Flux Course News

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Fluxcourse - postponed until 2022

Folks - we have been getting some questions from flux people and unfortunately we don’t see a way to run the course in person this year. We will try to put out some edited videos from previous courses over the next few months.  

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Global Photosynthesis: How much carbon is taken up by terrestrial plants?

Dr Carl Bernacchi does the math on how much carbon land plants take up each year.

Check out our youtube channel for more clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSbXbiIvza7E2YfHcRxa0dA

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Net Photosynthesis is Not Just Photosynthesis

When we measure photosynthesis using gas exchange, we measure how much carbon dioxide is either taken up or released by a leaf - so really we are measuring a net flux of carbon dioxide. In this video Dr Carl Bernacchi walks through the components of these fluxes.

Check out our youtube channel for more clips https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSbXbiIvza7E2YfHcRxa0dA 

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Check out the new #Fluxcourse youtube channel! We will be uploading content from previous years. This is the Flux Course Promo video to kick things off.

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Fluxcourse will return in 2021

Hello everyone

We decided that there will be no fluxcourse in 2020. We wrote to the students who applied earlier today and we hope that they can apply next year. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption to instructors and potential students. While the pandemic might subside by July, we do not think it is safe or prudent to plan for students and instructors from across the world to travel to Colorado this summer. 

The instructors will use the time to work on a manuscript for Oecologia that outlines the theoretical rationale for the course. We will also try to improve the online section of our website so that folks who cannot attend can get some introduction to the material we cover. 

If you are curious (or perhaps housebound) - you can take a look at a series of videos we produced in 2012 and 2015. 

Among these videos are wonderful gems like:

The legendary Ray Leuning explaining the Eddy Flux 

Kim Novick making a pitch for analyzing water and energy fluxes

Dave Schimel’s Chalk Talk - understanding the carbon cycle using the atmosphere

The delightful reminiscence of Russ Monson as he tracks how our understanding of C4 Photosynthesis evolved

We will be posting periodically to highlight these videos and some supporting reading material and exercises. 

Good luck - stay safe and flatten the curve

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#fluxcourse 2020

Reminder that today is the last day to apply to this years #fluxcourse Apply here: www.fluxcourse.org/contact.html

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Fluxcourse 2020

Less than a week to go till #fluxcourse applications are due!

Check out Pat morgan at #fluxcourse on theory of leaf-level gas exchange measurements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPd8iMpgNmA

Deadline for applications is March 17th Apply here: http://www.fluxcourse.org/contact.html

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#fluxcourse 2020

Here is another lecture from a previous #fluxcourse 

Check out Marcy Litvak discuss fluxes across ecological gradients: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJBevHvNvWM

Deadline for applications for this years course is March 17th Apply here: http://www.fluxcourse.org/contact.html

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#fluxcourse 2020

Check out some of the previous years lectures:

Here is Tristan Quaife in his talk on remote sensing for carbon cycle science at #fluxcourse 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BILPrj554Eg&t=1936s 

Deadline for applications is March 17th Apply here: http://www.fluxcourse.org/contact.html

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#fluxcourse 2020

The 12th Annual Fluxcourse is coming up! This is a two week workshop for graduate students, postdocs and early career scientists held in Colorado. There are 24 spots and through our partnerships with Ameriflux and NEON, 4 scholarships are available. Deadline for application is March 17th Apply here: http://www.fluxcourse.org/contact.html 

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#fluxcourse 2019 Introductions

We are pleased to announce that Flavia Santana, the second recipient of the Ameriflux Scholarship, will be attending #fluxcourse this year!

Flavia is a biologist (PhD in Ecology) and is interested in understanding the mechanisms that drives tropical forest functioning. In her current research she is investigating whether the models used for partitioning of net CO2 ecosystem fluxes into gross primary production and ecosystem respiration in Amazonia are capturing the underlying processes and if it needs to be improved.

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#fluxcourse 2019 Introductions

Here comes another exciting announcement that Judith Vogt, a recipient of the Ameriflux Scholarship, will be taking part in #fluxcourse this year!

