FORTHCOMING
2024
The Earth system and its many scales: A view from biosphere up to atmosphere and back down again
Tarbell Lecture in Meteorology, Penn State Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, University Park, PA, September 18, 2024 (invited)
Half-way to the equator and back: What links climate and nature of Wisconsin and Columbia?
Iconic Orinoquia, Leveraging Nature-based Solutions in Colombia’s Highly Biodiverse Region, The Nature Conservancy WI, virtual, July 30, 2024 (invited)
Your site is not so special, or is it? Scaling fluxes from the specific to the general and back again
Remote Sensing and Fluxes Upscaling for Real-world Impact, DOE Ameriflux Workshop, Berkeley, California + virtual, July 9, 2024 (invited keynote)
Soil carbon in the Earth System: Savior or Achilles heel?
Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) 2024 Bouyoucos Summer Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 12, 2024 (invited keynote)
The uncertain uncertainty of a certainly hotter future: the current state of knowns and unknowns in the physical science of climate change
Climate Change, Aging, and Health Across the Life Course, Center for Demography and Ecology, UW-Madison, Madison, WI, May 14, 2024 (invited panelist)
Who are eddies? And why are they so strong and flux towers so wrong?
AOS 405 Senior Capstone Seminar, Madison, WI, March 4, 2024
Transdisciplinary Initiatives Panel
CALS Global Day 2024, Madison, WI, Feburary 27, 2024 (invited panelist)
The Atmosphere An Advective and Diffusive Kinda Place
Civil and Environmental Engineering 511, Madison, WI, February 8, 2024
Monitoring evapotranspiration in the Central Sands
Wisconsin Potato and Vegetables Growers Association Annual Growers conference, Stevens Point, WI, February 6, 2024
2023
Do nature-based climate solutions work?
UW Sustainability Symposium, UW-Madison, Madison, WI, October 25, 2023 (invited)
The enduring mystery of energy imbalance in observing atmospheric exchanges with ecosystems
Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, October 16, 2023 (invited)
Is planting a trillion trees the solution to climate change?
WFAA Class of 1973 50th reunion Day of Learning, October 13, 2023 (invited)
Drivers of decadal carbon fluxes across temperate ecosystems
NEON Great Lakes Users Group workshop, September 28, 2023
Ecometeorology in the US Upper Midwest Northwoods And beyond…
Ameriflux Midwest Tech Workshop, UW-Madison, Madison, WI, August 15, 2023
Fundamental Physics of Climate and the Earth System
Peking University International Summer School in Physics, Beijing, China, August 8-9, 2023 (invited)
Surface heterogeneity, atmospheric fluxes, and boundary-layer over tall vegetation: Investigations in the CHEESEHEAD19 campaign
Scaling Land-Atmosphere Mini-Conference, May 25, 2023
What can you do about climate change?
Deerfield Public Library, Deerfield, WI, April 26, 2023 (invited)
Freshwater systems and Bioclimatology
AOS 520 seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, April 7, 2023
A discussion about ChapGPT and other generative AI and its implications for research and teaching in AOS
AOS Department Seminar, UW-Madison, Madison, WI, May 3, 2023
Listening to lakes from the air: An eddy flux story
Center for Limnology Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Mar 22, 2023 (invited)
Where and how biology matters for climate and weather
AOS 405 Senior Captone, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Feb 13, 2023
Change happens slowly, until it doesn’t
The Nature Conservancy Wisconsin Chapter Keynote, Madison, WI, Feb 9, 2023 (invited)
Water use by crops and forests in the Central Sands
Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association, Stevens Point, WI, Feb 7, 2023
Surface heterogeneity, atmospheric fluxes, and boundary-layer over tall vegetation: Investigations in the CHEESEHEAD19 campaign
American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting 2023, Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Denver, CO, Jan 12, 2023
2022
Soils in the Earth System: Perspectives from Regional Observations and Models
Dept of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nov 16, 2022 (invited)
Watching Trees Breathe Or what’s a CHEESEHEAD?
Penn State Dept of Meteorology Class Visit, University Park, PA, Oct 14, 2022 (invited)
Global change in the upper Midwest: Drivers of decadal carbon fluxes across temperate ecosystems
Ameriflux Community Meeting, University of Michigan Biological Station, Pellston, MI, Sept 7, 2022
Climate, Carbon, and forests: The changing Northwoods
WFAA Alumni College, August 29, 2022 (invited)
Making eddy covariance flux towers useful for Earth system model development (REMOTE)
CLIMA research group, CalTech, Pasadenia, CA, June 7, 2022 (invited)
The micro, meso, and macro scale of land-atmosphere interactions (REMOTE)
Dept of Energy Environmental Systems Science Principal Investigator meeting, May 26, 2022 (invited)
Climate, carbon, and forests: The changing Northwoods (REMOTE)
Winchester Public Library, Winchester, WI, May 1, 2022 (invited)
Watching Trees Breath, or What’s a CHEESEHEAD? (REMOTE)
Global Carbon Cycle course, Penn State University, April 5, 2022
Watching Trees Breath, or What’s a CHEESEHEAD?
