Agenda

Final Workshop Schedule (pdf version)
Complete abstract program (101 pgs!) (pdf version)

Archive and index of Poster presentations

Participant List (emails have been altered but I bet you can unscramble them!)

Oral presentations abstracts and powerpoints are viewable from the on-line program, below.

Sunday, May 8th

6:00 PM – Icebreaker reception, B2 Café Patio
6:30 PM - Dinner - B2 Café Patio

7:45 PM - Meeting Welcome, Jon Chorover (slides)

8:00 PM – Keynote lecture introducing the theme of the workshop - Plenary meeting room
(Larry Band, UNC-Chapel Hill) Climate, geomorphic and ecohydrologic controls of nitrogen cycling and export along a continental transect (abstract) (slides)

Monday, May 9th

7:00 - 8:00 AM: Breakfast, B2 Cafe

Session 1 – Ecosystem Exchange and Hydrologic Partitioning(eddy covariance water and carbon flux measurements, ecosystem production and respiration, snow and rain partitioning, infiltration dynamics, evapotranspiration, ground water recharge) - Plenary meeting room

8:00 AM: Introduction by session convener (Shirley Papuga)
8:05 AM: Keynote lecture (Russ Monson - UA) Surface atmosphere fluxes of H2O and CO2 in the subalpine ecosystem critical zone (abstract) slides) (25 min + 10 min discussion)

• 8:40 AM: Mike Goulden et al. (SS-CZO) Relationships between elevation, photosynthesis and evapotranspiration in the Sierra CZO (10 min + 5 min discussion) (abstract) (slides)
• 8:55 AM: Greg Barron-Gafford et al. (JSC-CZO) Sensitivity of soil CO2 efflux to climatic and topographic factors in a montane drainage system (10 min + 5 min discussion) (abstract) (slides)
• 9:10 AM: Martha Scholl et al. (LM-CZO) Use of stable isotopes to understand recharge sources and streamflow generation in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico (10 min + 5 min discussion) (abstract) (slides)

9:25 AM: Poster introductions (brief <2-min, 1 slide overviews of poster content; 15 posters ~ 35 min) (Session 1 Abstracts)

10:00 AM: Coffee break & poster session

11:00 AM: Rapporteur to summarize poster session and to lead plenary discussion

11:30 AM: Break for lunch

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM: X-CZO Data Management (Mark Williams) (slides)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Biosphere 2 Tours

Session 2 – Subsurface Biogeochemistry(vadose/saturated zone mineral weathering processes, root and microbial dynamics, mineral/water and microbe/mineral interfacial processes, carbon sequestration, pedogenic element mass balance, topo-, litho-, chrono- and climo- sequences)

3:00 PM Introduction by session convener (Craig Rasmussen)
3:05 PM: Keynote lecture (Libby Hausrath - UNLV) Biogeochemical weathering of serpentine minerals from bedrock to soil (abstract) (slides) (25 min + 10 min discussion)

• 3:40 PM: Chunmei Chen et al. (CR-CZO) Elucidating the interaction between organic matter and mineral components along a pasture hillslope: Importance of iron-redox coupling processes (10 min + 5 min discussion) (abstract ) (slides )
• 3:55 PM:  Lixin Jin et al (SSH-CZO) Water chemistry reflects hydrological controls on weathering in Susquehanna/Shale Hills CZO (Central Pennsylvania, USA) (10 min + 5 min discussion) (abstract ) (slides )
• 4:10 PM: Eve-Lyn Hinckley (BC-CZO) et al. Integrated study of critical zone architecture, near‐surface hydrology, and biogeochemistry to understand the fate of N in montane catchments(10 min + 5 min discussion) (abstract) (slides )

4:25 PM: Poster introductions (brief <2-min, 1 slide overviews of poster content; 15 posters ~ 35 min) (Session 2 Abstracts)

5:00 PM: Beverage break & poster session

6:00 PM: Rapporteur to summarize poster session and to lead plenary discussion

6:30 PM: Break for dinner; Jemez River Basin Virtual Tour (Paul Brooks)

Tuesday, May 10th

6:30 - 7:15 AM: Breakfast, B2 Cafe

Tour of Santa Catalina Mountains CZO Buses leave Biosphere 2 at 7:30 am - Soldier Canyon -
Mt. Bigelow eddy covariance tower - Marshall Gulch catchment experiments

7:00 PM: Dinner - B2 Exhibit Hall

Concurrent:  PI’s/Steering Committee to meet with CUAHSI

Wednesday, May 11th

7:00 - 8:30 AM: Breakfast, B2 cafe

7:45 Steve Glaser - Wireless Sensor Demonstration - B2 Lawn (abstract)

Session 3 – Ground and Surface Water Dynamics(hillslope and ground water hydrology, deep subsurface fluid flow, stream water response, hydrograph separation, end-member-mixing, catchment biogeochemistry, sediment transport)

