GCTE Meetings

 

2002
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21-23 January, 2002
Terrestrial Futures II: developing a scientific agenda for the new IGBP land project. Contact: Dennis Ojima

February, Delhi, India
Rice-Wheat W/S Planning Meeting. Contact: John Ingram

19-22 February, Bangalore, India
17th SC-IGBP (by invitation only). Contact: IGBP Secretariat

23 February, Bangalore, India
IGBP Executive Officers Meeting (by invitation only). Contact: IGBP Secretariat

25-28 February, Fort Collins, USA
TransCom III. Contact: Kevin Gurney

18-20 March, Sydney, Australia
12th GCTE SSC Meeting (by invitation only). Contact: Rowena Foster for logisital information.

22 March, Canberra, Australia
Carbon Symposium: Contact: Rowena Foster
3-7 April, The Netherlands
GCTE-F4/Diversitas - Trophic Interactions in a Changing World. World-wide terrestrial ecosystems are severely affected and dominated by human activities leading to strong declines in environmental and ecosystem quality and biological diverstiy. The aim of the meeting is to present actual themes on trophic interaction research having a direct link with changes in terrestrail ecosystems and attempts to counteract these changes by ecological restoration. This workshop will aim at bringing together reserach from different disciplines in ecology, thus linking evolutionary and systems ecologists, above-and-below ground ecologists, and empiricists and theoretical ecologists. Contact: Peter de Ruiter, W.H. van der Putten, Jeff A. Harvey, and Martin Wassen

4-7 April, Ascona, Switzerland
GCTE-F4/Diversitas - Aquatic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning. This workshop aims to bring together theoretical and empirically working aquatic ecologists with an interest in a diversity of systems (marine and freshwater, lakes and rivers, benthic and pelagic), taxa (microbes to vertebrates) and focus (populations, communities and ecosystems) to examine the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in aquatic ecosystems. Contact: Mark Gessner and Pablo Inchausti

TBA
GCTE-F4/Diversitas - The Functional Significance of Biodiversity. The workshop will synthesize existing knowledge on various aspects of the functional significance of forest diversity and will explore the linkage between species and funcitonal group diversity among various categories of biota, i.e. asking the question, whether diversity in one functional group trophic level (in this case trees) affects diversity in other functional groups (e.g. soil fungi or canopy insects) and vice versa. We will explore in particular the significance of the presence of a multitude of players for ecosystem processes such as stand productivity, water relations, nutrient retention, volatile carbon emissions, only to mention a few examples. Contact: Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

28 April - 1 May, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
From Transient to Steady State Response of Ecosystems to CO2-Enrichment and Global Warming. Contact: Diane Pataki

12-14 May, Banff, Canada
GCTE Focus 1 Workshop: Biological controls on the stable isotope composition of atmospheric carbon dioxide, methane and nitrious oxide: processes and applications. This meeting is sponsored by the Biosphere-Atmosphere Stable Isotop Network (BASIN), a core project of Focus 1 (Ecosystem Physiology) of the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems project. Contact: Diane Pataki

22-25 May, Chengdu, China
GEGC-II/GCTE Soil Erosion Network co-sponsored Meeting. This will be a meeting to follow-up the COST meeting on Gully erosion held in Leuven last year. Further information contact: Dr Yong Li, Organizing Committee of GECF-II.

26-31 May, Chengdu, China
GCTE-SEN co-sponsored meeting. "Soil Erosion and Land Use Change"  ISCO presents a unique opportunity for the SEN to establish links with other erosion scientists from around the world. Further details: http://www.wscc.org.cn/isco2002/index.htm

18-21 June, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
GCTE Focus 1/NCEAS 2nd working group meeting: Progressive nitrogen limitation of plant and ecosystem responses to elevated CO2. Contact: Diane Pataki

28 June, Central London, UK
"Soils as Carbon Sinks: Opportunities and Limitations"  British Society of Soil Science, Scientific Societies Lecture Theature, Central London. Contact: j.gauld@macaulay.ac.uk

22-25 July, Texas Tech Universityl Texas
ICAR5/GCTE-SEN Wind Erosion and Aeolin Processes Conference. The fifth International Conference on Aeolian Research and the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Soil Erosion Network (WIND). Contact: John Ingram

16-19 September. Guangshou, China
Terrestrial Transect: A Regional Integrative Approach for Global Change Research. One of the biggest challenges of research on regional and global environmental change is the integration of multiple components and drivers into a single coherent picture. To address an integrative research approach, the GCTE project adopted the so called Terrestrial Transects as a sound integrative tool to organize and execute research in some of the most critical regions and ecotones world-wide. Contact: Ms Lu Hongfang

25-28 September, Wengen, Switzerland
Quantifying Terrestrail Carbon Sinks: Science, Technology and Policy - GCTE and GCP. The 2002 edition of the Wengen Workshop is devoted to bring together scientists from the remote-sensing, experimental and modeling fields, as well as policy makers, to discuss the latest issues related to the carbon cycle and particularly carbon sinks, in the context of the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. A GCTE and GCP co-sponsored workshop. For further information: http://www.unifr.ch/geoscience/geographie/EVENTS/Wengen/02/Wengen2002.html

12-15 October, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
GCTE-LUCC Transition: The New IGBP-IHDP Land Project. This workshop builds on a previous workshop where a draft set of scientific questions and an initial draft research strategy for the next 10 years of land-centic research were developed. Contact: Rowena Foster

12-15 October,Kyoto, Japan
Response of Terrestrial Watershed Ecosystems in Monsoon Asia to Global Change. An International Symposium. Contact: Takashi Kohyama

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