[HubbardBrookCOS] Fwd: Two INTERFACE-sponsored meetings: student / postdoc applications welcome

[Lindsey E. Rustad]

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> From: "Dukes, Jeffrey S" <jsdukes at purdue.edu>
> Date: March 2, 2016 at 11:40:27 AM CST
> To: "interface at lists.purdue.edu" <interface at lists.purdue.edu>
> Subject: Two INTERFACE-sponsored meetings: student / postdoc applications welcome
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> INTERFACE community and friends:
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> INTERFACE invites applications for US-based students / postdocs to attend two upcoming meetings.  This is the first notice of funds for a workshop on Phosphorus Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems (see below).  Information about this meeting and also the previously advertised After the extreme: Measuring and modeling impacts on terrestrial ecosystems when thresholds are exceeded workshop (taking place in April in Florence) is available at the INTERFACE web site.  Please note that the application deadline is rapidly approaching for the "Extreme" meeting.  
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> Please forward this information to relevant students, postdocs, and lists.
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> Thanks,
> Jeff
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> P.S.  We have been using the Twitter hashtag #INTERFACE2016 to advertise and report on INTERFACE meetings this year.
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> Phosphorus Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Taking a new approach to advancing our fundamental understanding through a model-data connection
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> Place: Townsend, Tennessee, USA
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> Date: May 22-25, 2016
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> We invite applications from US-based graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to attend the workshop “Phosphorus Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Taking a new approach to advancing our fundamental understanding through a model-data connection” to be held in Townsend, Tennessee, from May 22-25, 2016. The workshop is sponsored by the US Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the NSF-funded INTERFACE Research Coordination Network. Selected applicants will have their travel and lodging expenses reimbursed by INTERFACE.  Meeting details are below. 
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> To apply please submit the following items, consolodated into a single PDF file: 1) a one-page CV that includes the name, email address, and phone number for your current dissertation or postdoctoral advisor, 2) a short paragraph on why attending the meeting would enhance your career, 3) a statement if you have received prior INTERFACE support, and 4) a poster abstract.  The PDF file must be named "Lastname_INTERFACE_Phosphorus" and emailed to Jeff Dukes (jsdukes at purdue.edu). The subject line of the email must be the same as the file name. Application deadline is April 7, 2016. All students and postdocs will be REQUIRED to present a poster at the meeting.
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> Why hold a workshop on this topic?  Phosphorus (P) has been shown to limit a number of fundamental processes in a wide range of ecosystems; however, despite its importance, most earth system models do not currently include any manner of the P cycle. This hinders the utility of these models for generating and testing hypotheses and for forecasting the effects of global change. Importantly, a critical challenge for P modeling efforts is also a critical challenge for the scientific community as a whole; namely, determining a way forward for improving our understanding of the key drivers, processes, and global change responses of the P cycle. Bringing together P experts would allow for the addressing of this need through: (1) a more synthetic understanding and conceptualization of P cycle dynamics, (2) the merging of varied P and associated data, (3) improved process-based modeling of the P cycle, and (4) P data-model integration. Another potential success stems from the power of explicit collaborations between empiricists who study P cycling and modelers considering the inclusion of P into models.
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> Participants will represent diverse theoretical, empirical, and numerical modeling perspectives that are critical for improving our understanding of the terrestrial P cycle in the context of global change. The meeting will include experts that span a variety of research perspectives and methods and is expected to have five outcomes: 1) an improved understanding of terrestrial P cycling from varied assessments; 2) synthesized datasets that will be publicly available for analysis and modeling; 3) a meeting report that will be submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal and a complementary set of data-based papers; 4) a set of plans for collaborative research project(s)/grant(s) to identify approaches likely to gain the knowledge necessary for improved understanding in critical areas; and 5) a network of individuals dedicated to fostering cross-disciplinary approaches to P research.
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> The organizing committee consists of Xiaojuan Yang (ORNL, USA), Rich Norby (ORNL, USA), Sasha Reed (USGS, USA), Jeff Dukes (Purdue University, USA), and Peter Thornton (ORNL, USA).
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> ____________________________________________
> Jeffrey S. Dukes
> Director, Purdue Climate Change Research Center
> Professor, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
> and Department of Biological Sciences
> Purdue University
> 715 West State Street 
> West Lafayette, IN  47907-2061 
> Tel: +1 765 494-1446  Fax: +1 765 494-9461
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> Email:  jsdukes at purdue.edu
> http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~jsdukes/lab/index.html
> Twitter: @DukesJeff
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> Purdue Climate Change Research Center:
> http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/climate/
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> INTERFACE research coordination network:
> http://www.bio.purdue.edu/INTERFACE/index.php
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