8:30 AM: Introduction by session convener (Jen McIntosh)
8:35 AM: Keynote lecture (Kip Solomon, U. Utah) Groundwater Surface Water Interactions: Historical Context and the Transit Time Distribution as a Unifying Theoretical Framework (abstract) (slides) (25 min + 10 min discussion)

• 9:10 AM: Marek Zreda et al.  COSMOS project. (10 min + 5 min discussion) (abstract) (slides )
• 9:25 AM: Louis Kaplan et al. (CR-CZO).  In-situ measurements of stream water organic carbon, nitrate, and suspended solids with a UV-VIS diode array spectrophotometer probe (10 min + 5 min discussion) (abstract ) (slides )
• 9:40 AM:  Peter Hartsough et al. (SS-CZO).  Soil moisture and tree water status dynamics in mixed-conifer forest, Southern Sierra CZO, CA (10 min + 5 min discussion) (abstract ) (slides )

9:45 AM: Poster introductions (brief <2-min, 1 slide overviews of poster content; 15 posters ~ 35 min) (Session 3 Abstracts)

10:20 AM: Coffee break & poster session

11:30 AM: Rapporteur to summarize poster session and to lead plenary discussion

12:00 AM: Break for lunch

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM: Cross-CZO Breakout Group Discussions / Preparation for the Thursday Workshop.  Form 6-7 X-CZO/X-disciplinary subgroups (ca.15 people each):  Begin developing an initial set of research questions that helps to design a road map for cross-CZO collaboration.  Specifically, we want these to motivate research to address the broader overarching question of the workshop:

How can the cross CZO network (human resources, infrastructure, models) be deployed to develop a unified theory of the critical zone that links long-term landscape evolution and critical zone architecture (geomorphology) to its short-term (hydrologic, biogeochemical) dynamics?

The questions developed in this initial set of breakout groups should be brought as starting material for the Thursday workshop.

Concurrent:  Steering Committee to meet with NSF and PIs.

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM: Reporting back of subgroups (5 min each)

Session 4 – Critical Zone Evolution(geophysical characterizations of subsurface structure, landscape evolution over geologic time scales, valley density development, surficial erosion, soil production functions, flow path development, geomorphology)

3:00 PM Introduction by session convener (Jon Pelletier)
3:05 PM: Keynote lecture (Oliver Chadwick, UCSB) Climate/Weathering Control on Hillslope Morphology in Tectonically Quiescent Regions (abstract) (slides) (25 min + 10 min discussion)

• 3:40 PM: Douglas Jerolmack (LM-CZO) Controls and feedbacks of particle size and mobility:  Bringing down mountains one grain at a time (10 min + 5 min discussion) (abstract ) (slides )
• 3:55 PM: Nicole West et al. (SSH-CZO) Spatial variability of soil residence time within the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, PA: Insights from multiple isotopic systems (10 min + 5 min discussion) (abstract ) (slides )
• 4:10 PM: Bob Anderson et al. (BC-CZO) Of damage zones, reactors and conveyor belts: a geomorphologist’s view of the long-term evolution of the critical zone (10 min + 5 min discussion) (abstract ) (slides )

4:25 PM: Poster introductions (brief 2-min, 1 slide overviews of poster content; 15 posters ~ 35 min) (Session 4 Abstracts)

5:00 PM: Beverage break & poster session

6:00 PM: Rapporteur to summarize poster session and to lead plenary discussion

6:30 PM: Break for dinner; Biosphere 2 Landscape Evolution Observatory Overview (Steve DeLong)

8:30 PM: Closing lecture: (Ron Amundson, UCB) What have we learned? (abstract) (slides)

Thursday, May 12th

7:00 - 8:00 AM: Breakfast, B2 cafe

Workshop to develop (i) questions, (ii) hypotheses, (iii) approaches, and (iv) methods for X-CZO network pursuit (open to all) (Rapporteur Reports)

Concurrent Data Management Group breakout session. - Index and slides from Data Management Discussion

8:30 - 10:00 Data manager reports  (Each CZO will spend ~15 minutes
explaining their internal data management system)

• Durcik - SC-JRB (slides)
• Leon - Drupal (slides)

10:00 - 10:15 coffee

10:15 - 11:30 - CZO central in depth architecture and work flow (Tom Whitenack) (slides)

11:30 - 12:30 - OpenTopography / Lidar discussion (Chris Crosby) (link)

12:30 - 1:30 - lunch

1:30 - 2:00 - Hydrodesktop (Tom Whitenack)

2:00 - 2:30 - Database Admin (Kim Schreuders)

3:00 - 3:30 - - OGC Standards (Ilya Zaslavsky)

3:30  - Discussion

6:30 PM: Dinner, B2 Café patio

Friday, May 13th

6:00 - 8:00 AM: Continental Breakfast, B2 Café - grab and go items - very simple