AGU Fall Meeting 2020: Town Halls

Town Halls

Tuesday, 1 December 2020

07:00-08:00

TH001

Open Science from Behind Closed Doors: Tools and Techniques for Advanced Research with Widely Distributed Teams

Conveners: Fernando Perez, University of California, Berkeley, Statistics, Berkeley, CA, United States, Sang-Heon Shim, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States and Robyn Schofield, University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Primary Contact: Louis Noel Moresi, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia; Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Moderator: Rebecca Farrington, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

TH002

SWOT Invites the Science Community to Join the Postlaunch in Situ Field Campaigns

Primary Contact: Jinbo Wang, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Presenters: Lee-Lueng Fu, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Francesco d'Ovidio, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France

TH003

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) in the AGU Hydrology Community and Beyond

Primary Contact: Danyka K Byrnes, University of Waterloo, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Moderators: Scott Tyler, University of Nevada, Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States, Ana Paula Barros, Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, United States, Charles H Luce, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, ID, United States, Margaret Fraiser, American Geophysical Union, Washington, United States, Holly R Barnard, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography, Boulder, CO, United States, G. H. Crystal Ng, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Department of Earth Science, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Katarena Matos, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, Julianne MS Davis, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States, Thomas J Glose, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States and Irene Garousi Nejad, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States

Presenters: Charles H Luce, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, ID, United States, Margaret Fraiser, American Geophysical Union, Washington, United States, Katarena Matos, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, Holly R Barnard, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography, Boulder, CO, United States, G. H. Crystal Ng, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Department of Earth Science, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Ana Paula Barros, Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, United States, Danyka K Byrnes, University of Waterloo, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Julianne MS Davis, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States, Irene Garousi Nejad, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States and Thomas J Glose, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States

10:30-11:30

TH004

Collaborate with a DOE User Facility: Learn About Available Expertise and Resources, Open Call Opportunities, and Important Tips for Submitting Successful Proposals

Conveners: Rolanda Jundt, ARM - Atmospheric Radiation Measurement, Richland, WA, United States; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and David Gilbert, JGI - Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, United States; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States

Primary Contact: Linda Isakson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States; EMSL - the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States

Moderator: Linda Isakson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States

Presenters: Paquita Zuidema, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, Davinia Salvachua, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States, Mikayla Borton, Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Sharlene Weatherwax, Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research program, Washington D.C., DC, United States and Jeffrey Blanchard, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States

TH005

NASA ICESat-2 Applications Town Hall

Primary Contact: Sabrina Delgado Arias, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Moderators: Michael F Jasinski, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Molly Elizabeth Brown, University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Sabrina Delgado Arias, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. - NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States

Presenters: Christopher E Parrish, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Birgit Peterson, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Richard Allard, Naval Research Lab, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Michael Wethington, Stony Brook University, Lynch Lab for Quantitative Ecology, Stony Brook, NY, United States

16:00-17:00

TH007

Toward a Vision for a National Ocean Exploration Program: Outcomes from the Workshop to Identify National Ocean Exploration Priorities in the Pacific

Primary Contact: Adrienne Copeland, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States

Moderator: Kristen Yarincik, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Washington, DC, United States

Presenters: Alan P Leonardi, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Eric King, Schmidt Ocean Institute, Palo Alto, CA, United States, Amanda W Demopoulos, US Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Gainesville, FL, United States, David Millar, Fugro USA Marine, Inc, Houston, TX, United States, Nicole Raineault, Ocean Exploration Trust, Narragansett, RI, United States and Ramsay Taum, Pacific Island Leadership Institute (PILI) at Hawaii Pacific University (HPU), Honolulu, HI, United States

Wednesday, 2 December 2020

07:00-08:00

TH008

NOAA's Unified Forecast System Research to Operations Project

Primary Contact: Dorothy M Koch, NOAA NWS, Silver Spring, MD, United States

Moderators: Yan Xue, NOAA/NWS/OSTI, Office of Science and Technology Integration, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Maoyi Huang, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Science and Technology Integration, Silver Spring, MD, United States

Presenters: Dorothy M Koch, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States

TH009

Where Do We Go from Here? The 2020 Election

Primary Contact: Brittany Webster, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States

Moderator: Brittany Webster, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States

Presenters: Julia Jester, Association of American Universities, Washinton, United States, Lucky Tran, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States and Gredia Huerta-Montanez, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, San Juan, PR, United States

TH010

Full Steam Ahead: The Surface Ocean–Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) Midterm Course Correction

Primary Contact: Lisa Ann Miller, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada

Moderators: Lisa Ann Miller, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada, Jessica Gier, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Santiago Gassó, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Peter J Minnett, University of Miami, RSMAS, Department of Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States and Parvadha Suntharalingam, University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, United Kingdom

Presenters: Santiago Gassó, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Peter J Minnett, University of Miami, RSMAS, Department of Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States and Parvadha Suntharalingam, University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, United Kingdom

TH011

Science and Deployment Plan for the DOE Third Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Mobile Facility: Coupled Observational–Modeling Studies of Land–Aerosol–Cloud Interactions in the Southeastern United States

Primary Contact: Chongai Kuang, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, NY, United States

Presenters: Scott E Giangrande, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States and Shawn Serbin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, NY, United States

