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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Hi Jess,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>That sounds like a good way to make folks aware of ongoing climate-related research at LUQ. Sunny—the postdoc working on ED—could also submit an abstract to this session. Her work fits well within the ESM theme.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Maria<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> luq [mailto:luq-bounces@lists.lternet.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jess Zimmerman<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 26, 2016 8:08 AM<br><b>To:</b> LUQ-LTER <luq@lternet.edu><br><b>Subject:</b> [LTER-luq] Fwd: AGU Session B087 on Tropical Forests Under a Changing Climate<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Folks,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am making you aware of this opportunity to represent LUQ science at the next AGU meeting. I think we could submit a joint presentation based on our well-received symposium on the 2015 drought at the annual meeting. But, first I'd like to hear from individual researchers on their plans for the meeting. Let us know what you think you might submit and then we can plan from there.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>jess<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Jess K. Zimmerman<br>Professor<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Lead PI, Luquillo LTER Program<br>Department Environmental Sciences<br>University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras<br>Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Tel: 787-764-0000 ext. 1-XXXX-# where XXXX is:<br> LTER Program Office: 88233<br> El Verde Field Station: 83467<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Mobile: 787-380-3311<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b>Jeffrey Chambers</b> <<a href="mailto:jchambers@lbl.gov">jchambers@lbl.gov</a>><br>Date: Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 8:42 PM<br>Subject: AGU Session B087 on Tropical Forests Under a Changing Climate<br>To: <a href="mailto:ngee-tropics-key-personnel@googlegroups.com">ngee-tropics-key-personnel@googlegroups.com</a>, <a href="mailto:ngee-tropics-sab@googlegroups.com">ngee-tropics-sab@googlegroups.com</a>, NGEE Tropics El Nino <<a href="mailto:ngee-tropics-el-nino@googlegroups.com">ngee-tropics-el-nino@googlegroups.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:friends-of-ngee-tropics@googlegroups.com">friends-of-ngee-tropics@googlegroups.com</a>, "Stover, Daniel" <<a href="mailto:Daniel.Stover@science.doe.gov">Daniel.Stover@science.doe.gov</a>>, "<a href="mailto:dorothy.koch@science.doe.gov">dorothy.koch@science.doe.gov</a>" <<a href="mailto:dorothy.koch@science.doe.gov">dorothy.koch@science.doe.gov</a>>, "DeForest, Jared IPA" <<a href="mailto:Jared.DeForest@science.doe.gov">Jared.DeForest@science.doe.gov</a>><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:ngee-tropics-ec@googlegroups.com">ngee-tropics-ec@googlegroups.com</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'>Dear tropical friends and colleagues, </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'>We are pleased to let you know that <a href="http://eesa.lbl.gov/ngee-tropics" target="_blank">NGEE-Tropics</a> will be convening an AGU session on "Tropical Forests Under a Changing Climate" at the Fall Meeting, taking place in San Francisco, Dec 12-16.</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'>We welcome your abstract submissions (click here: <a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13688" target="_blank">https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13688</a>), which are due by <b>Wednesday August 5.</b></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'><br>Please feel free to forward to interested colleagues. </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'>We look forward to a very productive session!</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'>Best regards,</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'>Jeff Chambers (UC Berkeley/LBNL), Tom Powell (LBNL), Charlotte Grossiord (LANL), Brad Christoffersen (LANL)</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'>NGEE-Tropics</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'><a href="http://eesa.lbl.gov/ngee-tropics" target="_blank">http://eesa.lbl.gov/ngee-tropics</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white;background:#C65E27'> B087: Tropical forests under a changing climate </span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Session ID#: </span></strong><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>13688</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h5 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Session Description:</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></h5><div style='margin-bottom:11.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Tropical forests comprise the most biologically diverse terrestrial ecosystems, cycle more carbon and water than any other biome, and play critical roles in determining Earth’s energy balance. Thus a better understanding of tropical forest processes is required to develop improved Earth System Models (ESMs). Improving representation of these processes in ESMs requires a tight coupling of model development and process-based field and lab investigations. This session will focus on research in tropical forests from an Earth system perspective including both modeling and measurement results. Processes to be highlighted include the response of tropical forests to moisture deficits and drought, elevated temperatures, and changing disturbance/demographic rates, including the role of biodiversity and belowground biogeochemistry in modulating these processes. Of particular interest are contributions that explore El Niño impacts on tropical forest ecohydrology and carbon cycle responses.</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Primary Convener: Jeffrey Q Chambers</span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Conveners: Thomas Powell</span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>1, <b>Charlotte Grossiord</b>2 and <b>Bradley O Christoffersen</b>2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States(2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div style='margin-top:2.4pt;margin-bottom:9.6pt'><h5 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Index Terms:</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></h5><div style='margin-bottom:11.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br><a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/start?words=0410" target="_blank"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>0410 Biodiversity</span></a> [BIOGEOSCIENCES] <br><a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/start?words=0426" target="_blank"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions</span></a> [BIOGEOSCIENCES] <br><a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/start?words=0428" target="_blank"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>0428 Carbon cycling</span></a> [BIOGEOSCIENCES] </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><br><a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/start?words=0439" target="_blank"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics</span></a><span style='color:#333333'> [BIOGEOSCIENCES]</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=hoenzb><span style='color:#888888'>-- </span></span><span style='color:#888888'><br><span class=hoenzb>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Friends of NGEE Tropics" group.</span><br><span class=hoenzb>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to <a href="mailto:friends-of-ngee-tropics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">friends-of-ngee-tropics+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.</span><br><span class=hoenzb>To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:friends-of-ngee-tropics@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">friends-of-ngee-tropics@googlegroups.com</a>.</span><br><span class=hoenzb>To view this discussion on the web visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/friends-of-ngee-tropics/CAMQ9S%2B0wsNxE4Z9pauNkvbth9T7m4rQLBk_i-YZZ1s8wdgOHZA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/friends-of-ngee-tropics/CAMQ9S%2B0wsNxE4Z9pauNkvbth9T7m4rQLBk_i-YZZ1s8wdgOHZA%40mail.gmail.com</a>.</span><br><span class=hoenzb>For more options, visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/optout" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/optout</a>.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>