Senior Capstone, AOS 405, UW-Madison, Madison, WI, March 7, 2022
Global Change and “Fluxes”
Global Change and Biodiversity, Entomology 375, UW-Madison, Madison, WI, March 1, 2022 (invited)
Predicting Central Sands Crop Water Use
Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association Grower Education Conference, Stevens Point, WI, February 9, 2022 (invited)
Symposium: Wetland soils & carbon I
Wisconsin Wetlands Association 2022 Science Conference, February 16, 2022 (invited panelist)
Sharing and caring of critical climate observations
Data Science Research Bazaar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, February 2, 2022 (invited)
Watching trees breathe
American Meteorological Society 21st Annual Student conference, January 23, 2022 (invited)
2021
Linking scales of motion in the atmosphere to variation in the surface below
American Geophysical Union fall meeting, New Orleans, LA, December, 14, 2021 (invited)
Skills for Science: What Makes a Paper Reviewable?
American Geophysical Union Fall 2020 Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Dec 13, 2021 (invited panelist)
Seeing the tree for the forest: New ways to use eddy covariance to map landscape fluxes
ICOS Cities Talks, EU, virtual, December 8, 2021 (invited)
What can you do about climate change?
Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society, Madison, WI, November 14, 2021 (invited)
Energetic Ecosystems Emit Enchanting Emissions (REMOTE)
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, November 12, 2021 (invited)
Faculty perspectives: Forging strong relationships with Faculty Advisors
UW L&S Community of Graduate Research Scholars, October 20, 2021 (invited panelist)
Is planting more trees the solution to climate change?
WFAA Class of 1971 50th reunion Day of Learning, October 15, 2021 (invited)
Constraining the role of diel to interannual variability in lakes and reservoirs on global carbon cycle contributions: An eddy covariance study
US-China Carbon Consortium (USCCC) annual meeting, Virtual, July 30, 2021 (invited)
Resolving fine-scale variation in drivers of surface-atmosphere fluxes: A case study for land surface temperature in CHEESEHEAD19
34th conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Virtual, June 22, 2021
Eddy Covariance Flux Towers (REMOTE)
ASCEND summer training workshop in Spectral Biology, Virtual, May 20, 2021
Overview of the Software Citation Guidance for Authors and Journals by the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group (REMOTE)
COPDESS Workshop: Overview of the Software Citation Guidance for Authors and Journal, Virtual, May 17, 2021 (invited panelist)
What can YOU do about climate change? (REMOTE)
Kenosha Public Library, Kenosha, WI, Mar 23, 2021 (invited)
What Climate Change Means for Your Local Weather (REMOTE)
Rotary Club of Elmbrook, Elmbrook, WI, Mar 19, 2021 (invited)
The last breath of the biosphere (REMOTE)
Biological Sciences seminar, Michigan Technical University, Houghton, MI, Mar 18, 2021
Energetic Ecosystems Emit Enchanting Emissions (REMOTE)
Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, Feb 10, 2021 (invited)
Wake me up tomorrow, next month, or in 30 years: The future of water availability in the Central Sands (REMOTE)
Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association (WPVGA) and UW Grower Education Conference, Stevens Point, WI, Feb 3, 2021 (invited)
Energetic Ecosystems Emit Enchanting Emissions (REMOTE)
Environmental Engineering Seminar, Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI, Feb 1, 2021 (invited)
Energetic Ecosystems Emit Enchanting Emissions (REMOTE)
DOE Oak Ridge National Lab, Jan 25, 2021 (invited)
2020
How to Review Journal Articles
American Geophysical Union Fall 2020 Meeting, virtual (invited panelist)
Be a CHEESEHEAD: Results from the Chequamegon Heterogeneous Ecosystem Energy-Balance Study Enabled by a High-Density Extensive Array of Detectors study (REMOTE)
National Center for Atmospheric Research EOL Seminar Series, Dec 1, 2020 (invited) by Brian Butterworth and Ankur Desai
What can YOU do about climate change? (REMOTE)
Wilberg Public Library, Osceola, WI, Nov 17, 2020 (invited)
Climates Change, Can People? (REMOTE)
PLATO: Pathways to a Sustainable Planet, Madison, WI, Nov 16, 2020 (invited)
Energetic Ecosystems Emit Enchanting Emissions (REMOTE)
Central Michigan University, Meteorology Dept, Nov 11, 2020 (invited)
Weird Ways Climate Change Will Affect Us That You Probably Didn’t Know (REMOTE)
Wednesday Nite at the Lab, UW-Madison, Madison, WI, Oct 14, 2020 (invited)
