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Albert Weiss
We would like to invite you to a workshop on Phenology and Environmental
Change: Challenges and Opportunities. The workshop abstract and program
are given below. Additional information on the workshop can be found at
<http://csce.unl.edu/phenology>http://csce.unl.edu/phenology in the events
tab. The workshop will begin on Thursday, June 16 at 8:30 A.M.
(registration at 7:30) and end at noon on Friday, June 17, 2005.
The intended audience for the workshop is scientists who are interested in
phenology, climate change, spatial data mining, and trying to tie all of
them together to create an understanding of how ecosystems change with
time. The workshop should provide an excellent learning opportunity, as
well as a venue for the exchange of ideas among a highly interdisciplinary
group of scientists. You may register at
<https://busfin-s.unl.edu/conferences/pec/reg.cfm>https://busfin-s.unl.edu/conferences/pec/reg.cfm
. The registration fees are $35.00 for members of the University of
Nebraska and $75.00 for attendees from other institutions. The
registration fee includes refreshments at breaks, a luncheon, and program
materials.
The workshop will be held at the Cornhusker Hotel
(<http://www.thecornhusker.com/index.sp>http://www.thecornhusker.com/index.sp)
in Lincoln, NE. Please make your room reservation (800-793-7474) with the
hotel so you will receive the discounted workshop room rate of $89 (1 to 4
persons/night). Please tell the hotel you are attending the Phenology
University of Nebraska Workshop. Please make your reservations early
because there are a limited number of rooms available at this rate. The
Cornhusker Hotel is in downtown Lincoln and has an excellent shuttle
service to and from the airport, as well as easy access to the amenities of
Lincoln.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Stephen
P. Stephen Baenziger
Eugene W. Price Professor
330 Keim Hall
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68583-0915
Tel. No (402)-472-1538
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Phenology and Environmental Change: Challenges and Opportunities
June 16 and 17, 2005
Cornhusker Hotel, Lincoln, NE
(<http://www.thecornhusker.com/index.sp>http://www.thecornhusker.com/index.sp)
Hosted by
The High Plains Observatory for Integrated Phenology: Predicting the
Behavior and Life Cycles of Introduced and Native Plants, Insects, and
Plant Diseases on the Landscape
<http://csce.unl.edu/phenology>http://csce.unl.edu/phenology
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Phenology studies the seasonal timing of different developmental stages and
the life cycles of plants and animals. Understanding the processes that
impact these developmental stages and forecasting phenological stages are
important to understand the interplay between climate and managed and
natural ecosystems including agriculture and its related industries,
ecotourism, and those who enjoy the aesthetics of plants. Similarly,
climate change modeling and satellite-based forecasting systems need basic
phenology networks and models to interpret their spectral data, especially
the “greenness” or photosynthetic response to the environment. The purpose
of this workshop is to bring together scientists and constituents who are
interested in participating in a phenology network and the resulting models
to: 1) develop useful phenological and climatological datasets, 2)
determine the interrelationships between phenological data from abundant
agricultural research plots with plant disease, insect populations,
aesthetic plants, and wildlife populations and migrations, 3) determine how
climate affects phenology and monitor climate change, 4) design new
decision support systems for managed ecosystems such as forecasting insect
and plant disease outbreaks, augmenting integrated pest management and
organic agroecosystems, and 5) provide the cyberinfrastructure and data
mining tools that can lead to the information fusion for complex ecosystems
and societies.
Phenology and Environmental Change: Challenges and Opportunities
June 16, 2005
7:30 am Registration rolls and coffee available
8:30 am Lisa Crockett, Associate Vice Chancellor of Research, Welcome
8:45 am P. Stephen Baenziger, Introduction, purpose or objectives of
the conference
9:00 am Key Note Speaker: Mark Schwartz, University of
WisconsinMilwaukee,
National Phenology Network
10:00 am Break
10:30 am QiSteven Hu, University of Nebraska, Extracting Meaningful Data:
Distinguishing Signal from Noise in Climate Change
11:15 am Brad Reed, EROS, Remote Sensing and Phenology
Noon Luncheon with no speaker, opportunity to interact with others
at your table
1:30 pm Sherri Harms, University of Nebraska-Kearney, Progress of Our
Workgroup
2:15 pm Shashi Sekhar, University of Minnesota, Spatial Data Mining:
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm Breakout Sessions until 5 pm
June 17, 2005
7:30 am Rolls and coffee available
8:30 am Continued work in breakout sessions
10:00 am Break
10:30 Reports from breakout groups
Noon Adjourn.
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