Workshop on Automated Soil Respiration Measurements

 

The New England Center, Durham, New Hampshire, USA

September 10-12, 2007

 

 

 

10-Sep

6-8 PM

 

Welcome reception

 

 

 

 

11-Sep

8:30 AM

 

What are we learning from autochambers?

 

 

 

 

 

8:35 AM

Eric Davidson

Four Temporal Scales: Four Questions

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 AM

Jorge Curiel-Yuste

What are we learning from automated soil respiration measurements:

The EuroFlux experience

 

 

 

 

 

9:25 AM

Xuhui Zhou/Yiqi Luo

Partitioning of Automated Soil Respiration Measurements to Autotrophic

and Heterotrophic Components: Experimental and Deconvolution Approaches

 

 

 

 

 

9:50 AM

Lianhong Gu

Diel Patterns: Inferences of Varying Sources

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 AM

 

plenary discussion

 

 

 

 

 

10:40 AM

 

Coffee break

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 AM

 

How do we know when we are making good measurements?

QA/QC of large datasets

 

 

Kathleen Savage

The Woods Hole system

 

 

Mike Ryan

The USDA-FS system

 

 

Andy Black

The Canadian Fluxnet system

 

 

Dayle McDermitt

The LiCor system

 

 

 

Plenary Discussion

 

 

 

 

 

12:15PM

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1:30 PM

 

What are the best ways to analyze and model automated soil respiration data?

 

 

 

 

 

1:35 PM

Chris Vogel

Do continuous data improve estimates of annual soil respiration?:

The importance of measurements during rapid weather changes

 

 

 

 

 

2:00 PM

James Irvine

Relating soil CO2 efflux to climate, GPP, ANPP, and seasonality of Rh/Ra

 

 

 

 

 

2:25 PM

Paul Hanson

Deterministic vs. Probabilistic Models

 

 

 

 

 

2:50PM

Andrew Richardson

Merging SR and TER Measurements with Data Assimilation

 

 

 

 

 

3:10 PM

 

plenary discussion

 

 

 

 

 

3:30 PM

 

Coffee break

 

 

 

 

 

4:00 PM

 

Poster Session and QA/QC Software Demos

 

4:30 PM

 

break out the beer during poster session

 

 

 

 

 

7:00 PM

 

Banquet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-Sep

8:30 AM

Lindsey Rustad

Charge to breakout groups

 

8:40 AM

 

Three breakout groups meet:

 

 

 

1. Harmonizing QA/QC procedures

 

 

 

2. Appropriate statistical manipulations and model structures

 

 

 

3. Opportunities for cross-site comparisons

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 AM

 

Coffee break

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Novel approaches

 

10:35 AM

Jim Tang

Automated Measurements of CO2 Profiles and Fluxes

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 AM

Rodrigo Vargas

Soil respiration in natural spatial gradients and diurnal variation

in a hysteresis effect

 

 

 

 

 

11:25 AM

Michael Bahn

Soil respiration in European grasslands in relation to climate and assimilate supply

 

 

 

 

 

11:50 AM

Bernard Longdoz

Temporal variation of 13C signature of soil respiration in a beech forest

ecosystem measured with automatic chamber coupled with tunable diode laser spectrophotometer

 

 

 

 

 

12:15

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

1:30 PM

 Rob Hubbard

Report of breakout group 1

 

 

 

 

 

1:50 PM

Paul Hanson

Report of breakout group 2

 

 

 

 

 

2:20 PM

Mike Ryan

Report of breakout group 3

 

 

 

 

 

2:40 AM

Paul Hanson

Opportunities for AmeriFlux, Fluxnet and NEON?

 

 

 

 

 

3:00 PM

 

Adjourn