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FACE 2000 Conference program (provisional as of Feb. 26, 2000)
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Title: FACE 2000 Conference
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.
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Hosting 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)
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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)
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Pre-conference tour
June 24 (Sat.)
Registration to the pre-conference tour at a hotel in Tokyo.
June 25 (Sun.)
Travel by train from Tokyo to Morioka, Iwate Prefecture.
Some site-seeing in and around Morioka.
June 26 (Mon.)
Visits to the Rice FACE site in Shizukuishi and the CO2-Gradiotron in Morioka.
Travel back to Tokyo by train.
Pre-registration at Tsukuba Daiichi Hotel Epochal in Tsukuba.
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Conference Schedule
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 (TBA)
Session A. FACE system developments (Chairs: Andy McLeod and Franco Miglietta)
11:00- Japan (Masumi Okada)
11:30- Italy (Franco Miglietta)
12:00- BNL (George Hendrey)
Lunch
12:30-13:30
Session B-1. 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 B-1. 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
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June 28 (Wed.)
Session B-2. Findings in trees (Chair: Rich Norby)
9:00- Duke, USA
9:30- PopFACE, Italy
Break
10:00-10:30
Session B-2. 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 ads. organized by vegetation types
Adjournment
18:30
Organizers-synthesizers' meeting
19:00-20:00
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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 (Sune Linder)
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
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June 30 (Fri.)
Session E. Modeling the CO2 impacts (Chair: Bruce Kimball)
9:00- E1: Modeling plant growth at a simple essentials level (TBA)
9:45- E2: Modeling plant growth with details (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
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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 on 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 from 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.
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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.
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CONTACT ADDRESS:
Ms. Junko KOBAYASHI
Rice FACE Project, NIAES, Japan
email: [log in to unmask]
phone (international): +81-298-38-8223, fax: +81-298-38-8227
phone (within Japan): 0298-38-8223, fax: 0298-38-8227
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