GCEP - 2006 End of Summer Workshop Agenda

GLOBAL CHANGE EDUCATION PROGRAM End of Summer Workshop August 20— August 23, 2006 AGENDA
August 20, 2006 - SUNDAY 12:00–6:30	Registration Hotel Lobby
Initial Working Session 7:00-8:30	Terrace Ballroom Food and Beverages
Introductions and General Discussions	Jeffrey Gaffney - Chief Scientist University of Arkansas - Little Rock
August 22, 2005 - MONDAY
7:00–8:00	Continental Breakfast Stateroom
8:00–8:30 Welcome and GCEP Update	Rickey Petty Department of Energy
	Jeffrey Gaffney University of Arkansas - Little Rock
	Milton Constantin Oak Ridge Institute for Science & Education
8:30–9:00	Black Carbon Aerosol Over India and China: A Sensitivity Study Cynthia Randles (GREF) Marvin Wesely Fellow 2006 Princeton University
9:00–9:30	The Effects of Elevated CO₂ on HG Cycling in Two Temperate Forests Susan Natali (GREF) SUNY - Stony Brook
9:30–10:00	Global Change in the Great Plains: Biodiversity, Fire, and Ecosystem Carbon Storage Emily Hollister (GREF) Texas A&M University
10:00–10:30	Break Stateroom
10:30–11:00	Impact of Tropospheric Ozone on Trees: a Meta-analytic Review Victoria Wittig (GREF) University of Illinois - Urbana
11:00–11:30	Tropical Isotope Dendroclimatology in Cloud Forest Trees Kevin Anchukaitis (GREF) University of Arizona
11:30–12:00	Ecological and Edaphic Controls on Soil Carbon Accumulation in Restored Tall Grass Prairie Sarah O'Brien (GREF) University of Illinois - Chicago
12:00–1:30	Lunch On Your Own
1:30–1:45	A Highly Engineered Landscape Jessica Mandrick (SURE) Swarthmore College
1:45–2:00	Fire, Water, and Nitrogen: Growth Constraints in a New Mexico Ponderosa Pine Forest Laura Marshall (SURE) University of Arizona
2:00–2:15	Ways of Knowing and Power in Environmental Decision-Making: Mining Corporations, American Indians, and the Environment Kate Flick (SURE) University of Wisconsin, Madison
2:15–2:30	Arctic Biocomplixity on the Front of Global Change Winona Squirrel (SURE) Western Carolina University
2:30–2:45	Vertical Temperature Profile Analysis in Meteor Crater and Owens Valley Jonathan Wofsy (SURE) Harvard University
2:45-3:00	Separating Soil Respiration into Plant, Fungal, and Bacterial Components Using Molecular Targets and Assays Sharon Gray (SURE) University of Illinois - Urbana
3:00-3:30	Break Stateroom
3:30-3:45	From Genes to Ecosystems: Linking Shifts in the Genetic Structure of Plant Populations to Ecosystem Processes Luke Zachmann (SURE) University of Minnesota - Morris
3:45-4:00	Measuring the Kinetics between Aldehydes and Peroxides Tri Tran (SURE) University of California - Riverside
4:00–4:30	Late Holocene Lacustrine Records of Climate and Vegetation Change from Southern Patagonia, Chile Christopher Moy (GREF) Stanford University
4:30–5:00	Study of Kinetics and Mechanisms Involved in the Atmospheric Degradation of Bromoethane, Bromopropane and By-Products Monica Martinez-Aviles (GREF) Purdue University
5:00	Adjourn
DINNER TIME ON YOUR OWN ENJOY DC
August 22, 2006 - TUESDAY
7:00–8:30	Continental Breakfast Stateroom
8:30–9:00	Defining Atmospheric Aerosol Sources Using Thermal Desorption Aerosol GC/MS-FID (TAG) Brent Williams (GREF) University of California - Berkeley
9:00–9:30	Bio-fuels: A single Particle Perspective Dabrina Dutcher (GREF) University of Minnesota
9:30–10:00	Indirect Effects of Climate Change: The Effect of Warm-Induced Plant Species Loss and Increased Nitrogen Availability Molly Smith (GREF) University of California - Berkeley
10:00-10:30	Break Stateroom
10:30–11:00	Exploring the Link Between Mineral Dust Aerosol Chemistry and Climate Elizabeth Gibson (GREF) University of Iowa
11:00-11:30	Above and Below Ground Controls on C Storage During Tropical Reforestation Erika Marin-Spiotta (GREF) University of California - Berkeley
11:30–12:00	Optical and Physical Properties of Aerosols from Biomass Combustion Gavin McMeeking (GREF) Colorado State University
12:00–1:30	Lunch On Your Own
1:30–1:45	Using HOBOs to Study the Verical Structure of Cold Pool Events in the Salt Lake Valley Nicole Schiffer (SURE) University of Wisconsin
1:45–2:00	The Collection Efficiency of NH₃ (g) in a Real Time Fluorometric Analyzer Maritere Berberena (SURE) University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras
2:00-2:15	Quantifying Aerosols: A Characterization of the Transmission and Collection of an Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometer Jennifer McInnis (SURE) Cornell University
2:15-2:45	Elevated CO₂, But Not Ozone Significantly Delays Development of Soybean Under FACE Joseph Castro (GREF) University of Illinois - Urbana
2:45–3:15	Break Stateroom
3:15–3:30	Role and Diversity of Crusts in an Alpine and Sub-Alpine Ecosystem Cynthia Schafer (SURE) Michigan Technological University
3:30–3:45	Sources of Methane Fluxes and Atmospheric Concentrations Across California Aaron Rose (SURE) North Carolina State University
3:45–4:15	Frost Flower Chemical Composition: Observations for Aerosol Production and the Bromine Release Laura Alvarez-Aviles (GREF) University of Alaska - Fairbanks
4:15–4:45	Land Use and Land Cover Change in Nicaragua Esther Zeledon (GREF) University of California - Berkeley
4:45–5:00	General Discussion
5:00	Adjourn (Remember Final Working Session at 6:30 - Director's Room)
Other SURE Studies:
	Statistical Analysis of the North Atlantic Hurricanes Tara Clancy (SURE) Renssellaer Polytechnic Institute
	Submarine Groundwater Discharge in the Surf Zone at Stinson Beach, California Eric Foote (SURE) Cornell University
6:30 Final Working Session	Director's Room Food and Beverages
8:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS	The Long Hot Summer: Records Broken in 2006 Jeffrey Gaffney Chief Scientist, GCEP University of Arkansas - Little Rock
Recognition and Presentation of Certificates
End of Workshop
August 23, 2006 - WEDNESDAY
LAST DAY DEPART FOR HOME FAREWELL

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