ChEAS 2012

It’s the sameBut different

Menu

• Why are you here?• What do we hope to accomplish?• Overall structure• Logistics

History

• Cheas I, Kemp 1998

History

• ChEAS II – UMN, 1999• ChEAS III – UMN, 2000• ChEAS IV – U Wisconsin, 2001

History

• ChEAS V – RCN funded 1 week workshop, 2002

History

• ChEAS VI, Kemp, 2003 ->• ChEAS VII, UMN, 2004• ChEAS VIII, Kemp, 2005• ChEAS, IX, Kemp, 2006• ChEAS X, Kemp, 2007• ChEAS XI, UMN, 2008• … and then a big break!

ChEAS from the Ashes!• Some new, some old• Improved things:

– Focus on management/disturbance and climate adaptation/mitigation; non-CO2 greenhouse gases (methane); beefy modeling; automated real-time tower observations; hyperspectral-lidar-thermal imaging out the whazoo (or ER-2 more specifically); aquatic-terrestrial linkages (LTER); turned WLEF into a C-sink; restarted Sylvania; NEON is knocking on the door

• Not as good:– Less water cycling work; Funding; 3 of 6 levels on WLEF; regional

inverse modeling; roving sites dead; Lost Creek sinking into mud; Ameriflux reduced; Data deluge

Agenda

• Wed:– Talks now until 3:45 pm– Workshop I: Remote sensing/disturbance at 4:45– Depart for dinner at 6:30

• Thu– Breakfast at 7, Field trip departs at 8 am– Workshops II,III,IV from 3:30-6:15

• Ecosystem modeling, Uncertainty analysis, Forest management

– Depart for dinner at 6:30

Agenda

• Fri– Breakfast at 7– Workshop V: Observation-model fusion at 8:30 am – Summary reports at 10– Final thoughts at 11– Lunch and depart

Logistics

• Lodging: Check in/out• Meals: In and out, cooking + cleanup• Beer fund• Wifi password: 12kempnrs• Field trip: who/where