December 1, 2023

Below is the list of poster and oral presentations for EFI’s hosted session at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2022 Conference in Chicago, as well as other ecological forecasting-related talks that may be of interest to the community. All times are listed in US Pacific Time.

EFI has name badges! EFI community members can find Mike Dietze at the Conference, during the EFI-hosted sessions, or at the Social to get a badge.

Tuesday EFI Social – Anyone who is available to meet up on December 12, Tuesday evening, we’ll have a group getting together from 7:00-9:00pm at 1015 Howard St, which is just an 11-minute walk from the Moscone Center.

Tuesday Poster and Oral Sessions – EFI’s oral and poster sessions on “Ecological Forecasting in the Earth System” will be held on Tuesday, December 12. The Poster Session is from 8:30am-12:50pm in Poster Hall A-C – South (Exhibition Level, South, MC). The Oral session is from 14:10-15:40pm in 3008 – West (Level 3, West, MC). We’re excited to have a great set of speakers that really span the full gradient from terrestrial to freshwater to marine. Come check out the following talks!

Tuesday Poster Session (9:00-12:30, Poster Hall A-C- South)

• Tierney Cantwell (Gettysburg College) – Sudden Oak Death and its Forecasted Threat to California Oaks using Maximum Entropy Modeling
• Joshua Ploshay (California State University Monterey Bay) – Spatiotemporal Patterns of Carbon (C) Cycle Variability Across North America: A Machine Learning Downscaling of a Process-based C Reanalysis Product
• Rob Kooper (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) – Unlocking the Power of ED2 Model on HPC Clusters: A Singularity Container Approach
• Qianyu Li (Brookhaven National Laboratory) – Assimilation of Satellite Observations Improves Seasonal Model Forecast of Leaf Area Index Over CONUS NEON Sites
• Matthew Petrie (University of Nevada Las Vegas) – Elucidating aridification pathways across the ecosystems of a semiarid elevational gradient
• Priyanka Singh (University of Petroleum and Energy Studies) – Machine Learning to Assess Large-scale Mining Impacts on Biodiversity Health
• Preethi Balaji (NASA DEVELOP) – Forecasting the Ecological Impacts of Targeted Cattle Grazing as a Management Tool to Improve Wetland Habitat in Southeastern Idaho
• Stephen E MacAvoy (American University) – Metabolic Plasticity, Measured by Stable Isotope Turnover, as a Proxy for Resilience to Warming Temperatures in the Seep Amphipod Gammarus minus and Isopod Caecidotea kenki
• Jiahao Zhang (Tsinghua University) – The origin of Risk of Golden Mussel (Limnoperna fortunei) Invasion
• Mark B Hausner (Desert Research Institute Reno) – Historical and Projected Drivers of Population Dynamics of the Endangered Devils Hole Pupfish (Cyprinodon diaboils)

Tuesday Oral Session (14:10-15:40, 3008 – West (Level 3, West, MC)

• 14:10 – Gerbrand Koren (Utrecht University) – Forecasting terrestrial carbon exchange over North America from sub-daily to multi-annual time scales
• 14:20 – Malcolm Itter (University of Massachusetts Amherst) – Making More With Continuous Forest Inventory Data: Toward a Scalable, Dynamical Model of Forest Change
• 14:30 – Alyssa Willson (University of Notre Dame) – Biotic interactions moderate the climate-vegetation relationship over the last 2,000 years of the pre-Industrial Holocene in the Upper Midwest, U.S.
• 14:40 – Morteza Karimzadeh (University of Colorado Boulder) – Forecasting Post-Fire Vegetation Recovery Using Deep Learning
• 14:50 – Dongchen Zhang (Boston University) – Terrestrial Carbon Pool Reanalysis Using State Data Assimilation Over CONUS NEON Sites
• 15:00 – Freya Olsson (Virginia Tech) – Power of multiple models in lake forecasting
• 15:10 – Dante Horemans (Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary) – Real-time Forecasts of Harmful Algal Blooms using Empirical Habitat Suitability Models
• 15:20 – Joshua Grail (ESRI) – Predicting Snow Crab Habitat Across Climate Scenarios Using Maximum Entropy Modelling
• 15:30 – Discussion

Other Forecasting Presentations

If you are presenting an ecological forecasting-related talk or poster that you don’t see on the list, reach out so we can get it added!

• Mon: 9:52-10:00, Anne Heggli, 2010 – West (Level 2, West, MC) – The Use of Hourly SNOTEL Data to Produce Snowpack Runoff Decision Support for Midwinter Rain-on-Snow
• Mon: 10:22-10:32, Isabella Kazen, 2007 – West (Level 2, West, MC) – Characterizing Parameter Uncertainty in Ecological Forecasts across Different Plant Functional Types
• Mon: 10:30-10:40, Michael Dietze, 2006 – West (Level 2, West, MC) – Landscape-scale iterative monitoring and forecasting of terrestrial carbon pools and fluxes: a Harvard Forest testbed
• Mon: 12:40-12:50, Ana M Tarano, 3009 – West (Level 3, West, MC) – Evaluating Global Benthic Habitat Maps Derived from Machine Learning: NASA’s Neural Multimodal Observation and Training Network
• Wed: 8:30-12:50, Yi Hong, Poster Hall A-C – South (Exhibition Level, South, MC) – Challenges and Opportunities for the Next Generation Water Resources Modeling Over the Laurentian Great Lakes Region
• Wed: 14:10-18:30, Xin Huang, Poster Hall A-C – South (Exhibition Level, South, MC) –  Iterative forcing correction improves forecasts of carbon pool dynamics more than fluxes
• Wed: 14:10-18:30, Russell Limber, Poster Hall A-C – South (Exhibition Level, South, MC) – Forecasting River Ice Breakup in Alaska USA Using a Long Short Term Memory Model
• Thurs: 14:10-18:30,  Enoch Bessah, Poster Hall A-C – South  – Verification of Indigenous Weather and Seasonal Climate Forecast skills for Climate Change Adaptation in the Pra River Basin of Ghana
• Thurs: 15:50-16:15, Patrick J Clemins, 160 – South (Upper Mezzanine, South, MC) – Northeast Evaluation Testbeds for Hydrologic Impacts Forecasting
• Fri: 14:10-18:30, Pierre C Guillevic, Poster Hall A-C – South – Evaluation of Planet’s Biomass Proxy – a Combination of Optical and SAR Earth Observations – to Monitor Crop Conditions and Forecast Yield