U .S. JGOFS Synthesis & Modeling Project
Principal Investigator's Workshop
July 22-26, 2002
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Quissett Campus, Clark 507
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AGENDA
(last updated: 02 Sep 02)

Mon. July 22
  7:30-  8:30
Continental Breakfast
  8:30-  8:40
Welcome & Logistics: Scott Doney
  THEME 1 - 
SOUTHERN OCEAN - PALEO AND PRESENT
Organizers: Bob Anderson & Paul Tréguer 
  8:40-  9:20
Plenary 1: Bob Anderson: "The seasonal cycle of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at 170°W - Ecosystem structure, nutrient utilization and export flux." (abstract)
  9:20-  10:00
Plenary 2: Roger Francois: "Changes in productivity, nutrient utilization and hydrology in the Southern Ocean during the last glacial maximum and its potential impact on atmospheric CO2" (abstract)
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
POSTERS - Introductions
11:30-12:00
POSTERS
12:00-  1:00
Buffet Lunch
  1:00-  1:30
POSTERS
  1:30-  2:10
Plenary 3: J Keith Moore: "Modeling Southern Ocean Carbon Fluxes"   (abstract)
  2:10-  3:30
Discussion
  3:30-  4:00
Break
  4:00-  5:00
BRIEF REPORTS:
US JGOFS Data  (Chris Sabine)
Midwater Workshop (George Jackson)
Fe-cycling Workshop (J Keith Moore)
  5:00-  7:00
*** RECEPTION ***
7:00-> 
Dinner on your own
Tue. July 23
  7:30-  8:30
Continental Breakfast
  THEME 2 - 
FOOD WEBS
Organizers: Raleigh Hood and Ed Laws
Raleigh Hood "Food Webs" (introduction to session)
  8:30-  9:30
Plenary 4:  Dave Karl: "Deep secrets from the marine food web" (abstract)
  9:30-10:00
Discussion
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
POSTERS - Introductions
11:30-12:00
POSTERS
12:00-  1:00
Buffet Lunch
  1:00-  1:30
POSTERS
  1:30-  2:30
Plenary 5:  Paul Falkowski: "General principles of marine food web structure in relation to export production" (abstract)
  2:30-  3:30
Discussion
  3:30-  4:00
Break
  4:00-  5:00
Working Group meetings
5:00-> 
Dinner on your own
Wed. July 24
  7:30-  8:30
Continental Breakfast
  THEME 3 - 
GLOBAL SCALE SYNTHESIS OF THE CARBON CYCLE
Organizer: Niki Gruber 
  8:30-  9:30
Plenary 6: Reiner Schlitzer "Estimating Ocean Carbon Fluxes using Inverse Methods" (abstract)
  9:30-10:00
Discussion
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-10:50
"NSF plans for future studies" - Jim Yoder
10:50-11:30
POSTERS - Introductions
11:30-12:00
POSTERS
12:00-  1:00
Buffet Lunch
  1:00-  1:30
POSTERS
  1:30-  2:30
Plenary 7: Chris Sabine: "Global Estimates of Anthropogenic CO2: Current Methods and Results"  (abstract)
Plenary 8: Niki Gruber: "The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2: Combining observations with models" (NOTE: this is a fairly large file: 7.3 Mb)  (abstract)
  2:30-  3:30
Discussion
  3:30-  4:00
Break
  4:00-  5:00
New Projects - Introductions
  5:00-  8:00
Dinner on your own
Thur. July 25
  7:30-  8:30
Continental Breakfast
  THEME 4 - 
SMP GOALS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Organizer: Dave Siegel
  8:30-  9:30
Plenary 9:  Hugh Ducklow, Dave Siegel & Bob Key: "How is SMP Doing? Perspectives on observational syntheses" (abstract)
Dave Siegel "Achievement of SMP goals and objectives"
Hugh Ducklow "US JGOFS SMP - How are we doing?"
Dave Siegel "Is U.S. JGOFS/SMP remotely sensible?"
Bob Key et al. "Productions of a global carbon 'climatology' for the WOCE/JGOFS era: Results from the GLODAP SMP effort"
  9:30-10:00
Discussion
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
POSTERS - Introductions
11:30-12:00
POSTERS
12:00-  1:00
Buffet Lunch
  1:00-  1:30
POSTERS
  1:30-  2:30
Plenary 10:  Jorge Sarmiento & John Dunne: "How is SMP Doing? Perspectives on modeling and prediction" (abstract)
John Dunne: "How is SMP Doing? Perspectives on modeling and prediction"
Jorge Sarmiento: "How is SMP Doing? Perspectives on modeling and prediction"
  2:30-  3:30
Discussion
  3:30-  4:00
Break
  4:00-  5:00
Working Group Meetings
5:00-> 
***  "MODIFIED" CLAM BAKE  and  VOLLEYBALL ***
Fri. July 26
  7:30-  8:30
Continental Breakfast
  8:30-  9:45
Final Plenary:
SMP logistics - special volume #3, etc. - Scott Doney
JGOFS International Meeting (May 5-8, 2003) - Ken Buesseler
  9:45-10:30
Discussion
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Discussion


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