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Breakout Guidance: Annual Meeting 2016

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Attention: Meeting Attendees – Check out your Breakout Assignments!

  • You have been assigned to Breakouts by the Executive Committee based on best assessment of relevance (names highlighted in blue indicate uncertainty).
  • You are free to attend any Breakout, but please aim to maximize relevant participation and avoid any single Breakout getting too big to be meaningful or exceeding room capacity.

FORMAT

Breakout Sessions will take place on Day 2 of the Annual Meeting (Thursday, September 22nd).

  • Breakout Sessions will be 1.5 hours each.
  • Each Breakout Session will be followed by plenary Report-Out Sessions that will be 30 minutes each (10 minutes for report-outs of all topics + 20 minutes of plenary discussion).

GOALS

To aim for discussion that, in addition to addressing exciting science questions, also results in specific outcomes, e.g., high-level plans.

  • What tasks/deliverables needs to be accomplished in the next 6 months? by the end of Phase 1 for a successful Phase 2 proposal?
  • By whom and when? What are the needs for coordination?
  • What are the gaps, issues, challenges?
  • What are specific deliverables (papers, code, data, collaborations)?

The notes/summaries from breakout discussions will help inform our Friday Strategic Planning Session, and the project’s near term direction and delivery of papers, code, data, etc.

TEMPLATES

Leads and Rapporteurs will use the Google doc templates below to facilitate discussion and synthesize notes for brief plenary report-outs, respectively.  They are available to all meeting participants, even if they are not able to attend the breakout, to track discussions and provide online feedback.

  • Breakout Session 1
    • Drought Impacts on C-H2O and Energy Fluxes (Breakout Leads: Alistair Rogers & Brad Christoffersen. Rapporteur: Nate McDowell)
    • Approaches to Pantropical Nutrient Limitations on Primary and Secondary Forest Productivity (Leads: Rich Norby & Charlie Koven. Rapporteur: Kristine Cabugao)
    • Disturbance and Recovery: Natural and Anthropogenic (Leads: Michael Keller and Maoyi Huang. Rapporteur: Jennifer Holm)
  • Breakout Session 2
    • Strategy for Uncertainty Quantification and Assessment (Leads: Charlie Koven and Shawn Serbin. Rapporteur: TBD)
    • ModEx and “Tier 1” Measurements Suite for Instrumenting NGEE-Tropics Sites (Leads: Stuart Davies and Jeff Chambers. Rapporteur: TBD)
    • ENSO Collaborative Synthesis of Research and Publications (Leads: Nate McDowell and Ruby Leung. Rapporteur: TBD)
  • Breakout Session 3
    • Trait Tradeoff Pilot Across Moisture Gradients  (Leads: Lara Kueppers and Rosie Fisher. Rapporteur: TBD)
    • Puerto Rico Airborne Remote Sensing Campaign (Lead: Doug Morton. Rapporteur: Sebastian Martinuzzi)
    • Topographic and Edaphic Scaling Issues (Leads: Melanie Mayes and Scott Painter. Rapporteur: TBD)
    • ENSO Sapflow Data Processing and Use (Leads: Charu Varadharajan and Charlotte Grossiord. Rapporteur: TBD)

CHARGE TO BREAKOUT LEADS AND RAPPORTEURS

Breakout Leads

  • Review Breakout Session Goals (Slide #3 in breakout template)
  • Use your QUESTIONS SLIDE (Slide #4 in breakout template) to help facilitate breakout discussion
  • Make sure everyone’s voice is heard (including the silent ones!) and to keep everyone on topic.
  • Actively listen and distill the discussion into high-level science goals, action items.

Rapporteur

  • Use the NOTES SLIDES (in breakout template) to take down notes from the discussion. Insert new slides as needed.
  • Use the REPORT-OUT slides (in breakout template) to summarize the discussion into a 3-MINUTE high-level debrief that you will present during plenary report-out session. (Below are suggested report-out bullets.)
    • Top 3 things learned during this discussion.
    • What are the gaps, issues, challenges?
    • What further work can be done by the end of Phase 1 for a successful Phase 2 proposal?
    • By whom and when? What are the needs for coordination?
    • What are specific deliverables (papers, code, data, collaborations)?

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