Town Hall

Monday, 15 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
ARM Next Generation Town Hall
Gerald L Geernaert, Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research, Washington, United States and Sally A McFarlane, Department of Energy Germantown, Germantown, MD, United States
Monday, 15 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Future of Undergraduate Geoscience Education
Sharon Mosher, Univ Texas, Austin, TX, United States, Peter Lea, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, United States, Jeffrey G Ryan, University of South Florida, Tampa, United States, Lori L Summa, ExxonMobil Upstream Research C, Houston, TX, United States, Joshua I Villalobos, El Paso Community College, Geological Sciences Discipline, El Paso, TX, United States, Lisa D White, University of California Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, CA, United States and Organizing Committee for Summit on the Future of Undergraduate Geoscience Education
Monday, 15 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions
Mary R Albert, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States and John W Goodge, Univ Minnesota Duluth, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Duluth, United States
Monday, 15 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Publishing and Sharing Earth Surface Process Data
Leslie Hsu, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, United States; Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Wonsuck Kim, Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, Raleigh L. Martin, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States and Brandon J McElroy, University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States
Monday, 15 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Standing up to Scrutiny: How Do You Know Your Results Are Reproducible?
Leanne Mary Wake, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Monday, 15 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) Town Hall
Helen V Wiggins, Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS), Fairbanks, United States, Hajo Eicken, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States and SEARCH Science Steering Committee
Monday, 15 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
NASA Operation IceBridge Open Town Hall Meeting
Michael Studinger, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Eric J Rignot, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States and Jacqueline Richter-Menge, US Arctic Research Commission & University of Alaska Fairbanks, Hanover, NH, United States
Monday, 15 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission Town Hall
Dalia Bach Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Ramesh K Kakar, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Gail Skofronick Jackson, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and George John Huffman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Monday, 15 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
DOE's Interests in Extreme Events
Gerald L Geernaert, Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research, Washington, United States and Renu Joseph, US Department of Energy, Germantown, MD, United States
Monday, 15 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
Advancing Drought Understanding, Monitoring, and Prediction
Annarita Mariotti, NOAA, Silver Spring, United States; NOAA, Climate program Office, Silver Spring, United States, Siegfried D Schubert, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Martin P Hoerling, NOAA Boulder, ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States and Roger S Pulwarty, NOAA, Climate program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States; NOAA, Boulder, United States
Monday, 15 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
DOE Crosscutting Subsurface Initiative: Adaptive Control of Subsurface Fractures and Flow
Marianne C Walck, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Susan S. Hubbard, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Douglas W Hollett, Department of Energy Washington DC - DOE, Washington, DC, United States
Monday, 15 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Applications Program Townhall
Vanessa M Escobar, NASA Headquarters, Washington DC, DC, United States, Vanessa M Escobar, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Silver Spring, DC, United States, Molly Elizabeth Brown, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States and Simon H Yueh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Digital Databases, Standards, and Practices for Field Data
Matty Mookerjee, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States; Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, United States, Basil Tikoff, Univ Wisconsin, Madison, United States, Yolanda Gil, Univ. of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, CA, United States and Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
The AmeriFlux Network—Looking to 2015
Margaret S Torn1,2, Dennis D Baldocchi3, Sebastien Biraud4, Deb Agarwal5, Tom Boden6, Dario Papale7, Daniel B Stover8, J Michael Michael Kuperberg8 and Gilberto Pastorello5, (1)Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States(2)University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, United States(3)University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States(4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States(5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States(6)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge, TN, United States(7)Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy(8)Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, United States
Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Crowdsourcing the Next Generation of Isoplot
James F Bowring, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, United States and Noah Morgan McLean, NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, Keyworth, United Kingdom; University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States
Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
An Introduction to the Atmospheric Chemistry Center for Observational Research and Data (ACCORD)
