Town Hall

Monday, 15 December 2014

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12:30 PM-1:30 PM


TH13A
ARM Next Generation Town Hall
Sally A McFarlane and Gerald L Geernaert

TH13B
Future of Undergraduate Geoscience Education
Sharon Mosher, Peter Lea, Jeffrey G Ryan, Lori L Summa, Joshua I Villalobos and Lisa D White

TH13C
Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions
John W Goodge and Mary R Albert

TH13D
Publishing and Sharing Earth Surface Process Data
Wonsuck Kim, Raleigh L. Martin, Brandon J McElroy and Leslie Hsu

TH13E
Standing up to Scrutiny: How Do You Know Your Results Are Reproducible?
Leanne Mary Wake

TH13F
Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) Town Hall
Hajo Eicken and Helen V Wiggins

TH13G
NASA Operation IceBridge Open Town Hall Meeting
Eric J Rignot, Jacqueline Richter-Menge and Michael Studinger

6:15 PM-7:15 PM


TH15A
Space Physics and Aeronomy Section Agency Night
James A Klimchuk, Richard A Behnke, Jeffrey S Newmark and David G Sibeck

TH15B
Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission Town Hall
Ramesh K Kakar, Gail Skofronick Jackson, George John Huffman and Dalia Bach Kirschbaum

TH15C
DOE's Interests in Extreme Events
Renu Joseph and Gerald L Geernaert

TH15D
Advancing Drought Understanding, Monitoring, and Prediction
Siegfried D Schubert, Martin P Hoerling, Roger S Pulwarty and Annarita Mariotti

TH15E
DOE Crosscutting Subsurface Initiative: Adaptive Control of Subsurface Fractures and Flow
Susan S. Hubbard, Douglas Hollett and Marianne C Walck

TH15F
Town Hall on the U.S. Group on Earth Observations and the U.S. National Plan for Civil Earth Observations
Jason Gallo, Tim Stryker and Christopher Clavin

TH15G
NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Town Hall
Vanessa M Escobar, Molly Elizabeth Brown, Simon H Yueh and Vanessa M Escobar

Tuesday, 16 December 2014

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12:30 PM-1:30 PM


TH23A
Town Hall Meeting on Digital Databases, Standards, and Practices for Field Data
Basil Tikoff, Yolanda Gil, Kerstin A Lehnert and Matty Mookerjee

TH23B
The AmeriFlux Network—Looking to 2015
Dennis D Baldocchi, Sebastien Biraud, Deb Agarwal, Tom Boden, Dario Papale, Daniel B Stover, J Michael Kuperberg, Gilberto Pastorello and Margaret S Torn

TH23C
Crowdsourcing the Next Generation of Isoplot
Noah Morgan McLean and James F Bowring

TH23D
An Introduction to the Atmospheric Chemistry Center for Observational Research and Data (ACCORD)
Brigitte Baeuerle, Jorgen B Jensen and John Joseph Orlando

TH23E
Town Hall on the U.S. Group on Earth Observations and the U.S. National Plan for Civil Earth Observations
Jason Gallo, Timothy Stryker and Christopher Clavin

TH23F
Critical Zone Observatories: Past, Present, Future
Louis A Derry and Timothy S White

6:15 PM-7:15 PM


TH25A
DOE's Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment: Tropics—A Coupled Model-Experiment in Tropical Ecosystems
Daniel B Stover and Gerald L Geernaert

TH25B
NASA ICESat-2 Mission Town Hall
Vanessa M Escobar, Sabrina Delgado Arias, Molly Elizabeth Brown, Thorsten Markus and Tom Neumann

TH25C
Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Rice Cultivation and the California Cap-and-Trade Market
William Salas, Lauren Nichols and Robert Parkhurst

TH25D
Leveraging Climate Science for Societal Benefit and Application
Sudhir Raj Shrestha, David Herring, Ned Gardiner, Susan Buhr Sullivan, John Keck, Susan E Lynds and Frank Niepold III

