Workshop–Wildfire Synthesis: May 3-5, 2017 in Flagstaff, Arizona
Using ABoVE as a platform for synthesis activities, the wildfire community came together to begin the process of a synthesis of wildfire field data across the ABoVE domain at a workshop from May 3rd-5th at Northern Arizona University. The workshop was organized by Michelle Mack, Xanthe Walker, and Jill Johnstone and included ~25 participants from multiple ABoVE core and affiliated projects, and even some wildfire community participants not listed on an ABoVE project. The workshop participants divided into two subgroups, one focused on forest regeneration following fire, and the other on carbon combustion estimation due to fire within the ABoVE domain. Throughout the workshop these two groups developed synthesis questions, planned analyses to address forest regrowth and fire combustion estimates, and discussed methods to use remote sensing data to scale-up these analyses to the entire ABoVE domain. Researchers brought previously collected field data (from NASA and other funding sources) together for this meta-analysis (the combustion group is now working with over 20,000 soil depth estimates, over 5,000 physical soil properties samples, and over 1,000 field sites for their analysis). Both subgroups plan to collate data and begin analyses now through the fall, with the goal to present their initial findings by the next ABoVE Science Team Meeting in January 2018. These analyses will result in multiple scientific papers, and multiple datasets able to be archived at the ORNL DAAC.
On-site (from left): Heather Alexander, Sarah Stehn, Liza Jenkins, Nicola Day, Evan Kane, Sarah Endres, Ellen Whitman, Xanthe Walker, Jennifer Baltzer, Michelle Mack, Jill Johnstone, Brian Howard, Elizabeth Hoy, Brendan Rogers, David Greene, Sander Veraverbeke. Not pictured: Scott Goetz, Ted Schuur
Remote participants: Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Carissa Brown, Helene Genet, Sue Natali, Marc-Andre Parisien, Merritt Turetsky
