2012 BNZ-LTER Symposium - Materials and Presentations:

Pike's Waterfront Lodge - Fairbanks, Alaska

February 17-18, 2012

Meeting Registration:

"Doodle" Registration Page

Meeting Documents:

Agenda

New Site Network Field Campaign Update

Meeting Information:

We are still working out the details of the Workshop and Symposium, but at this stage, the working themes are: *Geospatial data needs for assessing the impacts of climate on the fire regime and the impacts of variations in the
fire regime on Alaska’s boreal forest*

The workshop/symposium will focus on four areas

1. Monitoring Requirements for Research and Land Management
2. Current Status of LTER Models and their Geospatial Information Requirements
3. Assessing variations in Alaska's fire regime
4. Assessing variations in post-fire ecosystem characteristics (vegetation and permafrost)

*Workshop dates = Feb 15 (full day) and Feb 16 (half day)*

Workshop on Geospatial Data Sets for Monitoring Fires and Their Effects - Agenda

*Symposium dates = Feb 17-18*

* *
Eric Kasischke and company are organizing the workshop and symposium, and
ask that if you are interested in participating in the workshop or in
making a presentation at the symposium to please contact him.

Agenda

Friday 17 February 2011

8:00-8:05         Welcome: Symposium objectives and goals

Morning Session – Background on Forest Development Following Fire

8:05-8:35         Jill Johnstone:  Succession dynamics from fire to finish

8:35-9:05         Eric Kasischke: Geospatial Studies of Fire Regime Characteristics in Alaska’s Boreal Forest

9:05-9:35         Heather Alexander: Fire, successional trajectories, and C pools of boreal forests of interior Alaska

9:35-10:05       Scott Goetz: Boreal productivity trends, recovery from fire disturbance, and associated composition changes

10:05-10:20     Break

10:20:10:50      Torre Jorgenson: Framework for Assessing Ecological Responses to Permafrost Degradation

10:50-12          Teresa Hollingsworth/Roger Ruess: Planning the LTER New Site Network

12-1:30            Lunch

Afternoon Session - Completing site selection for the NSN and deciding upon which and how sites will be monitored. 

1:30-2:00         General discussion of breakout (working) groups needed for meeting the above goals.  These might include such topics as: Selecting the Young Stands; The Role of Herbivory in Stand Structure and Successional Dynamics; Soils, Hydrology and Permafrost; Monitoring Population Dynamics, Stand Structure and Biomass Changes).

2:00-3:30         Break-out/working groups:  Goals: 1) identify PIs to lead subgroups to resolve issues over the next 2 months, and 2) identify PIs to lead monitoring efforts.

3:30-3:45         Break

3:45-5:00         Report of breakout groups and general discussion

5:00-6:00         Cocktails

6:00-7:00         Dinner

7:00-8:00         Social hour and grad student poster session

 




Saturday 18 February 2011

 

Morning Session – Program Updates

8:30-9:00         Gary Kofinas, Colette deRoo, and Todd Brinkman: Social-Ecological System Studies

at BNZ

9:00-9:30         Elena Sparrow: Bonanza Creek LTER Education and Outreach

9:30-10:00       Mary Beth Leigh: In a Time of Change: Bridging Science, the Arts and Society

10:00-10:30     Break

10:30-11:00     Jamie Hollingsworth/Jason Downing: Site and Data management updates

             LTER World Atlas (Metadata Doc)


11:00-12:00     Open discussion about afternoon session – identifying breakout/working groups

12:00-1:30       Lunch

Afternoon Session - Working across the NSN.

1:30-3:00         Breakout/working group goals: Testing proposal Hs, initiating new research projects and proposals, feedbacks to network design and monitoring program.

Potential group titles: Bringing Humans into the Picture; Integrating Population and Community Dynamics into Research and Monitoring Programs; Using Models to Understand Gaps Between Age Classes; Role of Topography in Biogeochemical Cycling, Plant Growth and Ecosystem C Partitioning;  etc.

3:00-3:15         Break

3:15-4:30         Report of breakout groups and general discussion

4:30                 Cocktails