Instructions for attendees and presenters
Presenters
1.) Create a plan for your lecture, including any field trips.
2.) Create a reading list for the background to your
presentations.
3.) Create your presentation in an electronic format, if
possible, so that we can share it with other participants and post it on-
line.
Send all materials to Ken Davis or Ankur Desai (
davis@essc.psu.edu ,
adesai@essc.psu.edu ).
Participants
Read the background materials that will be made available shortly. Let someone know if
you'd like to give a short presentation (~15 minutes) of your research results.
Send information to Ken or Ankur (
davis@essc.psu.edu ,
adesai@essc.psu.edu ).
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.
Suggested presentation topics
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)
Any trips to field sites, experiments with equipment, or hands-on data analysis
demos are welcome. These will require some planning. Please pass on your plans
to Ken and Ankur.
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. 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:
- An agenda for future observations and collaborations
- Ideas for new proposals
- Hypotheses that can be tested in student theses.
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 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 a high speed connection to the
internet in the lab. 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?