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2018 Year in Review

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Mike Dietze
Mike Dietze
PEcAn Project PI

A roundup of PEcAn project activities and highlights from 2018.

The year featured conference presentations, invited talks, and another round of community-building through Google Summer of Code and related outreach.

Conferences and Presentations​

10th World Dendro Conference (June 2018)​

Anne Raiho attended the 10th World Dendro Conference and gave a talk on "Improving predictions of forest succession with data assimilation".

AMS 33rd Conference (May 2018)​

Ankur Desai gave a talk at the American Meteorological Society 33rd Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology on "Bringing Forest Management into Earth System Models: Insights from Observations and Theory".

Drought-Net Steering Committee Meeting (May 2018)​

Elizabeth Cowdery gave a presentation on "The PEcAn Project: Tools for Ecosystem Model-Data Fusion" at the Drought-Net Steering Committee Meeting.

Graduate Student Talk at LBL (April 2018)​

Elizabeth Cowdery gave a presentation on "The New PEcAn Project Benchmarking System: Accessible Tools for On-demand Multi-Model Evaluation" at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab graduate student seminar.

NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team Meeting (April 2018)​

Alexey Shiklomanov gave a talk at the NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team Meeting in Washington D.C. titled: "Cutting out the middle man: Calibrating and validating an ecosystem model with remotely sensed surface reflectance".

qBio Seminar (April 2018)​

Ankur Desai gave a talk at the qBio seminar series at the University of Wisconsin - Madison titled, "Move over weatherperson: Can we actually forecast ecology?"

Google Summer of Code 2018 (March 2018)​

The PEcAn project was selected to participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) once again for 2018. We were excited to work with more great developers. The application period ran from March 12th-27th.