Dear colleagues,
This email is to seek your interest to attend the 2nd training course on *New Advances in Land Carbon Cycle Modeling*, which will be held on May 13-24, 2019 in Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA. Please see below for more details: 2nd Training Course on *New Advances in **Land Carbon Cycle Modeling* *Who should attend?* Modelers who want to gain simplicity in coding, diagnostic capability, computational efficiency, and data constraints for your models Empiricists who want to use your data to constrain models toward ecological forecasting Graduate students, post-docs and young scientists who want to learn modeling, data assimilation, and ecological forecasting with ecosystem model TECO and global model CLM *What are you going to learn?* New theory on land carbon storage dynamics Matrix representations of land carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles A unified diagnostic system for identifying uncertainty sources Data assimilation system with both flux- and pool-based observations Semi-analytic spin-up for computational efficiency Ecological forecasting *Who is going to teach?* Anthony Bloom, JPL, USA Mariah Carbone, Northern Arizona University, USA Sasha Hararuk, University of Central Florida, USA Yuanyuan Huang, LSCE, France Debbie Huntzinger, Northern Arizona University, USA Lifen Jiang, Northern Arizona University, USA Junyi Liang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Chris Lu, Sun Yat-sen University, China Yiqi Luo, Northern Arizona University, USA Kiona Ogle, Northern Arizona University, USA Andrew Richardson, Northern Arizona University, USA Ted Schuur, Northern Arizona University, USA Zheng Shi, UC Irvine, USA Carlos Sierra, MPI-BGC, Germany Ying Wang, University of Oklahoma, USA *Where and when?* Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA May 13-24, 2019. Arriving on May 12 and leaving on May 25 *What fun activities are there?* Hiking in the Grand Canyon and Sedona and enjoying nearby sceneries; Mixing with top scientists in the fields; Networking with fellow attendees *What is the cost?* Self-paid traveling and lodging plus tuition fee of $1800 The tuition fee will cover coffee, lunch, rental of meeting rooms, travel of speakers, and others. Financial support available for applications from underrepresented groups in STEM *How to apply?* Send your application, using the form from *http://www2.nau.edu/luo-lab/?workshop <http://www2.nau.edu/luo-lab/?workshop>*, to Dr. Lifen Jiang, *lifen.ji...@nau.edu <lifen.ji...@nau.edu>*, by February 1, 2019. We will select up to 25 applicants by February 15, 2019 to attend the training course. Please don’t hesitate to ask any questions. Our apologies for any cross-posting. Sincerely yours, Lifen Jiang _______________________________________ Lifen Jiang, Ph.D. Research Associate Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (Ecoss) Northern Arizona University P.O. Box 5620 Flagstaff, AZ 86011 Phone: (928) 523-5057 E-mail: lifen.ji...@nau.edu
