Exploring New Multi-Instrument Approaches to Observing Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Carbon Cycle from Space
October 5-9, 2015, 2015
California Institute of Technology -
Pasadena, CA 91125
Final Report
Paul Wennberg
California Institute of Technology
David Schimel
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ryan Pavlick
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ralph Dubayah
University of Maryland
Workshop Overview:
Our poor understanding of terrestrial ecosystems and their biogeochemical and biogeophysical feedbacks with the Earth System severely limits our ability to make accurate predictions about the future of our home planet. To make the sort of policy-relevant predictions that society asks of us, our science desperately needs more data about the composition, functioning, and structure of terrestrial ecosystems. Unfortunately, our current in-situ observation networks are too sparse, too spatially biased, and too ad-hoc to make significant progress. Only observations from space can provide the dense, frequent, spatially and temporally extensive records required. However, we have also reached the limits of what is possible with the generation of space-based sensors currently in orbit (e.g. Landsat and MODIS). One exception being the just recently launched Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2), which will provide more data in a day about atmospheric CO2 concentrations than the existing in-situ network produces in a year. Also, due to one of the most important discoveries in Earth science in the past decade, OCO-2 will serendipitously provide global maps of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence, a proxy for vegetation productivity.
The focus of this study is exploring new multi-instrument approaches to doing ecosystem science from space. We will frame this more general topic around the amazing opportunity that in a few years, we could have simultaneous observations of ecosystem structure, functioning, and composition from the International Space Station (ISS).
Monday, October 5, 2015Salvatori Seminar Room - 3rd Floor South Mudd, Caltech |
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Short Course: Observing Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Carbon Cycle from SpaceIntroductory Lectures - Open to all interested students, researchers and faculty |
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Time |
Event |
Speaker |
9:30 - 10:00 |
Coffee and Refreshments |
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10:00 - 10:10 |
Logistics / Welcome |
Michele Judd Team Leads |
10:10 - 10:30 |
From Stovepipes to Synthesis (context for short course) |
Ryan Pavlick |
10:30 - 11:15 |
Carbon Cycle (35 min talk, 10 min questions) |
Lesley Ott |
11:15 - NOON |
Terrestrial Ecosystems (35 min talk, 10 min questions) |
Josh Fisher |
NOON - 1:00 |
Informal lunch for all short course attendees |
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1:00 - 1:30 |
Vegetation Structure/Biomass/GEDI (20 min talk, 10 min questions) |
Ralph Dubayah |
1:30 - 2:00 |
Ecohydrology / ECOSTRESS (20 min talk, 10 min questions) |
Simon Hook |
2:00 - 2:30 |
xCO2 / Fluorescence / OCO-3 (20 min talk, 10 min questions) |
Christian Frankenberg |
2:30 - 3:00 |
Plant Traits / Imaging Spectroscopy (20 min talk, 10 min questions) |
Shawn Serbin |
3:00 |
End of Short Course |
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Invitation Only Workshop Begins Keck Center - Think Tank, Room 155 |
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3:00 - 3:30 |
Walk to Keck Center for Registration and Refreshments |
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3:30 - 4:15 |
Workshop Logistics and Introduction to KISS |
Michele Judd Tom Prince |
4:15 - 4:30 |
30 second Participant Introductions |
Michele Judd |
4:30 - 5:45 |
Desired goals and outcomes for the workshop; begin plenary discussion on workshop format; collect ideas and topics participants want to know more about; identify lightning talks needed to "close the gap of knowledge" between the various disciplines. |
Team Leads |
6:00 |
Dinner at the Athenaeum |
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Tuesday, October 6, 2015Keck Center - Think Tank, Room 155 |
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Time |
Event |
Speaker |
8:00 - 8:30 |
INSTITUTE OPENS - FREE TIME to collaborate, tag up and discuss ideas |
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8:30 - 9:00 |
Coffee and Refreshments |
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9:00 - 9:15 |
Logistics: Summary re-cap of day one and goals for day two |
Michele Judd Team Leads |
9:15 - 10:15 |
3 Lightning Talks: 15 min + 5 minute discussion each |
TBD at workshop |
10:15 - 10:30 |
Determine breakout sessions |
All |
10:30 - 11:00 |
Break |
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11:00 - 12:30 |
Breakout Groups |
All |
12:30 - 2:30 |
POSTER SESSION at Keck Center with lunch |
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2:30 - 4:00 |
Breakout Groups continue |
All |
4:00 - 4:30 |
Break |
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4:30 - 5:30 |
Breakout Groups Report Out in Plenary Session |
All |
6:00 |
Optional, informal family style dinner in the Athenaeum Rathskeller |
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015Keck Center - Think Tank, Room 155 |
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Time |
Event |
Speaker |
8:00 - 8:30 |
INSTITUTE OPENS - FREE TIME to collaborate, tag up and discuss ideas |
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8:30 - 9:00 |
Coffee and Refreshments |
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9:00 - 9:15 |