10:30-11:30

TH012

How Are We Doing and What Comes Next? Results from the ADVANCEGeo Survey of Work Experiences Across Earth and Space Sciences

Primary Contact: Billy M Williams, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States

Moderator: Erika Marin-Spiotta, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States

Presenter: Blair Schneider, University of Kansas, Center for STEM Learning; Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States

TH013

The Fifth National Climate Assessment Town Hall: Updates and Opportunities for Participation

Primary Contact: Christopher William Avery, US Global Change Research Program, Contractor, Washington D.C., DC, United States

Moderator: Allyza Lustig, US Global Change Research Program, Contractor, Washington D.C., DC, United States

Presenter: Elizabeth C Weatherhead, US Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, United States

TH014

NASA SMD PI Workshop

Planner: Erika T Hamden, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States

OSPA Liaison: Erika T Hamden, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States

Primary Contact: Erika T Hamden, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States

Presenters: Erika T Hamden, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Michael Warren Liemohn, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Ellen Gertsen, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States

16:00-17:00

TH016

NASA Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics Focus Area Town Hall

Primary Contact: Aaron J Piña, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States

Presenters: Aaron J Piña¹, Gail Skofronick Jackson¹ and Tsengdar J Lee², (1)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States(2)NASA, Burke, VA, United States

Thursday, 3 December 2020

07:00-08:00

TH018

NASA ICESat-2 Mission Status and Highlights

Primary Contact: Lori A Magruder, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States

Presenters: Tom Neumann¹, Nathan T Kurtz¹ and Thorsten Markus², (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States

TH019

Decadal Survey Surface Topography and Vegetation Incubation Study Town Hall

Primary Contact: David J Harding, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Moderators: Andrea Donnellan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and David J Harding, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

TH020

USGEO: Engaging the Earth Observations Enterprise

Primary Contact: Lawrence Friedl, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States

Moderator: Lawrence Friedl, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States

Presenters: Lawrence Friedl, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Shaima L Nasiri, Department of Energy, Washington, DC, United States, Dana Ostrenga, NOAA Headquarters, NESDIS ACIO Data Management Architect, Baltimore, MD, United States, Angelica Gutierrez-Magness, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Water Prediction, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Barbara Ransom, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA, United States, Timothy R Newman, USGS National Land Imaging Program, Reston, VA, United States, Wade Price, NOAA Washington DC, Washington, United States, Zdenka Willis, NASA/BAH contr, Wahington DC, United States and Greg Snyder, USGS HQs, Reston, VA, United States

10:30-11:30

TH021

Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) Town Hall

Primary Contact: Ian G Fenty, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States

Moderators: Ichiro Fukumori, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Patrick Heimbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

Presenter: Ian G Fenty, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States

TH022

Connect with NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

Primary Contact: Andrew Allegra, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Silver Spring, MD, United States

Presenters: Mary Stanford Wohlgemuth, National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, United States, Monica Youngman, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, United States, Stephanie Herring, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Eric A Kihn, National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States

TH023

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About SEA Change Departmental Awards, but Were Afraid to Ask: Why and How to Participate

Primary Contact: Billy M Williams, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States

Moderator: Petra Dekens, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States

Presenters: Mary Anne Holmes, Univ Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States and Margaret Fraiser, American Geophysical Union, Washington, United States

16:00-17:00

TH024

DOE’s Research in Multisector Dynamics: Emerging Field, Opportunities, and Connections Within Earth and Environmental Systems Science

Primary Contact: Robert Vallario, Department of Energy, Washington, DC, United States

Presenters: Gerald L Geernaert¹, Xujing Davis², Patrick M Reed³, Dave Judi⁴, Jennie Rice⁴ and Jennifer F Morris⁵, (1)Department of Energy, Washington, DC, United States(2)U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Germantown, MD, United States(3)Cornell University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States(4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States(5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Cambridge, MA, United States

TH025

The Inouye Solar Telescope: Start of Operations

Primary Contact: Thomas R. Rimmele, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ, United States

Presenters: Thomas R. Rimmele, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ, United States, Mark Rast, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Alexandra Tritschler, National Solar Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States

TH026

Women Leadership in Ocean Science and Technology

Primary Contact: Liesl A Hotaling, Eidos Education/Marine Technology Society, Highlands, NJ, United States

Moderators: Marie C Colton, NOAA, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Zdenka Willis, NASA/BAH contr, Wahington DC, United States

Presenters: Samantha B Joye, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States, Jyotika I Virmani, Schmidt Ocean Institute, Palo Alto, CA, United States, Margaret Leinen, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Kenneth M. Bailey, NOAA, Civil Rights Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States

Friday, 4 December 2020

07:00-08:00

TH027

What Do I Need to Know About Data Journals?

