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FACE 2000 Conference program (provisional as of Feb. 29, 2000)
VENUE: Tsukuba International Congress Center (EPOCHAL TSUKUBA),
Tsukuba, Japan
OBJECTIVES
A.to review developments in FACE technologies,
B.to review scientific findings obtained by using FACE and other
facilities on vegetation and ecosystem responses to increasing
atmospheric CO2, and C.to synthesize the scientific findings within
and across the vegetation types.
HOST INSTITUTIONS: Japan Science and Technology Corporation, National
Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences, MAFF Japan, IGBP-GCTE
(Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems: A core project of the
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme), and US-Department of
Energy (yet to be confirmed)
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS (in alphabetical order): Dr. Chris Field
(Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, USA), Dr. Bruce
Kimball (USDA-ARS Water Conservation Lab., Phoenix, USA), Dr.
Kazuhiko KOBAYASHI (NIAES, Tsukuba, Japan), Dr. Yiqi Luo (University
of Oklahoma, Norman, USA), Dr. Franco Miglietta (IATA-CNR, Firenze,
Italy), Dr. Rich Norby (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge,
USA), Dr. Diane Pataki (IGBP-GCTE Focus 1, Salt Lake City, USA)
PRE-CONFERENCE TOUR: June 24 (Sat), Registration for the
pre-conference tour at a hotel in Tokyo. June 25 (Sun), Travel by
train from Tokyo to Morioka, Iwate Prefecture. Sightseeing in and
around Morioka. June 26 (Mon), Visits to the Rice FACE site in
Shizukuishi and the O2-Gradiotron in Morioka. Travel back to Tokyo
by train.
Conference pre-registration at Tsukuba Daiichi Hotel Epochal in
Tsukuba.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
June 27 (Tue) - Registration
9:00-10:00 - Opening session (Chair: Kazuhiko Kobayashi)
10:00 Opening addresses (JST, NIAES, US-DOE, IGBP-GCTE
representatives) 10:30 Overview of the FACE and CO2 research
(speaker TBA) Session A. FACE system developments (Chairs: Andy
McLeod and Franco Miglietta)
11:00- Japan (Masumi Okada)
11:30- Italy (Franco Miglietta)
12:00- USA (George Hendrey)
Lunch
12:30-13:30
Session B1. Findings in crops and managed grassland (Chairs: Bruce
Kimball, Kazuhiko Kobayashi)
13:30- Maricopa, USA
14:00- Shizukuishi, Japan
14:30- Braunschweig, Germany
15:00- Giessen, Germany
Break
15:30-16:00 Session B1- continued (Chair: Kimball, Kobayashi)
16:00- Rapolano, Italy
16:30- Eschikon, Switzerland
17:00- Bulls, New Zealand
17:30- Megarich, EU
Adjournment
18:00 - Mixer with poster previewing
18:30-20:00
June 28 (Wed) - Session B2. Findings in trees (Chair: Rich Norby)
9:00- Duke, USA
9:30- PopFACE, Italy
Break
10:00-10:30 - Session B2- continued (Chair: Rich Norby)
10:30- Rhinelander, USA
11:00- Oak Ridge, USA
11:30- Sardinilla, Panama
Lunch
12:00-13:00 - Session B-3. Findings in natural vegetation (Chair:
Chris Field)
13:00- Nevada, USA
13:30- Sky Oaks, USA
14:00- Jasper Ridge, USA
14:30- Minnesota, USA
15:00- BERI, EU
Session C. Poster
15:30-18:30 Brief (5 min. each) oral poster presentations organized
by vegetation types
Adjournment
Organizers-synthesizers' meeting
19:00-20:00
June 29 (Thu) - Session D. Syntheses of the findings and discussion
(Chair: Yiqi Luo)
9:00- D1: Growth and yield of crops and grassland (Bruce Kimball)
9:45- D2: Responses of trees (Rich Norby)
Break
10:30-11:00 - Session D. continued
11:00- D3: Responses of natural vegetation (Chris Field)
11:45- D4: Photosynthesis, respiration, and photosynthate
partitioning (Steve Long)
Lunch
12:30-13:30- Session D. continued (Chair: Diane Pataki)
13:30- D5: Plant nutrition and carbohydrate production (speaker TBA)
14:15- D6: Ecosystem C-N (Bruce Hungate)
Break
15:00-15:30 - Session D. continued
15:30- D7: Water relations (George Koch)
16:15- D8: Community structure- species competition (Peter Reich)
17:00- D9: Title open for issues coming up during the conference
(TBA) Adjournment
17:45 - Conference dinner
18:30-20:30
June 30 (Fri) - Session E. Modeling the CO2 impacts (Chair: Bruce
Kimball) 9:00- E1: Modeling plant growth at a simple essentials
level (speaker TBA) 9:45- E2: Modeling plant growth with details
(speaker TBA) Break
10:30-11:00 - Session E. Continued
11:00- E3: Modeling ecosystem processes (Yiqi Luo)
11:45- E4: Scaling up (Ross McMurtrie)
Lunch
12:30-13:30 - Conference conclusions and recommendations
13:30- Closing
13:50- Conference closed
14:00
Products of FACE 2000 Conference:
Sessions A-C papers: A special issue, tentatively titled as "Free-air
CO2 enrichment (FACE) effects on plants and ecosystems", will be
published in an established international journal. The conference
organizers will serve in editing the special issue papers.
Sessions D-E papers: A volume, tentatively titled as "Lessons from
FACE", will be published by an established international publisher.
In our planned arrangement, the book chapters will also be journal
articles. Dr. Bruce Kimball will serve as the Editor-in-Chief with
some others serving as co-editors.
Instructions for the manuscript preparation will be sent soon by Dr.
Kimball. The speakers of session B will be asked to bring a Table of
Results in a common format across the FACE projects. The Table of
Results would greatly help the syntheses of results from different
FACE studies. Its details will also be sent soon.
DEADLINES:
Abstract submission (all papers): 10 May 2000,
Manuscript submission (Papers for sessions A, B and C): 27 June 2000,
and Manuscript submission (Papers for sessions D and E): 31 July
2000.
CONFERENCE CONTACT:
Ms. Junko KOBAYASHI
Rice FACE Project, National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences
3-1-1 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8604, JAPAN
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phone (international): +81-298-38-8223, fax: +81-298-38-8227
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