Logistics: Summary re-cap of day one and goals for day three |
Michele Judd Team Leads |
9:15 - 10:15 |
3 Lightning Talks: 15 min + 5 minute discussion each |
TBD at workshop |
10:15 - 10:30 |
Determine breakout sessions |
All |
10:30 - 11:00 |
Break |
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11:00 - 12:30 |
Breakout Groups |
All |
12:30 - 2:00 |
Lunch at the Athenaeum |
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2:00 - 3:00 |
Breakout Groups continue |
All |
3:00 - 4:00 |
Breakout Groups Report Out in Plenary Session |
All |
4:00 - 4:30 |
Break |
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4:30 - 5:45 |
Plenary Session - Group Check in on workshop progress and process. Get list of "I Wish We Could xxx by Friday" Items. Finalize Thursday Agenda Based on List. |
All |
6:00 |
Optional no-host dinner in Pasadena (KISS pays for postdocs and students) |
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Thursday, October 8, 2015Keck Center - Think Tank, Room 155 |
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Time |
Event |
Speaker |
8:00 - 8:30 |
INSTITUTE OPENS - FREE TIME to collaborate, tag up and discuss ideas |
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8:30 - 9:00 |
Coffee and Refreshments |
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9:00 - 9:30 |
Logistics: Summary re-cap of day one and goals for day four, determine breakout sessions |
Michele Judd Team Leads |
9:30 - 10:30 |
Breakout Groups |
All |
10:30 - 11:00 |
Break |
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11:00 - 12:30 |
Breakout Groups continue |
All |
12:30 - 2:00 |
Lunch on your own (heavy grazing items provided in Institute for those sticking around) |
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2:00 - 2:30 |
FREE TIME to collaborate, tag up and discuss ideas |
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2:00 - 3:00 |
Breakout Groups Report Out in Plenary Session |
All |
3:00 - 4:00 |
Initial Recommendations from Study to Date |
All |
4:00 - 4:30 |
Break |
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4:30 - 5:45 |
Final Breakout Groups to Flesh Out Recommendations |
All |
6:00 |
Athenaeum Dinner with Spouses and Special Guests |
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Friday, October 9, 2015Keck Center - Think Tank, Room 155 |
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Time |
Event |
Speaker |
8:00 - 8:30 |
INSTITUTE OPENS - FREE TIME to collaborate, tag up and discuss ideas |
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8:30 - 9:00 |
Coffee and Refreshments |
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9:00 - 9:15 |
Logistics: Summary re-cap of day three and goals for day four |
Michele Judd Team Leads |
9:15 - 10:30 |
Final Breakout Group Report Outs and Plenary Discussion on Planning for the Development of Community Support and Advocacy |
All |
10:30 - 11:00 |
Break |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
Outline of Report, Writing assignments, Outline of Needed Illustrations etc. |
All |
12:00 - 12:30 |
KISS Support Overview for Continued Collaborations |
Michele Judd |
12:30 - 1:30 |
Informal lunch at the Institute |
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1:30 - 3:30 |
The Write Stuff: Two Intense Hours of Writing, Illustration Specifications, Identifying Needed References |
All |
3:30 |
Workshop concludes, celebrating ensues! |
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Workshop Participants:
- Joseph Berry - Carnegie Institution for Science/Stanford
- Ralph Dubayah - University of Maryland
- Laura Duncanson - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Annmarie Eldering - JPL/Caltech
- Fabian Fassnacht - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Joshua Fisher - JPL/Caltech
- Milan Flach - Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- Christian Frankenberg - JPL/Caltech
- Robert Green - JPL/Caltech
- Simon Hook - JPL/Caltech
- Francesca Hopkins - JPL/Caltech
- Michael Keller - USDA Forest Service
- Miguel Mahecha - Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- Lesley Ott - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Ryan Pavlick - JPL/Caltech
- Johan Perret - EARTH University
- Gregory Quetin - University of Washington
- James Randerson - UC Irvine
- Sassan Saatchi - JPL/Caltech
- David Schimel - JPL/Caltech
- Anna Schweiger - University of Minnesota, Saint Paul
- Shawn Serbin - Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Alexey Shiklomanov - Boston University
- Natasha Stavros - JPL/Caltech
- Abby Swann - University of Washington
- Amy Trangsrud - JPL/Caltech
- Susan Ustin - UC Davis
- Manish Verma - JPL/Caltech
- Camille Viatte - Caltech Campus
- Paul Wennberg - Caltech Campus
- Alan Xu - UCLA
Short Course Presentations |
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Ralph Dubayah |
Vegetation Structure/Biomass/GEDI
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| Joshua Fisher JPL |
Terrestrial Ecosystems (video) |
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Christian Frankenberg |
xC02/Fluorescence/OC0-3
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| Simon Hook JPL |
Ecohydrology/ECOSTRESS (video) |
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Lesley Ott |
Overview of Carbon Cycle Science
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| Ryan Pavlick JPL |
From Stovepipes to Synthesis (video) |
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Shawn Serbin |
Plant Traits/Imaging Spectroscopy
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Posters |
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Joshua Fisher |
Global Nutrient Limitation in Terrestrial Vegetation
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