The abstract submission deadline of AMS 32nd Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology is February 8.  The Conference will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, 20 – 24 June 2016, joint with 22nd Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, the Third Conference on Biogeosciences, and a special session for Bill Massman.

You can find topics you might be interested in bellow:

Topics

Measuring and modeling terrestrial ecosystem responses to climate change      

• Upscaling flux measurements to regional, continental and global scale
• Integrating land surface measurements into biogeochemical models
• Climate controls of carbon, water, energy, and nutrient cycling from leaf to globe
• Microbial controls of biogeochemical cycling
• Nitrogen and methane cycles in a changing climate
• Inland water biogeochemical and energy exchange and its regional and global implications

Changing Land-Use in Forest and Agricultural Regions   

• Land use and land cover in semi-arid ecosystems
• Vegetation change in boreal and arctic ecosystems
• Changes in land use from field crops to biofuel crops
• Tropical forests in a changing climate
• Mapping terrestrial biome productions (GPP)

Impacts of climate extreme on forest and agricultural systems 

• Global and regional water-food-energy security in a changing climate
• Forest disturbance, health, and biogeochemical cycle in a changing climate
• Responses to the effects of drought on agriculture
• Extreme climate events and natural disasters in tropical systems

Adaptation of cities to climate change  

• Impacts of urban plumes on forest and agricultural ecosystems
• Water, energy and society in urban systems
• Observing and modeling urban transport of carbon & pollutants
• Urban-atmosphere exchange and PBL evolution
• Micrometeorological processes, transport and dispersion within and above plant and urban canopies

Understanding and uncertainties in measuring and modeling ecosystem-atmosphere exchanges            

• Canopy flows in stable conditions
• Issues and new perspectives in eddy covariance measurements
• Boundary layer processes over complex terrain and heterogeneous surfaces
• Novel instruments and systems for measuring ecosystem -atmosphere exchanges
• New theory, ideas and approaches in understanding ecosystem -atmosphere exchanges

You can find the Call for Papers for each conference and more information, including a link to the abstract submission portal, here:

https://www2.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/meetings-events/ams-meetings/32agforest-22blt-3biogeo/

Campbell Scientific is located in Logan, Utah, about 80 miles north of Salt Lake City (1.5 hour drive). Campbell promised to support a field trip for conference attendees to visit and see the manufacturing processes and quality, calibration, and testing. We are also planning to have some near-by beautiful sight-seeing (BBQ) with this field trip. A complete plan and schedule must be after the deadline of abstract submission!