Climate, Carbon, and Forests: The Changing Northwoods (REMOTE)
Antigo Public Library, Antigo, WI, Sept 29, 2020 (invited)
The Great Coupling: Advancing boundary-layer research at flux tower observatories and experiments (REMOTE)
NOAA eGMAC Webinar: Planetary Boundary Layers, Boulder, CO, June 29, 2020 (invited)
What pandemics teach us about responding to climate change (REMOTE)
Nature Conservancy Wisconsin, Madison, WI, May 21, 2020 (invited)
Stormy Days? What Climate Change Means for Your Local Weather (REMOTE)
Rotary Club of Madison, Madison, WI, April 1, 2020 (invited)
Energetic Ecosystems Emit Enchanting Emissions (REMOTE)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, NRES Seminar, March 27, 2020 (invited)
Climate change and its impact on agriculture and natural resources
University of Wisconsin-Platteville Pioneer Talks, Platteville, WI, Feb 26, 2020 (invited)
The last breath of the biosphere
Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research Climate Change Symposium, Madison, WI, Feb 13, 2020 (invited keynote)
Partnerships for Science: Wisconsin ECB and UW-Madison, Two Decades of Innovation at the WLEF-TV Park Falls Tall Tower
Board of Wisconsin Educational Communications Board, Madison, WI, Jan 31, 2020 (invited)
Climate change, do plants and people?
Planting for a Greener World, Horitculture Dept., Madison, WI, Jan 23, 2020 (invited)
2019
Biogeoscience observing system deluge: Are we ready for the flood?
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec 9-13, 2019 (invited)
Can satellite greenhouse gas remote sensing capture regional spatial variability in fluxes, drivers, and atmospheric response?
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec 9-13, 2019 (invited)
Inland water bodies as surface energy hotspots
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec 9-13, 2019 (invited)
Environmental Challenges in the 21st Century
University of Wisconsin-Parkside College of Natural and Health Sciences 5th Community Celebration, Kenosha, WI, Nov 2, 2019 (invited panel)
Huge Ecology: Conducting science with big data and large collaborations
UW-Madison Introduction to Wisconsin Ecology Seminar (953), Oct 16, 2019 (invited)
Risky business and the Management of Climate Change
UW-Madison Risk Management 650 Class, Oct 14, 2019 (invited)
Introducing the new AOS Professional Master’s Program (Video link)
UW-Madison Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department Seminar, Oct 2, 2019
Climate change and you
Middleton Public Library, Madison, WI, Sept 19, 2019 (invited)
Twenty-nine towers, twenty-nine stories: The ChEAS core site cluster journey
Ameriflux Community Meeting, Boulder, CO, Sept 18, 2019
Models and Data: A Gentle Introduction
11th Annual Course in Flux Measurements and Modeling, Nederland, CO, July 24, 2019 (invited)
Nuts and bolts of communicating climate science to diverse audiences
Wisconsin Youth Climate Summit, Madison, WI, June 1, 2019 (invited)
A CHEESEHEAD of Scientists?
Park Falls Public Library, Park Falls, WI, May 21, 2019
Climate change and you
Neighborhood House, Madison, WI, April 18, 2019 (invited)
Advancing the science of Earth energy and carbon exchanges
Carnegie Institute of Washington Global Ecology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, Mar 19, 2019 (invited)
Advancing the science of Earth energy and carbon exchanges
Environmental Science Program, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Feb 15, 2019 (invited)
Improving forecasts of crop water demand with direct ET measurements over irrigated fields
Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Grower's Association UW Grower Education Conference, Feb 5, 2019
Defining a Career Path at Mid-Career
University of Wisconsin Office of Provost, Madison, WI, Jan 23, 2019 (invited panelist)
Panel Discussion 4: Student and Early Career Discussion on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Dr. Marcia McNutt
Seventh Early Career Professionals Conference, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting 2019, Phoenix, AZ, 7 Jan 2019 (invited panelist)
2018
The art of mentoring
AGU Fall 2018 Meeting, How to Get the Mentorship You Need Workshop, Washington, DC, Dec 13, 2018 (invited)
Get Out of Your Discipline: Networking Event for Students and Early Career Scientists
AGU Fall 2018 Meeting, Early Career Mixer, Washington, DC, Dec 13, 2018 (invited panelist)
The infinite flux tower project: Contribution of land surface energy-balance heterogeneity to mesoscale circulations and flux tower biases
AGU Fall 2018 Meeting, Washington, DC, Dec 11, 2018
Climates change, do policies?
