8:45        Jay Jones         Overview of 2008 talks on Thresholds and State Changes

9:30        Dave McGuire/Eugenie Euskirchen: Climate sensitivity: integrating current understanding with monitoring and modeling

10:00   Break

10:30     Michelle Mack/Teresa Hollingsworth: Linking changing fire regimes to successional dynamics in the boreal forest

11:00     Ted Schuur/Merritt Turetsky/Jay Jones: Synthesis of hydrologic studies: coupling water flow, permafrost dynamics and biogeochemistry

11:30     Dave Verbyla/Scott Rupp: Patterns of regional changes in boreal forest structure and function: synthesis of observational and modeling studies

12:00     Jill Johnstone/Terry Chapin: Resilience and vulnerability of the boreal forest

12:30     Lunch (provided by Pikes) and ski break

1:45        Scott Rupp: Charge to Synthesis and Integration Breakout Groups

• Linking moisture dynamics with issues of energy balance and element cycling and storage (Harden, Valentine, and Romanovsky).
• Linking site, stand, landscape and regional patterns and processes: how small-scale studies inform regional modeling and emergent patterns (Yarie, Taylor, and Verbyla)
• Changing fire regime and its impacts on ecosystem processes (Johnstone, Mack, Hollingsworth)
• Human effects on stand, ecosystem, and landscape dynamics (Kofinas, Rupp, and Kielland)

3:30        Break

4:00        Breakout Group Reports

4:30        Scott Rupp: Discussion

5:30        Bar break

6:30        Graduate Student poster session with finger food - Binkley Room

Friday March 6, 2009

  8:00    Continental Breakfast – Binkley Room

  8:50    John Laurence            USDA Forest Service

  9:10    Elena Sparrow            School yard LTER

  9:30    Becky B & H               BNZ LTER Graduate Students: projects and activities

  9:50    Jason Downing           Data Management as a venue for synthesis

10:10    Jamie Hollingsworth    Changing Site Management mandates

10:30    Coffee Break

11:00    Eric Kasischke            NASA Fire Workshop

11:20    Gus Shaver                Anaktuvuk River Fire

11:40    Dave McGuire             BNZ role in the changing national program

12:00    Lunch Provided by Pikes

1:45      Dave McGuire: Charge to breakout groups

2:00      Breakout Groups to discuss CJFR synthesis papers and other synthesis topics:

• Biophysical changes in the boreal forest: permafrost and climate feedbacks (Jorgenson, Euskirchen)
• Climate sensitivity of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems (Jones, McGuire)
• Changing community dynamics of mosses, vascular plants (Turetsky, Hollingsworth)
• Microbial and pest response to climate change (Taylor, Juday)
• Changing fire regime and its impact on nitrogen and resilience (Kasischke, Johnstone, Mack)
• Changing animal dynamics and ecosystem services (Kielland, Kofinas)

  3:30    Coffee

 
 4:00     Breakout Group Reports

  4:30    Discussion

  5:30    Adjourn

Saturday March 7, 2009

8:30      Continental Breakfast – Binkley Room

8:45      Overview for the 2010 proposal (Ruess)

9:00-10:30         Working sessions on proposal components

1. Ecosystem and disturbance responses to modes of climate variability (Verbyla)
2. Climate-disturbance interactions as drivers of ecosystem and landscape change
1. Fire (Mack, Hollingsworth)
2. Permafrost/hydrology (Schuur)
3. Insects and Pathogens (Mulder, Wagner)
3. Regional ecosystem dynamics and climate feedbacks (McGuire, Euskirchen)
4. Coupled social ecological systems (Rupp, Kielland)

10:30 Coffee break

10:45 - Reports and discussion of breakout groups (15 minutes each)

12:15: Lunch

1:30-3: Working sessions on new experiments

Precip manipulation – black spruce (Kane, Ruess)
Energy balance manipulation (Jones, Schuur)
Fire experiments (Johnstone et al.)

3-3:30: Coffee Break

3:30-4:30: Discussion of BNZ Monitoring program

4:30: Wrap up and moving forward