1. All-Hand Meeting Dec 2, 2011 Pullman, WA B IO E ARTH P ROJECT I NTEGRATION P ROGRESS

2. O UTLINE  Brief Overview of BioEarth  Progress for project Integration  List of individuals in each working group  Progress for working groups:  Atmospheric  Terrestrial  Cyberinfrastructure  Economics  Communications

3. B IO E ARTH O VERVIEW

4. G OAL AND O BJECTIVES Overarching Goal: To improve the understanding of regional and decadal-scale C:N:H 2 O interactions in context of global change to better inform decision makers involved in natural and agricultural resource management. Specific Objectives: 1. Air to Land Linkage: To investigate the role that atmospheric processes play in land surface C:N:H 2 O cycles. 2. Coupled Air/Land: To explore how ecosystem changes in the PNW affect land/atmosphere interactions. 3. Coupled Air/Land/Human: To examine how potential policy changes might affect the interactions between C:N:H 2 O cycles and regional-scale climate. 4. Communication: To explore how to best communicate the model results to resource managers and policy makers.

5. W HAT MAKES B IO E ARTH UNIQUE AMONG MOST E ARTH SYSTEM MODELS ?  Emphasis on adding detail to inform agricultural and natural resource use and management  Economics  Cropping systems  Water management  Nitrogen management  Finer temporal and spatial scales than represented in global scale models  Focus on natural climate variability, particularly ENSO dynamics

6. A PPROACH AND R ATIONALE  Integrate or link existing sophisticated “stand alone” models that are in continuous development  Atmosphere: meteorology, atmospheric chemistry  Terrestrial: hydrology, soil/plant biogeochemistry in cropped and natural systems, biogenic emissions  Aquatic: river routing, reservoir modeling, nutrient export  Economics  As the “stand alone” components continue to improve by their developers, BioEarth will also continue to develop

7. B IO E ARTH

8. M ODELING D OMAIN : T HE P ACIFIC N ORTHWEST

9. L ARGER D OMAIN

10. P RESS R ELEASE  NSF/DOE/USDA still has not released a press release. However, the projects are available in the grant databases (i.e., CRIS for us). Therefore it’s probably ok not to worry about releasing information about our grant.  http://cris.nifa.usda.gov/cgi- bin/starfinder/5037/crisassist.txt

11. R EMINDER : B IO E ARTH C OUPLING T ERMINOLOGY  SEQUENTIAL  ITERATIVE  FULLY COUPLED

12. P ROJECT M ANAGEMENT /I NTEGRATION PROGRESS

13. W EBPAGE : HTTP :// WWW. CEREO. WSU. EDU / BIOEARTH /

14. W EBPAGE : R EMAINING I TEMS  Materials for each team/working group, what will go into these?  Model descriptions, so far these exist for VIC and RHESSys  Student profiles  1-slide biosketches from new members  Papers, presentations, etc…  Will be updated continuously with material presented at key meetings

15. F ORUM OK to start conversations by email, but then post to Forum as they develop and email the new thread to conversation participants.

16. P EER R EVIEW G ROUP  Atmospheric Modeling: Robin Dennis accepted  Cyberinfrastructure: Ilkay Altintas accepted  Water Resources: Alan Hamlet, Keith Cherkauer or Laura Bowling  Economics: Ronald Sands: to be invited  Ecology: Scott Ollinger to be invited  Agriculture: Possibly Clyde Frossi  Systems Modeling: James Sytviski was suggested but he is now director of IGBP. Possible Wieslaw Maslowski (RACM)?  Other: Please let me know if others are needed as we go forward  A “Peer Reviewer Expectation” document will be drafted early Spring 2012; minimal obligations

17. S TEERING C OMMITTEE Steering Committee Jennifer Adam, WSU Michael Brady, WSU Serena Chung, WSU Dave Evans, WSU Chad Kruger, WSU Brian Lamb, WSU Claudio Stockle, WSU Joe Vaughan, WSU  Meets once per month  All welcome to attend; meeting notes posted online

18. WG I (M ODELING T EAM ) SEMINARS  Aug 1: Serena on WRF  Sep 16: Kiran on VIC-CropSyst  Oct 14: Mingliang on his previous work  Nov 18: land cover discussion  Dec 16: Serena on CMAQ?? (who will be available?)  Upcoming in Spring: possibilities are RHESSys, NEWS, MEGAN, Keppler, Economics, Water Management  All presentations will be posted to website  Doodle poll will be sent out soon for Spring meeting time

19. W ORKING G ROUP I A : A TMOSPHERIC Atmospheric Team Jennifer Adam, WSU *Serena Chung, WSU Alex Guenther, NCAR Brian Lamb, WSU Ruby Leung, PNNL Tsengel Nergui, WSU Joe Vaughan, WSU

20. W ORKING G ROUP IB: T ERRESTRIAL Terrestrial Team *Jennifer Adam, WSU Sarah Anderson, WSU Janet Choate, UCSB Dave Evans, WSU John Harrison, WSU Mingliang Liu, WSU Keyvan Malek, WSU Justin Poinsatte, WSU Kirti Rajagopalan, WSU Julian Reyes, WSU Claudio Stöckle, WSU Christina Tague, UCSB Jun Zhu, UCSB

21. W ORKING G ROUP IC: C YBERINFRASTRUCTURE Cyberinfrastructure Team Jennifer Adam, WSU Serena Chung, WSU Ananth Kalyanaraman, WSU Mingliang Liu, WSU Inna Rytsareva, WSU *Joe Vaughan, WSU

22. W ORKING G ROUP II: E CONOMICS Economics Team *Michael Brady, WSU Yong Chen, OSU Jadrian Wooten, WSU Jon Yoder, WSU

23. W ORKING G ROUP III: C OMMUNICATIONS /E XTENSION Communications Team Liz Allen, Clark U. *Chad Kruger, WSU Fok Leung, WSU Andy Perleberg, WSU Jennie Stephens, Clark U.

24. M EETING F REQUENCY  Steering committee meetings: monthly  Working group meetings  WG I seminar: monthly  Others have been more frequently  All-hand meetings: bi-annually  Informal student meetings: monthly  Peer review meetings: as reviewers are invited for seminars  Outreach Meetings: bi-annually starting year 2