Download Spring Valley Field Station Planning Workshop Agenda

Spring Valley Field Station
Planning Workshop Agenda
Sunday, Aug 21st
7:30-9:00 pm
Arrival at the lodge
Dinner
Monday, Aug 22nd
7:00-8:30 am
Presentations
Breakfast
8:50-9:00 am
Franco Biondi
Opening remarks and logistics
9:00-9:20 am
John Shaw
9:20-9:40 am
Beth Newingham
9:40-10:00 am
Annie Deslauriers
10:00-10:20 am
Steve Voelker
10:20-10:30 am
Coffee break
View from a front row seat: Watching forest change in the Interior
Western States
Fire and climate change in the Great Basin: Prospects in the middle
of the sagebrush sea
Cambial phenology and intra-annual wood formation: from
measuring to modeling
Forest health and drought stress in the Great Basin and across the
West: Potential for insights and education on changing
climate and fire regimes
10:30-10:50 am
Bill Fox
The art of the Anthropocene
10:50-11:10 am
George Koch
11:10-11:30 am
Chris Pritsos
11:30-11:50 am
Donald Price
11:50-12:10 pm
Betsy Macfarlan
12:30-2:00 pm
Lunch
Sustaining research in a Great Basin ecological observatory: Ideas
and insights from related efforts
The Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station: Its mission to advance
research throughout the State
Developing a biological field school and research station(s) to
integrate the Life Sciences at UNLV
The Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition and its role in Cooperative
Weed Management Areas
2:20-2:40 pm
David Charlet
Field work in the greater Great Basin ecosystem: Learning and
funding opportunities
Research needs and opportunities at Great Basin National Park
2:40-3:00 pm
Gretchen Baker
3:00-3:20 pm
David Prudic
3:20-3:40 pm
Dale Devitt
3:40-4:00 pm
Paul Verburg
4:00-4:10 pm
Coffee break
4:10-4:30 pm
Sarah Barga
Reno's biggest little Natural History Museum
4:30-4:50 pm
Juan Carlos Cervantes
4:50-5:10 pm
Abby Johnson
Hallmarks of community development: Field stations as agents of
social change
Water challenges in Spring Valley
5:10-5:30 pm
Rick Spilsbury
Why we need the Spring Valley Field Station now
6:00-6:30 pm
6:30-8:30 pm
Drinks
Dinner
Water resources of Great Basin National Park in relation to geology,
climate, and vegetation
Assessing ecohydrologic connections in mountain-valley systems: The
value of a field station to support research and education
From down low to up high: Opportunities for soil research and
education along an elevational gradient
Tuesday, Aug 23rd
7:00-8:30 am
9:00-noon
Noon-1:30 pm
Visit to the station sites
Breakfast
Travel to field sites
Visit to sagebrush and montane sites
Sack lunch
Subalpine site
1:30-2:30 pm
Return from field sites
2:30-5:30 pm
Extra time
6:00-6:30 pm
6:30-8:30 pm
Drinks
Dinner
Wednesday, Aug 24th
7:00-8:30 am
Presentations. Station plan
Breakfast
8:50-9:00 am
Franco Biondi
Remarks and logistics
9:00-9:20 am
Bill Payne
Why dryland ecosystems matter
9:20-9:40 am
Dominique Bachelet
9:40-10:00 am
Franco Biondi
10:00-10:20 am
Coffee break
Combining field data and model results to build web tools: Climate
console and sagebrush landscape simulator
Planning for a Great Basin ecological observatory: From NevCAN to
the Spring Valley Field Station
10:20-11:20 am
Breakout groups on field
station activities
11:20-11:30 am
11:30-11:40 am
11:40-11:50 am
11:50-12:10 pm
Education report
Research report
Outreach report
Plenary discussion
12:30-2:00 pm
Lunch
2:20-3:20 pm
Breakout groups on field
station sustainability
3:20-3:30
3:30-3:40
3:40-3:50
3:50-4:10
Business plan report
Fee structure report
Five-year plan report
Plenary discussion
pm
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4:10-4:30 pm
Coffee break
4:30-5:50 pm
NSF infrastructure-building:
proposal outline
6:00-6:30 pm
6:30-8:30 pm
Drinks
Dinner
(A) Education
(B) Research
(C) Outreach
(D) Business plan
(E) Fee structure
(F) Five-year plan
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Thursday, Aug 25th
7:00-8:30 am
Visit to Great Basin
National Park
Breakfast
8:30-9:00 am
Travel to GBNP
9:30-11:00 am
Tour of Lehman Caves
11:00-11:30 am
GBNP Visitor Center
11:30-1:00 pm
Sack lunch
1:00-3:30 pm
Observatory inauguration
3:30-4:00 pm
Return to lodge
4:30-5:30 pm
Workshop evaluation and
future plans
6:00-6:30 pm
6:30-8:30 pm
Drinks
Dinner
Friday, Aug 26th
7:00-8:30 am
Departure
Breakfast
Return travel
Sack lunch
Gretchen Baker
Centennial celebration
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