GCEP - 2008 End Of Summer Workshop Agenda

GLOBAL CHANGE EDUCATION PROGRAM End-Of-Summer Workshop August 17-19, 2008 AGENDA	Palomar Hotel 2121 P Street Washington, D.C.
August 17 , 2008 - SUNDAY 12:00- 4:00 Welcome to the GCEP Summer End Workshop	GCEP Registration and Welcome - Hotel Lobby
6:00-9:00	Initial Working Session - Corcoran Room (Evening Buffet)
	Evening Speakers Rick Petty Department of Energy Jeff Gaffney University of Arkansas Little Rock
August 18, 2008 - MONDAY
7:00-8:00	Continental Breakfast Corcoran Room
8:00- 8:30	Welcome Rickey Petty Department of Energy Jeff Gaffney University of Arkansas Little Rock Milton Constantin ORAU/ORISE Science Education Program
8:30-9:00	Crystallization of Externally Mixed Ammoniated Sulfate Nanoparticles: Dependence on Initial Particle Size and Solution Composition. MacKenzie Smith GREF Fellow Harvard University
9:00-9:30	Regional Aerosol Radiative and Hydrological Effects in the Mid-Atlantic Corridor. Torreon Creekmore GREF Fellow Howard University
9:30-10:00	A Concise Perspective on Wind, Ocean Waves, Wave Breaking, and Marine Aerosols. Michael Long GREF Fellow University of Virginia
10:00-10:30	Break
10:30-11:00	Isotopic Evidence for Holocene Variations in the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies: Tropical Linkages and Impact on the Global Carbon Cycle. Christopher Moy GREF Fellow Stanford University
11:00-11:30	A Global Metaanalysis of Soil Exchangeable Cations, pH, Carbon, and Nitrogen with Afforestation. Sean Berthrong GREF Fellow Duke University
11:30-11:45	Climate Change and Storm Track Movement. Lara Pagano SURE Fellow North Carolina State University
11:45-12:00	Analysis of Nephelometer Measurements of Total Aerosol Scattering Acquired During CHAPS. Adele Lictenberger SURE Fellow North Carolina State University
12:00-1:30	Lunch (on your own)
1:30-2:00	Influence of Architechtural and Biological Diversity on Rainforest Carbon Assimilation Along a Temperature and Precipitation Gradient in Hawaii: Fusing Waveform LiDAR and Hyperspectral to Model Forest Dynamics. Eben Broadbent GREF Fellow Stanford University
2:00-2:30	Soil microbial diversity in a mesquite savanna: reponse of bacterial and fungal communities to vegetation change. Emily Hollister Postdoctoral Research Associate Texas A&M University
2:30-3:00	The Role of Adaptation and Differentiation in Species' Range Shifts Under Climate Change. Shannon Pellini GREF Fellow Notre Dame University
3:00-3:30	Break
3:30-4:00	Exploring the Impacts of Warming on Arctic Soils: Plants, Microbes and a Changing Below Ground World. Seeta Sistla GREF Fellow University of California, Santa Barbara
4:00-4:15	The Diversity of Plant Communities Mediates Mycorrhizal Fungal Diversity. Marlene Tyner SURE Fellow University of Michigan
4:15-4:30	Solar Forcing effects of Shallow Cumuli at the ACRF SGP site. David Mills SURE Fellow University of South Carolina, Columbia
4:30-5:00	Improving Estimates of High Global Warming Potential Gas Emissions for California. Michael DeFlorio SURE Fellow Cornell University and Angela Wong SURE Fellow Hunter College
August 19 , 2008 - TUESDAY
7:00-8:00	Continental Breakfast Corcoran Room
8:00-8:30	Inferring CCN Properties of Arctic Haze Layers During the 2008 ARCPAC Field Campaign. Richard Moore GREF Fellow Georgia Institute of Technology
8:30-9:00	Quest for the Neutral Molecular Cluster: Quantification of Mass Dependent Response Factors in a Novel Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer. Mari Titcombe GREF Fellow University of Minnesota
9:00-9:30	A New Experiment to Study Organic Aqueous Aerosols. Luis Cuadra-Rodriguez GREF Fellow University of Colorado Boulder
9:30-10:00	Atmospheric Oxidation of 1,2-Dibromoethane. Carrie Jensen GREF Fellow Purdue University
10:00-10:30	Break
10:30-11:00	Using Measurements of the Isotopic Composition of Water Vapor to Model Regional Moisture Exchange. Derek Brown GREF Fellow University of Colorado, Boulder
11:00-11:30	The Effect of Elevated CO2 on Soybean Growth and Development. Joseph Castro GREF Fellow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11:30-12:00	Differences in Leaf Carbon Isotopes Among Plant Functional Groups and Implications for Interpreting Paleoclimate. Kevin Mueller GREF Fellow Penn State University
12:00-1:30	Lunch (on your own)
1:30-1:45	Understanding Species Range Shifts in Response to Climage Change: a Genetic Approach. Christopher Lambert SURE Fellow University of Portland
1:45-2:00	Optical Characterizations of Atmospheric Aerosols on Air Filters Using Reflectance-based Spectroscopy. Michael Tackett SURE Fellow University of Arkansas at Little Rock
2:00-2:15	Determination of Radon Adsorption to Atmospheric Aerosols by Disequilibria of its Progeny. Jonathan Eller SURE Fellow University of Arkansas at Little Rock
2:15-2:30	Using Aetholometers to Determine Optical Absorption Features from Different Black Carbon Sources. Shallena Menefield SURE Fellow New Jersey City University
2:30-2:45	Accounting for Variability in Soil Respiration--Temperature vs. Phenology. Shane Easter SURE Fellow Brown University
2:45-3:00	The Impact of Climate Change on Soil Microbial Communities and Their Feedback to the Environment. Catherine Fontana SURE Fellow Albion College
3:00-3:30	Break
3:30-3:45	Clouds, Computers, and Climate: Studying the Behavior and Sensitivity of Aerosol Dynamics in the NASA ModelE Climate Model. Greeta Persad SURE Fellow Stanford University
3:45-4:00	The Dependence of Butterfly Flight Ability on Temperature. Megan Stachura SURE Fellow University of Miami
4:00-4:15	Multi-factor Climate Change Effects on Woody Seedlings in an Old-field Ecosystem. John Bevans SURE Fellow University of Tampa
4:15-4:30	Effects of Grazingland Fire on Root Biomass and Decomposition Rates. Rebecca Callahan SURE Fellow Hendrix College
6:00-9:00	Final Working Session Evening Buffett Freer Room
	Evening Speaker: Environmental Health and Sustainability at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation Heidi Bialk EH&S Leadership Associate Sikorsky Aircraft Stratford, Connecticut
Other SURE Projects	Creation of a Mathematical Visceral Leishmaniasis Model. Katrina Hill SURE Fellow Cabrini College
	Modeling Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Photooxidation of Isoprene in California. Kavita Hardy SURE Fellow Swarthmore College

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