Public Affairs 850, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI USA, Nov 28, 2018 (invited)
Your Audience Cares About Climate Change and Its Local Impacts
UW-AOS Broadcast Meteorology Climate Change Roundtable, Madison, WI, Nov 4, 2018
The infinite flux tower project: Introducing the Chequamegon Heterogeneous Ecosystem Energy-balance Study Enabled by a High-density Extensive Array of Detectors (CHEESEHEAD19)
Ameriflux PI Meeting, Bloomington, IN, Oct 25, 2018
Risky business and the management of climate change
Risk Management 650 Lecture, Madison, WI, Oct 22, 2018 (invited)
Can we actually forecast freshwater ecology?
North Temperate Lakes LTER Science Meeting, Madison, WI, Oct 17, 2018 (invited)
Pissing in the wind: How irrigation, falling snow, and dying leaves can change the weather
CCR CPEP Seminar, Madison, WI, Oct 2, 2018
Hike and Learn with Professor Desai
Hike and Learn Series, Nelson Institute Community Environmental Scholars Program, Picnic Point, Madison, WI, Sept 28, 2018 (invited guide)
NEON Investigator Panel
Directorate for NSF Biological Sciences Advisory Committee (BIO AC), Washington, DC, Sept 20, 2018 (invited)
Introduction to CHEESEHEAD
GLOBE Atmospheric Protocol Teacher Training, Park Falls, WI, Aug 15, 2018
The human factor in big data and ecoinformatics
Ecological Society of America, New Orleans, LA, Aug 8, 2018 (invited)
Bringing Forest Management into Earth System Models: Insights from Observations and Theory
American Meteorological Society 33rd Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Boise, ID, May 14, 2018
Examining the Basis for Climate Action
Nature Conservancy Wisconsin, Board Meeting, Milwakuee, WI, Apr 20, 2018 (invited)
Move over weatherperson: Can we actually forecast ecology?
qBio seminar series, Systems Biology, UW-Madison, Apr 11, 2018 (invited)
The math behind your weather forecast
Dead Mathematicians' Society, UW-Madison, Mar 15, 2018 (invited)
The short and long of wetland carbon emissions, uptake, and lateral transfer
Wetland Science Conference, Wisconsin Wetlands Association, Feb 21, 2018 (invited)
Are we all doomed? An optimist’s guide to how research and policy can reduce the harmful effects of climate change, protect Wisconsin’s landscapes, and grow the economy
2018 Cabin Fever Lecture Series, Baraboo Range Preservation Association, Baraboo, WI, Feb 8, 2018 (invited)
Water from ground to sky: New approaches to observing and predicting field to basin scale ET over crops and plantations
Wisconsin Potato Growers 2018 Grower Education Conference & Industry Show, Stevens Point, WI, Feb 6, 2018 (invited)
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
WUD Global Connection Afternoon Conversation Series (ACS), Madison, WI, Feb 2, 2018 (invited)
Peatlands in the carbon cycle
APRIL Asia Group, Kerinci, Indonesia, Jan 9, 2018 (invited)
2017
Climate, carbon, ecosystems, and health: An AGU Publications Editor's Literature Review
Session U52B , AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Dec 15, 2017 (invited)
Advancing approaches for multi-year high-frequency monitoring of temporal and spatial variability in carbon cycle fluxes and drivers in freshwater lakes
Session B44D , AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Dec 14, 2017
The Trap of Doomsday thinking or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Debate
Session ED33B , AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Dec 13, 2017 (invited)
Climates change, do policies?
Public Affairs 850, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI USA, Nov 9, 2017 (invited)
Don’t we have enough flux towers already?
Land, Atmoshere, Water Research Seminar, UC-Davis, Davis, CA, Oct 25, 2017 (invited)
Risky business and the management of climate change
RMI 650, Sustainability, Environmental and Social Risk Management seminar, UW-Madison, Madison, WI, Oct 16, 2017 (invited)
Is it getting hot in here?
Soundwaves, Wisconsin Institutes for Dicovery, Oct 13, 2017 (invited)
Plants and the Terrestrial Surface Energy Balances
AOS 801 Energy and Water Cycle Seminar, UW-Madison, Oct 11, 2017
Are we all doomed? An optimist’s guide to how research and policy can reduce the harmful effects of climate change, protect Wisconsin’s landscapes, and grow the economy
Environment Studies Seminar, UW-LaCrosse, Oct 3, 2017 (invited)
What Can YOU do about Climate Change?
Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee, WI, Sep 19, 2017 (invited)
A modest proposal for getting funded in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences for graduate school and beyond
AOS Department Seminar, Madison, WI, Sep 13, 2017
What is the point of all of this? Models and Data
10th Flux course on Measurements and Modeling, University of Colorado Mountain Research Station, Ward, CO, July 19, 2017 (invited)
Are Plants Using Less Water These Days?
Water@UW Conference, Madison, WI, May 9, 2017 (invited)
Will we ever be able to accurately predict the future land carbon sink?