Primary Contact: Kirsten Elger, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Library and Information Services, Potsdam, Germany

Moderator: David J Carlson, CarlsonWorks, Boulder, CO, United States

Presenters: Peter Arthur Fox, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tetherless World Constellation, Troy, NY, United States and Andrew Lee Hufton, Nature Publishing Group, London, United Kingdom

TH028

The Present and Future of NASA’s Citizen Science Program

Primary Contact: Louis Matthew Barbier, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States

Presenters: Elizabeth A McDonald, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, James L Green, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, United States, Marc Jason Kuchner, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Maria Magdalena Santos, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Robert Zellem, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Ved Chirayath, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States

TH030

Reflections and Recommendations on Developing an Institution-Specific DEI Action Plan

Primary Contacts: Billy M Williams, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States and Benjamin Fernando, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Moderator: Benjamin Fernando, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Presenters: Billy M Williams¹, Pranoti M. Asher¹, Natasha Stephen², Conall Mac Niocaill³ and Rebecca Colquhoun⁴, (1)American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States(2)The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom(3)University of Oxford, Earth Science, Oxford, United Kingdom(4)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

10:30-11:30

TH031

Status Report on the National Academies' Decadal Survey on Planetary Science and Astrobiology

Primary Contact: David H Smith, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Space Studies Board, Washington, United States

Moderator: Colleen Hartman, US National Research Council of the National Academies, NASEM/NRC, Washington, DC, United States

Presenter: David H Smith, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Space Studies Board, Washington, United States

TH032

Navigating an Academic Career: Tips, Stories, and Strategies on How to Land a Faculty Position

Primary Contact: Leila Saberi, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Moderators: Leila Saberi, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Julia Guimond, University of Delaware, Civil and Resource Engineering, Halifax, NS, Canada, Thomas J Glose, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States and Julianne MS Davis, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States

Presenters: Jesus D Gomez-Velez, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, Adam S Ward, Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, IN, United States, Christa Kelleher, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States, Mason Stahl, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Holly R Barnard, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography, Boulder, CO, United States

16:00-17:00

TH033

Navigating a Nonacademic Research Career: Gain Tips and Insights on How to Stand Out from the Crowd

Primary Contact: Irene Garousi Nejad, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States

Moderators: Leila Saberi, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Brian Redder, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Bahram Khazaei, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States

Presenters: Irene Garousi Nejad, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, Apoorva R Shastry, Universities Space Research Association Moffett Field, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Mahkameh Zarekarizi, Jupiter Intelligence, San Mateo, PA, United States, Newsha Ajami, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States, Anthony Castronova, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc., Cambridge, United States, Joel A Biederman, USDA-ARS, Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, AZ, United States, David J Gochis, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Leila Saberi, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Brian Redder, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Bahram Khazaei, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States

TH035

AGU Strategic Plan

Primary Contact: Brooks Hanson, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States

Moderators: Brooks Hanson, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States and Janice Lachance, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States

Presenters: Brooks Hanson, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States and Janice Lachance, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States

Monday, 7 December 2020

10:30-11:30

TH036

EarthCube: A Community-Driven Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences—A Progress Report

Primary Contact: Christine Kirkpatrick, La Jolla, Ca, UNITED STATES

Presenters: Eva E Zanzerkia, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States and Michael D Daniels, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Earth Observing Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States

TH037

COMPRES: Future Directions for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences

Primary Contact: Carl B Agee, Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States

Moderators: Andrew Campbell, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States and Carl B Agee, Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States

Presenters: Carl B Agee, Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Andrew Campbell, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

TH038

Hydrologic Sciences Meeting 2022: Updates and Community Input

Primary Contact: Scott Tyler, University of Nevada Reno, Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States

Moderator: Jerad Bales, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Washington, DC, United States

Presenters: Scott Tyler, University of Nevada, Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States, Jerad Bales, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Washington, DC, United States, Bart Nijssen, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, Alex S Mayer, Michigan Technological University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houghton, MI, United States, Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Bailey J. Anderson, University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, Jeanne VanBriesen, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Sandra M. Guzman, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, AL, United States, Chinedum Eluwa, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States and Ana Paula Barros, Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, United States

16:00-17:00

TH039

The Greenhouse Gas Earth Emergency: The Legacy of Many Now-Unavoidable Earth System and Human System Impacts

Primary Contact: Peter Carter, Climate Emergency Institute, Washington, DC, United States

Moderator: Peter Carter, Climate Emergency Institute, Washington, DC, United States

Presenters: Peter Carter, Climate Emergency Institute, Washington, DC, United States and Reese Halter, Climate Emergency Institute, Arcata, CA, United States

TH040

Soils in the Anthropocene: The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative—Paving the Way Toward a Soil Biodiversity Observation Network (Soil BON)

Primary Contact: Monica Farfan, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO, UNITED STATES

Moderator: André Franco, Colorado State University, Department of Biology, Fort Collins, CO, United States

Presenters: Carlos A Guerra, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Erin Cameron, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada, Diana H Wall, Colorado State University, Department of Biology and School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Elizabeth M Bach, The Nature Conservancy, Nachusa Grasslands, Franklin Grove, IL, United States

TH041

Operationalizing the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance in Open-Data and Open-Science Environments

Primary Contact: Stephanie Carroll, University of Arizona, Native Nations Institute and College of Public Health, Tucson, AZ, United States

Moderators: Stephanie Carroll, University of Arizona, Native Nations Institute and College of Public Health, Tucson, AZ, United States and Maui Hudson, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Presenters: Stephanie Carroll¹, Maui Hudson², Shelley Stall³, Andrew Martinez⁴, Mary Elizabeth Jager⁵ and Lydia L L Jennings⁴, (1)University of Arizona, Native Nations Institute and College of Public Health, Tucson, AZ, United States(2)University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand(3)American Geophysical Union, Data Leadership, Washington, DC, United States(4)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States(5)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States

