Monday, August 10, 2015: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
319, Baltimore Convention Center
2:30 PM
Thermal ecology: The influence of tundra vegetation on local thermal environments and the fate of the arctic permafrost
Shahid Naeem, Columbia University;
Natalie Boelman, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University;
Jan U.H. Eitel, University of Idaho;
Jessica Gersony, Columbia University;
Heaher Greaves, University of Idaho;
Kevin L. Griffin, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University;
Troy Magney, University of Idaho;
Case M. Prager, Columbia University;
Lee A. Vierling, University of Idaho
2:50 PM
Can we use the past as a lens to the future? Using historic events to predict regional grassland and shrubland responses to multi-year drought or wet periods under climate change
Debra P. C. Peters, USDA Agricultural Research Service;
Jin Yao, USDA ARS;
Nathan Burruss, USDA ARS;
Kris M. Havstad, USDA Agricultural Research Service;
Osvaldo E. Sala, Arizona State University;
Justin D. Derner, Rangeland Resources Research Unit;
John R. Hendrickson, USDA, ARS, Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory;
Matt A. Sanderson, USDA-ARS;
John M. Blair, Kansas State University;
Scott L. Collins, University of New Mexico;
Laureano A. Gherardi, Arizona State University;
Patrick J. Starks, USDA ARS Grazing Lands Research Laboratory;
Jean Steiner, USDA-ARS