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WK-9:
Combining
Great
Lake
to global spatial scales with quick to extended times for ecological simulation
Sunday, August 7, 8 AM - 5 PM,
Meeting Room 512f, Level 5, Palais des congrès de
Montréal
Fee: $50
US Dollars per person – includes continental breakfast, breaks, lunch,
handouts, and workbooks.
Minimum:
15
Maximum: 45
Organizers:
Jerry Olson (olsonjb@aol.com),
Wilfred Post, Changhui Peng
Description:
Spatial
complexity of terrestrial ecosystems and associated biogeochemical processes
over large spatial scales for coupling with other earth systems models remains a
scientific challenge. Ecophysiology, demographics, competition, disturbance,
boundary shifts, and biogeochemistry, best represented at very fine spatial
scales, strain current computational capacity to simulate over large regions.
Research groups have taken many approaches for existing or future applications.
Datasets, software solutions, and improved methods for integration of spatial
complexes are needed for earth system models. Objectives of the workshop are
interactions, feedback, and development of wider collaborations to further
develop terrestrial population, community, and ecosystem biogeochemical modeling
approaches, associated databases of initial/boundary conditions, environmental
influences, and biological composition used in such models. We will also discuss
data, model, and software solutions for multi-scale modeling with reference to
the North American Carbon Program and ecological boundary changes in circumpolar
and circumboreal regions.
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