CCR Climate Change Symposium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Apr 27, 2017 (invited)
Taming ecological modeling and forecasting with an informatics approach
Big Data and Ecoinformatics in Agricultural Research Symposium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Apr 27, 2017 (invited)
Is the terrestrial carbon cycle predictable and what does the answer mean for projections of future climate change?
Dept of Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, Mar 31, 2017 (invited)
Social coding: It's not a communicable disease (invited)
Research Data Services Brown Bag, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, March 7, 2017
Is the terrestrial carbon cycle predictable and what does the answer mean for projections of future climate change?
Dept of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL, Feb 16, 2017 (invited)
How many flux towers are enough?
AOS Colloquium 5-minute "Show and Tell", Madison, WI, Feb 13, 2017
2016
Climate changes, do policies?
Public Affairs 850, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI USA, Nov 9, 2016 (invited)
All the jazz, jam, bam, and girl: Perspectives from an editor on publishing and reviewing in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences
AOS Department Seminar, Madison, WI, Oct 5, 2016
Climate modeling is not rocket science, or is it?
Wisconsin Dept of Natural Resources, Preparing Wisconsin’s Plant Communities for an Uncertain Future workshop, Sep 22, 2016 (invited)
Little lakes and large lakes: The first global inland water eddy covariance flux synthesis
AMS 32nd Meeting on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Salt Lake City, UT, Jun 21, 2016
How many flux towers are enough? Energy balance closure and large eddy simulation as diagnostic tools for secondary circulations
AMS 22nd Meeting on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Salt Lake City, UT, Jun 21, 2016
Data In(di)gest(ion): Getting drivers and data into ecosystem models with PEcAn
PEcAn Modeler's Workshop I, Boston, MA, May 10, 2016
Global Warming's Impact on Wisconsin
Oakwood Village University Woods, May 7, 2016 (invited)
Field Experiments In the Northwoods and Elsewhere
CIMSS Science Symposium, Madison, Wisconsin, Apr 26, 2016 (invited)
Conversations on Climate Change: A Measured Discussion on Ways to Improve Public & Political Discourse
T.B. Scott Free Library, Merrill, Wisconsin, Apr 17, 2016 (invited)
Ameriflux, Fluxnet and NEON, Sustained Terrestrial Carbon Flux Observations: A Play in Three Acts
Sustained Observations for Carbon Cycle Science and Decision Support Workshop, Boulder, CO Apr 13, 2016
Climatological Snow Cover Feedbacks in the Land-Atmosphere System
Dept of Physics Seminar, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Feb 26, 2016
Climatological Snow Cover Feedbacks in the Land-Atmosphere System
American Meteorological Society, 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, New Orleans, LA, USA Jan 14, 2016
Groundhog Day: Meteorologists' Favorite Holiday
Hamilton Middle School, Grade 6 science classes, Madison, WI, USA Jan 8, 2016 (invited)
2015
Detection of Extreme Climate Event Impacts to Terrestrial Productivity From Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery
AGU Fall Meeting 2015, Session B24A , San Francisco, CA, Dec 17, 2015
All You Ever Wanted To Know About Global Warming But Were Afraid To Ask
Beth Israel Center, Madison, WI USA, Dec 6, 2015
Adapt or Die: Plants and Animals Under Pressure
Jefferson Middle School, Madison Metropolitan School District, Dec 3, 2015
Climate changes, do policies?
Public Affairs 850, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI USA, Nov 11, 2015
Climate, carbon, and forests: The changing Northwoods
Antigo Public Library, Antigo, WI USA, October 22, 2015 (invited)
Fearlessly Finding Fellowship and Future Funding For Fame and Fortune
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department Seminar, University of Wisconsin, WI USA, Sept 30, 2015
Biogeochemistry is Physics?
Wisconsin Ecology Seminar, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI USA, Sept 21, 2015
Climate, carbon, and forests: The changing Northwoods
The Executive Group (TEC), Minocqua Country Club, Minocqua, WI USA, August 7, 2015 (invited)
You have NEE, now what?
Flux Measurements and Advanced Modeling, CU Mountain Research Station, Nederland, CO, July 22, 2015 (invited)
Do inland waters play a role in the global climate system?
Water@UWmadison symposium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI USA, May 11, 2015
How do we scale land-atmosphere exchange?
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA Apr 30, 2015 (invited)
What are you going to do about climate change?
St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Madison, WI USA, April 16, 2015 (invited)
Land-atmosphere interactions: Has Land Cover Change Influenced Recent Precipitation Extremes in the Amazon?
Guest lecture, Human Transformations of Earth Surface Processes, University of Wisconsin, Dept of Geography, Madison, WI USA, April 15, 2015 (invited)
How scale-dependent are ecosystem-atmosphere exchanges?
