***Meeting will take place in the ModWest building***
July 8th, Tuesday
9:15 | Welcome from hosts |
9:25 | Acknowledgement of Country |
9:30 | Opening address (Peter Isaac) |
10:00 | Keynote #1: Kazuhito Ichii: "AsiaFlux Community: Current Status and Future Perspectives" |
10:30 | Coffee break |
11:00 | Oral session: Regional flux syntheses from around the world |
Sebastien Biraud (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States): "The AmeriFlux Management Project: a Pillar of the Global Flux Community" | |
Amukelani Maluleke (South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), South Africa): "Regional Network Update: SAEON" | |
Jehn-Yih Juang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan): "Leveraging Taiwan's Diverse and Unique Ecosystems for Global Flux Research and Environmental Adaptation Strategies" | |
12:00 | Lunch |
13:30 | Keynote #2: Dario Papale: "What next? Possible FLUXNET developments based on past experiences" |
14:00 | Oral session: Regional flux syntheses from around the world |
Gilberto Pastorello (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States): "Supporting the FLUXNET Shuttle through round-robin evaluations of regional network data products" | |
Zhi Chen(Chinese Academy of Sciences): "Advances and Future perspectives of ChinaFLUX" | |
Charuni Jayasekara (The University of Melbourne, Australia): "Mountainous Sphagnum peatlands as strong carbon dioxide sinks: insights from long-term eddy covariance study" | |
Mousong Wu (Nanjing University, China): "Modelling methane fluxes along the gradient of Boreal-Arctic peatland ecosystems with a process-based model" | |
Nicola Lieff ( Airborne Research Australia and University of Adelaide, Australia): "Assessing the optimal drivers for flux data gap-filling using random forest networks" | |
15:00 | Coffee break |
15:30 | Poster session |
18:00 | Social event: Lawn bowling, a popular Australian pastime (dinner included) |
July 9th, Wednesday
8:45 | Announcements |
9:00 | Keynote #3: Licheng Liu "Advancing Ecosystem Carbon Cycle Understanding through Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning and Eddy Covariance Integration" |
9:30 | Oral session: Agriculture and Land use |
Kim Novick (Indiana University, United States): "Use tower data to address a potentially widespread underestimation of forest carbon uptake" | |
Chandra Shekhar Deshmukh (APRIL, Indonesia): "Bridging Research and Policy: The Impact of Tier 3 Emissions Estimates on Tropical Peatland Management and Climate Goals" | |
Aaron Wall (University of Waikato, New Zealand): "Carbon fluxes in New Zealand agricultural ecosystems: Learnings from 90+ site-years of measurements on Waikato dairy farms" | |
Fan Liu; Yucui Zhang (Chinese Acadamy of Sciences, China): "Achieving grain security and carbon neutrality: Challenges from carbon allocation" | |
Lianhong Gu (Oak Ridge National Lab, United States): "A physical theory of eddy covariance for measuring Earth-atmosphere mass and energy exchanges" | |
10:30 | Coffee break |
11:00 | Breakout session. Topics: -Ecophysiology -Improving BADM -Agricultural fluxes |
12:15 | Lunch |
14:00 | Keynote #4: Caitlin Moore: "Lessons from long-term monitoring of carbon gains and losses in cropping systems" |
14:30 | Breakout report-back |
15:00 | Coffee break |
16:00 | Oral session: Agriculture and Land use |
Yoshiaki Hata (The University of Tokyo, Japan): "Conversion from Bornean tropical rainforest to oil palm had contrasting effects on the drivers of carbon and water fluxes" | |
Luri Nurlaila Syahid (National University of Singapore, Singapore): "A cost-efficient and robust approach to monitor ecosystem photosynthesis using near-infrared cameras" | |
David Rowlings (Queensland University of Technology, Australia): "Using the Australian Long-Term Agroecosystems Research network (ALTAR) to build industry tools for natural capital markets and guide the Australian carbon credit market" | |
Zaher Al Salmani (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman): "Enhancing Water Management in Oman’s Date Palm Cultivation with Eddy Covariance Systems" | |
Ossénatou Mamadou (Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques, Bénin): "The West African Flux Network (WAF-Net): A new regional community fostering opportunities and collaboration in West Africa" | |
17:00 | Free time |
18:00 | Conference dinner (Terrace Room) |
July 10th, Thursday
8:45 | Announcements |
9:00 | Keynote #5: Belinda Medlyn "How is Australian vegetation changing, can we predict how it will change in future, and how can flux data help?" |
9:30 | Townhall discussion |
10:30 | Coffee break |
11:00 | Breakout session. Topics: -Remote Sensing -Carbon accounting -Synthesis Questions unlocked by 2025 data release |
12:00 | Lunch |
13:30 | Keynote #6: Masahito Ueyama "Bridging Asia and FLUXNET with the JapanFlux2024 Dataset: A Foundational Step Forward" |
14:00 | Science talks |
Jacob Nelson (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany): "X-BASE: terrestrial carbon and water flux products from FLUXCOM-X" | |
Youngryel Ryu (Seoul National University, South Korea): "GPP-net: a robust high-resolution GPP estimation network for Sentinel-2 using only surface reflectance and photosynthetically active radiation" | |
Jacqueline Reu (UC Berkeley, United States): "A Review: Long-term trends and emergent dynamics in the eddy covariance record" | |
Yi Yu (The University of Sydney, Australia): "Assessing multi-scale agricultural water stress dynamics through the integration of remote sensing and OzFlux eddy covariance data" | |
Xiangzhong (Remi) Luo (National University of Singapore, Singapore): "The spatiotemporal variations in ecosystem photosynthetic quantum yield and their drivers" | |
15:00 | Coffee break |
15:30 | Breakout report-backs |
16:00 | Closing remarks |
July 11th, Friday
8:00 | (optional) Departure to Springbrook National Park - meet bus HERE |
10:15 | Arrive at Best of All Lookout |
11:30 | Travel to ecohydrological monitoring site |
12:30 | Lunch |
13:30 | Springbrook National Park hike (potentially Twin Falls circuit) |
16:00 | Depart Springbrook National Park |
18:00 | Return to campus |