Workshop instructions for attendees, presenters and day leaders
Please read! Especially those leading days of the workshop. Your tasks, as outlined in more detail below, are:
Lecturers/day coordinators
1.) Create a plan for your day, including any field trips, by
5 August.
2.) Create a reading list for the background to your
presentations by 8 August.
3.) Create your presentation in an electronic format, if
possible, so that we can share it with other participants and post it on-
line. If you can do this by 8
August, great! If not, bring it in electronic form to the meeting.
Send all materials to Ken Davis or Ankur Desai (
davis@essc.psu.edu ,
adesai@essc.psu.edu ).
Day coordinators
Friday, 16 August:
Ken Davis Eddy
flux measurements
Saturday, 17 August: Eileen Carey
Component flux measurements
Sunday, 18 August: Jiquan
Chen Neighboring research
sites (1/2 day)
Monday, 19 August: Ken Davis
Phenology, canopy measurements
(Schwartz and Radtke presenting. We will also
recap the weekend results on this day to get those only coming for M-W up
to date.)
Tuesday, 20 August: Scott MacKay
Water fluxes and remote sensing
Wednesday, 21 August: Britt Stephens
Tracers and sub-canopy measurements (1/2 day)
Presenters who are not day
leaders
(i.e., Schwartz, Indiana/UMBS rep, Radtke, Bakwin, Heinsch)
Please coordinate your presentation plans with the "day coordinator" for your
day.
Participants
Read the background materials that will be made available shortly after 8 August
(at least skim them, so you know about what we'll be doing). Let someone know if
you'd like to give a short presentation (~15 minutes) of your research results.
You can coordinate with the closest 'day coordinator' to the topic of your work,
or if you're not sure, send information to Ken or Ankur (
davis@essc.psu.edu ,
adesai@essc.psu.edu ). Let us know by 5
August if possible.
All
Give us your suggestions for dinners! We want to let everyone sample the best of
the northwoods! Volunteers to cook (kitchen available) or restaurant suggestions
are welcome.
Note that the current program is available via
http://cheas.psu.edu . If you haven't yet confirmed whether you will attend
OR haven't told us which days of the workshop you will attend, please do so now.
A list of confirmed attendees is on the website.
Daily schedule
(This is the default! Day coordinators can suggest changes.)
Morning: Boathouse lectures
The audience is the students and scientists from other research groups attending
the meeting, and similar folks not attending who might want to learn about our
methods and results from the web page. The main theme is understanding
interannual variability in CO2 and H2O fluxes. A secondary theme is
intercomparison among sites.
Please present:
- The methods you use (in some detail)
- Your applications of these methods, especially those in ChEAS (sites, dates,
data)
- Past research results (especially ChEAS and comparisons to other sites)
- Current research, hypotheses, directions (all participants welcome to
contribute)
Late morning or early afternoon: Demos, field trips, experiments
Any trips to field sites, experiments with equipment, or hands-on data analysis
demos would be welcome here. This will require some planning. Presenters, send
suggestions to the day coordinators. Day coordinators, pass on your plans to Ken
and Ankur. Note that a draft plan is already on the agenda. This will be
modified. Trips to field sites may be combined (e.g. A trip to Willow Creek to
view a flux tower, sap flux, and chamber flux equipment). We would like to have
something hands-on for each day or topic.
Afternoon: Analyses and discussion in the lab
Our overall goal is to begin to synthesize our understanding of the interannual
variability in CO2 and H2O fluxes that we observe, and, in support of this, to
understand the differences among forest stands. To that end we'd like to spend
the afternoons in smallish groups trying to apply the methods and data presented
in the morning to address these issues. Students will be asked to record the
proceedings for each group, and synthesize and summarize those points either
later that afternoon or the following morning. If the presenters are able to
bring some data, perhaps on a laptop or CD, that we could use to test hypothesis
and ideas brought up in these sessions, that would be excellent. In the end we
hope to produce the following:
- The bases for paper(s) that can be written shortly after the workshop
- An agenda for future observations and collaborations
- Ideas for new proposals
- Hypotheses that can be tested in student theses.
The student participants will be asked to choose a subset of the meeting,
perhaps the results from a day, and produce a summary or outline of one such
product (e.g. a paper or proposal outline).
We'll have to condense this schedule for half-days (Sunday, Wednesday).
Other details
Web site
Please bring materials that we can post on-line during the meeting! We'd like to
use this opportunity to spruce-up (aspen-up?) the ChEAS web-site with things
like a publications list, a list of current research projects, descriptions of
methods, all the topics of the morning boathouse lectures.
Facilities
We have the boathouse for large lectures, the lab for smaller groups meetings
(including 12 PCs with typical software in one room), and we'll bring one LCD
projector to hook up to your laptop. There is only phone connection to the
internet, so don't plan to download large files! We have the lodge(s) reserved
for sleeping space, and there is a nice kitchen and dining hall. We plan to
stock the kitchen for breakfasts and lunches, and either go out to dinner as a
group or, if we have volunteers, cook dinners in the kitchen. We can reimburse
expenses (restaurant, groceries). Save your receipts if you purchase food for
groups meals. Save the other typical receipts as well.
Recreation
There are boats you can take out on the lake, and places to hike and run around
Kemp. We will probably organize one or two smoke-bomb micrometeorological
studies early in the morning if you are so inspired. Capture the flag? Other
ideas?