Thursday AM

Fire in Earth System Lectures

Lunch

AGU President Lecture

Marcia McNutt (NAS)

Suggesting that Geosciences must take a page from the bio life science playbook - focus on a Convergnence

Convergence is the integration of engineering, physical sciences, computation and life sciences with profound benefits for medicine and health, energy and environment.

Phil Sharp - MIT

Promoting Convergence in Biomedical Science

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/333/6042/527

Afternoon session Tree die-off

eDART: Ecosystem Disturbance and recovery tracker http://www.cstarsd3s.ucdavis.edu/systems/edart/

Nate McDowell 

Forest mortality: carbon starvation and hydraulic failure. 

Tree Yi https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/118112

Suggests that two curves exist for wet and dry periods and ring width index (RWI) - related to SPEI.

In wet periods RWI is limited by solar radiation, for periods of drought it is water limited. 

Shan Gao, student.

Bill Anderegg

PM Session

Fire in the Earth System III

Fire Radiative Power --as measured by MODIS 65-85.5 Mega Watts

Mike Flannigan 

http://www.pnas.org/content/113/48/13684.abstract