1st INTERFACE Workshop:
How Do We Improve Earth System Models: Integrating Earth System Models, Ecosystem Models, Experiments and Long-Term Data
How Do We Improve Earth System Models: Integrating Earth System Models, Ecosystem Models, Experiments and Long-Term Data
February 28 –March 3, 2011
Tween Waters Inn
Captiva Island, Florida
Meeting Report
The workshop focused on three themes:
Nutrient interactions and limitation in global change
Water availability and ecosystem dynamics
Acclimation of carbon uptake and release to climate and atmospheric change
This INTERFACE workshop catalyzed interactions and new discussions among modelers and empiricists on each of these topics, and developed the foundation for papers discussing recent developments and needs in the field and pathways to improvement for Earth system models. In addition to talks, there was a poster session and lots of time for discussion, including breakout sessions. Speakers gave 20-minute talks. For each of the three topics, there were five talks; an overview talk and a talk from each of four research communities (i.e., researchers working with Earth system models, ecosystem-level models, observations, and manipulative experiments).
Information about INTERFACE is available here ; interested researchers are encouraged to join the network and register their experiments or models.
Workshop schedule (PDF)
Confirmed speakers at the workshop:
- Gordon Bonan - NCAR (Powerpoint.pptx)
- Cory Cleveland – University of Montana (Powerpoint.pptx)
- Peter Cox – University of Exeter (Powerpoint.pptx)
- Sarah Davis – University of Illinois (Powerpoint.pptx)
- Bridget Emmett – Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bangor (Powerpoint.pptx)
- Rob Jackson – Duke University (Acrobat PDF)
- Alan Knapp – Colorado State University (Powerpoint.ppt)
- Yiqi Luo – University of Oklahoma (Powerpoint.ppt)
- Jim Randerson – University of California, Irvine (Powerpoint.ppt)
- Ed Rastetter – The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory (Powerpoin.pptx)
- Peter Reich – University of Minnesota (Keynote)
- Marcelo Sternberg – Tel Aviv University (Powerpoint.ppt)
- Christina Tague – University of Santa Barbara (Powerpoint.ppt)
- Peter Thornton – Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Powerpoint.ppt)
- Mark Tjoelker – Texas A&M University (Powerpoint.pptx)
- Margaret Torn – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
