Global Environmental Change



Schneider Lecture
Primary Convener:  Philip Mote, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Convener:  Julie Brigham-Grette, Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Philip Mote, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States


The Bolin Lecture
Primary Convener:  Philip Mote, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Convener:  Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Philip Mote, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States


Tyndall Lecture
Primary Convener:  Philip Mote, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Convener:  Julie Brigham-Grette, Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Philip Mote, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States


GC001
Advances and applications in Quaternary geochronology
Primary Convener:  Darren F Mark, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Center at the University of Glasgow, East Kilbride, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Marissa M Tremblay, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, Courtney Sprain, University of Liverpool, Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, Liverpool, United Kingdom and Noah McLean, University of Kansas, Kansas, United States
Primary Liaison:  Darren F Mark, SUERC, East Kilbride, United Kingdom


GC002
Advances in monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and sinks across land use categories
Primary Convener:  Grant M Domke, US Forest Service St. Paul, St. Paul, MN, United States; USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, St. Paul, MN, United States
Conveners:  Thomas Charles Wirth, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Stephen M Ogle, Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Stephen M Ogle, Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States


GC003
Advances in Reservoir Representation in Hydrological and Earth System Models
Primary Convener:  Wondmagegn Yigzaw, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Hong-Yi Li, University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States and Jungho Kim, NOAA/Colorado State University, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory/Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Fort Collins, United States
Primary Liaison:  Wondmagegn Yigzaw, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States


GC004
Advances toward Global Imaging Spectroscopy and Thermal Infrared Measurements
Primary Convener:  David R Thompson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Robert O Green, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Elizabeth Middleton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States and Simon J Hook, LimnoTech, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  David R Thompson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


GC005
Advancing Research to Understand, Assess, and Predict the Impacts of Global Change on National Security
Primary Convener:  Apurva Dave, US Global Change Research Program, Washington DC, DC, United States
Convener:  David Blauvelt, National Intelligence University, Bethesda, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Apurva Dave, US Global Change Research Program, Washington DC, DC, United States


GC006
AI and Machine Learning for Climate and Extreme Weather Prediction
Primary Convener:  Brian L White, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Conveners:  Adrian Albert, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Antonia Sebastian, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Marine Sciences, Galveston, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Brian L White, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States


GC007
Applications of Earth Observations for Addressing Environmental and Development Challenges in Africa
Primary Convener:  Emily Caitlin Adams, University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Robinson M Mugo, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, Emil A. Cherrington, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and Bako Mamane, AGRHYMET Regional Center, Niamey, Niger
Primary Liaison:  Emily Caitlin Adams, University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States


GC008
Assessment of Hydroclimatic Variability and Change in CMIP6 Climate Models
Primary Convener:  Sanjiv Kumar, Auburn University, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States
Conveners:  James L Kinter, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States; Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Fairfax, VA, United States, Zaitao Pan, Saint Louis University, Hartford, CT, United States and Kenneth Kunkel, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS), North Carolina State University, and NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), Asheville, NC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sanjiv Kumar, Auburn University, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States


GC009
Atmospheric Teleconnections From The Equatorial Pacific: 50 Years Of Progress On The Role Of Tropical Oceans In Climate And Its Predictability.
Primary Convener:  Christina Karamperidou, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Conveners:  Malte F Stuecker, IBS Center for Climate Physics, Pusan, South Korea, Fei-Fei Jin, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Shineng Hu, Yale University, Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christina Karamperidou, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States


GC010
Changes and impacts of climate variability in South America
Primary Convener:  Laia Andreu-Hayles, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Valerie Daux, Université de Versailles Sant Quentin en Yvelines, Versailles, France, Milagros Rodríguez-Catón, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, NY, United States and Ernesto Tejedor Vargas, University at Albany State University of New York, Albany, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Laia Andreu-Hayles, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States


GC011
Changes in Disturbance Frequency in High Latitude Ecosystems: Implications for Ecological, Hydrological, and Biogeochemical Processes
Primary Convener:  Katherine Hayes, University of Colorado Denver, Integrative and Systems Biology, Denver, CO, United States
Conveners:  Jason Shabaga, University of Florida, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Gainesville, FL, United States, Adrienne Michelle Marshall, University of Idaho, Water Resources Program, Moscow, ID, United States and Melissa Sue Lucash, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Katherine Hayes, University of Colorado Denver, Integrative and Systems Biology, Denver, CO, United States


GC012
CLIMATE EXTREMES: patterns, mechanisms and attribution
Primary Convener:  Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Conveners:  Stephanie Herring, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Daniel Mitchell, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom and Andrew Hoell, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Chris C Funk, USGS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States


GC013
Climate-Hydrology-Human Interactions and Their Implications on Hydroclimate Extremes in a Changing Environment
Primary Convener:  Xing Yuan, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, School of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing, China
Conveners:  Ming Pan, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Niko Wanders, Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands and Zong-Liang Yang, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xing Yuan, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, School of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing, China


GC014
Climate Science in the Age of Deep Learning and Machine Learning
Primary Convener:  Donald D Lucas, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Conveners:  Steve M Easterbrook, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Gemma Jayne Anderson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Donald D Lucas, LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States


GC015
Climate Variability and the African Environment, Water Resources, and Food Security
Primary Convener:  Charles M Ichoku, Howard University, Washington, DC, United States
Convener:  Amin Dezfuli, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tsegaye Tadesse, National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States


GC016
Climate, Wildfires, and Impacts
Primary Convener:  Sam Heft-Neal, Stanford University, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States
Convener:  Marshall Burke, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sam Heft-Neal, Stanford University, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States


GC017
Climatic and Food Security Impacts of Nuclear War
Primary Convener:  Alan Robock, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Lili Xia, Rutgers Univ, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Owen B Toon, Univ Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alan Robock, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States


GC018
Co-developed and co-implemented: Advancing transdisciplinary approaches to global change challenges
Primary Convener:  Erica Key, Belmont Forum, Montevideo, Uruguay
Conveners:  Heide Hackmann, International Science Council, Paris, France, Tobias Buser, Network for Transdisciplinary Research, td-net, Bern, Switzerland and Hilary Bradbury, SDG Transformations Forum Learning Futures Working Group, AR+, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joshua Tewksbury, Future Earth, Colorado Global Hub, Boulder / Fort Collins, CO, United States


GC020
Compound weather and climate extremes: mechanism, predictability, and projection
Primary Convener:  JinHo Yoon, GIST Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Korea, Republic of (South)
Convener:  Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hyungjun Kim, The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan


GC021
Connecting cause and effect in data-driven analyses of coupled human and geophysical systems
Primary Convener:  Morgan C Levy, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Conveners:  Marc Muller, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and Paul Ferraro, Johns Hopkins University, Balitmore, United States
Primary Liaison:  Morgan C Levy, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States


GC022
Correlated Climate Extremes: Drivers, Mechanisms, and Risks
Primary Convener:  Colin Raymond, Columbia University of New York City, New York, NY, United States
Conveners:  Kai Kornhuber, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Radley M Horton, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States and Jakob Zscheischler, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Colin Raymond, Columbia University of New York City, New York, NY, United States


GC023
CO2 valorization in a Carbon Geological Storage perspective
Primary Convener:  Samuel Marre, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France
Convener:  Anais Cario, CNRS, ICMCB, Paris Cedex 16, France
Primary Liaison:  Samuel Marre, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France


GC024
Disturbance impacts on ecological and biogeochemical processes in coastal wetlands
Primary Convener:  Karina V Schafer, Rutgers University Newark, Newark, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Inke Forbrich, Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Christopher Michael Gough, VCU-Biology, Richmond, VA, United States and Rodrigo Vargas, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Primary Liaison:  Karina V Schafer, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States


GC025
Dust and the climate system: investigating interactions over multiple timescales.
Primary Convener:  Jonathan Maitland Lauderdale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Geeta G Persad, Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States, Huayu Lu, Nanjing University, School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing, China and Timothy Herbert, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jonathan Maitland Lauderdale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States


GC026
Dynamics of decadal to multi-decadal modes and their impact on regional and global climate variability
Primary Convener:  Aixue Hu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Robert Jnglin Wills, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Yangyang Xu, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States; Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States and Pengfei Lin, State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China, Beijing, China
Primary Liaison:  Robert Jnglin Wills, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States


GC027
Earth’s energy imbalance and energy flows through the climate system
Primary Convener:  Maria Zita Hakuba, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States
Conveners:  Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States, Matthew D Palmer, Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom and Tristan L'Ecuyer, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Maria Zita Hakuba, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States


GC028
Advances in understanding impacts of land use and land cover change in a changing climate using Earth system records and models
Primary Convener:  Maoyi Huang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Convener:  Dan Li, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dan Li, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States


GC029
Humans in the Earth System
Primary Convener:  Hannah Liddy, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States
Conveners:  Victor Brovkin, MPI for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, Natasha MacBean, Indiana University - Bloomington, Bloomington, United States and Alan V Di Vittorio, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hannah Liddy, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States


GC030
Energy Meteorology 1 – Solar Irradiance Resourcing and Forecasting
Primary Convener:  Carlos F Coimbra, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Convener:  Jan P Kleissl, Univ of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Melinda Marquis, NOAA, ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO, United States


GC031
Energy Meteorology 2 - Wind Resourcing and Forecasting
Primary Convener:  Melinda Marquis, NOAA, ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO, United States
Convener:  Jan P Kleissl, Univ of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Carlos F Coimbra, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States


GC032
Environmental Change and Civilization Evolution along the Ancient Silk Road
Primary Convener:  Juzhi Hou, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Fahu Chen, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Guanghui Dong, Lanzhou University, MOE Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems, College of Earth Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China and Jianhui Chen, Lanzhou University, MOE Key Laboratory of West China's Environmental System, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China
Primary Liaison:  Juzhi Hou, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China


GC033
Environmental changes and human migration: advances in data, modeling, and analysis
Primary Convener:  Rachata Muneepeerakul, University of Florida, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Conveners:  Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University in the City of New York, Center for Climate Systems Research, Palisades, NY, United States and David Griffith, East Carolina University, Anthropology, Greenville, NC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rachata Muneepeerakul, University of Florida, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States


GC034
Environmental, Socio-Economic and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia
Primary Convener:  Pavel Groisman, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia; HS&S, Asheville, United States
Conveners:  Shamil S Maksyutov, NIES, Tsukuba, Japan and Evgeny P Gordov, SCERT, IMCES SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia
Primary Liaison:  Pavel Groisman, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia; HS&S, Asheville, United States


GC035
Evolving Aspects of Agricultural Monitoring Systems
Primary Convener:  Rick Mueller, USDA NASS, Spatial Analysis Research Section, Fairfax, VA, United States and Jessica McCarty; Jesslyn Brown; Caitlin Kontgis
Conveners:  Jessica L McCarty, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States, Caitlin Kontgis, UW-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Jesslyn F Brown, USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States and Jessica McCarty; Jesslyn Brown; Caitlin Kontgis
Primary Liaison:  Rick Mueller, USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Jessica McCarty; Jesslyn Brown; Caitlin Kontgis


GC036
Expansion and Intensification of the Tropical Agricultural Footprint: Trends, Causes, and Consequences
Primary Convener:  Matthew E Fagan, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Meha Jain, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, Victor Gutierrez-Velez, Temple University, Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Philadelphia, PA, United States and Marcia Macedo, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Matthew E Fagan, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States


GC037
Extreme climate events and climate variability during the Holocene: Observation and Modeling
Primary Convener:  Liang Ning, Nanjing Normal University, Geography, Nanjing, China
Conveners:  Zhengyu Liu, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States and Mi Yan, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
Primary Liaison:  Liang Ning, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Geoscience, Amherst, United States


GC038
Extreme Wildfires and Smoke Plumes: Past, Present, and Future
Primary Convener:  Michael D Fromm, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
Convener:  Peter Richard Colarco, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  George P Kablick, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States


GC039
Four Decades and Counting: NASA Earth Observations and Agricultural Monitoring
Primary Convener:  Alyssa K Whitcraft, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Stephanie Schollaert Uz1, Inbal Becker-Reshef2 and Kim Ann Locke2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alyssa K Whitcraft, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States


GC040
High-Latitude Earth Systems – From Process-Level Understanding to Advanced Regional Predictive Capabilities
Primary Convener:  Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States
Conveners:  Renu Joseph, US Department of Energy, Germantown, MD, United States, Hailong Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Wilbert Weijer, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States


GC041
How to Achieve Global Land Degradation Neutrality: Monitoring, Mechanisms, Assessment and Mitigation Strategies for Desertification
Primary Convener:  Tao Wang, NIEER/Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Desert and Desertification, Lanzhou, China
Conveners:  Atsushi Tsunekawa, Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan, Caroline King, Center for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom and Jian Guo, NIEER/Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Desert and Desertification, Lanzhou, China
Primary Liaison:  Jian Guo, NIEER/Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Desert and Desertification, Lanzhou, China


GC042
Impacts of Climate Change on Water and Energy Systems
Primary Convener:  Alan V Di Vittorio, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Chan Xiao, National Climate Center, Chinese Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China and Zexuan Xu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alan V Di Vittorio, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States


GC043
Improving the Simulation of Climate Impacts on Agriculture: AgMIP and Related Research
Primary Convener:  Jonathan Winter, Dartmouth College, Department of Geography, Hanover, NH, United States
Conveners:  Sonali Shukla McDermid, New York University, New York, NY, United States, Bruno Basso, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States and Roberto O Valdivia, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jonathan Winter, Dartmouth College, Department of Geography, Hanover, NH, United States


GC044
Incorporating Equity Concerns into Climate Change Impact Estimates and Policy Analysis
Primary Convener:  Frank Cooper Errickson, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Mark Budolfson, University of Vermont, Burlington, United States, Wei Peng, Penn State University, School of International Affairs and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States and Fabian Wagner, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Primary Liaison:  Frank Cooper Errickson, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


GC045
Incorporating Human Sciences into Geophysical and Biophysical Global Change Research to Tackle Challenges at the Nexus of Food Insecurity, Water Scarcity, Human Health, and Conflict
Primary Convener:  Annette Trierweiler, University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Conveners:  Patrick Regan, University of Notre Dame, Keough School of Global Affairs, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Gopal Penny, University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Annette Trierweiler, University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States


GC046
Integrated Modeling of Complex Coastal Systems and Human-Environment Interactions
Primary Convener:  Ian Kraucunas, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Phillip J. Wolfram Jr, LANL, LOS Alamos, NM, United States and Shuyi S Chen, University of Washington, Atmospheric Science, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ian Kraucunas, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


GC047
Interpretation and Uncertainty Quantification of Climate, Earth System, and Integrated Assessment Models
Primary Convener:  Elisabeth A Lloyd, Indiana University Bloomington, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Bloomington, IN, United States
Conveners:  Donald D Lucas, LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States and Jaideep Ray, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Maoyi Huang, Pacific NW Nat'l Lab-Atmos Sci, Richland, WA, United States


GC048
Invasive and expanding plant species and biogeochemistry: what do we know about emerging soil-microbial-plant systems in relation to soil chemistry and greenhouse gas flux?
Primary Convener:  Benjamin Duval, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States
Conveners:  Jennie McLaren, University of Texas-El Paso, Biology, El Paso, United States and Daniel Cadol, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Benjamin Duval, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States


GC049
Landscapes and Climate: How Orography and Land-Ocean Distributions Shape Past, Present and Future Climate on Continental to Global Scales
Primary Convener:  Wenwen Kong, University of California Berkeley, Geography, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Rachel H White, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Earth Sciences - Climate Prediction Group, Barcelona, Spain, Jane Wilson Baldwin, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States and Xiaojuan Liu, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Wenwen Kong, University of California Berkeley, Geography, Berkeley, CA, United States


GC050
Large Ensemble Climate Models as tools for exploring Internal Variability, Climate Change Signals, and Impacts
Primary Convener:  Keith B Rodgers, IBS Center for Climate Physics, Busan, South Korea and Mingfang Ting
Conveners:  Mingfang Ting, Lamont Doherty Earth Observ, Palisades, NY, United States, Andrea Dittus, University of Reading, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Reading, United Kingdom, Martin Leduc, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada and Mingfang Ting
Primary Liaison:  Ralf Ludwig, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Geography, Munich, Germany and Mingfang Ting


GC051
Leveraging the water-energy-land nexus for regional and sub-regional planning
Primary Convener:  Zarrar Khan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Thomas Bernard Wild, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Rsearch institute, College Park, MD, United States, Simon Parkinson, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria; University of Victoria, Institute for Integrated Energy Systems, Victoria, Canada and Edo Abraham, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Zarrar Khan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States


GC052
Managing multifunctional watersheds for the 21st century
Primary Convener:  Rafael J. P. Schmitt, Stanford University, The Natural Capital Project and Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  P. James Dennedy-Frank, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and G Mathias Kondolf, University of California Berkeley, Center for Environmental Design Research, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rafael J. P. Schmitt, University of California Berkeley, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Berkeley, CA, United States


GC053
Marine-based management of atmospheric carbon dioxide and ocean acidification
Primary Convener:  Greg H Rau, Univ. California, Santa Cruz, Inst. Marine Science, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Conveners:  Matthew Eisaman, Stony Brook University, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Brian Von Herzen, Climate Foundation, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Phil Renforth, Heriot-Watt University, Research Centre for Carbon Solutions, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Greg H Rau, Univ. California, Santa Cruz, Inst. Marine Science, Santa Cruz, CA, United States


GC054
Modeling and Monitoring the Carbon-Water-Nutrient Nexus for Agroecosystems
Primary Convener:  Bin Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences and National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  Zhenong Jin, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences and National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, IL, United States and Jinyun Tang, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bin Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, IL, United States


GC055
Monsoon Dynamics in Past, Present, and Future Climates
Primary Convener:  Deepti Singh, Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA, United States
Conveners:  Massimo A Bollasina, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, Christopher B Skinner, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Lowell, MA, United States and Tripti Bhattacharya, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Deepti Singh, Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA, United States


GC056
Mountain Weather and Climate in a Warmer World
Primary Convener:  Aino Kulonen, Mountain Research Initiative, Bern, Switzerland
Conveners:  Nicholas C Pepin, Univ Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, Connie Millar, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Albany, CA, United States and Mathias F Vuille, University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nicholas C Pepin, Univ Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom


GC057
Multi-scale, Multi-Region, and Multi-Actor Interactions for Sustainability and Resilience in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Primary Convener:  Jeffrey M Bielicki, Ohio State University, Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States
Conveners:  Jay Martin, The Ohio State University, Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States, Noel R Aloysius, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States and Yue Qin, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jeffrey M Bielicki, Ohio State University, Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States


GC058
Multi-scale Water-Energy-Food Nexus under the Environmental, Socio-Economic and Climate Changes
Primary Convener:  Makoto Taniguchi, RIHN Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan
Conveners:  Fi-John Chang, National Taiwan University, Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, Luis Rodriguez, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States and Sanghyun Lee, RIHN Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Sanghyun Lee, RIHN Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan


GC059
Near-zero emission energy systems: Geophysical opportunities, limits, and consequences
Primary Convener:  Ken Caldeira, Carnegie Institution for Science, Dept. of Global Ecology, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Steven J Davis, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Jacqueline Anne Dowling, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Candise Henry, Carnegie Institution for Science, Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ken Caldeira, Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Dept. of Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States


GC060
New Approaches to Methane Measurements from Oil and Gas Operations – Methods, Data, and Insights
Primary Convener:  Arvind P Ravikumar, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Systems Engineering, Harrisburg, PA, United States
Conveners:  Thomas Arcadius Fox, University of Calgary, Geography, Calgary, AB, Canada, David Richard Lyon, Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, TX, United States and Chris Hugenholtz, University of Calgary, Department of Geography, Calgary, AB, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Arvind P Ravikumar, Harrisburg University, Harrisburg, PA, United States


GC061
New frontiers in land cover change mapping and its implications for Forest Carbon Financing
Primary Convener:  Sylvia Wilson, United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States
Conveners:  Eric Bullock, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, Juliann Aukema, US Agency for International Development, Office of Global Climate Change, Washington, D.C, United States and Africa Ixmucane Flores Cordova, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Africa Ixmucane Flores Cordova, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States


GC062
Novel Approaches in Climate-Driven Applications for Geohealth and Infrastructure Decision Makers
Primary Convener:  Jonathan R Buzan, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Conveners:  Yixuan Zheng, Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, United States and Emanuele Russo, University of Bern, Climate and Environmental Physics, Bern, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Jonathan R Buzan, Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States


GC063
Novel approaches to constrain spread and reduce uncertainties in Earth system model projections
Primary Convener:  Jerry Tjiputra, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
Conveners:  Forrest M. Hoffman, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States and Hyungjun Kim, The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Forrest M. Hoffman, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States


GC064
Observed and Projected Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources, Agriculture, and Health
Primary Convener:  Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Conveners:  Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Jeroen Aerts, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Andrew Verdin, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation; Minnesota Population Center, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Chris C Funk, USGS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States


GC065
Perturbed Physics Experiments (PPEs) in Earth System Modeling
Primary Convener:  Sihan Li, Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States and Linnia Hawkins, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sihan Li, Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom


GC066
Plant Phenology and Climate Change
Primary Convener:  Yang Li, The Ohio State University, Environmental Science Graduate Program, Columbus, OH, United States
Conveners:  Kaiguang Zhao, The Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Columbus, OH, United States and Tongxi Hu, The Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Columbus, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yang Li, The Ohio State University, Environmental Science Graduate Program, Columbus, OH, United States


GC067
Protecting Earth’s Climate for the Next Centennial
Primary Convener:  Margaret S Torn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Tanya Furman, Penn State Univ, University Park, PA, United States, Maggie Walser, National Academy of Science, Washington, DC, United States and Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  William Drew Collins, Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


GC068
Quantifying impacts in socio-environmental systems through the application of remote sensing and machine learning
Primary Convener:  Ian Wesley Bolliger, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Tamma Carleton, University of Chicago, Economics, Chicago, IL, United States and Jonathan Proctor, University of California Berkeley, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ian Wesley Bolliger, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States


GC069
Quantifying Nutrient Budgets for Sustainable Nutrient Management
Primary Convener:  Eric A Davidson, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States
Conveners:  Xin Zhang, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States, Jill Baron, US Geological Survey, John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Katherine Lynn Tully, University of Maryland College Park, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Eric A Davidson, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States


GC070
Remote sensing of land surface variables for climate change and Earth system modeling
Primary Convener:  Dongdong Wang, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
Convener:  Shunlin Liang, Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dongdong Wang, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States


GC071
Renewable Energy: Marine and Hydrokinetic
Primary Convener:  Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States
Conveners:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Vincent S Neary, Oak Ridge National Laborartory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Maria L Beninati, Bucknell University, Mechanical Engineering, Lewisburg, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States


GC072
Renewable Energy: Solar and Open Topics
Primary Convener:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Convener:  Susan K Avery, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States


GC073
Renewable Energy: Wind
Primary Convener:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States, Susan K Avery, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, MA, United States and Laura Mazzaro, Descartes Labs, Santa Fe, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States


GC074
Resilience in an era of climate change…what does that even mean?
Primary Convener:  Chris Swanston, USDA Forest Service, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, Houghton, MI, United States
Conveners:  Caitriana M Steele1, Emile Elias1 and Randi Johnson2, (1)New Mexico State Univ, Las Cruces, NM, United States(2)USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Chris Swanston, USDA Forest Service, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, Houghton, MI, United States


GC075
Solar Geoengineering Benefits and Risks:  Modeling, Impacts, Analogs, Engineering, Ethics, and Governance
Primary Convener:  Simone Tilmes, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry, Observations, and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Daniele Visioni, Cornell University, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States, Ben Kravitz, Indiana University Bloomington, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States and Alan Robock, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Simone Tilmes, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry, Observations, and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States


GC076
Solar Radiation Monitoring and Forecast from Satellite Observations and Models: Physical and Machine Learning Perspectives
Primary Convener:  Tao He, Wuhan University, School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan, China
Conveners:  Pietro Elia Campana, Mälardalen university, Västerås, Sweden and Yi Zhang, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tao He, Wuhan University, School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan, China


GC077
Sustainable Energy Transitions in the Developing World
Primary Convener:  Wei Peng, Penn State University, School of International Affairs and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners:  Arvind P Ravikumar, Harrisburg University, Harrisburg, PA, United States and Johannes Urpelainen, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Wei Peng, Penn State University, School of International Affairs and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States


GC078
Taking the temperature of the Earth: uncertainties, trends, and applications across all Earth surface domains
Primary Convener:  Glynn C Hulley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Convener:  Darren Ghent, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom


GC079
Terra – 20 years as the Earth Observing System flagship observatory
Primary Convener:  Kurtis J Thome, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Marcus Dejmek, Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, QC, Canada, Si-Chee Tsay, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Robert Edward Wolfe, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kurtis J Thome, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States


GC080
The Changing Face of Wildfires and Effects on Human Health
Primary Convener:  Hannah Liddy, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States
Conveners:  Benjamin Poulter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert D Field, Columbia University of New York, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Palisades, NY, United States and Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hannah Liddy, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States


GC081
The global water cycle: Coupling and Exchanges between the ocean, land, and atmosphere
Primary Convener:  Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Livermore, CA, United States
Conveners:  Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA, United States, Francis H Lambert, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom and John T Reager II, University California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Livermore, CA, United States


GC082
The Third Pole Environment (TPE) under Global Changes
Primary Convener:  Tandong Yao, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, Volker Mosbrugger, Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany and Fan Zhang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Primary Liaison:  Tandong Yao, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China


GC083
Thresholds, Resilience and States in Hydrological and Hydroclimatic Systems
Primary Convener:  Brandi Newton, Alberta Environment and Parks, Environmental Monitoring and Science Division, Calgary, AB, Canada
Conveners:  Chris Spence, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Stephen J Dery, UNBC, Prince George, BC, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Brandi Newton, Alberta Environment and Parks, Environmental Monitoring and Science Division, Calgary, AB, Canada


GC084
Toward Better Understanding of the Impacts of Climate Variability on Agricultural Decision Making and Longer-term Adaptation
Primary Convener:  Amor V M Ines, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
Conveners:  Lyndon D Estes, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Eunjin Han, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Sharon Gourdji, National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lyndon D Estes, Clark University, Graduate School of Geography, Worcester, MA, United States


GC085
Towards an Assessment of Global Change Impacts that Better Accounts for Extreme Events
Primary Convener:  Claudia Tebaldi, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Sonia I Seneviratne, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland and Katherine V Calvin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Claudia Tebaldi, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States


GC086
Towards developing policy-relevant high-resolution regional earth system models
Primary Convener:  Zong-Liang Yang, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Conveners:  Xing Yuan, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, School of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing, China, Baozhang Chen, State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environment Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 11A, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, Beijing, China and JP Tang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Primary Liaison:  Zong-Liang Yang, Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX, United States


GC087
Uncertainty in Recent and Future Sea-Level Change
Primary Convener:  Alexander Robel, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
Conveners:  Erica Ashe, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Aimee Slangen, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Alexander Robel, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States


GC088
Understanding and predictions of sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) land-induced forcing and atmosphere interactions on droughts/floods and heatwaves
Primary Convener:  Yongkang Xue, University of California Los Angeles, Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Aaron anthony Boone, CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France and William K-M Lau, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Aaron anthony Boone, CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France


GC089
Uniting Advances in Remote Sensing, Earth System Modeling, and Social Sciences to Improve Risk Management
Primary Convener:  Elinor Benami, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Eric Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, Shanna N. McClain, NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences, Washington, DC, United States and Zhenong Jin, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, Saint Paul, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elinor Benami, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States


GC090
Urban Areas and Global Change
Primary Convener:  Joseph P McFadden, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Conveners:  Galina Churkina, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, United States, Burak Guneralp, Texas A & M University, Geography, College Station, TX, United States and Lei Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joseph P McFadden, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States


GC091
Urbanization, Climate Change, and the Environment
Primary Convener:  Peng Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  Yanhua Xie, University of Wisconsin Madison, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Madison, WI, United States, Annemarie Schneider, University of Wisconsin Madison, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, Madison, WI, United States and Soe Win Myint, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Peng Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States


GC092
Use of Earth Observations in Mitigating Major Environmental Challenges in South and Southeast Asia
Primary Convener:  Walter Lee Ellenburg II, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Birendra Bajracharya, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, MENRIS, Kathmandu, Nepal, Peeranan Towashiraporn, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Pathumthani, Thailand and Amanda (Weigel) Markert, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Amanda (Weigel) Markert, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States


GC093
Use of Earth Observations in Mitigating Major Environmental Challenges in the Americas
Primary Convener:  Betzy E. Hernández, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Africa Ixmucane Flores Cordova, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and Cindy Schmidt, NASA DEVELOP National Program, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Africa Ixmucane Flores Cordova, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States


GC094
Vulnerability Assessment of Human Systems in a Changing Environment
Primary Convener:  Deeksha Rastogi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Convener:  Venkata Shashank Konduri, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Deeksha Rastogi, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


GC095
Water and Environment Challenges under a Changing Climate over the high-Himalayan Mountains, Nepal.
Primary Convener:  Kirsten N Nicholson, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, United States
Conveners:  Subodh Sharma, Kathmandu University, Aquatic Ecology, Dhulikhel, Nepal, Klaus Neumann, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, United States and Bangshuai Han, Ball State University, Geography, Muncie, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kirsten N Nicholson, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, United States


Artisanal Mining Innovation Challenge: Engaging Diverse Stakeholders to Create Real Breakthroughs for Biodiversity and People
Primary Contact:  Paul Bunje, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Presenters:  Luis Fernandez, Carnegie Institute, Palo Alto, CA, United States and Barbara Martinez, Conservation X Labs, Washington, DC, United States


Disaster Policies or Disastrous Policies? A Town Hall at the Junction of Natural Hazards, Society, Science Policy, and Communication
Primary Contact:  Jacqueline Ratner, Columbia University Earth Institute, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, New York, NY, United States
Presenters:  Janine Krippner, Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program, Washington DC, DC, United States, Laura Melissa Szymanski, Geological Society of America, Science Policy Fellow, Washington DC, DC, United States, Fred D Richards, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Paula R Buchanan, Jacksonville State University, Department of Emergency Management, Jacksonville, AL, United States, Kimberly Wood, Mississippi State University, Department of Geosciences, Mississippi State, MS, United States, Diana Zamora-Reyes, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, Caroline Ladlow, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States and Lucila Houttuijn Bloemendaal, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States


Federal Interagency Coordination for Research in the Arctic
Primary Contact:  Sara Bowden, Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee, Arlington, VA, United States
Presenters:  Renu Joseph, US Department of Energy, Germantown, MD, United States, Renee Crain, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA, United States, Guillermo Auad, U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Sterling, VA, United States, Martin O. Jeffries, Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States and Roberto Antonio Delgado Jr, National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs, Alexandria, VA, United States


New, Underutilized, and Upcoming Earth Observing Missions and Applications
Primary Contact:  Lauren M Childs-Gleason, Science Systems and Applications Inc., Hampton, VA, United States; NASA Capacity Building Program, Hampton, VA, United States
Presenters:  Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Brian Killough, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Ana I Prados, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States and Kenton W Ross, NASA DEVELOP Program, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States


Sustainability and Innovation - Synergies and Connections Between Societies to Support Sustainability Science
Primary Contact:  Judit Ungvari Martin, American Association for the Advancement of Science Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Presenters:  Erica Key, Belmont Forum, Montevideo, Uruguay, Joshua Tewksbury, Future Earth, Colorado Global Hub, Boulder / Fort Collins, CO, United States, Mark Mocettini Shimamoto, US Global Change Research Program, Health Lead (Contractor), Washington D.C., DC, United States, Makyba Charles-Ayinde, AAAS STPF, Washington, DC, United States, Amy Luers, Future Earth, Montreal, Canada and Maria E Uhle, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences, Arlington, VA, United States


The Role of NOAA Climate Competitive Research
Conveners:  Annarita Mariotti, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States and Sandy E Lucas, NOAA-Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jin Huang, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD, United States
Primary Contact:  Jin Huang, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD, United States
Presenters:  Jin Huang, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD, United States, Sandy E Lucas, NOAA-Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Annarita Mariotti, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States


A007
Air pollution, greenhouse gases and emissions in Asia and its interactions with the world
Primary Convener:  Jintai Lin, Peking University, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Yu Zhao, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Zhu Liu, Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China and Mingxi Du, Peking University, Beijing, China
Primary Liaison:  Jintai Lin, Peking University, Beijing, China


A015
Advances in Radar Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation: Observations, Data Processing, Weather and Water Model Applications
Primary Convener:  Haonan Chen, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory and Colorado State University, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Robert Cifelli, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Lynn A. McMurdie, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Haonan Chen, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory and Colorado State University, Boulder, CO, United States


A025
Air Pollution, Aerosol and Climate Interactions in Asia
Primary Convener:  Tong Zhu, Peking University, BIC-ESAT and SKL-ESPC College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Russell R Dickerson, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University, Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Zhanqing Li, Univ of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States


A027
Next-Generation Geostationary Measurement and Analysis for Weather Prediction
Primary Convener:  Joel McCorkel, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Karen M St. Germain, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Daniel Lindsey, NESDIS STAR, RAMMB, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Pamela Clare Sullivan, NOAA, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joel McCorkel, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States


A040
Calibration and Validation of Passive Satellite Earth Observation Systems
Primary Convener:  Isaac Moradi, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Thomas S Pagano, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Xiaoxiong Xiong, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Kurtis Thome, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Eric J Fetzer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States


A043
Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks: Advances and New Paradigms
Primary Convener:  Mark Richardson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Maria Zita Hakuba, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Chad William Thackeray, University of Waterloo, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, Waterloo, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Mark Richardson, University of British Columbia, Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada


A044
Climate Variability in the Atlantic Ocean: Observations, Modeling, and Theories
Primary Convener:  Laifang Li, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
Conveners:  Feili Li, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States and Melissa Gervais, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Laifang Li, Duke Univ-Earth & Ocean Sci, Durham, NC, United States


A066
Extratropical and High-latitude Storms, Teleconnections, Extreme Events, and the Rapidly Changing Polar Climate
Primary Convener:  Xiangdong Zhang, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Conveners:  Kent Moore, Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and James E Overland, NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kent Moore, University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada


A068
Extreme precipitation in past, present and future climates
Primary Convener:  Markus Donat, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona, Spain
Conveners:  Erich M Fischer, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Paul A O'Gorman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Andreas F Prein, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Primary Liaison:  Paul A O'Gorman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States


A077
High resolution climate modeling on large supercomputers
Primary Convener:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Pier Luigi Vidale, NCAS Climate, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Malcolm J Roberts, Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom and Rein Haarsma, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States


A082
Interactions of Air Quality and Meteorology on Local to Synoptic Scales
Primary Convener:  Daniel M Westervelt, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Jordan Schnell, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Lu Shen, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Carlos Ordonez, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain


A083
Interdisciplinary Sustainable Solutions for Urban Areas
Primary Convener:  Ashish Sharma, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign, IN, United States
Conveners:  Donald J Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States, Fei Chen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and Patricia Romero-Lankao, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ashish Sharma, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign, IN, United States


A095
Microphysical and Macrophysical Properties and Processes of Ice and Mixed-Phase Clouds: Linking in Situ, Remote Sensing Observations and Multiscale Models
Primary Convener:  Minghui Diao, San Jose State University, Meteorology and Climate Science, San Jose, CA, United States
Conveners:  Yu Gu, UCLA 405 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Xiaohong Liu, University of Wyoming, Department of Atmospheric Science, Laramie, WY, United States and James R Campbell, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Minghui Diao, San Jose State University, Meteorology and Climate Science, San Jose, CA, United States


A101
North Atlantic Climate Variability
Primary Convener:  Thomas Reichler, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Conveners:  Yannick Peings, University California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Ayako Yamamoto, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Kanagawa, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Thomas Reichler, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States


A109
Progress in Reanalysis: Development, Evaluation and Application
Primary Convener:  Jan Dominik Keller, Deutscher Wetterdienst Nieder, Offenbach, Germany
Conveners:  Michael G Bosilovich, Earth Sciences Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Masatomo Fujiwara, Hokkaido Univ, Sapporo, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Jan Dominik Keller, Deutscher Wetterdienst Nieder, Offenbach, Germany


A112
Regional climate: modeling, analysis, and impacts
Primary Convener:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Melissa S Bukovsky, National Center for Atmospheric Research, CISL&RAL/RISC, Boulder, CO, United States and Paul Aaron Ullrich, Univ California Davis, Fremont, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


A120
Subseasonal to Seasonal Forecasts for User Applications: Charting the Route Toward Subseasonal Climate Services
Primary Convener:  Andrew William Robertson, Columbia University, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Joanne Robbins, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, Andy Wood, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Angel Munoz, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Andrew William Robertson, Columbia University, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY, United States


A132
Tropospheric composition and pollution from the transport sector; observations, models and applications
Primary Convener:  Helene Muri, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Convener:  Anders Hammer Strømman, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Energy and Process Engineering, Industrial Ecology Program, Trondheim, Norway
Primary Liaison:  Helene Muri, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway


B002
Addressing Spatial-Temporal Variation, Plasticity and Acclimation of Key Hydraulic and Photosynthetic Plant Traits for Predicting Forest Responses to Climate Change
Primary Convener:  Martin Venturas, University of Utah, School of Biological Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Conveners:  Anna T Trugman1, Yujie Wang1 and Xiaonan Tai2, (1)University of Utah, School of Biological Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States(2)University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Martin Venturas, University of Utah, School of Biological Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States


B007
Advances in the Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle
Primary Convener:  Holly Croft, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Shawn Serbin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, NY, United States, Alemu Gonsamo, McMaster University, School of Geography & Earth Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada and Jeff W Atkins, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Holly Croft, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom


B009
Advances in understanding water-carbon interactions
Primary Convener:  Vincent Humphrey, California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Markus Reichstein, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Jena, Germany, Ana Bastos, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München, Germany and Pierre Gentine, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Vincent Humphrey, California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States


B010
Agricultural Sustainability – A Balancing Act of Land Management, Food Security, and Environmental Consciousness
Primary Convener:  Susanne Wiesner, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, US Dairy Forage Research Center, Madison WI, Oak Ridge, TN, United States; University of Wisconsin, Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States
Conveners:  Ankur R Desai, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States, Alison Duff, US Dairy Forage Research Center, Madison, WI, United States and Kevin Panke-Buisse, US Dairy Forage Research Center, Madison, United States
Primary Liaison:  Susanne Wiesner, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States; Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, US Dairy Forage Research Center, Madison WI, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


B023
Bridging the Data Gap: Methods that Link Remote Sensing with Forest Models Toward Improving Spatial and Temporal Scales
Primary Convener:  Amanda Hildt Armstrong, Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States
Convener:  Batuhan Osmanoglu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Amanda Hildt Armstrong, Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States


B037
Determinants of ecosystem sensitivity to intensified drought
Primary Convener:  Osvaldo Sala, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Melinda Dianne Smith, Colorado State University, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Laureano Gherardi, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Osvaldo Sala, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States


B038
Does rising CO2 increase the terrestrial carbon sink?
Primary Convener:  Yao Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Anthony P Walker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and David JP Moore, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yao Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


B041
Elucidating Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Integrating Theory, Observations, Experiments, and Models
Primary Convener:  William R Wieder, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Fiona Soper, Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States, Sasha Reed, U.S. Geological Survey, Moab, UT, United States and Cory C. Cleveland, University of Montana, Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, Missoula, MT, United States
Primary Liaison:  William R Wieder, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States


B051
Fire management as climate policy
Primary Convener:  Carly Anne Phillips, Union of Concerned Scientists Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Brendan M Rogers, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Peter C Frumhoff, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Carly Anne Phillips, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States


B053
Forests and Forest Sector Climate Change Mitigation
Primary Convener:  Carolyn Smyth, Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada and sanchez
Conveners:  William Stewart, University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science Policy and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, Daniel Sanchez, University of California Berkeley, of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States and sanchez
Primary Liaison:  Carolyn Smyth, Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada and sanchez


B054
Forging Linkages in Carbon Cycle Science
Primary Convener:  Gyami Shrestha, U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program & UCAR, Washington, DC, United States and Joint Team of U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program & E.U. Integrated Carbon Observation System
Conveners:  Werner Leo Kutsch, ICOS ERIC, Head Office, Helsinki, Finland, Zhiliang Zhu, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States, Alexander T Vermeulen, Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands, Petten, Netherlands and Joint Team of U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program & E.U. Integrated Carbon Observation System
Primary Liaison:  James H Butler, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States and Joint Team of U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program & E.U. Integrated Carbon Observation System


B059
How Microbial Functional Traits Regulate Terrestrial Carbon And Nutrient Cycling From Local To Global Scales
Primary Convener:  Yang Song, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute & Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Melanie A Mayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Malak M Tfaily, University of Arizona, Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yang Song, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute & Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


B066
Integrated Understanding of Global Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles and Their Feedbacks in CMIP6
Primary Convener:  Forrest M. Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Earth Sciences Group and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Junjie Liu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Charles Koven, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Joellen L Russell, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Forrest M. Hoffman, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States


B067
Integrating data from heterogeneous sources across spatial and temporal scales to advance knowledge of ecosystem structure, function and process
Primary Convener:  Mallory Barnes, Indiana University Bloomington, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, IN, United States
Conveners:  Martha Gebhardt, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States and Amy Hudson, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mallory Barnes, Indiana University Bloomington, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, IN, United States


B069
Mapping and Monitoring Irrigated Agriculture: New Methods and Synergies
Primary Convener:  Jesslyn F Brown, USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
Conveners:  Gabriel B Senay, U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science, EROS/ North Central Climate Science Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Jillian M Deines, Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jesslyn F Brown, USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States


B084
Observing and Modeling Biogeochemical Responses to Disturbance
Primary Convener:  Lisa Haber, Virginia Commonwealth University, Integrative Life Sciences, Richmond, VA, United States
Conveners:  Kayla Cerise Mathes, Virginia Commonwealth University, Integrative Life Sciences, Richmond, VA, United States, Jeff W. Atkins, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, United States and Christopher Michael Gough, VCU-Biology, Richmond, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lisa Haber, Virginia Commonwealth University, Integrative Life Sciences, Richmond, VA, United States


B090
Putting Contemporary Wildfires Into Historical Context
Primary Convener:  Adam La Salle Moreno, California Air Resources Board, Air Quality Planning and Science Division, Sacramento, CA, United States
Conveners:  Alan F Talhelm1, Chris Keithley2 and Jamie Lydersen2, (1)California Air Resources Board, Transportation and Toxics Division, Sacramento, ID, United States(2)California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Fire and Resource Assessment Program, Sacramento, United States
Primary Liaison:  Adam La Salle Moreno, California Air Resources Board, Air Quality Planning and Science Division, Sacramento, CA, United States


B093
Quantifying Ecological Impacts of Forest Ecosystem Management and Policy
Primary Convener:  Loretta Moreno, California Natural Resources Agency, Office of the Secretary, Sacramento, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ali Dunn, California State Water Resources Control Board, Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program, Sacramento, CA, United States and Caren Dymond, Government of British Columbia, Office of the Chief Forester British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, British Columbia, BC, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Loretta Moreno, California Natural Resources Agency, Office of the Secretary, Sacramento, CA, United States


B100
Simulating the future of North American Forests with Next Generation Dynamic Global Vegetation Models
Primary Convener:  John B Kim, USFS, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Christopher J Still, Oregon State University, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Corvallis, OR, United States and Yueyang Jiang, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  John B Kim, USFS, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, United States


B101
Smart Farming Enabled by Remotely Sensed Big Data
Primary Convener:  Yun Yang, USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States; University of Maryland College Park, ESSIC, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Martha Anderson, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States, Xiaoyuan Yang, The Climate Corporation San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States and Zhe Zhu, University of Connecticut, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, CT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yun Yang, University of Maryland College Park, ESSIC, College Park, MD, United States; USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States


B102
Soil Carbon Change and Persistence in the Anthropocene
Primary Convener:  Kate Lajtha, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Marc G Kramer, Washington State University Vancouver, School of the Environment, Vancouver, WA, United States and Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kate Lajtha, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States


B111
The Global Methane Cycle
Primary Convener:  Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Marielle Saunois1, Benjamin Poulter2 and Philippe Bousquet1, (1)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France(2)NASA GSFC, Biospheric Science, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States


B116
Tree drought stress and mortality: the interplay of climate, physiology, hydrology, and lithology
Primary Convener:  Xiaojuan Liu, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Henry D Adams, Oklahoma State University, Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, Stillwater, OK, United States, Alexander J. Turner, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Leander DL Anderegg, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xiaojuan Liu, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States


B121
Uncovering past and present biodiversity using ancient and environmental DNA from sediments
Primary Convener:  Sarah E Crump, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Trisha L Spanbauer, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Integrative Biology, Austin, TX, United States, Rachel Meyer, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Mikkel Winther Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, The Lundbeck Foundation Centre for GeoGenetics, Copenhagen, Denmark
Primary Liaison:  Sarah E Crump, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States


B123
Understanding past, present, and future peatland responses to natural and anthropogenic drivers of change
Primary Convener:  Julie Loisel, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
Conveners:  Sarah A Finkelstein, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and Zicheng Yu, Lehigh University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Julie Loisel, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States


B124
Understanding Phenological Responses and Feedbacks in Terrestrial Vegetation: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Consequences
Primary Convener:  Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Xiangtao Xu, Harvard University, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Theresa M Crimmins, USA National Phenology Network, Tucson, AZ, United States and William Walter Hargrove, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


B129
Vulnerability of soil organic carbon stocks and persistence in a warming world
Primary Convener:  Chabbi Abad, INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Paris Cedex 07, France
Conveners:  Johannes Lehmann, Cornell University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, Caitlin Hicks Pries, Dartmouth College, Department of Biological Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States; Dartmouth College Life Sciences Center, room 349 78, Hanover, NH, United States and Cornelia Rumpel, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France
Primary Liaison:  Marie-France Dignac, INRA, Paris, France


C002
Advances in ice sheet-ocean Interactions: From measurement to climate impacts
Primary Convener:  Thomas W. K. Armitage, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Anna Hogg, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Fiammetta Straneo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Pierre Dutrieux, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Ocean and Climate Physics, Palisades, United States
Primary Liaison:  Thomas W. K. Armitage, University College London, London, United Kingdom


C017
High Mountain Asia’s Cryosphere: Collaborative research to address climate, hydrology, geodynamics and hazards
Primary Convener:  Umesh K Haritashya, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, United States
Conveners:  Sarah B Kapnick, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Kimberly Casey, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Jeffrey S Kargel, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Umesh K Haritashya, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, United States


C026
Observations, interactions, and implications of permafrost systems in transition
Primary Convener:  Sarah G. Evans, Appalachian State University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Boone, NC, United States
Conveners:  Melissa Karine Ward, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Matthias Fuchs, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany and Cathy Jean Wilson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sarah G. Evans, Appalachian State University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Boone, NC, United States


C031
Quantifying Spatial and Temporal Variability of Snow and Snow Processes
Primary Convener:  Jeffrey S Deems, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States and Ernesto Trujillo, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jeffrey S Deems, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States


C032
Recent Advances in Monitoring, Measuring, and Modeling Snow Processes
Primary Convener:  Andrew R Hedrick, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
Conveners:  Danny G Marks, Scott Havens and Ernesto Trujillo, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
Primary Liaison:  Andrew R Hedrick, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States


ED017
Climate Literacy: Inspiring Student and Public Action Through Effective Science/Arts/Sustainability Engagement
Primary Convener:  Patrick Chandler, The Washed Ashore Project, Bandon, CO, United States
Conveners:  Marda Kirn, EcoArts Connections, Boulder, CO, United States, David Joseph Oonk, CIRES/CU Boulder-Rsrch Lab 2, Boulder, CO, United States and James A Brey, American Meteorological Society, Education Program, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Patrick Chandler, University of Colorado at Boulder, Environmental Studies, Boulder, CO, United States


ED019
Creating Authentic STEM Experiences in Schools to Meet the Challenges Facing our Planet
Primary Convener:  Diana Lynne Ibarra, Independent Schools Foundation Academy, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Convener:  Malcolm Pritchard, The ISF Academy, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Primary Liaison:  Diana Lynne Ibarra, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States


ED032
Getting to scale and impact in climate education and communication for action
Primary Convener:  James M Byrne, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Conveners:  Frank Niepold III, NOAA Washington DC, Climate Program Office, Washington, DC, United States and Juliette N Rooney-varga, UMass Lowell, Climate Change Initiative, Lowell, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  James M Byrne, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada


ED036
Integrating the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine.
Primary Convener:  Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI), Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Conveners:  Mary Beth Leigh, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Ashley Bear, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, DC, United States and Maryrose Flanigan, University of Michigan, Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), Ann Arbor, United States
Primary Liaison:  Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States


GH001
AGU-AMS Joint Session on GeoHealth Risks: Detection to Attribution to Action
Primary Convener:  Mark Mocettini Shimamoto, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Convener:  Kristie Ebi, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mark Mocettini Shimamoto, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States


GH002
Assessment of Global Climate Variability and Hydroclimatological Processes on Infectious Diseases
Primary Convener:  Moiz Usmani, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
Conveners:  Jesse Eugene Bell, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellite North Carolina State, Asheville, NC, United States and Thanh H Nguyen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Moiz Usmani, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States


GH006
Differential Health Impacts of Heat Extremes on Individuals and Communities
Primary Convener:  Kristina Dahl, Union of Concerned Scientists Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Rupa Basu, California Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Oakland, United States, Juan Declet-Barreto, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Adrienne Hollis, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kristina Dahl, Union of Concerned Scientists Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


GH010
Extreme Heat: Vulnerability and Risk assessment, Exposure quantification, and Policy implications regarding the adverse effect of extreme heat on health, economy, and natural resources
Primary Convener:  Mohammadhassan Mohegh, George Washington University, Public Health, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  David Sailor, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States and George A Ban-Weiss, University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mohammadhassan Mohegh, George Washington University, Public Health, Washington, DC, United States


H004
Advances in African Hydrology and Climatology: Observations, Modelling and Sustainable Water Management
Primary Convener:  Tess A Russo, Global Good, Global Development Technologies, Copenhagen, Denmark
Conveners:  Feyera A Hirpa, University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, Yihun Dile, Spatial Sciences Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station, FL, United States and Peter Burek, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Primary Liaison:  Tess A Russo, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States


H011
Advances in Models, Algorithms, and Data Observation in Hydrology and Water Energy System Operation
Primary Convener:  Tiantian Yang, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
Conveners:  Chiyuan Miao, Beijing Normal University, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing, China, Xiaomang Liu, IGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China and Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States; UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tiantian Yang, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States


H036
Co-management of Floods and Droughts under Climate Change
Primary Convener:  Patrick A Ray, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Conveners:  Sungwook Wi, University of Massachusetts, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, John R. Kucharski, US Army Corps of Engineers, Hydrologic Engineering Center, Davis, CA, United States and Scott Steinschneider, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  John R. Kucharski, US Army Corps of Engineers, Hydrologic Engineering Center, Davis, CA, United States


H041
Data in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Primary Convener:  Meghna Babbar-Sebens, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Samuel J. Rivera, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Ashlynn S. Stillwell, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States and Ali Mirchi, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, United States
Primary Liaison:  Samuel J. Rivera, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States


H070
Groundwater Temperatures in a Changing World– an Overlooked Potential for Shallow Geothermal Energy?
Primary Convener:  Susanne Benz, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jannis Epting, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Enric Vázquez-Suñé, GHS (CSIC), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain and Barret Kurylyk, Dalhousie Univeristy, Civil and Resource Engineering, Halifax, NS, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Susanne Benz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Division of Engineering Geology, Karlsruhe, Germany


H081
Hydrology, Society, and Environmental Change: Convergent Approaches to Human–Water Interactions
Primary Convener:  Maura Allaire, University of California Irvine, Urban Planning and Public Policy, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners:  Giuliano Di Baldassarre, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water, Delft, Netherlands, Hilary K McMillan, NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand and Murugesu Sivapalan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Maura Allaire, University of California Irvine, Urban Planning and Public Policy, Irvine, CA, United States


H082
Blue and Green Water in the Mountains: Water Supply, Extreme Events, and Ecological Responses in Snow and Glacier-fed Catchments
Primary Convener:  Keith N Musselman, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Lara M Kueppers, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States, Jia Hu, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States and Kendra Elena Kaiser, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States
Primary Liaison:  Keith N Musselman, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States


H083
Water & Society: Dynamics and sustainability of multiscalar human-water systems
Primary Convener:  Landon Marston, Kansas State University, Civil Engineering, Manhattan, KS, United States
Convener:  Kyle Frankel Davis, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Landon Marston, Kansas State University, Civil Engineering, Manhattan, KS, United States


H106
Planning, Implementing, and Incorporating Alternative Water Sources at Watershed Scale (from Theory to Practice)
Primary Convener:  Masoud Negahban-Azar, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Manashi Paul, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Hubert J Montas, Univ Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Masoud Negahban-Azar, University of Maryland College Park, Environmental Science and Technology, College Park, MD, United States


H126
Statistical Methods for Modeling Changes in Flood Characteristics: Novel Approaches and Comparisons
Primary Convener:  Jory S Hecht, University of Vermont, Vermont EPSCoR, Burlington, VT, United States
Conveners:  Stacey A Archfield, US Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States and Karen R Ryberg, USGS Dakota Water Science Center, Bismarck, ND, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jory S Hecht, University of Vermont, Vermont EPSCoR, Burlington, VT, United States


H128
Groundwater – Climate Interactions
Primary Convener:  Min-Hui Lo, National Taiwan University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan
Conveners:  Agnes Ducharne, Sorbonne University, Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, Environment, transfers and interactions in soils and water bodies, Paris, France, Yoshihide Wada, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria and Thomas P Gleeson, University of Victoria, Department of Civil Engineering and School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Min-Hui Lo, National Taiwan University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan


H133
The role of information systems in adapting to achieve sustainable environmental, food, energy, and water systems
Primary Convener:  Mary C Hill, University of Kansas, Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States
Conveners:  Deborah Khider, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Chad W Higgins, Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States and Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Deborah Khider, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States


H146
Water and Society: Water Resources Management and Policy in a Changing World
Primary Convener:  Joseph R Kasprzyk, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Katherine Schlef, Western New England University, Springfield, MA, United States, Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joseph R Kasprzyk, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States


H151
Water, land, environment and people
Primary Convener:  Yongping Wei, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
Conveners:  Dhanya C.T, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Civil Engineering, New Delhi, India and Bojie Fu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China
Primary Liaison:  Yongping Wei, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia


IN045
Terra@20:  Data System Evolution to Advance Climate Research
Primary Convener:  Jeanne Behnke, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Chris Doescher, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Daniel Ziskin, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Amanda Leon, National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jeanne Behnke, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States


IN051
Who's at Risk? Assessing Population and Infrastructure Exposure and Vulnerability for Hazard, Climate, and Health Applications
Primary Convener:  Robert S Chen, Columbia University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Andrea E Gaughan, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States, Charles K Huyck, ImageCat, Inc., Long Beach, CA, United States and Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Robert S Chen, Columbia University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, NY, United States


NH006
Big Data for Big Disasters: The solutions and shortcomings of relying on technology to solve global disaster problems
Primary Convener:  Jacqueline Ratner, Columbia University Earth Institute, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, New York, NY, United States
Conveners:  Diana Zamora-Reyes, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, Paula R Buchanan, Jacksonville State University, Department of Emergency Management, Jacksonville, AL, United States and Kimberly Wood, Mississippi State University, Department of Geosciences, Mississippi State, MS, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jacqueline Ratner, Columbia University Earth Institute, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, New York, NY, United States


NH014
Conflict and Disaster
Primary Convener:  Peter R Sammonds, University College London, Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, London, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Mirian Orcutt, University College London (UCL), Institute for Global Health, London, United Kingdom, Bayes Ahmed, University College London (UCL), Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, London, United Kingdom and Punam Yadav, University College London, IRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster, London, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Bayes Ahmed, University College London (UCL), Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, London, United Kingdom


NH015
Using Earth Observations and Imagery Analysis For Risk and Resilience Assessment, Risk Communication, and Response and Recovery Monitoring
Primary Convener:  Bandana Kar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Convener:  Margaret T Glasscoe, JPL-Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  ZhiQiang Chen, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States


NH017
Environmental monitoring and future risk planning through data driven applications and high performance computing.
Primary Convener:  Elena Sava, US Army Corps of Engineers Geospatial Research Laboratory, Alexandria, VA, United States
Conveners:  Kimberley Rain Miner, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States; USACE-ERDC GRL, Geospatial Research Lab, Alexandria, VA, United States and Walter Beckwith, American Association for the Advancement of Science Washington DC, Washington, United States
Primary Liaison:  Laura Clemente-Harding, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States; US Army Corps of Engineers Geospatial Research Laboratory, Alexandria, VA, United States


NH032
Natural Hazards and Climate Change: Relation, Vulnerability, Implications, and Adaptation
Primary Convener:  Racha Elkadiri, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, United States
Conveners:  Henrique Momm, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, United States, Joe Dan Collins Jr, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States and Abotalib Z. A Farag, Western Michigan Univiversity, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Kalamazoo, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Racha Elkadiri, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, United States


OS003
Advances in Seafloor Instrumentation
Primary Convener:  Charlotte A Rowe, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Bruce M Howe, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, Susan L Bilek, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States and Jerome Aucan, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiale (LEGOS), Nouméa, New Caledonia
Primary Liaison:  Charlotte A Rowe, Los Alamos National Laboratory - LANL, Earth and Environmental Science, Los Alamos, NM, United States


OS017
Groundwater beneath the seafloor – A sustainable resource?
Primary Convener:  Bradley Weymer, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Conveners:  Mark Austin Person, New Mexico Tech, Earth & Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States and Heike Simon, University of Oldenburg, ICBM-MPI Bridging Group for Marine Geochemistry, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Oldenburg, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Bradley Weymer, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany


OS021
Linkages Between the Arctic Ocean and the Earth Energy Imbalance
Primary Convener:  Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States
Conveners:  Robert Osinski, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland and Younjoo Lee, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States


PA004
Advancing the science of science to action
Primary Convener:  James C Arnott, Aspen Global Change Institute, Washington, DC, United States
Convener:  Richard H Moss, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  James C Arnott, Aspen Global Change Institute, Washington, DC, United States


PA005
Aligning U.S. Energy Policy with a 1.5°C Climate Limit: How to Design and Manage a Fossil Fuel Extraction Phase-out and an Equitable Energy Transition
Primary Convener:  Shaye G Wolf, Center for Biological Diversity, San Francisco, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jessica Koski, Stockholm Environment Institute, Seattle, WA, United States and Rebecca R Hernandez, University of California - Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Shaye G Wolf, Center for Biological Diversity, San Francisco, CA, United States


PA010
Climate Coasts: Extreme Events, Sea Level Rise and Dynamic Coastal Risk Management
Primary Convener:  Daniel Bader, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Alexander M de Sherbinin, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Palisades, NY, United States and William Duncan Solecki, City University of New York - Hunter College, Geography and Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Daniel Bader, Columbia University, CCSR, New York, NY, United States


PA012
Communicating with and educating the public, policy makers, practitioners and students about climate change
Primary Convener:  Kelly Klima, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, United States
Conveners:  Michelle Miro, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Sarah B Kapnick, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Aisha Najera Chesler, RAND Corporation Santa Monica, EAS, Santa Monica, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kelly Klima, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, United States


PA016
Critical Mineral Resources and the Green Tech Revolution: Criticality and Critical Materials in the Next Generation of Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Technologies
Primary Convener:  Simon Martin Jowitt, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Department of Geoscience, Las Vegas, NV, United States
Conveners:  Stuart Walsh, Monash University, Department of Civil Engineering, Melbourne, Australia and Zhehan Weng, RMIT University, Environmental Engineering, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Simon Martin Jowitt, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Department of Geoscience, Las Vegas, NV, United States


PA020
Enhancing the value proposition of hydro-meteorological forecasts to inform multi-sectoral decision making.
Primary Convener:  Nathalie Voisin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Andy Wood, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Maria-Helena Ramos, IRSTEA, HYCAR, Antony, France and Andrea J Ray, NOAA/Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nathalie Voisin, PNNL, Seattle, WA, United States


PA025
Geoengineering Governance: Democratizing Decision-making
Primary Convener:  Mahmud Farooque, Arizona State University, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Tempe, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Ariel D Anbar, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, Daniel Sarewitz, Arizona State University, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Tempe, AZ, United States and Timiebi Uyu Aganaba-Jeanty, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Timiebi Uyu Aganaba-Jeanty, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States


PA026
Geoscience and Sustainability at the Grassroots Level: Building on the 2019 Geoscience and Society Summit
Primary Convener:  Greg Wessel, Geology in the Public Interest, Vashon, WA, United States
Conveners:  Katherine S White, GSA, Washington, DC, United States and Mark Mocettini Shimamoto, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mark Mocettini Shimamoto, US Global Change Research Program, Health Lead (Contractor), Washington D.C., DC, United States


PA033
Mines and Mining Environments: research contributions to value mining resources responsibly
Primary Convener:  David Baratoux, French Research Insitute for Sustainable Development, Geosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Conveners:  Fabrice Colin, French Research Institute for Sustainable Development, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France, Ernest Kouassi Ahoussi, University Felix Houphouët-Boigny, UFR Sciences de la Terre et des Ressources Minérales, Abidjan, Côte D'ivoire and Gayane Faye, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Dakar, Senegal
Primary Liaison:  David Baratoux, French Research Insitute for Sustainable Development, Geosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France


PA040
Optimizing natural hazard risk assessment: a showcase of how utilizing decision and risk analysis methods from other sectors can help improve natural hazard planning
Primary Convener:  Dina Abdel-Fattah, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Convener:  Sarah Trainor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dina Abdel-Fattah, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States


PA042
Planning for sustainable water futures in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond
Primary Convener:  Se Jong Cho, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Convener:  Pamela Collins, Conservation International, Arlington, United States
Primary Liaison:  Se Jong Cho, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States


PA049
Science to Action: Communication of Science - Practice, Research and Reflection
Primary Convener:  Heidi A Roop, University of Washington, Climate Impacts Group, Seattle, United States
Conveners:  Samuel Michael Illingworth, Manchester Metropolitan University, School of Science and the Environment, Manchester, United Kingdom, Kristin Timm, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States; George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States and John Cook, George Mason University, Center for Climate Change Communication, Fairfax, United States
Primary Liaison:  Heidi A Roop, University of Washington, Climate Impacts Group, Seattle, United States


PA054
Science to Action: Programmatic Approaches that Enable Connections, and Maybe a Few War Stories
Primary Convener:  Lawrence Friedl, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States
Convener:  Erica Goldman, NCSE, National Council for Science and the Environment, Science Policy, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lawrence Friedl, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States


PA056
Science to Action: Transformative partnerships to advance decision-relevant science
Primary Convener:  Julian J Reyes, USDA Southwest Climate Hub, ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Convener:  Melissa Varga, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Julian J Reyes, USDA Southwest Climate Hub, ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, NM, United States


PA057
Scientist Citizens:  Shaping Science-Informed Policy
Primary Convener:  Kendra Zamzow, Engineers & Scientists Acting Locally, Alaska lead, Chickaloon, AK, United States
Convener:  Melissa Varga, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Arti Garg, Engineers & Scientists Acting Locally, Founder, Hayward, CA, United States


PP019
How Greenhouse Climates Worked in the Past: What We are Learning About Climate Change from Studying the Miocene
Primary Convener:  Matt Huber, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Conveners:  Yige Zhang, Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT, United States and Francesca Sangiorgi, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Matt Huber, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States


PP021
Interpretation of paleoenvironmental proxies: diagnosing diagenesis and assessing proxy reliability
Primary Convener:  Anastasia Yanchilina, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Conveners:  Jordan Wostbrock, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Vanessa Fichtner, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States and Julie Griffin, Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Anastasia Yanchilina, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel


PP026
Orbital Forcing of Climate and the mid-Pleistocene Transition
Primary Convener:  Eivind Olavson Straume, CEED, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Conveners:  Anne L. Moree, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu, University of Bergen and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway and Geoffrey Gebbie, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu, University of Bergen and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway


PP028
Paleoclimatic and Tectonic Evolution of the Southern High-Latitudes Since the Mid-Mesozoic
Primary Convener:  Tracy M Quan, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Boone Pickens School of Geology, Stillwater, OK, United States
Conveners:  Matthew Jones, University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Carmine Wainman, The University of Adelaide, Australian School of Petroleum, Adelaide, Australia and Lloyd T White, University of Wollongong, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Tracy M Quan, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Boone Pickens School of Geology, Stillwater, OK, United States


U009
Data Analytics and Machine Learning Innovation for Climate and Earth Surface Processes
Primary Convener:  Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners:  James Tremper Randerson, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Jean Braun, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany and Alejandro Tejedor, University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States; Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States


U020
WCRP-Progress in Earth system Climate Science and Predictions by USGCRP
Primary Convener:  Annarita Mariotti, NOAA Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Conveners:  Jin Huang, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD, United States, Renu Joseph, US Department of Energy, Germantown, MD, United States and David B Considine, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Annarita Mariotti, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States


U022
World Climate Research Programme - Climate Research for the 21st Century: from Challenges and Opportunities to Implementation
Primary Convener:  Rixen Michel, World Meteorological Organization, World Climate Research Programme, Geneva, Switzerland
Conveners:  Detlef Stammer, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany and Pavel Kabat, World Meteorological Organization, World Climate Research Programme, Geneva, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Rixen Michel, World Meteorological Organization, World Climate Research Programme, Geneva, Switzerland