Tuesday, 8 December 2020

07:00-08:00

TH044

AmeriFlux: Bringing People, Ecosystems, and Data Together

Primary Contact: Margaret S Torn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States

Presenters: Deb Agarwal, LBNL, Berkeley, CA, United States, Margaret S Torn, Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Sebastien Biraud, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Trevor F Keenan, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Dario Papale, University of Tuscia, Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest systems (DIBAF), Viterbo, Italy and Daniel B Stover, Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, DC, United States

TH045

NASA’s Decadal Survey Designated Observable Mission Study: Surface Deformation and Change

Primary Contact: Andrew Molthan, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States

Presenters: Paul Rosen¹, Gerald W Bawden², Batuhan Osmanoglu³, Stephen Horst⁴, Jeanne M Sauber³ and Ala Khazendar⁵, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States(2)NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States(3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States(5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

TH046

Ocean Observatories Initiative Facility Board Town Hall

Primary Contact: Annette M DeSilva, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States

Moderator: Kendra L Daly, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States

Presenters: Kendra L Daly, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, Lisa M Clough, National Science Foundation, Division of Ocean Sciences, Washington, DC, United States, Bauke H Houtman, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States, John H Trowbridge, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Brian Stone, Axiom Data Science, Anchorage, AK, United States, Janice D McDonnell, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Youth Development, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Sophie Clayton, Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States

10:30-11:30

TH047

A Vision for NSF Earth Sciences 2020-2030: Earth in Time Town Hall

Primary Contact: Deborah Glickson, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, United States

Presenters: Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Kate Huntington, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Steven L Goldstein, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Scott D King, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Wenlu Zhu, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States, Catherine Johnson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Suzan van der Lee, Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL, United States, M Meghan Miller, UNAVCO, Boulder, CO, United States, Jean-Philippe Avouac, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Xavier Comas, Florida Atlantic University, Geosciences, Boca Raton, FL, United States, Gordon E. Grant, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Scott Tyler, University of Nevada, Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States, Seth Stein, Northwestern University, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States and Ben Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Balitmore, United States

TH048

DOE’s Strategic Development in Coastal Research: Advancing a Coupled Model–Experiment Research Approach in U.S. Coastal Zones

Primary Contact: Daniel B Stover, Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, DC, United States

Moderators: Renu Joseph, US Department of Energy, Germantown, MD, United States, Paul E Bayer, Department of Energy Germantown, Oakton, VA, United States, Robert Vallario, Department of Energy, Washington, DC, United States and Jennifer Saleem Arrigo, Department of Energy Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States

Presenter: Daniel B Stover, Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, DC, United States

TH049

NOAA’s National Water Center: Programmatic Update and Opportunities for Collaboration

Primary Contact: Trey Flowers, NOAA/NWS Office of Water Prediction, National Water Center, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Moderators: Edward P Clark, NOAA, NWS Office of Water Prediction, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Lauren Stewart, NOAA, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and Trey Flowers, NOAA/NWS Office of Water Prediction, National Water Center, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Presenters: Edward P Clark, NOAA, NWS Office of Water Prediction, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Thomas Martin Graziano, NOAA, NWS Office of Water Prediction, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Fred Ogden, NOAA/NWS Office of Water Prediction, National Water Center, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Jane McKee Smith, ERDC, Vicksburg, MS, United States, Ehab Meselhe, Tulane University, Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering, New Orleans, LA, United States, Arthur Austin Raney II, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and Fernando Renzo Salas, NOAA National Weather Service, Office of Water Prediction, Geo-Intelligence Division, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

16:00-17:00

TH050

What's New in NSF Geosciences?

Primary Contact: Scott G Borg, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States

Presenters: William E Easterling, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Scott G Borg, Natl Sci Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States

TH051

The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) ARM Mobile Facility Campaign for Mountainous Hydrology Research

Primary Contact: Daniel Feldman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States

Presenters: Sally A McFarlane¹, L. Ruby Leung², David Gochis³, V. Chandrasekar⁴, Allison C Aiken⁵, Jiwen Fan², Jeffrey S Deems^6,7 and Kenneth Hurst Williams⁸, (1)Department of Energy Germantown, Germantown, MD, United States(2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States(3)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States(4)Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States(5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States(6)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States(7)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States(8)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States

19:00-20:00

TH052

Capacity Building in the Field of SAR Remote Sensing: Comparing Current Training Resources, Tools, and Services to Community Needs

Primary Contact: Franz Josef Meyer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States

Moderators: David S Saah, University of San Francisco, Geospatial Analysis Lab, San Francisco, CA, United States, Andrea Puzzi Nicolau, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, Tyler Erickson, Google, Earth Outreach, Mountain View, CA, United States and Franz Josef Meyer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States

Presenters: David S Saah, University of San Francisco, Geospatial Analysis Lab, San Francisco, CA, United States, Tyler Erickson, Google, Earth Outreach, Mountain View, CA, United States and Franz Josef Meyer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States

Wednesday, 9 December 2020

07:00-08:00

TH053

Ocean Intelligence in the Blue Economy

Primary Contact: Kate Moran, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

Moderator: Allison Fundis, Ocean Exploration Trust, Narragansett, RI, United States