UW Chaos and Complex Systems Seminar, Madison, WI USA, April 14, 2015 (Invited)
Carbon balance, eddy covariance, and buoys
NTL-LTER Science Meeting, Madison, WI USA March 18, 2015 (invited)
Can lakes change the global climate?
Yahara Lakes 101, Clean Lakes Alliance, Madison, WI USA March 12, 2015 (invited)
Climate Change, Carbon Cycle, and Agroecosystems Panel
Climate Change Symposium, Center for Climatic Research, Madison, WI USA March 6, 2015 (invited)
Layers in the sky
Soundwaves, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison, WI USA March 6, 2015 (invited)
Surface heterogeneity in the land-atmosphere system
Montana State University, Dept of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences seminar, Bozeman, MT USA Feb 9, 2015 (invited)
Groundhog Day: Meteorologists' Favorite Holiday
Hamilton Middle School, Grade 6 science classes, Madison, WI, USA Feb 3, 2015 (invited)
Are we there yet? Progress in diagnosis and prediction of regional to continental terrestrial carbon stocks and fluxes
North American Carbon Program PI Meeting, Washington, DC, Jan 26, 2015 (invited)
How do we scale ecosystem-atmosphere exchanges?
University of Michigan, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences Seminar, Ann Arbor, MI USA Jan 8, 2015 (invited)
2014
Surface heterogeneity in the land-atmosphere system, or, why it matter when the wind blows the other way on sabbatical years
UW Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Dept Seminar, Madison, WI USA, Nov. 5, 2014
Why a meteorologist studies forests: The atmospheric carbon cycle, turbulent eddies, pessimistic trees, and you
Virginia Tech, Forest Resources seminar, Blacksburg, VA USA Oct 20, 2014 (invited)
Examining Mountain Ecosystems in Regional to Global Environments of Carbon Cycling and Climate
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), summer school lecture, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, July 30, 2014
Is Terrestrial Methane Flux Interesting?
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, June 2, 2014 (invited)
Eddy Covariance in Tricky Spots: Importance of Flux Quality Control and Uncertainty quantification for Lake Surface Flux Measurement
American Meteorological Society 31st Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Portland, Oregon, May 12, 2014
Is Methane Interesting?
National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Inc., Brownbag Seminar, Boulder, Colorado, May 9, 2014 (invited)
How Do We Make Ameriflux Useful for Ecosystem Models?
Ameriflux Annual PI Meeting, Potomac, Maryland, May 5, 2014
Research Career Pathways: What are you doing here anyways?
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Special Seminar, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Mar. 27, 2014 (invited)
Insights from eddy flux towers and model experiments on regional biogeochemical-climate feedbacks
IRTG Spring School on "Land Surface Processes", Blaubeuren, Germany, Mar. 26, 2014 (invited)
Predominately Pessimistic Plants Populate the Planet: Insights from eddy flux towers and model experiments on regional biogeochemical-climate feedbacks
University of Innsbruck, Institute of Ecology, Innsbruck, Austria, Jan. 16, 2014 (invited)
2013
Predominately Pessimistic Plants Populate the Planet: Insights from eddy flux towers and model experiments on regional biogeochemical-climate feedbacks
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Special Seminar, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Nov. 21, 2013 (invited)
Advancing Techniques for Informing Terrestrial Ecosystem Models with Leaf and Imaging Spectroscopy to Improve the Representation and Prediction of Vegetation Dynamics and Carbon Cycling
COST Action ES0903 “EUROSPEC” Final Conference, Trento, Italy, Nov. 7, 2013
Precision and accuracy of in situ tower based carbon cycle concentration networks required for detection of the effects of extreme climate events on regional carbon cycling
GEOCARBON Conference: Towards a Global Carbon Observing System: Progresses and Challenges, Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 1, 2013
How will Wisconsin's forests and wetlands respond to climate change?
