2025 AmeriFlux Annual Meeting Agenda

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October 22, 2025

Time PacificTopic
8:30 AMWelcome from the meeting Chair, DOE BER and AMP
9:00Welcome from Local Meeting Chairs
9:15 AMSession 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 AMbreak
10:45 AMPoster Session
12:15 PMLunch and Poster Q&A
1:15 PMgo to bus shuttle, transfer
2:00 PMExploring the Arizona ecosystem: Visit to Desert Museum
5:15 PMreturn transfer, drop off at University Campus
5:45 PMAdjourn

October 23, 2025

Time PacificTopic
8:30 AMAnnouncements Day 2
8:40 AMSession 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
9:40-10:05AMBreak
10:15 AMBreakout session: 4 parallel topics
10:05 AMbreakout 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 AMState and Future of the AmeriFlux Network
12:00 PMLunch and small group discussions on State and Future of the Network
1:00 PMPoster Session
2:45 PMSession 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 PMbreak
4:15 PMAmeriFlux Town Hall
5:15 PMOptional: Tour of the Tucson Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
7:00 PMConference Dinner

October 24, 2025

Time PacificTopic
8:30 AMAnnouncements Day 3
8:40 AMbreakout intro
8:50 AMBreakout session: 3 parallel topics
Evapotranspiration partitioning in wetlands
Code Snippet Sharing for Flux Research
Sustaining the Annual FLUXNET Paper
9:50 AMBreak
10:20 AMInvited Speaker: M. Susana Alvarado-Barrientos, INECOL. Title Operational advancements of the MexFlux network on its fifteenth anniversary
10:40 AMSession 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 AMBreakout report back
11:30 AMClosing Session
12:00 PMMeeting Adjourned