Presenters: Robert D. Ballard¹, Benoit Pirenne² and Kate Moran², (1)Ocean Exploration Trust, Narragansett, RI, United States(2)Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada

TH076

U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Interagency Working Group on Integrated Observations Celebrates 30 Years of Agency Observations

Primary Contact: Diane Stanitski, NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States

Moderators: Diane Stanitski, NOAA, ESRL Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Sally A McFarlane, Department of Energy Germantown, Germantown, MD, United States and Barry L Lefer, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States

Presenters: James H Crawford, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Olga V. Kalashnikova, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Gregory J Frost, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories, Boulder, CO, United States, Ravan Ahmadov, NOAA ESRL/CSL, Boulder, CO, United States, Jessica L McCarty, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States, Carlos R Mechoso, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Chris W Fairall, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Christopher S. Bretherton, Vulcan, Inc., Climate Modeling, Seattle, WA, United States, Yangang Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, Rene Garreaud, University of Chile, Departamento de Geofísica y Centro de Ciencia del Clima y la Resiliencia (CR2), Santiago, Chile and Monika Kopacz, NOAA Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States

10:30-11:30

TH054

AGU and the Launch of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development

Primary Contact: Craig Norman McLean, NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Research, College Park, MD, United States

Moderator: Taylor Goelz, NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Research, Silver Spring, United States

Presenter: Taylor Goelz, NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Research, Silver Spring, United States

TH055

Ecological Forecasting Initiative: NEON Forecasting Challenge

Primary Contact: Michael Dietze, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States

Moderator: Jason S McLachlan, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States

Presenters: Michael Dietze, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Quinn Thomas, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Christine M Laney, Battelle, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Boulder, CO, United States, Carl Boettiger, University of California, Berkeley, Davis, CA, United States, Melissa A Kenney, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Jason S McLachlan, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Melissa Chapman, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Jacob A Zwart, University of Notre Dame, Biological Sciences, South Bend, IN, United States

TH056

New and Expanding Community-Driven Research Programs to Understand Watershed and Coastal Processes

Primary Contact: Nicholas D Ward, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States

Moderators: Nicholas D Ward, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, James Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Allison Myers-Pigg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Sequim, WA, United States and Vanessa L Bailey, Battelle PNNL J4-18, Richland, WA, United States

Presenters: James Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Nicholas D Ward, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States

16:00-17:00

TH057

AgMIP: The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project—Understanding Crop and Food Systems in a Changing World

Primary Contact: Alexander C Ruane, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States

Moderator: Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States

Presenter: Alexander C Ruane, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States

TH058

Methods and Processes Using Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Sharing and Reusing Lessons Learned Across Scientific Disciplines

Primary Contact: Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI), Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States

Moderators: Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Robert P. Dahlgren, California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States, Tyson Lee Swetnam, University of Arizona, BIO5 Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States and David Durden, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle, Boulder, CO, United States

Presenter: Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States

TH059

Climate Science in the Courtroom: How Scientists Can Inform Climate Litigation and the Law

Primary Contact: Peter C Frumhoff, Union of Concerned Scientists Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, United States

Moderators: Peter C Frumhoff, Union of Concerned Scientists Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, United States and Radley M Horton, Columbia University/NASA GISS, New York, NY, United States

Presenters: Lauren Kurtz, Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF), New York, NY, United States, Friederike Elly Luise Otto, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Benjamin Franta, Stanford University, History, Stanford, CA, United States, Sandra Thiam, Environmental Law Institute, Washington, DC, United States, L. Delta Merner, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Myles Robert Allen, University of Oxford, ECI/School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, Michael Burger, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School, New York, NY, United States and Hasminah Paudac, Greenpeace Southeast Asia - Philippines, Climate Justice and Liability Campaign, Quezon City, Philippines

19:00-20:00

TH060

The sUAS Data Capture Pipeline: Sharing and Reusing, Tools, and Standards

Primary Contact: Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI), Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States

Moderators: Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Ramon Arrowsmith, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ, United States, Janet Wyngaard, University of Notre Dame, Center for Research Computing, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Donald V Sullivan, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States

Presenter: Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States

TH061

Modernization of the U.S. National Spatial Reference System

Primary Contact: Daniel R Roman, National Geodetic Survey, HQ, Silver Spring, MD, United States

Moderators: Daniel R Roman, National Geodetic Survey, HQ, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Dru A Smith, NOAA Natl Geodetic Survey, Silver Spring, MD, United States

Presenters: Dru A Smith, NOAA Natl Geodetic Survey, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Daniel R Roman, National Geodetic Survey, HQ, Silver Spring, MD, United States

Thursday, 10 December 2020

07:00-08:00

TH063

NOAA Modeling Forum

Primary Contact: Hendrik L Tolman, NOAA Washington DC, NWS, Office of Science and Technology Integration, Washington, DC, United States

Moderator: Hendrik L Tolman, NOAA/NCEP, College Park, MD, United States

Presenter: Hendrik L Tolman, NOAA/NCEP, College Park, MD, United States

10:30-11:30

TH043

Building on Successes: Strategic Planning and Implementation for the Next Decade of the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program and the North American Carbon Program

Primary Contact: Gyami Shrestha, U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program & UCAR, Washington, DC, United States

