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AGCI workshops provides a much-needed forum to bring together natural and social scientists – ecologists, oceanographers, atmospheric chemists, and climate experts along with political scientists, population dynamicists, anthropologists, sociologists, and educators – enabling them to work together at the cutting edge of a variety of topics of critical importance in the global change arena.
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Informing a Forest Health Index and Bioclimatic Monitoring Network for the Roaring Fork Valley
20 January - 20 January 2012
In support of For the Forest and their effort to produce an annual "State of the Forest" report, the Aspen Global Change Institute is bringing together experts on bioclimatic monitoring, forest ecology, adaptive management, and climate change to provide input on the development of a Forest Health Index and the priorities components of a bioclimatic monitoring system that could inform the public and resource managers in the Roaring Fork Valley. View
Making Sense of the multi-model decadal prediction experiments from CMIP5
26 June - 1 July 2011
This 2011 workshop on decadal modeling is a follow-up to a 2008 AGCI session where participants formulated a first-ever experimental design to address the science issues involved with decadal prediction that became incorporated in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5). Since decadal prediction is new for the climate science community, most of the decadal experiments for CMIP5 are hindcasts designed to quantify expected skill of the predictions. The purpose of this session is to make sense of the decadal hindcasts/predictions in terms of evaluation metrics, skill quantification, and summary figures that communicate the synthesis of the multi-model results. The product of the session will be a journal article that can then be assessed as part of the IPCC AR5. Participants will be asked to prepare some preliminary diagnostics in advance of the meeting. This will be the first time a synthesis will be attempted of a multi-model dataset of decadal hindcasts/predictions and will be crucial in order to make a vital contribution to the IPCC AR5. View
Global Change and the Solar-Terrestrial Environment
12 June - 17 June 2010
This workshop will convene scientists who study the solar-terrestrial environment and those who study global change. The purpose is to assess our level of understanding of the system by: identifying recent advances connecting solar changes to changes in Earth's global environment in the context of changes in greenhouse gases, aerosols, and land cover; identifying gaps in our knowledge; and identifying interdisciplinary research topics to improve predictions of solar-terrestrial influences on Earth's global environment and its people in the context of the full range of global change forcings and feedbacks. In short - What do we know? What don't we know? What are the top four research projects that can improve our present knowledge? View
State of the Global Phosphorus Cycle
30 September - 4 October 2009
Roughly a generation ago, environmental scientists began a concentrated effort to document the extent, pace and consequences of human alteration to Earth's major biogeochemical cycles. Though much work has been done in this arena, compared to the state of our knowledge on carbon and nitrogen cycles, knowledge of phosphorus lags behind. While we know humans are changing the P cycle, we lack a quantitative picture at regional scales of how much, how fast, and in what ways. Such information is essential not only for predicting well-recognized consequences of P enrichment, such as aquatic eutrophication, but also for understanding the ways in which the global C and N cycles will continue to evolve. Finally, useful reserves of reactive P are finite, and the long-term sustainability of intensive agricultural systems depends on the careful management of P reserves. Like nitrogen, the majority of human-driven changes to the P cycle are linked to modern agriculture, and thus prior assessments of the N cycle will be enormously helpful to the efforts for P. This AGCI meeting was held to finalize a strategy to complete the assessment for P, identify components of the work that individual participants would lead, and galvanize the entire process. View
Advanced Climate Modeling and Decision-Making Support of Climate Services
20 September - 24 September 2009
This workshop invites leading climate scientists, decision-makers, planners, and climate change impacts experts to explore linkages between advanced climate change science modeling and water resource management and planning. The aims of this workshop include indentifying what current knowledge can be utilized by decision-makers, finding gaps in the information supplied by current modeling tools, and developing strategies to supplement decision support across different timescales. Additional attention will also be given to coastal vulnerability-reduction decision-making. View
Managing the Cycles of Nitrogen and Phosphorus: Mitigation and Adaptation
22 October - 25 October 2008
The human impact on global cycles of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) has been a recent focus of global change scientists. In this session, a small working group convened to focus on identifying and developing the information that society needs to respond effectively to anthropogenic changes in the cycles of N and P. View
Climate Prediction to 2030: Is it possible, what are the scientific issues, and how would those predictions be used?
22 June - 28 June 2008
In 1997, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report expressed interest in "short-term" climate predictions out to 2030. Short-term climate predictions were first discussed in a 2006 AGCI session, and this 2008 session picks up where the 2006 session left off, tackling not only the formidable science issues involved with designing and running short-term climate projections (now more commonly referred to as "decadal prediction") but also addressing the important issues of the utility and applications of this information for decision support and impacts research. View
Northern Eurasia Landsurface Properties and Change and its Role in the Global Earth System
12 August - 17 August 2007
Northern Eurasia, which accounts for 20 percent of the Earth's landmass, is undergoing rapid and significant changes associated with changing climate and socio-economic patterns. This Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI) workshop focused on how to incorporate regional biophysical feedbacks associated with terrestria in the northern high latitudes, a key issue for emerging earth system models. Discussions explored issues pertaining to permafrost change, land cover change, climatic change, and the social processes that intertwine and feed back to environmental changes in the region and beyond. View
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