2001 AmeriFlux Science Team Meeting
Argonne National Laboratory
October 31 - November 1, 2001

Summary and Action Items (prepared by Bev Law)

Wednesday, October 31, 2001

12:30 PM  Registration
1:00 PM   Welcome/Draft Strategic Plan Highlights (Bev Law)
1:10 PM   Words from our Sponsors (Roger Dahlman/Ruth Reck)
1:30 PM   Site Updates
  • Baltimore (Sue Grimmond)
  • BERMS, Vancouver Island (Kai Morgenstern)
  • FIAT (George Hendrey)
  • DOE ARM - Southern Great Plains (Marc Fischer)
  • Duke Forest (Gaby Katul)
  • Florida - Gainesville (Greg Starr)
  • GLEES (Bill Massman)
  • Rush Valley (Ron Ryel)
  • Harvard Forest/BOREAS OBS/LBA Santarem (Bill Munger)
  • Harvard Forest mobile system (Julian Hadley)
  • Howland (Dave Hollinger)
  • Kennedy Space Center (Sabina Dore)
  • La Selva (Steve Oberbauer)
  • Metolius (Bev Law)
  • Morgan Monroe State Forest (Andrew Oliphant)
  • Niwot Ridge (Russ Monson/Dean Anderson)
  • Park Falls/WLEF (Peter Bakwin)
  • Willow Creek/Lost Creek/Sylvania (Ken Davis)
  • Alaskan sites/Sky Oaks/La Paz (Hyojung Kwon)

    3:00 PM   Break

    3:30 PM   Site updates continue
  • Mead (Shashi Verma)
  • Tonzi grassland/Vaira Ranch (Dennis Baldocchi)
  • UC-Irvine/BOREAS/LBA Santarem (Mike Goulden)
  • UMBS (Hong-Bing Su)
  • Walker Branch (Kell Wilson)
  • Walnut River (Marv Wesely)
  • Wind River (K.T. Paw U and Matthias Falk)
  • FLUXNET-Canada (Alan Barr)

    4:20 PM   North American Carbon Program (Steve Wofsy)
    4:35 PM   Poster Session - reception; dinner on your own

    Thursday, November 1, 2001

    7:00 AM   Continental Breakfast

    8:00-11:00 AM  BREAKOUT SESSION FOR MODELERS (Rama Nemani)

    8:00-11:00 AM  SPECIAL SESSION - MICROMETEOROLOGY METHODOLOGY

    8:00 AM   Report on Sweden meeting on nocturnal fluxes (Bill Munger)
    8:20 AM   Nocturnal fluxes (Larry Mahrt)
    8:35 AM   Energy budget closure: Fluxnet synthesis (Kell Wilson)
    8:50 AM   EC flux corrections and uncertainties (Xuhui Lee, Bill Massman, KT Paw U)
    9:45 AM   Break
    10:15 AM  Comparison of open and closed-path systems (Dave Billesbach)
    10:30 AM  Signal processing techniques to extract ecosystem function from long-term records (Gaby Katul)

    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM  SPECIAL SESSION - INTEGRATION OF BIOPHYSICAL AND FLUX MEASUREMENTS TO UNDERSTAND CONTROLS ON FLUXES

    10:45 AM  Phenology (Mark Schwartz)
    11.05 AM  Cloud influences on physiology and fluxes; report on phenology meeting (Lianhong Gu)
    11.25 AM  Weather anomalies and the influence on physiology and fluxes (Greg Starr)
    11:40 AM  Transpiration and respiration in young and old forests (James Irvine)
    11:55 AM  The effects of fertilization on ecophysiological properties, NEE and H2O flux (Gaby Katul)

    12:10 PM   Lunch - group buffet

    1:30 - 3:30 PM  SPECIAL SESSION - MODELING AND MEASUREMENTS: SYNTHESIS ACROSS FLUX SITES

    1:30 PM   FLUXNET update: synthesis papers, future workshops (Dennis Baldocchi)
    1:50 PM   MODIS/MODIS/Model comparison with flux measurements (Rama Nemani)
    2:05 PM   AmeriFlux synthesis activities - potential analyses, data needs for modeling and future comparisons of sites/modeling teams (Rama Nemani/Dick Olson)
    2:15 PM   Integration of flux data and mixing ratio data to understanding larger-scale CO2 exchange (Ken Davis)
    2:30 PM   AmeriFlux/FLUXNET Data Management (Tom Boden)
    2:45 PM   Arctic aircraft (Walt Oechel)
    3:00 PM   Wrap-up
    3:15 PM   Adjourn

    Posters