Moderators: Gyami Shrestha, U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program & UCAR, Washington, DC, United States, Elisabeth K Larson, NASA, Washington, DC, United States and Anna Michalak, Carnegie Institution for Science, Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States

Presenters: Gyami Shrestha, U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program & UCAR, Washington, DC, United States, Anna Michalak, Carnegie Institution for Science, Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States, Christopher L Sabine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Elisabeth K Larson, NASA, Washington, DC, United States, Christopher A Williams, Clark University, Graduate School of Geography, Worcester, MA, United States, Andrew Fox, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Boulder, CO, United States, Zhiliang Zhu, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States, Anne Marsh, USDA Forest Service, Washington, D.C., United States, Colm Sweeney, NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Michael Falkowski, NASA, NASA, Washington, DC, United States and Hank A Margolis, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States

TH064

NASA Snow Hydrology Town Hall

Primary Contact: Dorothy K Hall, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States

Moderator: Carrie Vuyovich, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Presenters: Carrie Vuyovich¹, Jared Keith Entin², Sujay V Kumar¹, Lundquist Jessica³, Hans-Peter Marshall⁴ and Carrie Olheiser⁵, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)NASA HQ - SMD, Washington, DC, United States(3)University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States(4)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States(5)NOAA/NWS/OWP, Chanhassen, MN, United States

TH066

Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG)

Primary Contact: Carrie Chavez, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, United States

Moderator: Carrie Chavez, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, United States

Presenters: Jeffrey M Moore, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States; NASA, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Linda Joyce Spilker, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States

16:00-17:00

TH067

NASA Living With a Star Town Hall

Primary Contact: Simon P Plunkett, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States

Moderator: Jeff Morrill, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States

Presenters: Simon P Plunkett, Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States, Anthea Coster, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, David Lario, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, United States and Nour E. Raouafi, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

TH068

Next Steps to Understand Extension of the Lithosphere

Primary Contact: Dennis Lee Harry, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States

Presenters: Dennis Lee Harry, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Patricia Persaud, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Jolante van Wijk, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States

Friday, 11 December 2020

07:00-08:00

TH069

Compound Climate Risks During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Global Perspective

Primary Contact: L. Delta Merner, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States

Moderator: Carly Phillips, Union of Concerned Scientists, Boston, United States

Presenters: Colin Carlson, Georgetown University Medical Center, Center for Global Health Science and Security, Washington DC, DC, United States, Christopher Trisos, University of Cape Town, African Climate and Development Initiative, Cape Town, South Africa, Nicholas Simpson, University of Cape Town, Africa Climate and Development Initiative, Cape Town, South Africa, Alexandra L Phelan, Georgetown University, Center for Global Health Science and Security, Washington, DC, United States and Rachel Cleetus, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, United States

TH070

Developing Appropriate Frameworks for Climate Restoration Solutions

Primary Contact: Leslie A Field, Ice911 Research, Menlo Park, CA, United States; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

Presenters: Alice Hill, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington DC, DC, United States, Simone Tilmes, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry, Observations, and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Erica Dodds, Foundation for Climate Restoration, Los Altos, CA, United States, Alexander Sholtz, Ice911 Research, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Detelina Ivanova, Climformatics, Inc, La Jolla, CA, United States and Subarna Bhattacharyya, Climformatics, Inc., Fremont, CA, United States

TH071

Mass Change Designated Observable Study Town Hall

Primary Contact: Scott Horner, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States

Presenters: Lucia Tsaoussi, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Bernard J Bienstock, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, UNITED STATES, Matthew Rodell, NASA GSFC HSL, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Bryant D Loomis, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, David N Wiese, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Jon Chrone, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States

10:30-11:30

TH072

NASA Earth Science Division Town Hall

Primary Contact: Jack A Kaye, NASA Headquarters SMD/ESD, Washington, DC, United States; NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States

Presenters: Sandra Cauffman¹, Paula S Bontempi¹, Charles E Webb¹, Lawrence Friedl¹, Pamela Millar², Kevin J Murphy¹ and Thomas H Zurbuchen³, (1)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States(2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(3)NASA HQ, Washington D.C., United States

TH073

Update on CMIP-6 Data Status, Delivery and Analysis Capabilities

Primary Contact: Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Livermore, CA, United States

Moderator: Ghaleb Abdulla, LLNL, Tracy, CA, United States

Presenters: Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Livermore, CA, United States, Stephan Kindermann, DKRZ German Climate Computing Centre, Data Management, Hamburg, Germany, Philip Kershaw, NCEO / Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom, Ryan Abernathey, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, V. Balaji, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Tom Landry, Centre de recherche informatique de Montreal (CRIM), Vision and Imaging, Montreal, QC, Canada

TH074

The New Sun-to-Earth Machine Learning Exploratory Committee: Collecting the National Science Foundation Communities for the Application of Machine Learning to Space Physics

Primary Contact: Matthew R Argall, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department for Physics and Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, Durham, NH, United States

Moderators: Viacheslav M Sadykov, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, Edison, NJ, United States, Jacob Bortnik, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Ryan Michael McGranaghan, Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates (ASTRA), Louisville, CO, United States

