Session 1 |
| | Special session honoring Professor John M. Norman (invited speakers only) |
| | CoChair: William P. Kustas, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD
Chair: Tracy E. Twine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
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| 9:00 AM | 1.1 | John Norman: Beyond an exceptional environment physicist 
Bertrand Tanner, Campbell Scientific Inc., Logan, UT |
| 9:15 AM | 1.2 | Forty years of figuring, finding, and finesse 
Jonathan M. Welles, LI-COR BioSciences, Lincoln, NE |
| 9:30 AM | 1.3 | Careful Measurements and Energy Balance Closure - The Case of Soil Heat Flux
Thomas J. Sauer, USDA/ARS, Ames, IA |
| 9:45 AM | 1.4 | Investigation of carbon sequestration in maize-based agroecosystems
Timothy J. Arkebauer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and E. A. Walter-Shea and M. A. Mesarch |
| 10:00 AM | 1.5 | Estimating site-specific environmental impacts of agriculture with PALMS
Christine C. Molling, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI |
| 10:15 AM | | Break
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| 10:45 AM | 1.6 | The closure problem: Happiness is a balanced equation
Tracy E. Twine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN |
| 11:00 AM | 1.7 | The Energy Budget within and above an Oak Forest in a Temperate-Humid Climate
Tim Wilson, NOAA/ERL/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN |
| 11:15 AM | 1.8 | Measurements and modeling of canopy architecture in high latitude, non-random forests: tales from BOREAS
Christopher J. Kucharik, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI |
| 11:30 AM | 1.9 | Mapping Drought and Soil Moisture with a Thermal Two-Source Surface Flux Model
Martha C. Anderson, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and W. P. Kustas |
| 11:45 AM | 1.10 | Strategy, the Right Questions, the Right Tools and Gamesmanship: Lessons on being a Scientist from Professor John Norman
Charles L. Walthall, USDA, Beltsville, MD |
| 12:00 PM | | Closing Remarks from Prof. J. M. Norman
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