National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Monday-- Center of Auditorium- Building CG1

8:00 am

CMS Applications Meeting Registration & Check-in (CG1 - Lobby)

8:30 am

Meet and Greet / Background Slides: CMS on COP22, Lesley Ott, CMS PI

9:15 am

9:30 am

9:45 am

Brief around-the-room introductions facilitated by Vanessa Escobar

• Introduction of all stakeholders in the room
• Stakeholders state their need/desired outcome(s) for CMS engagement.
• Define the work you do and the decision you are trying to make. How/What type of carbon data from the CMS (potentially) provides decision support?
  
  Goals & Objectives for the Day (Vanessa Escobar)

10:15am

10:30 am

Session for Stakeholder supporting CMS Products from ARL 1-3

10:30 am

Systematic observation and the Paris Agreement
ARL 3 – In conversations with Graven-01. (PIs: Graven-01, All CMS Projects)

Florin Vladu, UNFCCC Secretariat
[PPT]

10:50 am

MRV efforts to support implementation of REDD+ across forests in Mexico
ARL 1 – Using Vargas-01 CMS products for research and reference purposes and for report/document support.
(PIs: Vargas-01, Baccini-01, Olofsson-01, Walker-W-01, Dubey-01, Kellndorfer-01, Stehman-01, Healey-01, Houghton-02)

Ben de Jong, Terrestrial Ecosystems Coordinator, Mexican Carbon Program and Principal Investigator, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR)

11:10 am

Improving effectiveness of fire management and fire safety in Indonesia
ARL 1-2 – Using Cochrane-01 CMS products for national carbon accounting as well as improving fire management and fire safety. (PIs: Cochrane-01/02, Miller-J-03, Olofsson-01, Hagen-01, Dubey-01, Stehman-01, Healey-01, Houghton-02)

Israr Albar, Senior Officer and Researcher from Directorate of Forest Fire Management, DG of Climate Change, Indonesia Ministry of Environment and Forestry

11:30am

Use of CMS products for solving the national problem on peat fire
ARL 1-2 – Using Cochrane-01 CMS products for improving fire management and fire safety. (PIs: Cochrane-01/02, Miller-J-03, Olofsson-01, Hagen-01, Dubey-01, Stehman-01, Healey-01, Houghton-02)

Bambang Saharjo, Expert, Indonesia National Peatland Restoration Agency, and Head of Forest Fire Laboratory, Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University
(IPB)

11:50am

Discussion Panel for applications and uses for products with ARL 1-3
Feedback and recommendations moving forward

12:10pm

Lunch

1:30pm

Session for Stakeholder supporting CMS Products from ARL 4-6

1:30pm

NIST Urban Testbed System & NASA CMS Interactions
ARL 4 – Using Nehrkorn-01 CMS products for developing a long-term database of GHG concentrations.
(PIs: Nehrkorn-01, Andrews-03/02, Baker-01, Bowman-02/01, Jacob-02/01, Lohrenz-05/04, Ott-01, Windham-Myers-01, Asrar-West-04, Collatz-02, Duren-01/03, Graven-01, Lauvaux-01, Houghton-02, Huntzinger-01, Miller-J-01, Pawson-01, West-03)

James Whetstone, Special Assistant to the Director for Greenhouse Gas and Climate Science Measurements, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

1:50pm

Lidar for estimation of forest metrics in support of local resource management in the Western U.S.
ARL 4 – Using Hudak-01 CMS products for decision support, modeling and analysis, and implementing Hudak-01 Lidar processing and modeling approach.
(PIs: Hudak-01, Fatoyinbo-02, Ganguly-01, Greenberg-01, Hurtt-03, Morton-01/02, Walker-01, Williams-C-01, Cohen-02, Dubayah-04/03, Duren-01, Cook-B-01/03, Kennedy-01, Saatchi-02/03)

Mark Corrao, Wildland Hydrologist, Northwest Management, Inc.

2:10pm

Carbon cycle science in forested wetlands
ARL 5-6 – Using Fatoyinbo-01 CMS products to derive mangrove forest biomass estimates. (PIs: Fatoyinbo-01, Bowman-02/01, Lohrenz-05/04, Windham-Myers-01)

Carl Trettin, Team Leader, U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station

2:30pm

A joint USFS-NASA partnership to leverage advanced remote sensing for forest carbon assessment in interior Alaska
ARL 6 – Using Morton-02 and Cook-03 CMS products to implement a new sampling design for the forest inventory of interior Alaska and to estimate carbon stocks over the vast boreal forests of interior Alaska.
(PIs: Morton-02, Cook-B-03, Ganguly-01, Greenberg-01, Hudak-01, Hurtt-03, Williams-C-01, Cohen-02, Dubayah-04/03, Duren-01, French-04, Kennedy-01, Loboda-02, Saatchi-02/03)

Hans Erik Andersen, Research Forester, Resource Monitoring and Assessment/Forest Inventory and Analysis, U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station

2:50pm

Discussion Panel for applications and uses for products with ARL 4-6
Feedback and recommendations moving forward

3:10pm

Afternoon Break

3:25pm

Session for Stakeholder supporting CMS Products from ARL 7-9

3:25 pm

Using Regional Carbon Monitoring for Municipal GHG Inventories and Reporting
ARL 6/7 – Using Nehrkorn-01 CMS products to build city emissions inventory.
(PIs: Nehrkorn-01/02, Andrews-03/02, Baker-01, Bowman-02/01, Jacob-02/01, Lohrenz-05/04, Williams-C-01, Windham-Myers-01, Asrar-West-04, Cochrane-01/02, Duren-01/03, Graven-01, Miller-J-01, Pawson-01, West-03)

Leah Bamberger, Director of Sustainability, Office of Mayor Jorge O. Elorza, Providence City Hall

3:45 pm

Melissa Weitz, Environmental Protection Specialist, U.S. EPA Climate Change Division

4:05 pm

Maryland NASA CMS with the Maryland Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Act
ARL 8-9 - Using Dubayah-03 and Hurt-03 CMS products for policy purposes.
(PIs: Dubayah-04/03, Hurtt-03, Fatoyinbo-02, Ganguly-01, Greenberg-01, Hudak-01, Morton-01/02, Walker-01, Williams-C-01, Cohen-02, Duren-01, Cook-B-01/03, Kennedy-01, Saatchi-02/03)

Elliot Campbell, Director of the Centecial Science, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
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4:25 pm

Discussion Panel for applications and uses for products with ARL 7-9
Feedback and recommendations moving forward

Group Discussion
Improving data access, making products easier to find and leveraging relationships with stakeholders is a goal for CMS Applications and the CMS Initiative. This group discussion will start off with the a 15 minute presentation from the Data Management Working Group, Megan Mcgroddy and then follow up by a discussion from Vanessa Escobar on data merging and communication tools design for CMS Applications.
Following the talk, we will go into group discussion on individual CMS products and how they will/will not satisfy MRV, policy and GHG. Address what do stakeholders need/want? How can products (at all ARLs) be best applied to MRV.

Goals:

• Discuss future data management and communication tools recommendations for CMS.
• Create a list of challenges, opportunities, data format and requirements, uncertainty considerations, and a plan for implementation (if appropriate).
• Report at least two action items (one designated for CMS, the other for the stakeholder) that identify the next step forward in connecting CMS to decision processes and stakeholder needs.
• Feedback from the CMS partners to how and when they can/cannot respond to the needs identified.

5:20 pm

Summary of workshop and actions moving forward. Closing remarks.

Vanessa Escobar, CMS Applications Team Lead

5:40 pm

Tangible outcomes and actions for CMS based on workshop feedback. Closing remarks

George Hurtt, CMS ST Lead

6:00 pm

Meeting adjourn

Tuesday-- Center of Auditorium- Building CG1

8:00 am

HQ Perspective

Hank Margolis

8:15 am

STL Perspective

George Hurtt

8:30 am

CMS 13 Final Reports (15 min each)

8:30 am

Quantifying fossil and biospheric CO2 fluxes in California using ground-based and satellite observations

Graven-01
Marc Fischer

8:45 am

Off-the-shelf Commercial Compact Solar FTS for CO2 and CH4 Observations for MRV

Dubey-01
Manvendra Dubey

9:00 am

Quantification of the sensitivity of NASA CMS Flux inversions to uncertainty in atmospheric transport

Lauvaux-01
Martha Butler

9:15 am

Prototype Monitoring, Reporting and Verification System for the Regional Scale: The Boston-DC Corridor

Nehrkorn-01
Thomas Nehrkorn

9:30 am

Understanding user needs for carbon monitoring information

Duren-01
Riley Duren

9:45 am

A data assimilation approach to quantify uncertainty for estimates of biomass stocks and changes in Amazon forests

Keller-01
Paul Duffy

10:00 am

Developing Statistically Rigorous Sampling Design and Analysis Methods to Reduce and Quantify Uncertainties Associated with Carbon Monitoring Systems

Stehman-01
Stephen Stehman

10:15 am

Applications of the NASA Carbon Monitoring System: Engagement, Use, and Evaluation

Escobar-01
Vanessa Escobar

10:30 am

Break

10:45 am

Session: WG Progress Reports (10 min each)

10:45 am

Data

Megan McGroddy

10:55 am

Methane

Daniel Jacob

11:05 am

Algorithms/Uncertainties

Jonathan Greenberg

11:15 am

MRV

Grant Domke

11:25 am

Atmospheric Validation

Thomas Nehrkorn

11:35 am

External Communications

David Lagomasino

11:45 am

12:15 pm

Lunch & 2014 Poster Session --North end of Auditorium
(Presenters stand with poster 1:30-2:00pm)

2:00 pm

Breakout Session 1 (90 min)

Data-- Room 2503

Methane-- Room 3131

Algorithms/Uncertainties-- Room 2126

3:30 pm

Break

3:45 pm

Breakout Session 2 (90 min)