Madison Audobon Society, Madison, WI, Apr. 16, 2013 (invited)
Moisture extremes and internal lags as controls on photosynthesis anomalies in temperate forests
OpenScienceConference on Climate Extremes and Biogeochemical Cycles in the Terrestrial Biosphere: Impacts and Feedbacks Across Scales, Seefeld in Tirol, Austria, Apr. 3, 2013
Climate change and what it means for northwoods lakes, forests and outdoor recreation
Science on Tap, Minocqua Brewery, Minocqua, WI, Mar 6, 2013 (invited)
When will you be on TV, Dr. Weather? Preparing for the post-PhD career
UW Department Seminar, Madison, WI, Feb 27, 2013
Vegetation and the Carbon Cycle
UW AOS 405 Seminar, Madison, WI, Feb 13, 2013
2012
Fifteen years of observations from a very tall tower on the responses of landscape scale productivity to climate anomalies and extremes
AGU Fall Meeting 2012, Session B54A , San Francisco, CA, Dec 7, 2012
Avoid holding on to ideas just because you are used to them
Frontiers in Ecosystem Science: Energizing the Research Agenda, AGU Fall 2012 Townhall, San Francisco, CA, Dec 7, 2012 (invited)
Non-linear Multiple Stable States and Chaos in Academia: Effective Time Management for Avoiding the Runaway Feedback Loops in Your Life
UW Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department Seminar, Nov 28, 2012
Carbon, climate, and forests: How the land links the past, present, and future
College of Menominee Nation seminar, Nov 2, 2012 (invited)
Carbon: From Land to Lake to Atmosphere & Sea
NTL LTER Science Meeting, Oct 24, 2012 (invited)
Methane: It's more than just cow farts
Wisconsin Ecology Fall Symposium Faculty Talks, Sept 21, 2012 (invited)
Outreach in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
UW Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department Seminar, Sept 12, 2012
Uncovering mechanisms of episodic methane sources observed by a very tall eddy covariance tower (Video link)
30th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology/1st Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences, Boston, MA, May 30, 2012
Why do ecosystem carbon cycle feedbacks matter for climate
University of Wisconsin, CCR-SAGE Symposium, IGNITE talk, March 20, 2012
2011
Seasonal controls on regional methane and carbon dioxide exchange observed from a very tall eddy covariance tower in a wetland-rich landscape
American Geophysical Union Fall 2011 meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 5, 2011
Ethics and International Implications of Climate Change
University of Wisconsin Dept of International Studies, International Studies 101, Madison, WI Dec 1, 2011 (invited)
Cosmic-ray neutron probes for regional-scale soil moisture and humidity observation: Potential benefits for atmospheric science at the regional scale
University of Wisconsin, AOS Dept Seminar, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Sep 14, 2011
April showers makes May ET? Wisconsin's ecosystem water use under climatic change
2nd Mini Conference of ET Trends Along the Western Great Lakes, Madison, WI, Apr 29, 2011 (invited)
Indirect and direct effects of climate change on forest carbon cycling
Dept of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Apr 20, 2011 (invited)
Missing the "sink": What observations and models tell us about the future of land carbon dioxide uptake and why it matters for future climate change
University of Virginia, Dept of Environmental Sciences seminar series, Charlottesville, VA, Apr 14, 2011 (invited)
Ethics of Global Climate Change
Dept of Philosophy, Phil 441: Environmental Ethics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Mar 4, 2011 (invited)
Missing the "sink": What observations and models tell us about the future of land carbon dioxide uptake and why it matters for future climate change
Zoology 955: Limnology Seminar, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Mar 1, 2011 (invited)
How to Talk to An Ecologist
Joint Panel Discussion JPD2.1: Communicating with Each Other: The Challenges and Rewards of Expanding Atmospheric Science’s Professional Partners, 9th History Symposium, 91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, Jan. 25, 2011 (invited)
2010
When is a wetland a wetland? Carbon and water cycles in north temperate fens and bogs
Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Oct. 27, 2010 (invited)
Climate change and regional carbon fluxes in heterogeneous landscapes
2nd Science in the Northwoods Workshop, UW CFL, Boulder Junction, WI, Sep. 30, 2010
Regional fluxes: Challenges and Opportunities
29th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, AMS, Keystone, CO, Aug. 5, 2010
Spatial proceses and land-atmosphere flux: Constraining regional ecosystem models with flux tower data assimilation
Flux Measurements and Advanced Modeling, NSF/CU Summer Course, CU Mountain Research Station, Nederland, CO, July 29, 2010 (invited)
Surprises in sensitivity of regional terrestrial carbon cycling to climate change: Implications for climate modeling and land management
Cornell University, Cornell Center for Sustainable Future special seminar, Apr. 22, 2010 (invited)
Why does climate care about parts per million?
University of Wisconsin Communications, 5-Minute Lecture, iTunes U, Apr. 17, 2010 (invited)
Why has wind speed increased over Lake Superior?
University of Wisconsin, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences Dept., Senior Capstone Seminar (405), Madison, WI, Mar 24, 2010
Is atmospheric CO2 an environmental toxicant?
