B11I:
Developing the Next Generation of Sensors and Instruments for Application in the Biogeosciences I

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Stan D Wullschleger, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Yarom Polsky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Primary Conveners:  Stan D Wullschleger, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Co-conveners:  Yarom Polsky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Melanie A Mayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States; ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Melanie A Mayes, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Getting the science right for the right reasons: the environmental sensing revolution that just happened.
John Steven Selker, Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
8:15 AM
 
Treehuggers: Wireless Sensor Networks for Automated Measurement and Reporting of Changes in Tree Diameter
Evan H DeLucia1, Timothy A Mies2, Kristina J Anderson-Teixeira3, Alex P Bohleber1 and Valentine Herrmann3, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Plant Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)Smithsonian Institution, Front Royal, VA, United States
8:30 AM
 
Integrating Automated Data into Ecosystem Models: How Can We Drink from a Firehose?
Michael F Allen, University of California, Riverside, CA, United States and Thomas C Harmon, Univ California Merced, Merced, CA, United States
8:45 AM
 
GLEON: An Example of Next Generation Network Biogeoscience
Kathleen C Weathers, Cary Institute of Ecosystem St, Millbrook, NY, United States and Paul C Hanson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States
9:00 AM
 
Flux Observations of Carbon from an Airborne Laboratory (FOCAL): Using Advances in Spectroscopy, Turbulent Wind Measurements, and Small, Commercial Aircraft to Create Eddy Covariance Flux Maps from the Air.
David S Sayres1, Norton Allen1, Claire E Healy1, Jason Brent Munster1, Marco Rivero1, Chris Tuozzolo1, Jordan Wilkerson1, Ronald Dobosy2, Edward J Dumas3, Mark Heuer3, John Kochendorfer4, Tilden P Meyers3, Bruce Baker3, John Langford5 and James G Anderson1, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)NOAA Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)NOAA/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)NOAA Oak Ridge, Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)Aurora Flight Sciences, Manassas, VA, United States
9:15 AM
 
Addressing critical environmental data gaps via low-cost, real-time, cellular-based environmental monitoring
Kelly K Caylor, Adam Wolf and Ben Siegfried, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
9:30 AM
 
A new multi-angle remote sensing framework for scaling vegetation properties from tower-based spectro-radiometers to next generation "CubeSat"-satellites.
Thomas Hilker1, Forrest G Hall2, Lars P Dyrud3 and Stefan Slagowski3, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, United States
9:45 AM
 
CentNet—A deployable 100-station network for surface exchange research
Steven Oncley, Thomas W Horst, Steven Semmer, John Militzer, Gordon Maclean and Kurt Knudson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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