Research Summary from the 2018 TES/SBR Joint Investigators Meeting

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.

Abstracts PDF

Individual Abstract PDFs

Plenary Presentations

CESD Programs & Strategic Directions — G. Geernaert
SBR Program Update — D. Lesmes
TES Program Update — D. Stover
User Facilities and BER Resources Update — A. Swain
ESS Data Archive Update — D. Agarwal
ESS Working Group Update — D. Moulton
Building Community Models of Disturbance and Vegetation Dynamics — L. Kueppers
Complexity and Innovation: Advancing Watershed System Science — T. Scheibe
Complexity and Innovation: Advancing CZ Science — S. Brantley
Conflict, Coordination & Control: How Can We Discover the Risks and Resilience of Land-Energy-Water Systems? — P. Reed
Complexity and Innovation: Human Dimensions, Ethics, Integrity, and Diversity — L. Gundersen

Breakout Session Summaries

Agenda (PDF)

Monday, April 30, 2018

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

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

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

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

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