Agenda

Name	date	details
Day 1: March 21, 2022	Ecosystem experiments and Earth system predictability Chair: Anthony Walker
Plenary talks session 11:00 - 13:00 EDT	11:00-11:20 Introduction and workshop objectives. Anthony Walker Recorded talk 11:20-11:25 DOE perspective. Brian Benscoter 11:25-11:30 Charge for the day and questionnaire responses. Anthony Walker & Colleen Iversen 11:30-11:55 Priority ecosystem experiments from the IPCC perspective. Charlie Koven & Sönke Zaehle Recorded talk 11:55-12:15 Perspectives on experimental design. Rich Norby Recorded talk 12:15-12:40 The power of networks: experiments and people. Elizabeth Borer & Kim Komatsu, Mendy Smith, Phil Wookey Recorded talk 12:40-13:00 Priority ecosystem experiments for Earth system predictions. Belinda Medlyn Recorded talk
Breakout Session 1 13:30-15:30 EDT Breakout Session 2 16:00-18:00 EDT	Identify key Earth system predictability goals, uncertainties, and poorly represented (or not represented at all) processes.
Day 2: March 22, 2022	Key knowledge gaps in press environmental change and ecosystem functional responses Chair: Colleen Iversen
Plenary talks session 11:00-13:00 EDT	11:00-11:15 Breakouts reporting. Breakout reporters 11:15-11:20 Charge for the day and questionnaire responses. Anthony Walker & Colleen Iversen 11:20-11:40 Key knowledge gaps in ecosystem functional responses to environmental change: An experimentalist perspective. Sasha Reed Recorded talk 11:40-12:00 The water potential information gap and other challenges for measuring and modeling plant drought responses. Kim Novick & Natasha MacBean Recorded talk 12:00-12:20 Impacts of rising CO₂ and VPD on the land surface and consequences for hydrology and climate. Nate McDowell Recorded talk 12:20-12:40 Insights from long-term, multi-factor global change experiments in grasslands. Sarah Hobbie Recorded talk 12:40-13:00 Knowledge Gaps in Ecosystem Functional Responses to Anticipated Climate Change. Paul Hanson Recorded talk
Breakout Session 1 13:30-15:30 EDT Breakout Session 2 16:00-18:00 EDT	Identify priority questions and experiments related to ecosystem functional responses and press environmental change
Day 3: March 23, 2022	Key knowledge gaps in pulse environmental change, extreme events and ecosystem structural responses Chair: Verity Salmon
Plenary talks session 11:00 – 13:00 EDT	11:00-11:15 Breakouts reporting. Breakout reporters 11:15-11:20 Charge for the day and questionnaire responses. Anthony Walker & Colleen Iversen 11:20-11:45 The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest Ice Storm Experiment: Lessons Learned and Next Steps. Lindsey Rustad Recorded talk 11:45-12:10 Forest carbon cycling responses to biotic disturbances: Coupled field-modeling experiments at the University of Michigan Biological Station. Chris Gough Recorded talk 12:10-12:35 Will changing environmental pulses, extremes, and disturbance regimes lead to non-linearities in ecosystem response? Mendy Smith Recorded talk 12:35-13:00 The importance of measuring and manipulating community composition for understanding ecosystem function. Kim Komatsu Recorded talk
Breakout Session 1 13:30-15:30 EDT Breakout Session 2 16:00-18:00 EDT	Identify priority questions and experiments related to ecosystem structural responses / disturbance and pulse environmental change / extreme events.
Day 4: March 24, 2022	Integrated ecosystem experiments' project design Chair: Matt Craig
Plenary talks session 11:00 – 13:00 EDT	11:00-11:15 Breakouts reporting. Breakout reporters 11:15-11:20 Charge for the day and questionnaire responses. Anthony Walker & Colleen Iversen 11:20-11:45 Long-term global change manipulation experiments at Harvard Forest. Serita Frey Recorded talk 11:45-12:10 Embrace ongoing plant community shifts in global change experimentation. Adam Langley Recorded talk 12:10-12:35 Environmental gradients vs. experimental manipulation for understanding ecosystem processes. Alan Knapp Recorded talk 12:35-13:00 Models-experiment integration. Martin De Kauwe Recorded talk
Breakout Session 1 13:30-15:30 EDT Breakout Session 2 16:00-18:00 EDT	Given a question and associated manipulation identified from the previous days breakouts, design the experiment and the project around the experiment to maximize the knowledge gained from the experiment and the benefits to Earth System Predictability.