LCLUC Science Team Meeting Focus on Tropical and Subtropical Regions

UMUC Inn and Conference Center

Meeting Date:

10/29/2001 to 10/31/2001

Agenda Title:

Executive Summary of the 2000 CEOS GOFC Boreal Forest Workshop

Agenda File:

LCLUC_2001_meetingagenda.pdf

Attendees List

Meeting Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
A Comparative Study of Forest Mapping Methods/Algorithms: Towards Optimal Solutions for Operational Global Forest Mapping/Monitoring	Youngsinn Sohn	University of Maryland, Baltimore County
A Panamazonian Model of Deforestation, Logging and Forest Fire: the Amazon Scenarios Project	Daniel Nepstad	Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM)
An Integrated Forest Monitoring System for Central Africa	Nadine Laporte	The Woods Hole Research Center
Anthropogenic Landscape Changes and the Dynamics of Amazon Forest Biomass	William Laurance	National Institute for Research in the Amazon
Australia's National Multitemporal Landsat Land Cover Database for Carbon Accounting	Brian Turner	Australian National University
AVIRIS Update	Robert Green	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Current state of LUCC	Emilio Moran	Michigan State University
Development of Long Term Inventory of Fire Burned Areas and Emissions of North America’s Boreal and Temperate Forests	Peng Gong	University of California-Berkeley
Development Sprawl Impacts on the Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics of the United States (full presentation)	Chris Elvidge	Earth Observing Group
Development Sprawl Impacts on the Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics of the United States (presentation high lights)	Chris Elvidge	Earth Observing Group

Poster Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
Land-use Impacts on Regional Biogeochemical Cycles in Sub-tropical Ecosystems	Gregory Asner	Carnegie Institution
Regional Biogeochemistry of Land Use Change in the Humid Tropics: Detection and Modeling of the Aqueous Land Use Signal for Messocale Basins	Trent Biggs	San Diego State University
Land Use and Water in the Uplands of Southeastern North America	Paul Bolstad	University of Minnesota
Grazingland Management Impacts on Light Use Efficiency	Richard Conant	Colorado State University
The Russian FIRE BEAR Project: Estimating and Monitoring Effects of Area Burned and Fire Severity on Carbon Cycling Emissions, and Forest Health and Sustainability in Central Siberia (in Russian)	Susan Conard	USDA Forest Service
The Russian FIRE BEAR Project: Estimating and Monitoring Effects of Area Burned and Fire Severity on Carbon Cycling Emissions, and Forest Health and Sustainability in Central Siberia (in English)	Susan Conard	USDA Forest Service
Monitoring Land Use/Land Cover Change in Southeast Asia	Chandra Giri	U.S. EPA
Changes in Terrestrial Carbon Storage in Russia as a Result of Land-Use Change	Richard Houghton	Woods Hole Research Center
Vulnerability, Livelihoods, and Land Cover/Land Use Change in South Africa: Integrating Social Science and Remote Sensing Perspectives	Brent McCusker	West Virginia University
Land-use Change in Temperate East Asia: Land Cover Changes Impacts on Carbon Fluxes and Land Productivity	Dennis Ojima	H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment