FATES modeling meeting schedule

Modeling meeting announcements

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2025

Date	Speaker	Topic
02 Jan	Canceled

2024

Date	Speaker	Topic
04 Jan	Zachary Robbins	Bark Beetles
18 Jan	Canceled
01 Feb	Canceled
15 Feb	No speaker	Office hours
15 Feb	Canceled
29 Feb	Canceled	CESM BGCWG meeting
14 Mar	Canceled
28 Mar	Canceled
11 Apr	Claire Zarakas	Model assumptions about plant hydraulics and photosynth. temp. acc.
25 Apr	Huanyuan Zhang	GEM network versus TRENDY comparison
09 May	Rachel Ward	Forest regeneration processes on demographic outcomes using VDM FATES
23 May	Shaoqing Liu	GEDI-constrained estimates of terrestrial carbon dynamics in SE Asian Tropical Forests
20 Jun	Noah Liguori-Bills	Pyrogenic carbon
18 Jul	No speaker	Summer Office Hours
15 Aug	No speaker	Summer Office Hours
12 Sep	Cancelled	NGEE-Tropics FATES Tutorial
26 Sep	Bianca Rius	Modeling functional traits with the CAETE model
10 Oct	Canceled
24 Oct	Luke Oberhagemann	Sources of Uncertainty in the Global Fire Model SPITFIRE
07 Nov	Assorted Speakers	Office Hours / discussion of some recent developments
21 Nov	Ensheng Weng	Modeling compositional dynamics in tropical forests with BiomeE
05 Dec	TBD	AGU Lightning Talks
19 Dec	TBD

2023

Date	Speaker	Topic
05 Jan	No speaker	Office hours
19 Jan	Marcos Longo	Regional scale trait and allometry to inform tropical pfts
02 Feb	Nick Smith	C4 photosynthesis
16 Feb	Canceled
02 Mar	Linnia Hawkins, Katie Dagon, Dan Kennedy	CLM PPE, calibration and benchmarking discussion
16 Mar	No speaker	Office Hours
30 Mar	Nuno Carvalhais	Max Planck Institute for BGC
13 Apr	Lingcheng Li	Coexistence and machine learning
27 Apr	Shijie Shu, Charlie Koven, Gregory Lemieux	Land use updates
11 May	Cancelled
25 May	Julia Maria Chacon-Labella	Trait scaling
08 Jun	Xiulin Gao	Oak/grass simulations in California
22 Jun	Cancelled
06 Jul	Cancelled	Global carbon budget meeting
20 Jul	Adam Hanbury-Brown	Recruitment and/or regeneration
03 Aug	No speaker	Office hours
17 Aug	Cancelled
31 Aug	Zachary Robbins and Chonggang Xu
14 Sep	Rosie Fisher	Global calibration updates
28 Sep	Chaopeng Shen and Doaa Aboelyazeed	Differentiable physics-informed ecosystems modeling
12 Oct	Ryan Knox and Adrianna Foster	Two-stream update and ILAMB results
26 Oct	Bharat Sharma	ELM-FATES at ORNL and Duke FACE sites
09 Nov	Sophia Macarawich	Paleoclimate FATES work
23 Nov	Cancelled	Thanksgiving holiday
07 Dec	Multiple speakers	AGU lightning round
21 Dec	Cancelled	Winter break

2022

Date	Speaker	Topic
18 Aug	No speaker	Visualization discussion
01 Sep	Anthony Walker
15 Sep	No speaker	LSM summit
29 Sep	No speaker	NGEET all hands meeting
13 Oct	Evan Gora
27 Oct	No speaker	Office Hours
10 Nov	Tristan Quaife
24 Nov	Cancelled	Thanksgiving break
08 Dec	Xinyuan Wei
22 Dec	Cancelled	Winter break

Future topics and presenter ideas

• Calibration
  • Niwot calibration by Will's group
• Seed dispersal and recruitment
  • Greg/Yanlan cross-grid dispersal
• Non-tree pfts
  • Mosses: Hui Tang
• Julia Green
• Papers:
  • Ke Liu: https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/1501/2024/
  • Yanyan Cheng: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023MS004195
  • Anam M. Khan, University of Wisconsin
  • Page: Eddy covariance
• Models
  • History of FATES and ED2
  • NorESM team (user friendly fates interface)
• Tom Buckley