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Agenda

Note: This workshop was held June 8-9, 2009.
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Day 1
8:00 – 8:30 Registration/coffee

Morning Session
Background and Setting the Stage

8:30 - Introduction and Goals of Workshop - Dave Skole

9:30 - Plenary Presentations

Contribution of terrestrial land surface to the carbon cycle, evidence from atmospheric models - Anna Michalak
Sources and Sinks of Carbon from Land-Use Change & Management - Richard (Skee) Houghton
Climate Change and Land Use - Robert Mendelson
Design and Planning to Manage the Carbon Cycle: Invention and Variation in Land Use and Land Cover - Joan Nassauer

11:45 -Break – get box lunches

Afternoon Session
Working Lunch with Box Lunch and charge to the breakout groups

12:00 - Review of breakout structure/purpose and 1st Breakout Presentation

Land Management and Carbon - Ron Huntsinger

12:30 - 1st breakout Session: Management Challenges

3:00 - 2nd breakout Presentation

Observations for Land Use and Land Cover Change and Carbon Cycle Investigations - Tom Loveland

3:30 - 2nd Breakout Session: Observations

5:00 - Poster session with cash bar

6:30 - Adjourn

Day 2
8:00 Coffee – time for breakout groups to set up for progress reports

Morning Session
3rd Breakout Session

8:30 - 2nd Breakout group progress report

9:00 - 3rd breakout Presentation

Integrated Modeling of Land Use/Cover and the Carbon Cycle - Dan Brown

9:30 - 3rd Breakout Session: Modeling and Integrating Science and Management

12:00 - Lunch Provided

Afternoon Session
Plenary Discussions & Workshop Results

1:00 - Panel discussion and review of breakout outputs (speakers & breakout leaders)

2:30 - Assimilation of group reports and identification of actions (organizing committee)

3:30 - Summary and the way forward

4:00 - Adjourn