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Phenology is the study of the timing, variability, and change in recurring biological events. Familiar examples of phenological events include the onset of spring growth and the autumnal leaf fall, the migrations of birds and butterflies, and the flowering and fruiting in wildflowers, trees, and crops. During February 26 to March 2, Geoff Henebry organized and led a workshop entitled "Phenology across LTER" at the University of New Mexico's Sevilleta Field Station located in the 100,000 ha Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. LTER stands for Long-Term Ecological Research, a network of sites funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to understand how ecological processes vary and respond to environmental change through many years. The workshop gathered a small group of scientists from South Dakota, Puerto Rico, Oregon, New Mexico, Massachusetts, and Arizona representing seven LTER sites to evaluate the status of ongoing and prior phenological research in the LTER network, initiate a synthesis of a subset of these dataset, and formulate recommendations about how the LTER network can facilitate phenological research and interact with the emerging National Phenology Network. This workshop was funded by the NSF LTER Network Office as a follow-on event to a phenology working group at the 2006 LTER All Scientists Meeting that occurred last September in Estes Park, Colorado.
Drs. Geoff Henebry and Gabriel Senay, geospatial analyst Marcela Doubková, and doctoral student Valeriy Kovalskyy will be among 12,000 scientists attending the 2006 AGU Fall Meeting.
Gabriel Senay’s research will be presented in two posters in a Wednesday special session entitled Thermal Remote Sensing Data for Earth Science Research: The Critical Need for Continued Data Collection and Development of Future Thermal Satellite Sensors.
For the third consecutive year, Geoff Henebry has convened at the Fall AGU Meeting a special session with a phenological theme. This year’s session entitled Land Surface Phenology, Seasonality, and the Water Cycle was co-organized by Mark Friedl of Boston University and Mike White of Utah State University. The Wednesday session includes 4 invited talks, 8 contributed talks, and 30 posters.
Talks
Posters
Although GIScCE scientists Drs. Shunguang (Leo) Liu and Tom Loveland are not able to attend the meeting, their research will be presented as a poster in the Friday special session entitled Regional to Continental-Scale Carbon Cycle Science: Progress in the North American Carbon Program, CarboEurope, and Related Programs:
In addition Leo’s work will also be featured in a talk in the special session entitled Geomorphic Controls on Carbon Dynamics:
November 27-30, 2006: Coimbra Portugal. Oral Presentation: Cochrane, M.A. “Fire dynamics in tropical moist and wet forests”. 2006. Presented at the V International Conference on Forest Fire Research.
Four GIScCE Scientists will be presenting their research at the 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, November 13-17 2006, San Diego, CA.
Scheduled Presentations
Mark Cochrane
David Roy - "Factors that promote and constrain the use of satellite derived fire products by resource managers in southern Africa"
Mike Wimberly - "Fire feedbacks, and forest landscape dynamics: Applying landscape simulation models to untangle ecological complexity"
Zhiliang Zhu - "Developing an operational methodology to update LANDFIRE: Preliminary results"
July 19-21, 2006: Santiago Chile. Invited Presentation: Cochrane, M.A. 2006 “Perspectives of Fire Regime Conditions and Abating Fire-related Threats in Tropical Wet Forests: Land use interaction and synergy with forest disturbance in the Brazilian Amazon”. Oral Presentation at the Global Fire Assessment Workshop for the Neotropic Realm.