Biogeochemistry of the Continental Carbon Cycle

Biogeochemistry of the Continental Carbon Cycle

Workshop hosted by Project B2
Indooroopilly, Queensland.
September 12 – 13, 2002

Workshop Participants
Workshop Program
Uncertainty and variability in the national carbon cycle
Reducing uncertainty in the carbon cycle: Process representation in models
Workshop outcomes
Remaining uncertainties in the carbon cycle
Where to next…?
Workshop Photos
Report in PDF Format (1 MB)

Workshop Participants

Participants in the workshop (from left to right): David Rayner, Johnny Xu, Alan Beswick, Michael Hill, Joanne Nightingale, Greg McKeon, John Carter, Michael Raupach, Keith Moodie, Stephen Roxburgh, Ben Harms, Sandra Berry, Belinda Barnes, Udaya Senarath, Alex Lee, Michael Roderick, Joe Scanlan, Ian Davies, Beverly Henry, Damian Barrett, Jonathan Wynn, Grant McTainsh

Workshop Program


Day 1	Session

9:00 – 9:20 am	Welcome (Chris Robson, Executive Director, Natural Resources Sciences, Queensland Government Natural Resources and Mines) Introduction (Damian Barrett, Project Leader, Project B2, CRC GA)
Chair: Damian Barrett
9:20 – 9:40 am	Sandra Berry Estimating GPP and NPP for the Australian continent using TMS plant functional types and energy budget parameters (1.6 Mb)
9:40 – 10:00 am	Belinda Barnes System/patch dynamics across scales (489 Kb)
10:00 – 10:20 am	Michael Roderick Diffuse irradiance: the forgotten factor in productivity modeling (1.3 Mb)
10:20 – 10:40 am	Science Discussion
10:40 – 11:00 am	Coffee
Chair: Michael Roderick
11:00 – 11:20 am	Jonathan Wynn Current state of, and future for the continental-scale soil organic carbon data set (1.8 Mb)
11:20 – 11:40 am	Greg McKeon Managing Queensland natural resources: Importance of climate (4.9 Mb)
11:40 – 12:00	Joe Scanlan Productivity of tree-grass systems (227 Kb)
12:00 – 12:20 pm	Science Discussion
12:20 – 12:40 pm	Lunch
12:40 – 1:00 pm	Lunch
Chair: Michael Hill
1:00 – 1:20 pm	John Carter GRASP and Century parameter optimization (1.8 Mb)
1:20 – 1:40 pm	Beverly Henry Modeling carbon stocks in Queensland (4 Mb)
1:40 – 2:00 pm	Ken Day Climate risk assessment - new climate understanding (6.4 Mb)
2:00 – 2:20 pm	Steve Crimp Evaluation of the potential impacts of climate change on native pasture production (706 Kb)
2:20 – 2:40 pm	Science Discussion
2:40 – 3:00 pm	Coffee
3:00 – 5:00 pm	Chalk & Talk Session Next 12 months in the CRCGA (issues and challenges)


Evening	Dinner


Day 2		Session

Chair: Greg McKeon
9:00 – 9:20 am		Damian Barrett Multi-objective parameter estimation in VAST: a model of net ecosystem exchange of C for the continent (5.8 Mb)
9:20 – 9:40 am		Johnny Xu Implementing VAST1.2: a 20 year run of continental net ecosystem exchange (988 Kb)
9:40 – 10:00 am		Michael Raupach Quantifying C and related budgets from continental to global scales (1.7 Mb)
10:00 – 10:20 am		Grant McTainsh Aeolian entrainment, transport and deposition of organic carbon (2.8 Mb)
10:20 – 10:40 am		Science Discussion
10:40 – 11:00 am		Coffee
Chair: Michael Raupach
11:00 – 11:20 am		Ian Davies Current State of the COINS continental modeling shell
11:20 – 11:40 am		Stephen Roxburgh Summary of NPP workshop and more…
11:40 – 12:00		Alex Lee Issues for modeling vegetation biomass – scaling from local to continental scales (4.7 Mb)
12:00 – 12:20 pm		Science Discussion
12:20 – 12:40 pm		Lunch
12:40 – 1:00 pm		Lunch
1:00 – 1:20 pm		Lunch Visit SLATS facility
1:20 – 1:40 pm		Lunch talk: Alan Beswick SILO Climate Data Products
Chair: Stephen Roxburgh
1:40 – 2:00 pm		Michael Hill Hyperspectral remote sensing of biophysical properties of pasture for feed-base and carbon cycling applications (1 Mb)
2:00 – 2:20 pm		Michael Hill MODIS for carbon cycle modeling
2:20 – 2:40 pm		Joanne Nightingale Integrating ecosystem process models and remotely sensed data to map carbon fluxes within tropical forest environments (1.1 Mb)
2:40 – 3:00 pm		Science Discussion
3:00 – 3:20 pm		Coffee
3:20 – 4:45 pm		Chalk & Talk Session Carbon Cycle Science: reducing uncertainties in process representation


4:45 pm		Close