Town Hall

Monday, 14 December 2015

12:30-13:30


TH12A
Building Global Ecological Understanding (BGEU) Town Hall
Rodrigo Vargas, Jianwu Tang, Hank W Loescher and Jim Myers

TH12B
Exploring a Subduction Zone Observatory
Kerry Sieh, Susan Y Schwartz, Shuichi Kodaira, Jeffrey Todd Freymueller, Sergio Eduardo Barrientos, Erik H Hauri and Joan S Gomberg

TH12D
NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) Mission Town Hall
Tom Neumann, Molly Elizabeth Brown, Vanessa M Escobar, Michael F Jasinski and Sabrina Delgado Arias

TH12E
NASA's Operation IceBridge Town Hall Meeting
Jacqueline Richter-Menge and Nathan T Kurtz

TH12G
The Energy-Water Nexus - Ongoing Science Activities and Future Opportunities with the Department of Energy
Gerald L Geernaert, Diana Bauer, J R Arnold, Ian Kraucunas, Robin L Newmark, Vincent Carroll Tidwell and Robert Vallario

TH12I
USDA Town Hall on Climate Change, Global Food Security and the U.S. Food System Report
Margaret Walsh, Peter Backlund, Lawrence Buja and Molly Elizabeth Brown

18:15-19:15


TH15B
DOE scientific successes as part of the International Land Model Benchmarking (ILAMB) Project
Renu Joseph, Forrest M Hoffman, William J Riley, James Tremper Randerson, David M Lawrence and Gerald L Geernaert

TH15C

TH15D
EU-PolarNet - Connecting Science with Society
Renuka Badhe and Nicole Biebow

TH15E
EU-PolarNet – Connecting Science with Society
Renuka Badhe and Nicole Biebow

TH15F
Future of tectonics and structural geology: NSF-sponsored white-paper workshop
James A Spotila, Richard W Allmendinger, Kevin H Mahan, Rebecca J Dorsey, Paul A Kapp and Marin Kristen Clark

TH15H
NOAA's Research And Development Enterprise
Rick Spinrad and Richard W Spinrad

TH15I
NSF workshop on future directions in tectonics: white-paper meeting
James A Spotila, Richard W Allmendinger, Rebecca J Dorsey, Paul A Kapp, Kevin H Mahan and Marin Kristen Clark

Tuesday, 15 December 2015

12:30-13:30


TH22A
A critical gap in data management: integration workflows for models and data
Haruko M Wainwright, Timothy D Scheibe, David P Lesmes and John D Moulton

TH22B
Big Weather Web: Big Data Solutions in Support of Weather Prediction for University Research and Education
Carlos Maltzahn, Mohan K Ramamurthy, Joshua Hacker, Kevin Tyle, Russ S Schumacher and Gretchen L Mullendore

TH22C
Could scientists ‘peer-review’ the web?
Daniel G Whaley and Emmanuel M Vincent

TH22E
DOE’s Trait-Based Modeling Approach for Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE)
Stan D Wullschleger, Lara M Kueppers and Daniel B Stover

TH22F
NSF Division of Polar Programs Town Hall
Scott G Borg, Eric S Saltzman and Kelly Kenison Falkner

TH22G
Space Physics and Aeronomy Section Agency Night
David G Sibeck and Larry J Paxton

TH22I
The Hydrologic Model Synthesis Project
Keith Beven, Bettina Schaefli, Stanislaus J Schymanski, Luis E Samaniego and Martyn P Clark

18:15-19:15


TH25A
8th Town Hall - International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC)
Maribeth S Murray, Peter Schlosser and Gabriela Ibarguchi

TH25B
Celebrating the International Atmospheric Chemistry Project (IGAC) as part of the IGBP Landmark Synthesis Event
Gregory J Frost, Claire Granier, Allen H Goldstein, Mark G Lawrence and Megan L Melamed

TH25C
A Townhall for the Network of Critical Zone Observatories
Susan L Brantley, Daniel Richter Jr, Louis A Derry, Steven A. Banwart and Timothy White

TH25E
Earth Observations and Global Water Security
Bradley Doorn, Jerad D Bales, Christine Mangshing Lee and Richard G Lawford

TH25F
Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC): Accelerating the Pace of Arctic Research
Simon N Stephenson, Martin O. Jeffries, William J Wiseman, Sandra Starkweather, Jessica Anne Rohde and Sara Bowden

TH25G
NASA Mission Applications and the Early Adopter Program
Christine k Bonniksen, Margaret M Srinivasan, John J Murray, Christine Lee and Vanessa M Escobar

TH25I
The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) Town Hall
Jonathan Winter, Roberto O Valdivia, Sonali Prabhat McDermid, Cynthia Rosenzweig and Alexander C Ruane

TH25J
U.S. Group on Earth Observations (USGEO) Town Hall
Timothy Stryker and Jason Gallo

Wednesday, 16 December 2015

12:30-13:30


TH32A
CLIVAR- Climate and Ocean - the next 10 years of CLIVAR science as part of the World Climate Research Programme
Lisa M Goddard, Robert A Weller, Matthew Collins, Shoshiro Minobe and Detlef Stammer

TH32E
NASA Earth Science Division Town Hall
Michael H Freilich, Peg Luce, Lawrence Friedl, George Komar, Eric Ianson, Patricia A Jacobberger-Jellison and Jack A Kaye

TH32F

TH32G
NGEE Arctic Data Management Town Hall 2015
Stan D Wullschleger, Peter E Thornton and Tom Boden

TH32H
NWS Model Development Forum
Hendrik L Tolman and Michael B Ek

TH32I

TH32J
The Future of Laboratory Studies in Atmospheric Chemistry
James B Burkholder, Jonathan Abbatt, Ian Barnes and James M Roberts

Thursday, 17 December 2015

12:30-13:30


TH42B
EarthScope Science and Synthesis
Jeffrey Todd Freymueller, Elisabeth S Nadin and Greg J Anderson

TH42C
Establishing a Global Science and Data Network for Coastal Blue Carbon
Zhiliang Zhu, Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Kevin D Kroeger, Emily J Pidgeon, Jennifer Howard and Jianwu Tang

TH42D
Fast changing coupled human-water system in China
Murugesu Sivapalan and Fuqiang Tian

TH42F
NASA Sea Level Change Team Town Hall
Carmen Boening and R Steven Nerem

TH42G

TH42H
Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions
John W Goodge and Mary R Albert

TH42I
The AmeriFlux Network: Celebrating Its 20th Anniversary
Dennis D Baldocchi, Sebastien Biraud, Deb Agarwal, Tom Boden, Dario Papale, Daniel B Stover, Gilberto Pastorello and Margaret S Torn

TH42J

TH42K
What is new in NSF Geosciences?
Donald J Wuebbles and Roger M Wakimoto