GCEP - 2007 End Of Summer Workshop Agenda

GLOBAL CHANGE EDUCATION PROGRAM End-Of-Summer Workshop August 12-14, 2007 AGENDA	Doubletree Hotel 1515 Rhode Island Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20005
August 12 , 2007 - SUNDAY 12:00- 4:00 Welcome to the GCEP Summer End Workshop	GCEP Registration and Welcome Table - Hotel Lobby
6:00-8:00	Initial Working Session - Stateroom (Evening Buffet)
	Evening Speaker DOE Overview Mr. Rickey Petty Department of Energy Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research Climate Change Research Division
August 13 , 2007 - MONDAY
7:00-8:00	Continental Breakfast Stateroom
8:00- 8:15	Welcome Rickey Petty Department of Energy Jeff Gaffney University of Arkansas Little Rock Milton Constantin ORAU/ORISE Science Education Program
8:15-8:30	Marvin L. Wesely GREF Fellow Award 2007 - Colleen M. Iversen Rickey Petty and Jeff Gaffney
8:30-9:00	At the root of the response: Carbon and nitrogen cycling in a CO2-enriched deciduous forest. Colleen Iversen Marvin L. Wesely GREF Fellow 2007 University of Tennessee
9:00-9:30	Impacts of tropospheric ozone on photosynthesis and stomatal conductance of trees: A meta-analysis. Victoria Wittig GREF Fellow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9:30-10:00	Biofuels: A Single Particle Perspective. Dabrina Dutcher GREF Fellow University of Minnesota
10:00-10:30	Break
10:30-11:00	The Impact of Primary Marine Aerosol on Atmospheric Chemistry, Radiation and Climate: A CCSM Model Development Study. Michael Long GREF Fellow University of Virgina
11:00-11:30	Linking aboveground and belowground responses to chronic soil warming. Seeta Sistla GREF Fellow Brown University
11:30-12:00	Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology of Afforestation in Temperate South America. Sean Berthrong GREF Fellow Duke University
12:00-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:00	Partitioning net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide. John Zobitz GREF Fellow University of Utah
2:00-2:30	Climate Change Effects on Nitrogen Cycling in an Annual Grassland. Sarah Placella GREF Fellow University of California at Berkeley
2:30-3:00	Climate Change, Part II: Soybeans Fight Back. Kelly Gillespie GREF Fellow University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
3:00-3:30	Break
3:30-3:45	Land Surface Processes and Cumulus Convection. Lara Pagano SURE Fellow North Carolina State University
3:45-4:00	Energy, Carbon, and Climate Projections to 2025: Regional Differences and Effects of Climate Change. Alison Erlenbach SURE Fellow University of Florida
4:00-4:15	Elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations do not alter net nitrogen mineralization rates in a CO2 enriched sweetgum forest. Caitlin Guthrie SURE Fellow Pomona College
4:15-4:30	The Effects of elevated CO2, elevated temperature and drought on soil microbial communities. Sharon Gray SURE Fellow University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
4:30-4:45	Mycorrhizal Colonization of Three Species of Switchgrass. Marlene Tyner SURE Fellow University of Michigan
4:45-5:00	Effects of Elevated pCO2 on Populus Metabolites. John Bevans SURE Fellow University of Tampa
August 14 , 2007 - TUESDAY
7:00-8:00	Continental Breakfast Stateroom
8:00-8:30	Comparison of atmospheric hydrology over convectivce continental regions using isotope measurements from space. Derek Brown GREF Fellow University of Colorado, Boulder
8:30-9:00	New methods for measuring N2 emissions from denitrification in soils. Wendy H. Yang GREF Fellow University of California, Berkeley
9:00-9:30	Elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization effects on nitrate reductase activity. Sue Natali GREF Fellow State University of New York at Stony Brook
9:30-10:00	Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Temperature Savannas: Impact of Woody Encroachment and Prescribed Burning on Soil Carbon Pools and Flux Rates. Emily Hollister GREF Fellow Texas A&M University
10:00-10:30	Break
10:30-11:00	Photosynthesis in the oceans: Coping with oligotrophy in an extreme light environment. Katherine Mackey GREF Fellow Stanford University
11:00-11:15	Building the Energy-Water Nexus: Studying Energy and Water Interactions on Local and Regional Scales. Erin Burns SURE Fellow Notre Dame University
11:15-11:30	Properties of Fair Weather Cumuli at the ACRF Tropical Western Pacific Sites. David Mills SURE Fellow
11:30-11:45	Isotopes and the Elements. Kavita Hardy SURE Fellow Swarthmore College
11:45-12:00	The dating game: Applying C-14 AMS in the characterization of SOC residence times within dolomitic ultisol fractions at varying depths. Michael Tackett SURE Fellow University of Arkansas Little Rock
12:00-12:15	Wavelength dependence of UV-VIS Absorption of fine aerosol samples from Mexico City as part of the MILAGRO program. Angie Marchany-Rivera SURE Fellow University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
12:15-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:00	Optical and physical properties of biomass burning emissions. Gavin McMeeking GREF Fellow Colorado State University
2:00-2:30	Direct Measurement of Neutral Molecular Clusters by Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry: Elucidating the Mechanisms of New Particle Formation in the Atmosphere. Mari Titcombe GREF Fellow University of Minnesota
2:30-3:00	Hygroscopic HTDMA Measurements of Inorganic Nanoparticles. Mackenzie Smith GREF Fellow Harvard University
3:00-3:30	Break
3:30-4:00	Effects of Soluble Surfactants on Density, Shape and Water Uptake of Common Hygroscopic Particles. Luis Cuadra-Rodriguez GREF Fellow University of Colorado, Boulder
4:00-4:15	FLAME-2: An Analysis of Aerosol Emissions from Biomass Burning. Jennifer McInnis SURE Fellow Cornell University
4:15-4:30	Climate Modeling with GRASS GIS. Aaron Goldner SURE Fellow Oregon State University
4:30-4:45	Mid-level Convective Clouds Observed During the ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) Deployment in Niamey, Niger, Africa. Christopher Rumer SURE Fellow Penn State University
4:45-5:15	Pre-Bomb Surface Water Radiocarbon on the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean as Recorded in Hermatypic Corals. Amy Wagner GREF Fellow Texas A&M University
6:30-8:00	Final Working Session Evening Buffett Stateroom
	Evening Speaker: Climate Policy Issues Dr. Paul Higgins Senior Policy Fellow - Climate Policy American Meteorological Society Past GCEP GREF Fellow
Other SURE Projects	CO2 and Lake Superior Cindy Schafer SURE Fellow Michigan Tech University

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