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Colleen M Iversen Colleen M Iversen

                        Roots in Models
            Sponsor: Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research


 
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Workshop Agenda
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Overview: Current model and empirical understanding of roots and root processes
  7:30 am Breakfast + Introductions Colleen Iversen
  8:00 am Meeting goals Dan Stover
  8:10 am Model: Roots in TBMs Peter Thornton
  8:30 am Overview: Root traits and root dynamics Dave Eissenstat
  9:10 am Break: Networking  
  9:40 am Overview: Root physiology Hans Lambers
  10:00 am Overview: Root-soil interface Colleen Iversen
  10:20 am Group discussion + discussion goals
  11:00 am to 1:00 pm Poster session on root processes




Theme 1: Root traits
  1:30 pm Data: Root traits in TRY database Jens Kattge
  1:45 pm Plant sizes below- and aboveground Jochen Schenk
  2:00 pm Rhizosphere effects on root traits Dave Weston
  2:15 pm Break  




Theme 2: Root physiology
  2:30 pm C partitioning / respiration / phenology Jens-Arne Subke
  2:45 pm Root exudation Rich Phillips
  3:00 pm Model: FUN, C cost of N uptake Eddie Brzostek
  3:15 pm Model: Review of root function in models Jeff Warren
  3:30 pm Break-out Discussions I  
  4:30 pm Group reports  
  5:00 pm Adjourn  
  5:40 pm External participants depart Guest House for Riverside Grille in Oak Ridge




  Thursday, June 12, 2014
  7:30 am Breakfast  
  8:00 am Data: Archives and data collection Bob Cook
  8:15 am Model: Uncertainty quantification Dan Ricciuto
 
Theme 3: Root distribution and dynamics
  8:30 am DNA barcoding Andy Jones
  8:45 am Relating root C turnover to soil organic C dynamics Roser Matamala
  9:00 am Minirhizotrons and scaling Seth Pritchard
  9:15 am Model: Remote sensing + mycorrhizae Josh Fisher
  9:30 am Break  
  9:45 am Break-out Discussions II  
  10:45 am Group reports  
 
Theme 4: Root-soil interactions
       
  11:00 am Root exudation Marie-Anne de Graaff
  11:15 am New technology + mycorrhizae Mike Allen
  11:30 am Model: Mycorrhizae + soil C storage Adrien Finzi
  11:45 am Model: P cycling + rhizosphere Xiaojuan Yang
  12:00 pm to 1 pm Group discussion on root trait database
  1:00 pm Break-out Discussions III  
  2:00 pm Group reports  
  2:30 pm Wrap-up and future directions  
  2:45 pm Break  
  3:00 pm Field trip to SPRUCE prototype  
  4:00 pm Departure  
  5:00 pm Dinner in Oak Ridge  for those staying  




 Workshop attendees



Mike Allen
UC, Riverside

Allison Boyer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Eddie Brzostek
Indiana University

Joanne Childs
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Bob Cook
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Marie-Anne De Graaff
Boise State University

Dave Eissenstat
Penn State University


Adrien Finzi
Boston University


Josh Fisher
Jet Propulsion Laboratory


Lianhong Gu
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Paul Hanson
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Colleen Iversen
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Andy Jones
Oregon State University


Shujiang Kang
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jens Kattge
MPI for Biogeochemistry, Jena


Tong King
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jitu Kumar
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Hans Lambers
University of Western Australia


Roser Matamala
Argonne National Laboratory


Melanie Mayes
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Rich Norby
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Rich Phillips
Indiana University


Shafer Powell
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Seth Pritchard
College of Charleston


Dan Ricciuto
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

H. Jochen Schenk
California State University, Fullerton


Ingrid Slette
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jens-Arne Subke
University of Stirling


Peter Thornton
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Collin Timm
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Anthony Walker
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Gangsheng Wang
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jeff Warren
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Dave Weston
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Stan Wullschleger
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Xiaojuan Yang
Oak Ridge National Laboratory