Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting an abstract to our session *Recent Advances and Future Directions in Data-Model Integration: Approaches for Improving Predictive Understanding in the Biogeosciences* <https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session29270> (Session B060) at AGU this December.
*Confirmed invited speakers:* Anthony Walker (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Andy Fox (University of Arizona) *Session Description:* Terrestrial biogeochemical studies have increasingly focused on making quantitative forecasts, taking advantage of substantial increases in data availability, surges in computational capability and advances in terrestrial biosphere models. However, major uncertainties remain in current and future projections associated with these models. Data-model integration can lead to more realistic model projections, as data can be used to improve model boundary conditions, structures and parameterization, and models provide experimentalists with thorough and timely information for assessing and adjusting potential experimental designs. This session aims to include presentations on efforts to better understand terrestrial biogeochemical, water and energy cycles, especially in response to global change, through data-model integration. We therefore invite contributions from both experimentalists and modelers who share interests in diagnosing and reducing model uncertainty and improving our predictive understanding of responses of biogeochemical, water and energy cycles to global change using a wide range of data and novel, multidisciplinary approaches. *You can submit your abstract here <https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session29270>.* Submission Deadline: 2nd August. Please forward to interested colleagues. We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans! Natasha MacBean (University of Arizona) *on behalf of the session organizers:* Lifen Jiang (University of Oklahoma) Istem Fer (Boston University) Margaret S Torn (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) -- Dr Natasha MacBean | Associate Research Scientist School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona Email: nmacb...@email.arizona.edu Web: www.nmacbean.wordpress.com