Presenters: Matthew Penn, NVIDIA, Baltimore, MD, United States, Wendy Hawley Carande, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Enrico Camporeale, University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, Verena Heidrich-Meisner, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, W Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies, Pacific Palisades, CA, United States, Susan Skone, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, Viacheslav G Merkin, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, United States, Mangala Sharma, NSF, Washington, United States and Chaitanya Baru, National Science Foundation, CISE, Arlington, VA, United States

16:00-17:00

TH075

Data FAIR Working Session: Software—Moving Our Community to Accept Software/Code Sharing and Citation

Primary Contact: Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Data Leadership, Washington, DC, United States

Moderator: Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Data Leadership, Washington, DC, United States

Presenters: Daniel S. Katz, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Matthew S. Mayernik, National Center for Atmospheric Research / University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Jeaneth Machicao, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil and Annie Burgess, Earth Science Information Partners, Severna Park, MD, United States

Monday, 14 December 2020

07:00-08:00

TH077

Focusing Research Needs for a Distributed Methane Measurement Infrastructure for the United States

Primary Contact: Ruth K Varner, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States

Presenters: Hank W Loescher¹, Lori Bruhwiler², George G Burba³, Roisin Commane⁴, Alexandra Contosta⁵, Patrick M Crill⁶, Melissa Genazzio⁷, Jordan P Goodrich⁸, Sparkle L Malone⁹ and Gregory Starr⁹, (1)NEON Inc, Boulder, CO, United States(2)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States(3)LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, NE, United States(4)Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States(5)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, Durham, NH, United States(6)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden(7)Battelle, Boulder, CO, United States(8)University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand(9)University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

10:00-11:00

TH062

Space Physics and Aeronomy Section Agency Night

Primary Contact: Christina Cohen, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States

Moderator: Geoffrey D Reeves, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States

Presenter: Geoffrey D Reeves, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States

TH078

Open Science and Research Incentives: A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable Town Hall

Primary Contact: Pranoti M. Asher, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States

Moderator: Brooks Hanson, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States

Presenters: Greg Tananbaum, Open Research Funders Group, Seattle, WA, United States and Chris Bourg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States

TH079

The National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network: Current Activities, Future Priorities

Primary Contact: Marina Skumanich, NOAA National Integrated Drought Information System, Boulder, CO, United States

Presenters: Michael H Cosh, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States, John D Bolten, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Todd G Caldwell, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States and Bruce Baker, NOAA College Park, Oak Ridge, TN, United States

TH080

NASA Planetary Science Division Town Hall

Primary Contact: Shoshana Weider, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States

Presenters: Lori Sherea Glaze, NASA Headquarters, Planetary Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, Thomas H Zurbuchen, NASA HQ, Washington D.C., United States and Stephen Rinehart, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States

16:00-17:00

TH081

NASA's Surface Biology and Geology Designated Observable Study: Science, Applications, and Recommended Architecture

Primary Contact: David Schimel, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States

Moderator: Benjamin Poulter, NASA GSFC, Biospheric Science, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Presenter: David Schimel, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States

TH083

Data FAIR Working Session: Why Is Citing Data Still Hard? Shining a Bright Light on the Complex Challenges That Still Exist and Reasonable Ways to Overcome Them

Primary Contact: Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Data Leadership, Washington, DC, United States

Presenter: Megan Carter, Federation of Earth Science Information Partners, Boulder, United States

TH084

Updates from the Coastal Carbon Research Coordination Network: Year 3

Primary Contact: James Robert Holmquist, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, MD, United States

Moderator: James Robert Holmquist, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Presenters: J. Megonigal¹, Michael Lonneman², Jaxine Wolfe², James Robert Holmquist³, Patty Oikawa⁴ and Stephen Crooks⁵, (1)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, United States(2)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, United States(3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States(4)California State University East Bay, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Hayward, CA, United States(5)Silvestrum Climate Associates, LLC, San Francisco, CA, United States

Tuesday, 15 December 2020

07:00-08:00

TH086

Scripts to Software Frameworks: How Do We Share Our Research Code?

Primary Contact: Lindsey Justine Heagy, University of California Berkeley, Department of Statistics, Berkeley, CA, United States

Moderators: Lindsey Justine Heagy, University of California Berkeley, Department of Statistics, Berkeley, CA, United States, Bane Sullivan, Kitware Inc., Clifton Park, United States, Jens F Klump, CSIRO Earth Science Resource Engineering, Perth, Australia and Fernando Perez, University of California, Berkeley, Statistics, Berkeley, CA, United States

Presenters: Lindsey Justine Heagy, University of California Berkeley, Department of Statistics, Berkeley, CA, United States, Bane Sullivan, Kitware Inc., Clifton Park, United States, Jens F Klump, CSIRO Earth Science Resource Engineering, Perth, Australia and Fernando Perez, University of California, Berkeley, Statistics, Berkeley, CA, United States

TH087

Earth and Space Science Informatics and the AGU Community

Primary Contact: Denise J Hills, Geological Survey of Alabama, Energy Investigations Program, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Moderators: Denise J Hills, Geological Survey of Alabama, Energy Investigations Program, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Jeff de La Beaujardière, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States and Sarah Ramdeen, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States

Presenters: Denise J Hills, Geological Survey of Alabama, Energy Investigations Program, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Jeff de La Beaujardière, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States and Sarah Ramdeen, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States