Colloquium in Environmental Toxicology (MET 606), UW-Madison, Madion, WI, Mar 16, 2010 (invited)
Biogeochemical surprises in a changing climate: Learning from large lakes, northern forests, and mountains
University of Minnesota, Dept of Soil, Water, Climate, seminar series (invited)
Biogeochemical surprises in a changing climate
Wednesday Nite @ the Lab, Wisconsin Alumni Association, UW-Madison, Madison, WI, Mar 3, 2010 (invited)
The carbon conundrum
Sustainability Principles, Practices, and Paradoxes Seminar (CEE 698), UW-Madison, Madison, WI, Feb 9, 2010 (invited)
2009
Atmospheric tracers and the Great Lakes
Lake Superior Biogeochemistry Workshop, Kemp Natural Resources Station, Woodruff, WI, Aug. 19, 2009
Spatial processes and land-atmosphere flux: Constraining regional ecosystem models with flux tower data assimilation
Flux Measurements and Advanced Modeling, NSF/CU Summer Course, CU Mountain Research Station, Nederland, CO, July 23, 2009 (invited)
The impact of a declining water table on observed carbon fluxes at a northern temperate wetland
Society of Wetland Scientists Joint International Conference, Madison, WI, Jun 21-26, 2009.
It's always rainy in Wisconsin, unless you're a plant?
University of Wisconsin, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Seminar Series, Madison, WI, April 16, 2009 (invited)
Carbon cycling in a warmer, greener world
University of Wisconsin, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW Center for Climatic Research, Climate People and Environment Seminar Series, March 31, 2009 (invited).
Phenological responses of NEE in the subboreal, OR, How not to give a talk
UW Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Department Seminar, March 4, 2009. (invited)
2008
Carbon, Water, Land Use, Climate: Understanding interannual variability in surface-atmosphere greenhouse gas exchange
Wisconsin Ecology Group 2008 Fall Symposium, Madison, WI, Oct. 17, 2008 (invited)
Impacts of leaf phenology and water table on interannual variability of carbon fluxes in subboreal uplands and wetlands
Ameriflux Meeting 2008, Boulder, CO, Oct. 15, 2008 (invited)
Interannual variability of CO2 in the ChEAS mesonet
Chequamegon Ecosystem Atmosphere Study (ChEAS) Meeting XI, UNDERC-East, Land O Lakes, WI, Aug. 12, 2008
Lake Superior region carbon cycle: Viewed from the air
Lake Superior Biogeochemistry Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Aug. 5, 2008
Spatial process and land-atmosphere flux: Constraining ecosystem models with regional flux tower data assimilation
Flux Measurements and Advanced Modeling, NSF/CU Summer Course, CU Mountain Research Station, Nederland, CO, July 22, 2008 (invited)
Wet carbon/dry carbon: Surface-atmosphere carbon exchange in subboreal uplands, lowlands, and water bodies
University of Wisconsin, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Noon Seminar Series, Madison, WI, May 7, 2008 (invited)
From eddies to the breath of the planet: Flux towers, data assimilation, and the global carbon cycle
University of Wisconsin, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences Dept., Department Seminar, Madison, WI, Feb. 20, 2008
Carbon Dioxide, Friend or Foe? The terrestrial carbon cycle and a climate for life on Earth
University of Wisconsin, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences Dept., Senior Capstone Seminar (405), Madison, WI, Feb. 6, 2008
2007
Carbon Cycling in Lake Superior: Impact on Upper Midwest Regional Carbon Balance
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 13, 2007
Ecological Data Assimilation: The Flux Tower Story
Ameriflux Meeting, Boulder, CO, Oct. 18, 2007 (invited)
2006
Towards a Robust, Generalizable Non-Linear Regression Gap Filling Algorithm (NLR_EM)
Gap Filling Comparison Workshop, Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, Sep. 18, 2006
Regional Carbon Fluxes in WI: Moving Towards Synthesis
Chequamegon Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study Meeting, Woodruff, WI, Jun. 2, 2006
Scaling of Regional Land-Atmosphere Fluxes of Carbon Dioxide with Mesoscale Observation Networks: Impacts of Land Cover Variability, Management & Disturbance: Tall Towers and Tall Tales in Wisconsin's Northwoods
Pennsylvania State University, Dept. of Meteorology, Dissertation Seminar, University Park, PA, Mar 13, 2006
2005
What Can a Regional Observation Network Tell Us About Land-Atmosphere Exchange of Carbon Dioxide: Tall Towers and Tall Tales in Wisconsin's Northwoods
University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Special Seminar, Madison, WI, Dec. 15, 2005 (invited)
Influence of Land Cover Heterogeneity, Land-Use Change and Management on the Regional Carbon Cycle in the Upper Midwest USA as Evaluated by High-Density Observations and a Dynamic Ecosystem Model
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 8, 2005.
Multi-Tower Synthesis Scaling of Regional Carbon Dioxide Flux: Another Fine Mess of Observed Data, Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Model Parameterization
Chequamegon Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study Meeting, Woodruff, WI, Jun. 1, 2005
2003
Examining Changes in Forest Ecosystem Carbon Exchange in the Upper Midwest
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 12, 2003
2002
Old-Growth Carbon Sequestration in the Sylvania Wilderness
Chequamegon Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study Workshop''', Woodruff, WI, Aug. 19, 2002
