The Contribution of Terrestrial and Anthropogenic Processes to Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations in the Mid Continent North American Carbon Program (NACP) Study

 

Meeting goals:

·     Initiate the implementation of the NACP Midwest intensive, and begin drafting an implementation plan

·     Ascertain data and expertise available for the NACP Midwest intensive 

·     Identify an initial (more can join) science team to develop the NACP Midwest intensive implementation plan

·     Initiate the development of a framework to guide/optimize data collection (sampling density –space and time)

 

Expected outcomes:

By the end of the meeting participants should have:

·     an understanding of the goals and information needs of NACP Midwest intensive.

·     identified current relevant research and available data and its accessibility.

·     identified data gaps and on-going studies to fill in the data gaps or new studies needed.

·     identified models available and their data needs.

·     a conceptual strategy for integrating terrestrial, flux, and atmospheric research and data.

·     begun developing the NACP Midwest intensive implementation plan.

·     made recommendations to the CCIWG agencies and their programs for addressing data gaps and implementation of the NACP Midwest intensive.

·     initiated the next steps for implementation of the NACP Midwest intensive

 

Program

The role of the speakers is to very briefly introduce the topic, why it is needed for the NACP Midwest intensive and identify resources, data available, and gaps.

 

September 13

   5:30 PM      Check in and Registration

   6:30             Reception, (Cash Bar)

   8:00             Jerry Hatfield - Welcome and meeting overview

   8:15             Pieter Tans - Mid Continent NACP-Atmospheric Components

   9:00             Reception continues

 

September 14

   8:00 AM     Steve Wofsy, Chair:  Introductory comments

   8:05             Eldor Paul - Expectations and impacts on understanding the carbon balance:

                                    Why are we here and what are we going to do?

   8:20             Keith Paustian - Cultivated soils: modeling and remote sensing

   8:55             Questions, discussion, other data

   9:05             Rich Birdsey - Forests:  tress, soils and interactions

   9:35             Questions, discussion, other data

   9:45             Coffee

   10:00           Ron Follett - The role of grasslands and CRP

   10:30           Questions, discussion, other data

   10:40           Sashi Verma - Flux towers: what do they tell us?

   11:20           Questions, discussion, other data

   11:30           Ray Desjardins - A Canadian looks at Iowa

   11:45           Questions, discussion, other data

   11:55           Mike Jawson - Meeting recap and discussion

   12:05           Lunch

   1:00 PM      C. Rice, Chair

   1:05             Jerry Hatfield - The farm-city carbon cycle: what goes in comes out

   1:35             Questions, discussion, other data

   1:45             Tim Parkin - The Iowa landscape and land use patterns

   2:10             Questions, discussion, other data

   2:20             Bus tour, Iowa research sites, soils, plants, pigs and towers

   5:30             Supper

   8:15 PM      Disciplinary working groups (Group A)

 

The Disciplinary working groups will be assembled to evaluate whether there are additional data, resources, and gaps in the whole program (beyond those identified by the speakers) and how data and gap-filling activities should be coordinated. Each group will restate the meeting goals as they see them and the expertise that each group can contribute to the project goals. This then leads to a discussion of what is needed from the other groups so that we can have a truly interdisciplinary project.

 

September 15

   8:00 AM      Jerry Hatfield Chair

   8: 05            Interdisciplinary working groups (Group B)

 

The interdisciplinary working groups will address several questions: What we need from each other? How good does the data have to be? Do we need standardized reporting formats? What kind of output will be produced such as papers, reports, web sites, newspaper articles, data repositories?  This is an opportunity to initiate the establishment of some of the required interdisciplinary contacts and to identify some of the general scientific advances and hypothesis that should be generated by this study. 

 

   8:50 AM      Reports and discussion

   9:10             Disciplinary working groups

 

The groups that met Tuesday evening will reassemble to further develop the actual data synthesis research and monitoring programs with a concentration of what is needed within the expertise represented. For example: How do we use available statistical and other data to determine yields and residues? Are these are important? What kinds of soil measurements need to be made? How do we use remote sensing and automated in situ soil analysis. How do tall tower and airplane studies mesh? Is soil respiration a problem in flux measurements? There are many more and we are sure these discussions will be most productive.

                 

   9:55 AM      Reports and discussion and coffee on the go.

   10:15           Project working groups

 

Since we want the meeting to be flexible, we have left this session fairly open. Participants may want to define further discussion groups or ask that existing ones have more time. This would also be an opportunity for specific working groups such as data synthesis, modeling, or foresters to meet. Others we can think of include questions about erosion and landscapes, movements of products, anthropogenic fluxes, role of underground productivity and roots, role of agriflux or chambers, and many more. This will require volunteer chairpersons to identify discussion areas and contact Eldor or Jerry before or early at the meeting.

                 

   11:00 AM    Reports and discussion

   11:20           R. Dahlman, S. Denning, Morning Recap: Where does this fit in with other programs? Federal programs? NACP?

   11:50           Group discussion

   12:05           Lunch

   1:05 PM      Final working groups or joint session on actual operation

 

Composition of groups and subjects will be determined during the course of the meeting. This is our last chance to get it right. Subjects could include cooperation between groups, other information that could be obtained such as impacts on C-credits and agricultural management, interactions with other areas (national and global), timing of experiments and data, etc. How do we rationalize if the top-down and bottom-up data differ?

 

   1:45 PM      Reports and discussion

   2:15             J. Hatfield, R. Conant, Group meeting

 

Subjects could include: meeting output (type of report and contents). The Soil Tilth Lab will supply an electronic coordinator during thee discussion periods. Each discussion group will be asked have their comments on computers in a format ready for publication on the web site and in the hard copy output. Rich Conant will compile the meeting information so that when we leave we are as close as possible to an agreed output. Other subjects could include implementation plans, coordination within and between groups, funding requirements, final discussions, and closing statements (E.A. Paul).

 

   3:00 PM      Adjourn