10:00-11:00

TH042

US CLIVAR Town Hall: Articulating Climate and Weather Research and Educational Needs to Inform Commercialization of Atmospheric and Oceanic Data

Primary Contact: Michael Patterson, US CLIVAR Project Office, Washington, DC, United States

Moderators: Yolande L Serra, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, Aneesh Subramanian, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Carol Anne Clayson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Michael Patterson, U.S. CLIVAR Project Office, Washington, DC, United States

Presenters: Yolande L Serra, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, Aneesh Subramanian, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Carol Anne Clayson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Michael Patterson, U.S. CLIVAR Project Office, Washington, DC, United States

TH088

Open Innovation in the Geosciences for Mutual Benefit and Accelerated Discovery

Primary Contact: Emily Bonnell Graham, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States

Moderators: Emily Bonnell Graham, James Stegen and Amy E Goldman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States

Presenters: Emily Bonnell Graham, James Stegen and Ben P Bond-Lamberty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States

TH089

Environmental System Science Priorities at the U.S. Department of Energy

Primary Contact: Jennifer Saleem Arrigo, Department of Energy Germantown, Germantown, MD, United States

Moderator: Jennifer Saleem Arrigo, Department of Energy Germantown, Germantown, MD, United States

Presenters: Gerald L Geernaert, Department of Energy, Washington, DC, United States, Daniel B Stover, Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, DC, United States and Brian Benscoter, Florida Atlantic University, Davie, FL, United States

TH090

Climate Change Education in a Pandemic World: Transferring Lessons from Pandemic Responses to Innovative Climate Change Education and Communication

Conveners: Don Haas, Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY, United States, Lindsey Kirkland, Climate Generation, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Kathryn Boyd, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States

Primary Contact: Deb Morrison, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Institute of Science and Math Education, Seattle, CO, United States

16:00-17:00

TH091

Social Movements Matter: What Scientists Can Learn About Engaging in Policy and Advocacy from Other Disciplines

Primary Contact: Melissa Varga, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States

Moderator: Fernando Tormos-Aponte, University of Maryland, School of Public Policy, Baltimore, MD, United States

Presenter: Fernando Tormos-Aponte, University of Maryland, School of Public Policy, Baltimore, MD, United States

TH092

Prioritizing Actions to Adapt America’s Infrastructure for Climate Change

Primary Contact: Jason P Giovannettone, Dewberry, Water Resources, Fairfax, VA, United States

Moderators: Mari R Tye, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Amir AghaKouchak, University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States

Presenters: J Rolf Olsen, US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL, United States, Ana Paula Barros, Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, United States and Joshua Huang, ASCE, Normal, NC, United States

TH093

Scientific Ocean Drilling: The Next Phase

Primary Contact: Carl Brenner, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States

Presenters: Dick Kroon, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Rosalind M. Coggon, University of Southampton, School of Ocean & Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, Anthony A P Koppers, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Marco Bohnhoff, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, Mitchell D Schulte, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and Terrence M Quinn, National Science Foundation, Division of Ocean Sciences, Alexandria, VA, United States

Wednesday, 16 December 2020

07:00-08:00

TH094

PRESTO: The New SCOSTEP Initiative

Primary Contact: Patricia Doherty, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States

Moderator: Kazuo Shiokawa, ISEE, Nagoya Univ, Aichi, Japan

Presenters: Kazuo Shiokawa¹, Sunanda Basu², Ramon E Lopez³, Jie Zhang⁴ and Patricia Doherty², (1)ISEE, Nagoya Univ, Aichi, Japan(2)Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States(3)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States(4)George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States

TH096

Current and Future Biogeochemical–Argo Programs and Planning

Primary Contact: Lynne D Talley, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States

Moderator: Roberta M Hotinski, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States

Presenters: Lynne D Talley, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Joellen L Russell, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Kenneth S Johnson, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, Herve Claustre, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, Henrietta N Edmonds, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States, Peter J Milne, NSF, Arlington, VA, United States, Matthew R Mazloff, SIO, La Jolla, CA, United States, Stephen Riser, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, Heidi M Cullen, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States and Oscar Schofield, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

10:00-11:00

TH097

Diversity and Inclusion in the Earth and Space Sciences: Candid Discussion with the AGU Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee

Primary Contact: Billy M Williams, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States

Moderator: Lisa D White, University of California Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, CA, United States

Presenter: Margaret Fraiser, American Geophysical Union, Washington, United States

TH099

Data FAIR Working Session: Repositories—Domain/Specialized, Institutional/General: How Do We Guide Our Researchers to the Best Repository for Their Data or Software?

Primary Contact: Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Data Leadership, Washington, DC, United States

Presenter: Megan Carter, Federation of Earth Science Information Partners, Boulder, United States

11:30-12:30

TH098

Soil Data Products and Curation: Lessons from ISCN and Beyond

Primary Contact: Katherine E Todd-Brown, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States

Moderators: Avni Malhotra, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Jennifer W Harden, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

Presenter: Katherine E Todd-Brown, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States

16:00-17:00

TH100

Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions

Primary Contact: Mary R Albert, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States

Presenters: Mary R Albert, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, Edward J Brook, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Eric J. Steig, University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and John W Goodge, Univ Minnesota Duluth, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Duluth, MN, United States