Judith is a PhD student in Environmental Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada with a degree in Meteorology from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Currently, she is focusing on greenhouse gas flux measurements in a boreal peatland complex, investigating the effects of land-use change on CO2, CH4, N2O and H2O fluxes. Judith is excited to gain a deeper insight into the application of different gas flux measurement techniques, how to implement those in models, as well as to network with experts and other attendees.

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#fluxcourse 2019 Introductions

Here comes another exciting announcement that Zaib un Nisa will be taking part in #fluxcourse this year!

Zaib un nisa, Pakistani National, is a PhD scholar from Tuscia University, Italy working on Ecosystem Modelling with Department of Biosciences and Territory (DiBT)- Forestry Lab in University of Molise, Italy. Her scientific expertise lies in processing remote sensing & atmospheric data to understand how climate change is affecting natural ecosystems. In her PhD, she will be focusing on carbon and water fluxes in various ecosystems of Mediterranean basin using ecohydrological-biogeochemical models and eddy co-variance techniques. None other than Fluxcourse is a perfect drive for her research maneuvers. Excited for Joining course in July 2019!

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#fluxcourse 2019 Introductions

We are pleased to announce that Wilfred Calder-Potts will be attending #fluxcourse this year! Wilfred is a Physics graduate from the UK. He has been interested in Climate Change and the Environment since he was young, and this led him to his PhD on measuring photosynthesis using Solar Induced Fluorescence. Wilfred's research interests include the terrestrial carbon cycle and how the biosphere affects the climate (and vice versa). For Fluxcourse, He is excited to meet people working in similar areas and with similar interests, and learning about the theory behind processes within the carbon cycle (i.e. leaf physiology).

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#fluxcourse 2019 Introductions

We are pleased to announce that Julia Yang will be at #fluxcourse this year! Julia had recently completed her masters degree at the University of Arizona and will be starting her PhD at the University of Utah this fall. Julia's research seeks to close the knowledge gap between small-scale field studies of plant functional traits and broad-scale remotely sensed estimates of vegetation change. She explores the functional information embedded within new remote sensing indices that are sensitive to dynamic changes in photosynthesis using a diverse combination of field studies and ecosystem monitoring at scales from needle to tower to satellite. Within this framework, Julia seeks to provide fundamental knowledge of the environmental and physiological controls on the seasonality of conifer photosynthesis across the western U.S. During Fluxcourse she is excited to gain critical skills she can apply as my future research seeks to address questions that scale from leaf to canopy.

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#fluxcourse 2019 Introductions

We are pleased to announce that Deanroy Mbabazi will be at #fluxcourse this year! Dean is a Ph.D. student (at Texas A& M University) with a background in engineering and is currently researching evapotranspiration and soil moisture coupling relationships across spatial scales (point to satellite scale). He also serves as an Engineer Technician for the Texas Water Observatory. Dean is very excited to meet everyone and to learn more about carbon-energy-water flux interactions (at varying scales), and advanced flux measurement and modeling techniques during flux course.

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#fluxcourse 2019 Introductions

We are pleased to announce that Thomas Fenster will be at #fluxcourse this year! Thomas is interested in quantifying how regenerative farming practices that can provide key services to farmers and society via a more robust ecology. Thomas is wrapping up a a systems level project that compares almond orchards under regenerative management practices to those under conventional ones. For eddy covariance, Thomas just started a project that aims to understand the effects of one-time compost application on grazed annual grasslands’ greenhouse gas budget, water budget, net primary productivity, and microbial communities. The study will utilize multiscale measurements to quantify and understand the scale-emergent properties of compost application to grazed grasslands. That includes the eddy covariance technique for measuring the net ecosystem exchange of CO2 and water vapor and sampling of individual parts of the grassland ecosystem. This is his first tower and he just deployed the tower for this project a few weeks ago. Thomas is very excited in the opportunity to become more competent and familiar with the eddy covariance technique at Flux Course 2019.