Workshop Presentations (Microsoft PowerPoint format) – Please click on the highlighted title to open the PowerPoint slide presentation.

 

July 13, 2006

 

SESSION 1

 

FLUXNET: MEASURING CO2 AND WATER VAPOR FLUXES ACROSS A GLOBAL NETWORK

            Dennis Baldocchi, ESPM/Ecosystem Science Div., University of California, Berkeley

 

INDIAN OVERVIEW

A.P. MITRA, Chennai

 

TOWER FLUX MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS

            Verma

 

SESSION 2

 

INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION (ISRO) EFFORTS ON BOUNDARY LAYER STUDIES AND SURFACE FLUXES

            Dr. CBS Dutt, Deputy Programme Director  ISRO-GBP

 

CONTROLS ON CARBON AND ENERGY EXCHANGES BETWEEN A MANGROVE FOREST AND THE ATMOSPHERE

Jose D. Fuentes, Jordan G. Barr, Jay C. Zieman; University of Virginia

Vic Engel; U.S. National Park Service

Dan Childers, Florida International University

 

TRACE GAS MEASUREMENTS IN INDIA

            S. Lal, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India

 

SESSION 3

 

THE INDIAN OCEAN‘S ROLE IN GHG VARIABILITY OVER INDIA

            Raghu Murtugudde, ESSIC-DAOS, University of Maryland

 

MONITORING OF BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES IN COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS: NATURAL CYCLES AND LONG-TERM TRENDS

            James T. Morris, Dept. of Biological Sciences and Belle Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences, University of South Carolina

 

SIBER: SUSTAINED INDIAN OCEAN BIOGEOCHEMICAL AND ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

           

TRACE GAS FLUXES FROM COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS OF INDIA

R. Ramesh,  R. Purvaja, V. Neetha, B. Senthilkumar, A. Nirmal Rajkumar,  K. Krithika, A.K. Ray, Jennifer Divia, J. Barnes,  and R.C, Upstill Goddard,  Institute for Ocean Management, Anna University, Chennai, India, and the School of Marine Science & Technology, University of  Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

 

THE SURFACE OCEAN - LOWER ATMOSPHERE STUDY

            Rob Upstill-Goddard, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

 

 

July 14, 2006

 

SESSION 1

 

REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR HYDROLOGIC MONITORING AND MODELING

            Ramakrishna Nemani, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

 

A REFERENCE MODEL AND PRACTICAL GUIDANCE FOR DESIGN OF INDOFLUX DATA ARCHIVING

            Dr. Matthew K. Howard, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

 

SOIL-PLANT-ATMOSPHERE STUDY IN RELATION TO NET FLUX FROM KAZIRANGA NATIONAL FOREST OF ASSAM

            Prof. K. K. Baruah, Department of Environmental Science, Tezpur University, Assam, India

 

LONG TERM MONITORING OF VEGETATION GREENESS FROM SATELLITES

            Ranga Myneni, Boston University

 

SESSION 2

 

INDOFLUX NETWORK POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTION OF RRL HUBANESWAR

            Dr. G. Roy Chaudhury, Scientist, Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar

 

DATA MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS FOR INDOFLUX: ARCHIVES * ANALYSIS * STANDARDIZATION * QUALITY

            Suresh Kumar, Thomas Boden, Bob Cook, Susan Holladay, CDIAC and DAAC team, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tennessee, USA

 

ROLE OF AMMONIA IN FORMATION OF SECONDARY PARTICULATE MATTER: A STUDY FROM KANPUR, INDIA

            Mukesh Sharma, Shyam Kishore, Tejas, and Sailesh, Environmental Engineering and Management Program, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India

 

QUALITY ASSURANCE IN INDO-FLUX THROUGH TRACEABILITY TO INDIAN NMI - NPL NEW DELHI

            Prabhat K. Gupta, Scientist F & Head, Analytical Chemistry Section, National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi, India

 

SESSION 3

 

DESIGNING CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT END SCIENCE

Deb Agarwal (UCB and LBNL), Catharine van Ingen (MSFT), Berkeley Water Center, Microsoft TCI

 

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS

            Chaitan Baru, Director, Science R&D, San Diego Supercomputer Center

 

BUILDING COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH NETWORKS

            William Michener, LTER Network Office, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico

 

CLIMATE CHANGE, LAND USE AND FORESTS IN INDIA: RESEARCH AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK IN THE CONTEXT OF THE INDO-US FLUX PROGRAMME

R. Sukumar & N.H.Ravindranath, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

 

SESSION 4

 

CENTRE FOR ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCES – A NATIONAL FACILITY AT BOSE INSTITUTE (A PROJECT UNDER IRHPA SCHEME)

            Sibaji Raha, Bose Institute, Kolkata

 

WEATHER AND CLIMATE RESEARCH PROGRAMS OF DST

            P. Sanjeeva Rao, Department Of Science & Technology, New Delhi

 

ESTABLISHING AN INDOFLUX – A LONG-TERM BIOGEOCHEMICAL MONITORING NETWORK IN INDIA TO STUDY GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE 

            G Srinivasan, Shambhu Singh & KJ Ramesh, Department of Science & Technology, India

P V Sundareshwar, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA