GCEP - 2003 End of Summer Workshop Agenda

GLOBAL CHANGE EDUCATION PROGRAM End of Summer Workshop August 17— August 20, 2003 AGENDA
August 18, 2003 - MONDAY	Morning Session
9:00–10:00	Welcome and GCEP Update Peter Lunn, Rickey Petty & Peter Faletra Department of Energy
	Jeffrey Gaffney Argonne National Laboratory
	Milton Constantin Oak Ridge Institute for Science & Education
10:30–11:00	Effects of Past Land Use on Spatial Heterogeneity of Soil Nutrients in Southern Appalachian Forests Jennifer Fraterrigo, GREF Fellow University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:00–11:30	Climate Science as Policymaking Tool: Predicting ENSO-Related Agricultural Impacts in Indonesia and Vietnam Michael Mastrandrea , GREF Fellow Stanford University
11:30–12:00	Microbial Enzyme Activity and Carbon Cycling in Grassland Soil Aggregates Steven Allison, GREF Fellow Stanford University
August 18, 2003 Afternoon Session
1:30–2:30	Ultraviolet Sunlight at the Earth's Surface: Variability and Global Mean Conditions John Frederick University of Chicago
2:30–3:00	Big (and Old) Trees: Fire Hoses for a Smoldering Climate Neil Pederson, GREF Fellow Tree-Ring Laboratory Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
3:30-4:00	Do Differences in Tree Species Affect Forest Carbon Cycling as Much as Differences in Climate? Lara Kueppers, GREF Fellow University of California at Berkeley
4:00–4:30	Improving Forest Ecosystem Models to Simulate Responses to Global Change Victoria Wittig, GREF Fellow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:30–5:00	Can Microbes Limit Plant Growth Under Elevated CO2? Evidence Based on Limiting Nutrients Elsa Cleland, GREF Fellow Stanford University
August 19, 2003 - TUESDAY Morning Session
9:00–9:15	Mycorrhizal Quantification and Hyphal Extraction from Three Different Prairie Sites in Varied Successional Stages at Fermi Lab Illinois Nicole Aragon , SURE Fellow Washington State University
9:15–9:30	Chemical Processing of a Lake-Land Breeze Anna Beck, SURE Fellow Denison University
9:30-9:45	Peroxyacetyl Nitrate (PAN) and Black Carbon Measurements Luis Cuadra, SURE Fellow University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras
9:45–10:00	Elevated CO2 Effects on Soil Carbon Dynamics in a Liquidambar Styraciflua Plantation Erin Hanlon , SURE Fellow St. John's College
10:30-10:45	The Chicago Lake Breeze Lucas Harris , SURE Fellow Northern Illinois Univeristy
10:45–11:00	Nocturnal Kansas Boundary Layer and Urban Dispersion 2003 Erin Hokanson, SURE Fellow Valparaiso University
11:00-11:15	Use of Filter Based Light Transmission Techniques to Measure Aerosol Light Absorption Properties Daniel Hooper, SURE Fellow Tulane University
11:15-11:30	The Fate of Agricultural Lime: Implications for Carbon Accounting Allen McBride , SURE Fellow Swarthmore College
11:30-11:45	Increasing Atmospheric Temperature: Effects on Growth and Acclimation of Four Deciduous Tree Species Nicole Miller , SURE Fellow Loyola University
11:45–12:00	Observations of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Above Oklahoma City during the Joint Urban 2003 Field Program Kori Moore, SURE Fellow Utah State University
August 19, 2003 Afternoon Session
1:30–1:45	Soil Mirobial VOC Emission Fluxes in Oak Savannah and Temperate Forest Soil Incumations Stephanie Wheeler , SURE Fellow College of Charleston
1:45-2:00	Survey of Regional Climate Simulations of California and Environs Esther Zeledon, SURE Fellow Swarthmore College
2:00-2:15	Acclimation of Stem Respiration to Increased Temperatures: Implications of Warming on Tree Survivability Adam Roddy , SURE Fellow Swarthmore College
2:15-2:45	Tropical Atlantic Climate Change in the Holocene Christa Farmer, GREF Fellow Columbia University
2:45–3:15	Impacts of Wildfire and Climate Patterns on Vegetation Dynamics of Grasslands in the Southwest Allison Drake, GREF Fellow University of Arizona
3:45–5:15	Discussions - Presentation of Certificates - Final Comments Milt Constantin & Jeff Gaffney
6:30-9:00 WORKING SESSION - Keynote Address S.S. Potomac Club Room	Global Change Future Issues: Linkages and Feedbacks Jeffrey Gaffney Argonne National Laboratory

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