The American Geophysical Union (AGU) meetings are held each
fall in San Francisco, CA. This meeting attracts more than 18,000 attendees and
has become an important destination for scientists studying a broad range of
topics in the earth and space sciences.
http://sites.agu.org/
Last year the NGEE Arctic team had a strong presence in the meeting and this year that trend continued with outstanding participation in the meeting. More than 60 abstracts were submitted for poster and oral presentations on topics that ranged from geophysics, hydrology, geomorphology and landscape evolution, plant physiology and vegetation dynamics, biogeochemistry, and data management. There were many excellent posters and presentation on multi-scale modeling, including fine-scale simulations of polygons to global-scale feedbacks due to a changing climate in the Arctic. In addition to the efforts of NGEE Arctic to showcase their science, our team proposed and organized 10 sessions. Many of these focused exclusively on Arctic ecosystems or otherwise addressed topics that our team is dealing with specifically in areas, for example, of scaling and remote sensing. These are important topics for all ecosystems, not just the Arctic, and it was good to get input on how scientists working in other locations around the world are tackling this common challenges.
Finally, several members of the NGEE Arctic team
participated as judges for the Outstanding Student Poster and Presentation
awards. This was a great opportunity to learn about research being conducted by
our next-generation of scientists. I found myself interested in several
posters, in particular those that combined an interesting scientific question
with innovation in either measurements or modeling as tools to address that
question. I walked away from poster and oral presentations with a good sense of
how young scientists are tackling important questions in various fields.
The NGEE Arctic team developed a booklet of
abstracts and session descriptions. That booklet can be downloaded here....
