First MC1 Users Conference in Corvallis (OR)

Tuesday Jan 11 and Wed Jan 12, 2011

The conference took place at CBI offices, downtown Corvallis (136 SW Washington, Corvallis OR 97330)

Day 1 – Tuesday January 11 – starting time 9am.

VIDEO

9 am Welcome / Introductions - Dave Conklin

Brief history of MC1 - Dominique Bachelet

Quick Survey – current expectations, level of knowledge - Dominique

10 am "What we want to use MC1 for” -10 min presentations

Pan Tao (China Academy of Sciences) (via Skype) - Presentation

Anup Krishna Prasad (Chapman U.) - Presentation

Karen Carney (Stratus Consulting) - Presentation

Amy Symstad (USGS) Wind Cave National Park - Presentation

Lei Lei (ESRI) [Presentation will be posted when approved by ESRI]

~11 am Elizabeth Crisfield (U. PA) (via Skype)

Gabriel Yospin (U of O.) - Presentation

Bear Pitts (OSU) - no formal presentation

Jim Lenihan (USFS) - no formal presentation

Dave Conklin (CBI) - see last slide of earlier presentation

Lunch break

1 pm "How we do it"

Let’s talk about input data

Chris Daly (OSU): Creating historical climate data

Ray Drapek (USFS): Creating future scenarios

Myrica McCune (OSU): Creating soils datasets for MC1

2:30 pm Challenges that have been encountered by recent users

Elizabeth Crisfield (via Skype)

Brendan Rogers (UC Irvine) (via Skype) - Presentation

Gabe Yospin (U of O.)

Bear Pitts (OSU)

Jeremiah Osborne Gowey (CBI) - Presentation

Ken Ferschweiler (CBI)

3:45 prep for setting up machines with MC1 on Wednesday

4:00 pm – no-host bar at Enoteca next door

4:30 Data Basin presentation by Jim Strittholt (CBI)

~5 pm end for the day

Day 2 – Wednesday January 12 – starting time 9:15 am.

Practical session

Jeremiah Osborne Gowey: Uploading netCDF data to Data Basin (Presentation)

”How it runs” - David Conklin and Ken Ferschweiler

Demos of model point runs on Mac laptops and the Amazon cloud

Quick discussion about compilers

What constitutes a complete input dataset?

Presentation of grid runs

Setting up machines with MC1

Lunch break

1 pm Setting up machines with MC1, continued

3:00 Panel discussion with new users: wish list - how should the model improve to

meet the needs? Who will be doing what?

4:00 Wrap-up incl. an update on recent MC1 development at CBI – Dave Conklin

Follow-up Survey: usefulness of the meeting, learning experience, level of engagement

Participants:

Dr. Dominique Bachelet, CBI & OSU (bachelet@fsl.orst.edu)

Dr. Karen Carney, Stratus Consulting (KCarney@stratusconsulting.com)

Dr. David Conklin, CBI (david.conklin@consbio.org)

Elizabeth Crisfield, Pennsylvania State Univ. (eac16@psu.edu) (by Skype)

Dr. Chris Daly, PRISM group director, Oregon State Univ. (chris.daly@oregonstate.edu)

Dr. Ray Drapek, USFS (drapek@fsl.orst.edu)

Ken Ferschweiler, CBI (kenninof@gmail.com)

Russell Jones, Stratus Consulting (RJones@stratusconsulting.com)

Dr. David King, Oregon State Univ. (dkingaz@yahoo.com)

Lei Lei, ESRI (llei@esri.com)

Dr. James Lenihan, USFS (lenihan@fsl.orst.edu)

Myrica McCune, Oregon State Univ. (Myrica.McCune@oregonstate.edu)

Dr. Ron Neilson, USFS (neilson@fsl.orst.edu)

Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey, CBI (jeremiah@consbio.org)

Bear Pitts, Oregon State Univ. (bear.pitts@oregonstate.edu)

Dr. Anup Prasad, Chapman Univ. (aprasad@chapman.edu)

Brendan Rogers, UC Irvine (brog107@gmail.com) (by Skype)

Tim Sheehan, Univ. of Oregon (sheehan2@uoregon.edu)

Dr. Jim Strittholt, CBI executive director (stritt@consbio.org)

Dr. Amy Symstad, USGS, Wind Cave National Park (aymstad@usgs.gov)

Dr. Pan Tao, China Academy of Sciences (pantao@igsnrr.ac.cn) (by Skype)

John Wells, Oregon State Univ. (john.r.wells@oregonstate.edu)

Gabriel Yospin, Univ. of Oregon (gyospin@uoregon.edu)