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| Scaling climate change experiments across space and time: Challenges of informing large-scale models with small-scale experiments 4-7 June 2013, Mikulov, Czech Republic (this meeting is jointly sponsored by the INTERFACE and CLIMMANI networks) |
Programme available here.
Climate change experiments in terrestrial ecosystems build our fundamental understanding of plant and ecosystem responses to climatic perturbations, and this information informs model design and parameterization. Experiments typically focus on drivers and responses at relatively small scales (spatial and temporal). Scaling the information from these plot-level experiments to landscape- or global-scale models operating over decades or centuries provides a significant challenge. In recent years, climate change research has increasingly acknowledged the importance of extreme events as a significant component of climate change. This provides an additional and significant challenge in both experimentation and modelling.
This workshop, co-hosted by ClimMani and INTERFACE, will bring together experimentalists and modellers to discuss challenges associated with scaling, present the current state of the art, and identify future directions for overcoming the disparities in scales between climate change experiments and plot and global scale models.
The workshop will focus on four themes:
- What have we learned from work on elevational and environmental gradients?
- Scaling from small plots to landscapes and regions: what works, and what doesn't?
- Drivers of biome shifts: Making small-scale measurements of disturbance, tipping points, thresholds, and mortality relevant for large-scale models
- Trait responses to environmental change - Maximizing the benefits of trait information and moving from static to dynamic traits
US-BASED STUDENTS/POSTDOCS: INTERFACE invites applications to attend from US-based graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Funding is available for approximately 5 slots; please indicate if you can get support from your mentor or institution to cover the costs of the meeting or your travel (support, however, is not necessary to apply). To apply please submit a one-page CV that includes the name of three references (including your current dissertation or postdoctoral advisor), a short paragraph on why attending the meeting would enhance your career, and a poster abstract that is targeted to one of the four meeting themes (please identify the theme in your short paragraph about the meeting) to Prof. Aimée Classen (aclassen@utk.edu) with "INTERFACE application_your last name" in the subject line. All of these materials should be sent as a single PDF with your last name in the title "LAST NAME". Application deadline is May 1, 2013. All students and postdocs will be required to present a poster at the meeting.
OTHER RESEARCHERS: We encourage applications from interested researchers for a number of unfunded spaces at the meeting; if you would like to participate in the workshop, please email Claus Beier (if applying from Europe, Asia, Australia; clbe@kt.dtu.dk) or Jeff Dukes (N and S America, Africa; jsdukes@purdue.edu) with the subject "INTERFACE application_your last name." Include the title and abstract of the poster you would bring (please identify the workshop theme that matches your abstract). Application deadline is May 1st, 2013. There is no registration fee for the workshop.
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| 04/22/2013 |
| Student Collaborative Exchange Program |
To further facilitate collaboration in the research community, INTERFACE plans to sponsor a limited number of “collaborative exchanges” for US-based graduate students, in which students who primarily work with models spend a brief period (up to one month) working in an experimental setting, or students who primarily work on global change experiments spend a brief period (up to one month) working in an ecosystem or Earth system modeling setting. These exchanges should ideally allow the student to continue working on a similar topic, but from a different perspective. Interested graduate students should identify a laboratory in which they would like to work, and should secure approvals from their advisor and the exchange lab’s PI. To apply, students should submit as a single PDF file: (1) a two-page proposal explicitly stating the questions being addressed and why the collaboration will facilitate answering them, (2) an NSF-style CV, (3) a one-page budget justification, and (4) letters of support from the advisor and the PI of the lab the student will visit. Applications should be sent to Aimée Classen <aclassen@utk.edu>. Applications will be reviewed at two times each year, starting on the fourth Monday of April and the fourth Monday of October, through the end of 2014. Allowable expenses include airfare, meals while traveling to and from the exchange location, and housing. These funds cannot be used to cover classes at the host institution or student/ PI salary. Exchanges may be partially or fully sponsored by INTERFACE.
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| 06/17/2013 |
| Century/DayCent Model Training Workshop
(this activity is not sponsored by INTERFACE) |
From Cindy Keough and Bill Parton: We are pleased to announce that we have selected a date for the next Century/DayCent model training workshop. We will conducting the workshop the week of June 17-21, 2013 at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. The charge for the weeklong model training workshop will be $800.00 (U.S. dollars). This cost covers the workshop only, individuals who attend the workshop are responsible for making their own travel, lodging, and meal arrangements. Please keep in mind that there will be a limited number of slots available for the training workshop and these will be assigned on a first come first served basis.
Please let Cindy Keough [mailto:cindyk@nrel.colostate.edu] know if:
1. You and/or a coworker or colleague would like to register for the workshop.
2. You are interested in attending a Century/DayCent workshop but the June workshop will not fit into your schedule. In this case Cindy can add you to a list of individuals who would like to be informed of future workshops.
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| See Activities page for a full list of upcoming and past activities related to INTERFACE |
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| 06/15/2011 |
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June 15-17, 2011; Keflavík, Iceland. Thanks for a great meeting! Details and presentations now available here. Meeting report published in EOS 92(41):353.
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| 09/18/2011 |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
18-23 September 2011
(This meeting is not sponsored by INTERFACE) |
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| 02/06/2012 |
2nd TERRABITES Symposium: Modelling the terrestrial biosphere: From Ecological Processes to Remote Sensing Observations. February 6-8, 2012. Frascati, Italy.
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(This activity is not sponsored by INTERFACE). The 2nd TERRABITES symposium is part of a sequence of bi-annual conferences. The symposium aims at:
-providing a comprehensive overview on the current research on the terrestrial biosphere in an Earth System context,
-identifying knowledge gaps, and
-showing perspectives for future research in the field.
In addition, the purpose of the symposium is to foster cross-community exchange and research cooperations in the field.
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| 07/15/2012 |
| BIOGEOMON 2012: The 7th International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior |
July 15-20, 2012. Point Lookout Conference Center, Northport, Maine, USA. (This activity is not sponsored by INTERFACE)
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| 04/02/2013 |
| OpenScienceConference on Climate Extremes and Biogeochemical Cycles in the Terrestrial Biosphere: Impacts and Feedbacks Across Scales 2 - 5 April 2013, Seefeld (near Innsbruck), Austria |
Co-sponsored by Carbo-Extreme, INTERFACE, and iLEAPS. Session topics include: Ecosystem responses to climate variability and weather extremes, Recovery of ecosystems after extreme events, Long-term observations and large scale modeling, Feedback mechanisms from the biosphere to the climate system. For more information see the conference web page.
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| 02/28/2011 |
| 1st INTERFACE meeting: |
How Do We Improve Earth System Models? Integrating Earth System Models, Ecosystem Models, Experiments and Long-Term Data
February 28 - March 3, 2011, Captiva Island, Florida. Thanks for a great meeting! See website to revisit the agenda and presentations. The meeting report was published by New Phytologist (2011) 191: 15-18.
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| 09/25/2011 |
| 27th New Phytologist Symposium:
Stoichiometric flexibility in terrestrial ecosystems under global change
25-28 September 2011, Arizona, USA
(INTERFACE is not a sponsor of this meeting)
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| 06/30/2010 |
| INTERFACE kick-off mixer with ESM community |
15th Annual CCSM Workshop, Breckenridge, CO, June 30, 2010. Great Divide Lodge, Denver Room, 5-7 pm. Open to CCSM Workshop participants and other interested researchers.
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| 07/01/2010 |
| INTERFACE Steering Committee Meeting |
July 1, 2010, 8:00 am - noon. Breckenridge, Colorado. Building and room TBA.
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