2002 AMERIFLUX SCIENCE MEETING AGENDA
Millenium Harvest House Hotel Boulder, Colorado

Day 1 Tuesday October 22nd

Poster Session - Site Updates

La Selva, Costa Rica - Interannual NEE Variability
Jasper Ridge, California (USA) - Regional-scale Measurements of CO₂ and Isotope Flux
Niwot Ridge, Colorado (USA) - Soil Respiration
Niwot Ridge, Colorado (USA) - Storage Change and Mean Advective CO₂ Flux
Niwot Ridge, Colorado - Carbon Sequestration
UMBS, Michigan (USA) - NEE Results
Utah (Great Basin), USA Seasonal Changes in Water and CO₂ Fluxes
Wireless LAN
CDIAC Improvements to the AmeriFlux WWW Site

8:30 Registration

9:00 Welcome (Law)

9:10 AmeriFlux Network Goals
Strategic Plan, Scientific products, Carbon management, and Policy (Law, Dalhman, Reck)

9:40 AmeriFlux and the North American Carbon Program field campaign (Davis)

10:00 Coffee

10:30 Role of AmeriFlux in NEON (Monson)

10:45 Fluxnet update- synthsis/papers (Baldocchi)

11:05 AmeriFlux/Fluxnet data management (Boden, Olson, Holladay)

11:20 Update from LBA workshop (Wofsy, Goulden, Keller)

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Discussion on protecting sites to ensure the availability of longterm flux measurement records (Keeling, Law)

1:30 Poster Session - Annual Site Review

3:00 Break

3:30 Update from AmeriFlux QA/QC workshop (Massman, Lee)

4:30 Statistical u* correction findings and implications (Gu)

4:45 Net CO₂ Exchange in Grasslands (Verma)

End of the day:
Tribute to Tim Crawford (Baldocchi, Meyers)

Day 2 Wednesday October 23rd
Modeling and Tower Flux Data

8:00 Extraction of physiological information and model parameters (Aber)

8:20 FORFLUX mechanistic model to AMERIFLUX type data (Zeller/Nikolov)

8:40 MODIS/flux comparison workshop update (Running)

9:00 Model and data intercomparison (Hibbard)

9:10 Effects of disturbance, CO₂ and N deposition on fluxes (Thornton)

AmeriFlux Intercomparison System

9:30 Synthesis to date (Hollinger, Styles, Loescher)

10:00 Break

10:45 Status of intercomparison system (Loescher)

Flux Sources and Responses
11:00 Soil fluxes and sapflow (Irvine)

11:20 Stable isotopes (Lai)

11:40 Data assimilation/driver-domain integration(Gu)

12:00 Lunch
Set up of vendors

1:00 Carbon storage with woody plant invasion of grasslands (Jackson)

1:30 Introduction to new sites
Fluxnet Canada (Margolis)
Tonzi/Vaira Ranch (Xu)

2:00 Break

2:00-5:00 Campbell Scientific, Gill, ATI, and LiCor will be available for questions and to introduce new instrumentation

2:00-4:45 Determination of large-scale CO₂ exchange through the integration of flux and mixing ratio data. Annual WLEF/ChEAS meeting (Davis et al.)

4:45 Closing Remarks