[Esip-agclimate] Agriculture & Climate session proposal for ESIP WM 2020

William Teng dragonabs1 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 23 19:29:29 EDT 2019


Dave:

Katherine is on travel right now (been getting her auto-reply). I'm waiting
for her return next week to confirm, but I seem to remember that she won't
be available or perhaps a schedule conflict with another conference (?).

Thanks,
Bill

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 7:08 PM Dave StormCenter <dave at stormcenter.com>
wrote:

> Bill do you plan to include Katherine Rowden from NWS in your session?
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Dave Jones
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> On Oct 18, 2019, at 4:37 PM, Teng, William L. (GSFC-610.2)[ADNET SYSTEMS
> INC] <william.l.teng at nasa.gov> wrote:
>
> 
> Following is from notes of our Oct. 1st telecon,
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xCLTjuk84Yf5uBtwGXXII58ugzXdZoDogt7SQkIL6zE/edit?usp=sharing
>
> [BEGIN NOTES]
>
>
>    -
>
>    ] Planning for ESIP 2020 Winter sessions (fire, soils)
>    -
>
>       Finalizing session abstract (due Oct. 18):
>       https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I3lXvMFVCElkbGThrR-gtAcJQDErMDqRhZBthwmVFwI/edit
>
>
>    -
>
>    Notes:
>    -
>
>       Didn’t get to this item.
>       -
>
>       ⇒ Bill to send short of list of questions/decisions needed re
>       finalizing abstract
>       -
>
>          Which of the two titles in above google doc to use?  Soil
>          response to fire or Fire effects on soil morphology: related meanings,
>          order reversed
>          -
>
>          Current title and abstract draft has “data needs”; this link to
>          data is important for an ESIP session; is everyone thinking the same?
>          Speakers we contact would need to be made aware of that.
>          -
>
>          Re my comment below on “soil morphology” consequences: I think
>          we need to go beyond fire effects on soil morphology to, e.g., increased
>          susceptibility to hazards. Current abstract draft has this language. What
>          does everyone think?
>          -
>
>       ⇒ Group to finalize via email post-telecon
>
> [END NOTES]
>
> I didn't quite get to the action items indicated. But, with the subject
> proposal due today, I went ahead and submitted it a few minutes ago,
> basically the abstract that Kathe had drafted.
>
> Title: Fire effects on soil morphology across time scales: Data needs for
> near- and long-term land and hazard management
> Description: Fire impacts soil hydrology and biogeochemistry at both near
> (hours to days) and long (decades to centuries) time scales. Burns,
> especially in soils with high organic carbon stocks like peatlands, induce
> a loss of absolute soil carbon stock. Additionally, fire can alter the
> chemical makeup of the organic matter, potentially making it more resistant
> to decomposition. On the shorter timescales, fire can also change the water
> repellent properties or hydrophobicity of the soil, leading to an increased
> risk of debris flows and floods.
> In this session, we will focus on the varying data needs for assessing the
> effects of burns across time scales, from informing emergency response
> managers in the immediate post-burn days, to monitoring post-burn recovery,
> to managing carbon in a landscape decades out.
>
> We have until Jan. 1, 2020 to finalize it and associated info. We'll talk
> more about it at our Nov. 5th telecon and probably via email beforehand.
>
> Re action item on "short of list of questions/decisions":
>
>    - I went with "Fire effects on soil morphology ..." for the title.
>    - Current tentative list of speakers I've included are
>       - James MacKinnon (GSFC) - Fire mapping (and possibly intensity?)
>       with satellite data and ML; local so ~definitely can attend.
>       - Jingjing Chen (VA Tech) - Overview on fire effects on soils; w/in
>       driving distance of Bethesda.
>       - Dalia Kirschbaum (GSFC) - Fire effects, soils, and landslides;
>       local so ~definitely can attend.
>       - Francis Rengers (USGS) - Fire effects, soils, and landslides;
>       Golden, CO
>
> Except for Chen, we'd contacted them for our eventually cancelled ESIP
> Summer Meeting session, and they were all interested. For the current list,
> I was mainly thinking likelihood of attending and alignment with the ESIP
> 2020 theme, Putting Data to Work: Building Public-Private Partnerships to
> Increase Resilience & Enhance the Socioeconomic Value of Data.
>
> Please note that everything is open to change. The above are just what I'm
> thinking right now. Please do let me know if you've other ideas, speakers
> (including yourselves!), ...
>
> Also, for now, I'm thinking one session, not two. But, if we're able to
> get more speakers, we could request two sessions; though we'd need to do
> that not too late. And, I think we still have time to request (partial)
> travel support for one (?) of our speakers.
>
> That's it for now! Thanks!
>
> Bill
>
>
>
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