MRV-- Room 2503

Atmospheric Validation-- Room 3131

External Communications-- Room 2126

5:15 pm

Break

5:30 pm

6:00 pm

Adjourn

Wednesday-- Center of Auditorium- Building CG1

8:00 am

Day 2 Welcome

8:15 am

CMS13 Final Reports (15 min each)

8:15 am

A framework for carbon monitoring and upscaling in forests across Mexico to support implementation of REDD+

Vargas-01
Rodrigo Vargas

8:30 am

An Historically Consistent and Broadly Applicable MRV System Based on Lidar Sampling and Landsat Time-series (Tested in the US, and applied to the US NGHGI reporting system)

Cohen-02
Hans Andersen

8:45 am

Development of a Prototype MRV System to Support Carbon Ecomarket Infrastructure in Sonoma County

Dubayah-04
George Hurtt

9:00 am

A Joint USFS-NASA Pilot Project to Estimate Forest Carbon Stocks in Interior Alaska by Integrating Field, Airborne and Satellite Data

Morton-02
Douglas Morton

9:15 am

Filling a Critical Gap in Indonesia's National Carbon Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification Capabilities for Supporting REDD+ Activities: Incorporating, Quantifying and Locating Fire Emissions from Within Tropical Peat-swamp Forests

Cochrane-01
Mark Cochrane

9:30 am

Carbon Monitoring of Agricultural Lands: Developing a Globally Consistent Estimate of Carbon Stocks and Fluxes

Asrar-West-04
Ghassem Asrar

9:45 am

Operational multi-sensor design for national scale forest carbon monitoring to support REDD+ MRV systems

Hagen-01
Stephen Hagen

10:00 am

Time Series Fusion of Optical and Radar Imagery for Improved Monitoring of Activity Data, and Uncertainty Analysis of Emission Factors for Estimation of Forest Carbon Flux
—This will be presented as a poster.

Kellndorfer-03
Josef Kellndorfer

10:15 am

Discussion (15 min)

10:30 am

Break

10:45 am

CMS16 Speed Talks (5 min each)

10:45 am

Time-Series Measurements of Biomass Change from InSAR (TanDEM-X), MODIS, and LiDAR Observations

Baccini-01
Alessandro Baccini

10:50 am

Continuation and expansion to a national-scale of the filling a critical gap in Indonesia's national carbon monitoring, reporting, and verification capabilities for supporting REDD+ activities: Incorporating, quantifying and locating fire emissions from within tropical peat-swamp forests project

Cochrane-02
Mark Cochrane

10:55 am

Remote Sensing as a Bridge to Operational Forest Carbon Monitoring in Interior Alaska

Cook-B-03
Hans Andersen

11:00 am

Future Mission Fusion for High Biomass Forest Carbon Accounting

Fatoyinbo-02
Amy Neuenschwander

11:05 am

Cropland Carbon Monitoring System (CCMS): A satellite-based system to estimate carbon fluxes on U.S. Croplands

Izaurralde-02
Roberto Izaurralde

11:10 am

Tools to bridge the gap between static CMS maps, models, and stakeholders

Kennedy-02
Robert Kennedy

11:15 am

Tracking carbon emissions and removals by time series analysis of the land surface: prototype application in tropical MRV systems compliant with IPCC Tier 3

Olofsson-01
Pontus Olofsson

11:20 am

Annual GHG Inventory and MRV System for the US Forestlands

Saatchi-03
Sassan Saatchi

11:25 am

CMS Applications: Stakeholder Engagement and Analysis of CMS Data Products in Decision Making and Policy Frameworks

Escobar-02
Vanessa Escobar

11:30 am

Prototype methane monitoring system for California

Duren-03
Riley Duren

11:35 am

Global monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) system for carbon emissions from natural gas flaring

Elvidge-01
Chris Elvidge

11:40 am

Airborne Eddy Flux Measurements for Validation/Evaluation of High-Resolution MRV Systems

Kawa-03
Stephan Kawa

11:45 am

Towards a Complex Terrain Carbon Monitoring System (CMS-Mountains): Development and Testing in the Western U.S.

Lin-03
John Lin

11:50 am

Disaggregating Amazon Basin fire fluxes using remote sensing of atmospheric carbon monoxide and burned area

Miller-J-03
John Miller

11:55 am

Prototype regional carbon monitoring systems for urban regions

Nehrkorn-02
Thomas Nehrkorn

12:00 pm

Discussion (15 min)

12:15 pm

Lunch & Poster Session-- North end of Auditorium (1 hr and 45 min)

2:00 pm

CCE Office

Peter Griffith

2:15 pm

DAAC

2:30 pm

Discussion (15 min)

2:45 pm

WG Report Back (10 min each)

2:45 pm

Data

Megan McGroddy

2:55 pm

Methane

Daniel Jacob

3:05 pm

Algorithms/Uncertainties

Jonathan Greenberg

3:15 pm

MRV

Grant Domke

3:25 pm

Atmospheric Validation

Thomas Nehrkorn

3:35 pm

External Communications

David Lagomasino

3:45pm

4:15 pm

Break

4:30 pm

STL Reflection

4:45 pm

HQ Reflection

5:00 pm

Adjourn