AmeriFlux Agenda
October 24 & 25, 2000
Holiday Inn, Atlanta - Airport North
Atlanta, Georgia


Tuesday, October 24, 2000
8:30 Welcome (Dave Hollinger)
8:45 - 10:00 Site Updates
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Site Updates (continued)
11:30 Words from Our Sponsors (Roger Dahlman and Ruth Reck)
11:45 FLUXNET-Canada (Hank Margolis)
12:00 LUNCH
1:00 FLUXNET Update (Dennis Baldocchi)
1:20 ASIAFLUX Update (Bev Law)
1:25 Stable Isotope Studies, BASIN, & AmeriFlux (Pataki)
1:50 AmeriFlux/FLUXNET Data Archive Update & Discussion (Tom Boden/Dick Olson)
2:10 Mesoscale Circulation Patterns at an AmeriFlux Site (Monique LeClerc)
Special Session - Synthesis of Results
2:30 Results from Spectral Correction and Nocturnal Exchange Meeting in Boulder (Bill Massman)
2:50 Biomass and Integrated Flux Measurement Comparison - Introduction (Peter Curtis)
3:10 Biomass and Integrated Flux Measurement Comparison - Evergreen Forests (Bev Law)
3:30 Break
4:00 Belowground Carbon Allocation in AmeriFlux Sites and other Forested Ecosystems Inferred from Annual Litterfall and Soil Respiration Measurements (Eric Davidson)
4:20 FLUXNET Synthesis Overview (Dennis Baldocchi)
4:30 Interannual Variability of CO2 Fluxes (Bill Munger)
4:45 Spatial Coherence in CO2 Fluxes and Mixing Ratios Across FLUXNET (Ken Davis)
4:55 Canopy Structure, Topography, and Energy Balance Closure (Kell Wilson)
Wednesday, October 25, 2000
Special Session - Scaling
8:20 Scaling Up from Leaf to Canopy (Gaby Katul)
8:40 Implementing Carbon Cycle Measurements at the DOE-ARM-SGP Site That Span Scales from PLots to the Region (Marc Fischer)
9:00 Carbon and Energy Exchange of an Old Growth Forest in the Pacific Northwest as Simulated by an Integrated Land Surface and C Cycle Model (Jorg Kaduk)
9:40 Scaling GPP at Tower Sites in the Context of EOS/MODIS Validation (Dave Turner)
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Regional and Continental Flux Estimation (Scott Denning)
11:00 Flux Data and Large-Scale Ecosystem Modeling (George Hurtt)
11:30 Beyond the towers. Discussion on increasing collaboration with researchers outside of AmeriFlux to better achieve the goals of carbon cycle science
12:00 LUNCH
1:00 Real time data/model intercomparison project. Introduction and data system. (Tom Boden)
1:20 Real time flux/data model intercomparison project. Update on MODIS and modeling results using BIOME-BGC (Steve Running)
1:40 A Rapidly Deployable EC Flux System Based on the LiCor LI-7500 IRGA (Billesbach)
2:00 OP-2 Open Path IRGA and Sap Flow Analysis Tools (van Bavel)
2:15 Breakout Discussions
A. AmeriFlux real time data/model intercomparison project (Steve Running)
B. Open path analyzers
C. Other topics
3:00 Coffee
3:15-4:30 Time for discussions and opportunity to meet representatives from LiCor, Applied Technologies, Campbell, and Dynamax
4:30 Meeting Adjourns


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