2018 Environmental System Science (ESS) PI Meeting
The Terrestrial Ecosystem Science and Subsurface Biogeochemical Research programs within the Department of Energy’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) held their annual joint investigators meeting May 1-2, 2018, in Potomac, Maryland.
Abstracts of ongoing research projects in or associated with the SBR and TES programs in 2018 are included in this PDF.
| 8:00 am - 5:30 pm | ESS Working Group Meeting |
| 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Meeting Check In |
| 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm | E3SM Land Modeling Meeting |
| 7:00 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast | |
| 7:00 am -8:30 am | Meeting Check-In | |
| 8:30 am - 9:55 am | Overview of Programs & Updates | Organizer: P. Bayer |
| 8:30 am -8:35 am | Welcome and Introductory Comments | P. Bayer |
| 8:35 am - 8:45 am | BER Programs | S. Weatherwax |
| 8:45 am - 8:55 am | CESD Programs & Strategic Directions | G. Geernaert |
| 8:55 am - 9:05 am | SBR Program Update | D. Lesmes |
| 9:05 am - 9:15 am | TES Program Update | D. Stover |
| 9:15 am - 9:25 am | User Facilities and BER Resources Update | A. Swain |
| 9:25 am - 9:40 am | ESS Data Archive Update | D. Agarwal |
| 9:40 am - 9:55 am | ESS Working Group Update | D. Moulton |
| 9:55 am - 10:10 am | Break | |
| 10:10 am - 12:15 pm | Plenary Session I – Complexity and Innovation: Overcoming Community Challenges and Roadblocks | Organizer: D. Lesmes |
| 10:10 am - 10:35 am | Building Community Models of Disturbance and Vegetation Dynamics | L. Kueppers (LBNL) |
| 10:35 am - 11:00 am | Complexity and Innovation: Advancing Watershed System Science | T. Scheibe (PNNL) |
| 11:00 am - 11:25 am | Complexity and Innovation: Advancing Environmental Remote Sensing | C. Miller (NASA-JPL) |
| 11:25 am - 11:50 am | Complexity and Innovation: Advancing CZ Science | S. Brantley (Pennsylvania State University) |
| 11:50 am - 12:15 pm | Conflict, Coordination & Control: How Can We Discover the Risks and Resilience of Land-Energy-Water Systems? | P. Reed (Cornell University) |
| 12:15 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Sage Advice for Students and Post-Docs | D. Stover |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Poster Session I | |
| 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Poster Subsession A | |
| 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Poster Subsession B | |
| 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm | Dinner | |
| 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Concurrent Sessions - I | |
| Session 1: Linking Above and Belowground Processes and Traits | Organizers: C. Iversen and T. Powell | |
| Session 2: Impact of Natural Organic Matter on Water Quality and Biogeochemical Processes (summary PDF) | Organizers: J. Barger and P Santschi | |
| Session 3: Building Community Test Beds for Modeling Watershed Systems (summary PDF) | Organizers: L. Condon and X. Chen | |
| Session 4: Emerging Technologies for Characterizing & Monitoring Watershed & Terrestrial Systems (summary PDF) | Organizers: R. Versteeg and S. Serbin | |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Team Meetings NGEE-Arctic Leadership Team Meeting NGEE-Tropics Team Meeting |
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| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | Breakfast | |
| 8:30 am – 9:45 am | Plenary Session II – Complexity and Innovation: The Human Dimension | Organizer: D. Stover |
| 8:30 am - 9:45 am | Complexity and Innovation: Human Dimensions, Ethics, Integrity, and Diversity | L. Gundersen |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Break | |
| 10:00 am – 11:30 am | Concurrent Sessions – II | |
| Session 5: Coupled C/N/P Cycles Across Scales | Organizers: J. Powers and F. Yang | |
| Session 6: Water: Its Roles and Feedbacks on Ecology, Biogeochemistry, Land Surface Dynamics and Disturbance | Organizers: J. Rowland and M. Newcomer | |
| Session 7: Modeling Microbial Processes - Advances, Challenges and Opportunities (summary PDF) | Organizers: N. Hess and E. Brodie | |
| Session 8: ESS-DIVE | Organizers: C. Varadharajan and D. Agarwal | |
| 11:30 am - 1:00pm | Lunch | |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Research Opportunities with the Scientific User Facilities and Related Resources. | EMSL, JGI, KBase and Synchrotron User Facility POCs |
| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Ethics, Integrity, and Diversity Breakout | L. Gunderson |
| 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Poster Session II | |
| 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Poster Subsession C | |
| 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Poster Subsession D | |
| 4:00 pm - 4:20 pm | Break | |
| 4:20 pm - 5:40 pm | Plenary Session III – Complexity and Innovation: Overcoming Community Challenges and Roadblocks - “Doing Together What Would be Difficult or Impossible to Do Alone” | Organizer: D. Lesmes |
| 4:20 pm - 5:05 pm | Early Career Lightning Talks (3 min each) | 14 Presenters |
| 5:05 pm - 5:35 pm | Discussion | |
| 5:35 pm - 5:40 pm | Closeout/Announcements | |
| 5:40 pm - 7:00 pm | Dinner | |
| 7:00 pm | Adjourn | |
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