Theme: Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling and Climate Prediction
When:December 20-23, 2011
Where:B159, Engineering Building B, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
The CCCPR (Center for Climate/Environment Change Prediction Research) at Ewha Womans University is going to host the 3rd International Winter School and Workshop on Climate/Environment Change. The subject of the event in this year is Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling and Climate Prediction. Terrestrial ecosystems play a significant role in the Earth system. They interact with the atmosphere and land-surface through exchanges of energy, water, momentum, and atmospheric gases. The interactions ultimately give substantial feedbacks to climate. The lack of accurate representations of the terrestrial ecosystems and their biophysical and biogeochemical processes is a great source of uncertainty in current climate models. Consequently, understanding the feedback between vegetation and the climate is of particular importance for improving climate prediction. Graduate students and junior scientists all around the world whose interests include this topic are particularly encouraged to apply for this winter school.
Here we invite three lecturers who have internationally-recognized specialty on the topic in theoretical and practical manners.
Dr. Zong-Liang Yang (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Dr. Yang leads the Land, Environment, and Atmospheric Dynamics (LEAD) program in the Department of Geological Sciences in UT that quantitatively addresses how land surface processes affect and are affected by climate variability and climate change, with a focus on environmental issues of societal importance, such as the conditions of freshwater resources, ecosystems, and air quality.
Dr. Samuel Levis (NCAR, USA)
Dr. Levis is a Project Scientist in the Community Land Model (CLM) development and support team and the team’s scientific liaison at NCAR. He specializes on vegetation and crop modeling and his published work focuses on climate-vegetation interactions using coupled models. He has also studied aspects of land-atmosphere interactions relating to snow, volatile organic compounds, and hydrology.
Dr. Soung-Ryoul Ryu (University of Alberta, Canada)
Dr Ryu is a promising young scholar whose research addresses effects of disturbances and processes in forest ecosystems over various spatial and temporal scales, evaluation and quantification of the effects of disturbance on ecological processes in forest ecosystems, sustainable ecosystem management and urban landscapes.
Abstract
● Abstracts for the workshop should be submitted at registration page by November 18, 2011.