John Joseph Orlando, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling, Boulder, United States, Brigitte Baeuerle, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Earth Observing Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and Jorgen B Jensen, NCAR, Broomfield, CO, United States
Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
U.S. Group on Earth Observations and the U.S. National Plan for Civil Earth Observations
Christopher Clavin, Science & Technology Policy Institute, Washington, United States, Jason Gallo, Science & Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States and Timothy Schilling Stryker, Executive Office of the President, U.S. Department of the Interior, Springfield, VA, UNITED STATES
Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Critical Zone Observatories: Past, Present, Future
Timothy S White, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States and Louis A Derry, Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States
Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
DOE's Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment: Tropics—A Coupled Model-Experiment in Tropical Ecosystems
Gerald L Geernaert, Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research, Washington, United States and Daniel B Stover, Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, United States
Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
NASA ICESat-2 Mission Town Hall
Vanessa M Escobar, NASA Headquarters, Washington DC, DC, United States, Sabrina Delgado Arias, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. - NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States, Molly Elizabeth Brown, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Thorsten Markus, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States and Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, United States
Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Rice Cultivation and the California Cap-and-Trade Market
Robert Parkhurst, Environmental Defense Fund New York, New York, NY, United States, William Salas, Applied Geosolutions, LLC, Durham, NH, United States and Lauren Nichols, American Carbon Registry, Arlington, VA, United States
Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
Leveraging Climate Science for Societal Benefit and Application
Frank Niepold III, NOAA Washington DC, Climate Program Office, Washington, United States, Sudhir R Shrestha, NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD, United States, David Drew Herring, NOAA, Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Ned Gardiner, NOAA, Asheville, United States, Susan M Sullivan, CIRES/CU Boulder-Rsrch Lab 2, Boulder, CO, United States, John Keck, LMI, Asheville, NC, United States and Susan E Lynds, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
What’s New in the NSF Geosciences
Roger Wakimoto, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States
Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
Space Physics and Aeronomy Section Agency Night
David G Sibeck, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, James A Klimchuk, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Richard A Behnke, Natl Science Foundation, Vienna, VA, United States and Jeffrey S Newmark, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States
Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
The Next Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space
Mark R Abbott, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Arthur Charo, Space Studies Board, Washington, DC, United States
Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
E-infrastructure and Data Management for Global Change Research
M Lee Allison, Arizona Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ, United States, R J Gurney, University of Reading, Meteorology, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom and Maria E Uhle, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences, Arlington, VA, United States
Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Earthcube: Community Governed Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences
M Lee Allison1, Eva E Zanzerkia2 and Amy L Walton2, (1)Arizona Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ, United States(2)National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States
Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Developing a Digital Data System for Microstructural and Related Spatially Linked Data (e.g., Geochemistry, Petrology, Rock Mechanics).
Julie Newman, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, Basil Tikoff, Univ Wisconsin, Madison, United States, Frank S Spear, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, Troy, United States, Philip A Skemer, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States and J. Douglas Walker, University of Kansas, Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States
Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
EarthScope Town Hall
Ramon Arrowsmith, Arizona State University, EarthScope National Office, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
The BiG CZ Software System for Integration and Analysis of Bio- and Geoscience (BiG) Data in the Critical Zone (CZ)
Anthony Keith Aufdenkampe, Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale, PA, United States, Emilio Mayorga, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, United States, Jeffery S Horsburgh, Utah State University, Utah Water Research Laboratory, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, United States and Ilya Zaslavsky, San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, United States
Monday, 15 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Access to NASA Earth Observations and Earth Science Information: Current Status and an Invitation to Discuss Future Steps
Sarah N Hemmings1, Nancy D Searby1, Curt Tilmes1, Ana I Prados2, Christine M Lee3, David L Toll4 and Francis E Lindsay5, (1)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States(2)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States(3)AAAS/NASA, Washington, United States(4)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States(5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt. MD, United States
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Challenges in Redefining Global Geological Heritage and World Heritage
Benjamin van Wyk de Vries, University Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II, Clermont-Ferrand, France and Cecile Olive-Garcia, Conseil Général du Puy de Dôme, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Planning for the Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2)
Raleigh R Hood, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States, Michael J McPhaden, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, United States, Lisa M Beal, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, Miami, FL, United States and Edward R Urban Jr, Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, University of Delaware, Newarrk, DE, United States
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Better Living through Collaboration: Science Hack Day Town Hall
Ariel Waldman, Self Employed, San Francisco, CA, United States; Science Hack Day, San Francisco, CA, United States and Arfon Smith, GitHub, San Francisco, CA, United States
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Water Science: Building Research Networks in China
Dong Chen, IGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China and Qingyun Duan, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
The Deep Carbon Observatory DECADE Initiative: First Results from the Volcanic CO2 Monitoring Network and Campaign Studies
Tobias P Fischer, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
International Soil Carbon Network: Data and Collaboration in Support of Carbon Cycle Science
Lucas E Nave, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Chris Swanston, USDA Forest Service, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, Houghton, MI, United States
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Ethical Challenges in the Geosciences
Randy Townsend, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States, Linda C Gundersen, USGS Headquarters, Reston, VA, United States, Max Wyss, ICES International Centre for Earth Simulation Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland, David W. Mogk, Montana State Univ, Bozeman, United States and John W Geissman, University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Geosciences, Richardson, TX, United States
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Challenges of Complexity and Complex Systems in Geophysics
Daniel J M Schertzer, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Hydrology Meteorology and Complexity (HM&Co), Champs-sur-Marne, France; U. Paris Est, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, HM&Co, Marne-la-Vallee,, France, John B Rundle, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Jurgen Kurths, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, Klaus Fraedrich, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany and Executive Board of Nonlinear Geophysics
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
NASA Earth Science Division Town Hall Session
Jack A Kaye1,2, Michael H Freilich2, Stephen M. Volz2, Lawrence Friedl3, George Komar4, Patricia A Jacobberger-Jellison2 and Peg Luce2, (1)NASA Headquarters, SMD/Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States(2)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States(3)NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States(4)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
DOE's Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) Project
Gerald L Geernaert, Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research, Washington, United States and Dorothy M Koch, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
NSF Division of Polar Programs Town Hall
Nature McGinn, AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship, Washington, DC, United States and Scott G Borg, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) Town Hall
Jonathan Winter, Dartmouth College, Department of Geography, Hanover, NH, United States, Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States and Sonali Shukla McDermid, New York University, Environmental Studies, New York, NY, United States
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
NWS Model Development Forum
Jin Huang, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Frederick Toepfer, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD, United States and Michael B Ek, NSF NCAR, Boulder, United States
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
Evaluating the Implementation of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and Envisioning the Next Decade
Matthew L Druckenmiller, US Agency for International Development, Falls Church, VA, United States, Yana Gevorgyan, NOAA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Final Evaluation Team for the Implementation of GEOSS
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM) Town Hall Meeting
Eric Y Larour1, Nicole Jeanne Schlegel2, Basile de Fleurian3, Surendra Adhikari4, Joshua K Cuzzone5, Daria J Halkides2, Gilberto Perez6, Prof. Mathieu Morlighem6 and Helene Seroussi7, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States(2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States(3)University of Bergen, Earth Science, Bergen, Norway(4)California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States(5)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States(6)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States(7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
U.K. Science and Innovation Network: Strategic International Engagement in the Earth and Space Sciences and Policy
Victoria E Lee1,2, Jack Westwood3, Bradley Keelor4 and Mark Caine4, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States(2)British Consulate-General, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States(3)British Consulate-General, Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States(4)British Embassy, Washington, DC, United States
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 6:15 PM-7:15 PM
Strategic Planning Update from UCAR
Thomas J Bogdan, UCAR, Boulder, CO, United States and James W Hurrell, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States