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2015 Year in Review

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Mike Dietze
Mike Dietze
PEcAn Project PI

A roundup of PEcAn project activities and highlights from 2015.

The year brought new team members, community-building efforts, and steady advances in releases, grants, and research applications across the PEcAn ecosystem.

Team Updates​

New PEcAn Project Manager (June 2015)​

The project welcomed a new Project Manager to help coordinate development and community engagement.

Workshops and Training​

Flux Course 2015 (July 2015)​

The PEcAn team returned to teach at the Niwot Ridge Flux Course, providing hands-on training in eddy covariance and ecosystem modeling.

PEcAn presentation for Harvard Forest REU's (June 2015)​

Mike Dietze presented to the Harvard Forest Research Experience for Undergraduates program.

Building Global Ecological Understanding Workshop (May 2015)​

Team participation in this important workshop on global ecology.

COST PROFOUND Spring School (April 2015)​

The team contributed to the COST PROFOUND training activities.

Conferences and Presentations​

PEcAn Team at AGU 2015 (December 2015)​

Multiple team members presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting with various talks and posters.

PEcAn at ESA Centennial (August 2015)​

The team had a significant presence at the Ecological Society of America's 100th anniversary meeting.

PEcAn at IALE 2015 (July 2015)​

Presentations at the International Association for Landscape Ecology conference.

PEcAn at NACP 2015 (January 2015)​

The PEcAn team had a large presence at the North American Carbon Program's 5th All Investigator's Meeting in Washington DC, January 26-29, 2015.

On Tuesday, Mike Dietze presented "The PEcAn Project: a scalable, multi-model platform for uncertainty quantification, analysis, and propagation" in the Uncertainty session. The team organized a hands-on PEcAn workshop at 7pm on Tuesday.

Poster presentations were given by Betsy Cowdery, Josh Mantooth, Afshin Pourmokhtarian, Christine Rollinson, and Alexey Shiklomanov.

Seminars and Invited Talks​

PEcAn talk at University of New Hampshire (March 2015)​

Mike Dietze gave an invited seminar at UNH.

PEcAn talk at Stony Brook University (February 2015)​

Another invited seminar showcasing the PEcAn project.

PEcAn at Montana State (January 2015)​

Presentation of PEcAn capabilities and applications.

Job Postings and Opportunities​

Now Hiring! PEcAn Project Manager (February 2015)​

The project advertised for a new Project Manager position.

Project Activities​

PEcAn at NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop (January 2015)​

Participation in this important NASA science workshop.

Brown Dog @ NSF HQ (January 2015)​

Presentation of the Brown Dog cyberinfrastructure project (related to PEcAn) at NSF headquarters.

PEcAn Allometries at Harvard Forest 2015 (January 2015)​

Work on allometric relationships for ecosystem modeling.

Grants and Funding​

Two DOE ARPA-E grants will support high throughput plant phenotyping (July 2015)​

Important funding announcements for related phenotyping research.

Publications and Media​

NCSA features PEcAn 1.4.3 in news (August 2015)​

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications featured the PEcAn 1.4.3 release in their news.

Help Build rOpensci interface to BETYdb and PEcAn (July 2015)​

Call for community contributions to develop R package interfaces.

Software Releases​

PEcAn 1.4.3 Released (July 2015)​

Major software release with new features and improvements.