TH25E
What’s New in the NSF Geosciences
Roger Wakimoto

Wednesday, 17 December 2014

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12:30 PM-1:30 PM


TH33A
The Next Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space
Arthur Charo and Mark R Abbott

TH33B
E-infrastructure and Data Management for Global Change Research
R J Gurney, Maria E Uhle and M Lee Allison

TH33C
Earthcube: Community Governed Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences
Eva E Zanzerkia, Amy L Walton and M Lee Allison

TH33D
Developing a Digital Data System for Microstructural and Related Spatially Linked Data (e.g., Geochemistry, Petrology, Rock Mechanics).
Basil Tikoff, Frank S Spear, Philip A Skemer, J. Douglas Walker and Julie Newman

TH33E
EarthScope Town Hall
Ramon Arrowsmith

TH33F
The BiG CZ Software System for Integration and Analysis of Bio- and Geoscience (BiG) Data in the Critical Zone (CZ)
Emilio Mayorga, Jeffery S Horsburgh, Ilya Zaslavsky and Anthony Keith Aufdenkampe

TH33G
Access to NASA Earth Observations and Earth Science Information: Current Status and an Invitation to Discuss Future Steps
Nancy D Searby, Curt Tilmes, Ana I Prados, Christine Mangshing Lee, David L Toll, Francis E Lindsay and Sarah N Hemmings

Thursday, 18 December 2014

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12:30 PM-1:30 PM


TH43A
Challenges in Redefining Global Geological Heritage and World Heritage
Cecile Olive-Garcia and Benjamin van Wyk de Vries

TH43B
Planning for the Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2)
Michael J McPhaden, Lisa M Beal, Edward R Urban Jr and Raleigh R Hood

TH43C
Better Living through Collaboration: Science Hack Day Town Hall
Ariel Waldman and Arfon Smith

TH43D
Water Science: Building Research Networks in China
Qingyun Duan and Dong Chen

TH43E
The Deep Carbon Observatory DECADE Initiative: First Results from the Volcanic CO2 Monitoring Network and Campaign Studies
Tobias P Fischer

TH43F
International Soil Carbon Network: Data and Collaboration in Support of Carbon Cycle Science
Christopher Swanston and Lucas E Nave

TH43G
Ethical Challenges in the Geosciences
Linda C Gundersen, Max Wyss, David W Mogk, John W Geissman and Randy Townsend

TH43H
Challenges of Complexity and Complex Systems in Geophysics
John B Rundle, Jurgen Kurths, Klaus Fraedrich and Daniel J M Schertzer

6:15 PM-7:15 PM


TH45A
NASA Earth Science Division Town Hall Session
Michael H Freilich, Stephen M Volz, Lawrence Friedl, George Komar, Patricia A Jacobberger-Jellison, Margaret Luce and Jack A Kaye

TH45B
Doe’s Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) Project
Dorothy M Koch and Gerald L Geernaert

TH45C
NSF Division of Polar Programs Town Hall
Scott G Borg and Nature McGinn

TH45D
The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) Town Hall
Cynthia Rosenzweig, Sonali Prabhat McDermid and Jonathan Winter

TH45E
NWS Model Development Forum
Frederick Toepfer, Michael B Ek and Jin Huang

TH45F
Evaluating the Implementation of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and Envisioning the Next Decade
Yana Gevorgyan and Matthew L Druckenmiller

TH45G
Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM) Town Hall Meeting
Nicole Schlegel, Basile de Fleurian, Surendra Adhikari, Josh K Cuzzone, Daria J Halkides, Gilberto Perez, Mathieu Morlighem, Helene Seroussi and Eric Y Larour

TH45H
UK Science and Innovation Network: Strategic International Engagement in the Earth and Space Sciences and Policy
Victoria E Lee, Jack Westwood, Bradley Keelor and Mark Caine

TH45I
Strategic Planning Update from UCAR
James W Hurrell and Thomas J Bogdan