2017 LCLUC Spring Science Team Meeting (Apr. 12th - 13th) and MuSLI Meeting (April 14th)

Rockville, MD

Meeting Date:

04/12/2017 to 04/14/2017

Agenda Title:

LCLUC Spring 2017 Agenda

Agenda File:

Agenda-LCLUC ST Spring 2017.pdf

Meeting Report:

Rockville_2017_article.pdf

Meeting Focus:

This LCLUC Science Team meeting (2.5 days) is in two parts:

Presentations from the LCLUC Science Team members funded for research on LCLUC in Mountainous Regions and Synthesis studies (ROSES 2103 Selections) and to review posters of recent results from other on going LCLUC research,
Presentations on the Multi-source Land Imaging (MuSLI) projects.
Note: That the third day will be a closed-door meeting for the MuSLI PI's and their international collaborators only.

The meeting agenda is posted above.

The list of poster presentations can be found here: http://lcluc.umd.edu/documents/lcluc-2017-poster-presentations

Pictures from the meeting may be viewed here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jz5mfpzuq6ug6gk/AAD60w-win3ZP2rIH4lO8pina?dl=0

Attendees List

Meeting Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
LCLUC 2017 Welcome Address and Program Update	Garik Gutman	NASA Headquarters
LCLUC Meeting 2017: Objectives	Christopher Justice	University of Maryland, College Park
Global Land Programme update	Allison Thomson	BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE,BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
Land use change in the Caucasus Mountains due to ethnic differences, national policies, and armed conflicts	Volker Radeloff	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Climatic and socioeconomic drivers of land-cover and land-use change in tropical Andean alpine wetlands	Daniel Slayback	SSAI
Twenty-five years of community forestry: Mapping forest dynamics in the Middle Hills of Nepal	Jefferson Fox	East-West Center
Interacting effects of socio-political and environmental factors on rangeland dynamics in the Altai Mountains in Central Asia	Giorgos Mountrakis	SUNY
Downscaling IPCC Land Use Scenarios for Global Change Adaptation in Mountains	Andrew Hansen	Montana State University
Structural transformation, increasing returns to scale and land use change – or a proposal for a unified land use theory	Volker Radeloff	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Synthesis of LCLUC Studies on Urbanization	Karen Seto	Yale University