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