1. Joint Canada-Mexico-USA Carbon Program Planning Meeting January 25–26, 2007

2. Agenda Thursday, January 25 –Plenary sessions to provide background and set the stage for break-out session discussions. –Poster session to report specific projects. –Break-out sessions for detailed discussions about topics and collaborative research activities. Friday, January 26 –Additional plenary session. –Break-out sessions. –Plenary discussion to potential topics and approaches for collaborative research and synthesis into a framework for a Joint NACP.  Next steps

3. The organizing committee for the JNACP workshop met Thursday night to discuss the breakout sessions from Thursday afternoon and plan the Friday sessions. Present at the meeting: –For Canada: Alan Barr, Ray Desjardins, Lin Huang, Kathleen Lysyshyn, Hank Margolis –For Mexico: Ben De Jong, Felipe Garcia-Oliva, Arturo Muhlia –For USA: Nancy Cavallaro, Roger Dahlman, Bill Emanuel, Fred Lipschultz, Ed Sheffner, Diane Wickland Recommendations for Friday Breakout Sessions

4. Four concurrent thematic sessions: 1. Processes and Disturbances 2. Terrestrial Gradients 3. Watersheds to Oceans 4. Human Dimensions/Response to Climate Change/Carbon Management

5. Recommendations for Friday Breakout Sessions The new breakouts should consider the issues and comments reported on by the technical/support breakouts yesterday: remote sensing, modeling and data systems/management. Those who attended the techncial/support sessions should participate in, and disperse through, the new breakouts.

6. Charge to the New Breakout Sessions Review the collaborative task and project ideas from the Thursday breakouts and group into three types: Type 1: Based on work already underway; cost will be very low. Example: exchange of, or access to, data. Type 2: Extension of, or augmentation to, a project or task already underway; may require additional planning and some additional funding. Example: collaboration on collection of new data or analysis of existing data sets. Type 3: New collaborative project or task; requires approval from program management and allocation of new resources; Example: Joint project for analysis of coastal carbon processes.

7. For all project types, we are especially interested in projects and tasks that lead to, or facilitate, continental syntheses. Charge to the New Breakout Sessions

8. Identify and assign potential collaborative projects by type. Identify points of contact for each project. Prioritize the projects within each type, if possible. Identify specific technical/support considerations for each project/task. Prepare report for afternoon plenary. Charge to the New Breakout Sessions

9. Four Breakout Sessions 1. Processes and Disturbances: Room: Colorado I (Flannigan/Houghton/Etchevers/Hom) 2. Terrestrial Gradients Room: Colorado II (Margolis/Birdsey) 3. Watersheds to Oceans Room: Colorado III (Muhlia/Sabine) 4. Human Dimensions/Response to Climate Change/Carbon Management Room: Cheyenne I (De Jong/Ojima/Romero-Lankao)