Sunday, May 13th - Arrivals, getting settled, etc.

Monday, May 14th -

7-8:30 a.m. Breakfast, more arrivals, general milling about

8:30 - 9:20 a.m. - Welcome, organization, agenda, modifications, status of the ChEAS measurement network - funding, proposals, future plans - facilitated by K. Davis and Paul Bolstad

9:20 Natasha Miles, Scott Richardson - Ring 2 progress & update

9:40 David Tyndall - Data from Virtual Tall Towers and What's Coming Next

10:00 Scott Denning - Forward and inverse Modeling of Regional CO2

10:20- 10:40 - Break

10:40 Andrew Schuh - A hierarchical Bayesian inverse modeling approach to regional carbon flux estimation

11:00 Marek Uliasz - SiB-RAMS/LPDM modeling for evaluating regional CO2 fluxes

11:20 Gretchen Keppel-Aleks - Diagnosing model behavior using column CO2 observations from WLEF

11:40 Faith-Ann Heinsch - Modeling the CO2 balance of the area within the WLEF footprint using the Biome-BGC model

12-1:20 Lunch

1:20 Timothy Hilton - Flux Data Assimilation, Coherence Analysis and Ecosystem Model Structure Evaluation: Plans for Upsoming Research at PSU

1:40 Erica McGrath-Spangler - Implementation of a boundary layer heat flux parameterization into the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System(RAMS)

2:00 Ankur Desai - ChEAS Flux Tower Mesonet: Multiple site constraint in an ecosystem model

2:20 Nic Saliendra - Inter-annual variation of carbon fluxes in clearcuts and wetlands of northern Wisconsin

2:40 Peter Weishampel - Biometric estimates of carbon pools and fluxes in forest and wetland communities of northern Wisconsin

3:00 - 3:20 Break

3:20 Jianwu Tang - Variation of NEP, GPP and respiration with forest age

3:40 Ryan Anderson - Lidar based estimates of land cover, woody biomass and productivity

4:00 Jonathan Hanes - Detecting the Onset of Spring in the Midwest and Northeast United States:

An Integrated Approach

4:20 Liang Liang - Spring Landscape Phenology near WLEF Tower

4:40 Miguel Roman - Comparison of MODIS and tower-derived albedo values at ChEAS - Park Falls

Tuesday, May 15th (this schedule is flexible, and we can work modify en route)

6:30-8:00 Breakfast

8:00 - 9:00 - identification of major synthesis themes, work, group self assignment, Round 1

9:00 - 10:30 - paper group breakouts - refine objectives/hypotheses, research plan outline, timeline, assignments, mileposts

10:30 - 12:00 - paper group breakout 2, continuation of 1 - different combinations refine objectives/hypotheses, research plan outline, timeline, assignments, mileposts 12 - 1:30 - lunch

1:30 - 3:00 - paper group breakouts 3 - reshuffle the deck in working group breakouts; reform different groups as needed for different topics, and refine objectives/hypotheses, plans, timelines, etc.

3:00-4:00 - paper group summary - record/write objectives, polish outline, write introduction or outline analysis, expected figures/tables - anything to tidy up progress from breakout groups

Wednesday May 17th

6:30-8:00 Breakfast

8:00-9:30 More summary, synthesis, preparation of short presentation for report-back

10:00 - 12:00 Report back to full group, discussion.