, human activities, and approaches for
evaluating and benchmarking Earth System Models.

*Confirmed Invited Presenters*

  * mailto:yan...@ornl.gov Gordon Bonan, National Center for
Atmospheric Research
  * Abigail Swann, University of Washington
  * Yiqi Luo, University of Oklahoma
  * Nikki Lovenduski, University of Colorado Boulder

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/preliminaryview.cgi/Session7745

Please forward this message to others who might be interested in
participating in this session. We hope to see you in San Francisco in
December!

Forrest, Atul, Jim, and Keith

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Climate Change Science Institute  http://www.climatemodeling.org/~forrest
Computational Earth Sciences Group(865) 576-7680 voice
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)  Building 4500N, Room F106, MS 6301
P.O. Box 2008 Deliveries: One Bethel Valley Road
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6301  35° 55' 23 N   84° 19' 20 W