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Workshop on the ecosystem carbon/water cycling research in the changing climate
“Challenges of carbon and water fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems:
Ecophysiological and micrometeorological understandings and their perspectives in current and future environmental sciences under climate change”
(Supported by Gifu University, NIES, AsiaFlux, JaLTER, JSPS and Korea University)
Dates
:April 23 – 25, 2015
Venue
:National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan
Aim of the workshop
Carbon and water cycle research has been the central theme in environmental sciences in the last decades and now has a crucial role in understanding and predicting our ecosystems and environments under the on‐going climate change. This workshop aims to share the knowledge on the functional roles of carbon and water in our terrestrial ecosystems, together with its scientific and societal importance as well as the tasks that the scientists would tackle. The workshops contain series of lectures on the history of carbon/water cycle research, exchange of knowledge by participants, and discussions on the recent challenges in ecosystem sciences for understanding and predicting the ecosystem functions and their societal services.
Based on the provided knowledge and questions, then we will discuss on;
(1) What is the major tasks / questions of the current climate change ‐ terrestrial ecosystems ‐ carbon cycle research?
(2) What will be their challenging tasks / role in near‐future environmental sciences?
(3) How do we navigate such scientific efforts and outcomes to our societal system or stakeholders (decision makers including citizens)?
By asking these questions to ourselves, we would aim to achieve the following objectives.
(1) Cultivate the sense of "integration" in young researchers.
‐ data integration for cross‐scale understanding and prediction ‐ knowledge integration for interdisciplinary science
(2) Encourage the young scientists to go forward their science and communications.
‐ data and model analyses must be used for next step of our research
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(3) Think about the linkage with (contributions to) international movements ‐ Future Earth? GEOSS?
‐ Connecting ecosystem science and societal benefits
Potential lecturers
John D. Tenhunen (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
Markus Reichstein (Max Planck Institute, Germany; under consideration) Kouki Hikosaka (Tohoku University, Japan)
Akihiko Ito (NIES, Japan)
Tomo’omi Kumagai (Nagoya University, Japan) Nobuko Saigusa (NIES, Japan)
Quan Wang (Shizuoka University, Japan) Hiroyuki Muraoka (Gifu University, Japan)
Possible series of lectures
Ecological processes of carbon cycle Vegetation history and CO2 cycleCurrent disturbance of the cycle and future change
Ecophysiology (photosynthesis, stomata, nitrogen) in carbon cycle models Ecophysiology in remote sensing
Issues in cross‐scale analysis (for what and how?)
Tentative program
(participants’ requests will be considered in the detailed program)23rd April
13:30‐13:45 H. Muraoka Opening remarks
13:45‐14:00 H. Noda Overall picture of workshop
14:00‐15:10 J. Tenhunen Lecture 1 "CO2 cycle of plants and ecosystems”
15:10‐15:30 <break>
15:30‐16:00 H. Muraoka Lecture 2 “Ecophysiological questions on forest C cycle”
16:00‐17:00 3 min speech (by ALL participants)
“Who am I? / What I study / What I want here”
17:00‐18:00 Free discussion 19:00‐ Welcome Party 24th April
9:00‐10:15 J. Tenhunen Lecture 3 “Vegetation history and CO2 cycle”
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3 10:15‐10:30 <break>
10:30‐11:30 T. Kumagai Lecture 4 “(TBD)”
11:30‐12:15 M. Reichstein Lecture 5 (under consideration) 12:15‐13:30 <Lunch>
13:30‐15:00 Oral presentation by young scientists (15 min x 6 people) 15:00‐15:15 <break>
15:15‐16:00 Q. Wang Lecture 6 “(TBD)”
16:00‐ Group discussion 25th April
9:00‐10:15 Reports of group discussions 10:15‐10:30 <break>
10:30‐11:15 K. Hikosaka Lecture 7 “(TBD)”
11:15‐12:00 A. Ito Lecture 8 “(TBD)”
12:00‐13:00 <lunch>
13:00‐16:00 Open lecture
J. Tenhunen “Current disturbance of CO2 cycle and future change”
N. Saigusa “Challenges in changing environmental sciences”
16:00‐ Closing
Registration fee:
Workshop (lecture courses) No charge
Welcome party (April 23) About 4000 JPY/person
Contact for workshop info. and pre‐registration to:
Dr. Hibiki M. Noda NIES, Tsukuba, Japan [email protected]
Dr. Taku M. Saitoh Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
[email protected]‐u.ac.jp
Prof. Hiroyuki Muraoka Gifu University, Gifu, Japan [email protected]‐u.ac.jp
Supporting organizations/networks
River Basin Research Center, Gifu University (http://www.gifu‐u.ac.jp/)
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (http://www.nies.go.jp/)
AsiaFlux (http://asiaflux.net/) JaLTER (http://www.jalter.org/)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) BK21Plus (Korea University)
