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Breakout session details | Talk Abstracts | Poster abstracts (pdf download)
October 22, 2025
| Time Pacific | Topic |
|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Welcome from the meeting Chair, DOE BER and AMP |
| 9:00 | Welcome from Local Meeting Chairs |
| 9:15 AM | Session 1: General Flux Science |
| Invited Speaker: Lucas Zepetello, UC Berkeley. Title: Water stress causes emergent relationships between surface fluxes, temperature, and VPD across ecosystems | |
| Julia Green, University of Arizona. Title: Underestimation of Time Integrated Water Limitation Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystems | |
| Anam Khan, Northern Arizona University. Title: The role of hydrologic intensification in ecosystem recovery from flash drought induced acute water stress across the western United States | |
| Alejandro Castellanos, Universidad de Sonora. Title: Upscaling ecophysiological processes in natural and managed Sonoran Desert Drylands: Multi-scale Observations at La Colorada MexFlux Sites (MXCH). | |
| 10:15 AM | break |
| 10:45 AM | Poster Session |
| 12:15 PM | Lunch and Poster Q&A |
| 1:15 PM | go to bus shuttle, transfer |
| 2:00 PM | Exploring the Arizona ecosystem: Visit to Desert Museum |
| 5:15 PM | return transfer, drop off at University Campus |
| 5:45 PM | Adjourn |
October 23, 2025
| Time Pacific | Topic |
|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Announcements Day 2 |
| 8:40 AM | Session 2: Approaches in data processing, modeling and upscaling |
| Invited Speaker: Yujie Liu, Northern Arizona University. Title: Evaluating the continuity of NEON and AmeriFlux data streams recorded at collocated sites from tundra to subtropics | |
| Gil Bohrer, Ohio State University. Title: Observations and modeling of species-specific hydraulic response traits – using long-term tree-level measurements in US-UMB | |
| Yang Gu, Boston University. Title: Improving NEE and LE Estimates Across North America: A Hybrid Data Assimilation + Machine Learning Approach to Gap-Filling, Model Bias Correction, and Downscaling | |
| Qing Zhu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Title: Reconstruct multi-decadal wetland CH4 fluxes with knowledge-guided machine learning | |
| 9:40-10:05AM | Break |
| 10:15 AM | Breakout session: 4 parallel topics |
| 10:05 AM | breakout introductions |
| Gap-Filling Flux Data Made Easy with Machine Learning | |
| AI/ML applications and tools | |
| Signals in wood: insights on carbon and water fluxes from tree rings. | |
| Care work in atmospheric and natural sciences | |
| 11:30 AM | State and Future of the AmeriFlux Network |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch and small group discussions on State and Future of the Network |
| 1:00 PM | Poster Session |
| 2:45 PM | Session 3: Remote Sensing |
| Oscar Zimmerman, Northern Arizona University. Title: Seasonal variation in canopy greenness and ecosystem photosynthesis in an arid evergreen conifer woodland | |
| Xian Wang, Indiana University. Title: Estimating Cropland Carbon Fluxes and the Role of Agricultural Conservation Practices Using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning | |
| Panel Discussion: Resilient Research Networks in a Changing Landscape | |
| 3:45 PM | break |
| 4:15 PM | AmeriFlux Town Hall |
| 5:15 PM | Optional: Tour of the Tucson Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research |
| 7:00 PM | Conference Dinner |
October 24, 2025
| Time Pacific | Topic |
|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Announcements Day 3 |
| 8:40 AM | breakout intro |
| 8:50 AM | Breakout session: 3 parallel topics |
| Evapotranspiration partitioning in wetlands | |
| Code Snippet Sharing for Flux Research | |
| Sustaining the Annual FLUXNET Paper | |
| 9:50 AM | Break |
| 10:20 AM | Invited Speaker: M. Susana Alvarado-Barrientos, INECOL. Title Operational advancements of the MexFlux network on its fifteenth anniversary |
| 10:40 AM | Session 4: Urban and Managed Lands |
| Ankur Desai, University of Wisconsin. Title: Here comes the sun: Eddy fluxes over agrivoltaic solar fields | |
| Kyle Delwiche, UC Berkeley. Title: Scalable Annual Carbon Flux Estimates in Restored Wetlands Using Data–Model Fusion | |
| 11:10 AM | Breakout report back |
| 11:30 AM | Closing Session |
| 12:00 PM | Meeting Adjourned |