The first international QUEST workshop will take place in Japan
from June 9 – July 3, 2011.
Ruth Yanai will collaborate with Japanese researchers from
Kyoto University, Kyushu University, and Tokyo University, sponsored by the
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
Yanai and American colleagues will be working with Naoko
Tokuchi and Massaki Chiwa in a collaboration using data from the Wakayama
Forest Research Station, which is a long-term study site monitored by the Field
Science Education and Research Center of Kyoto University. The project will
compare the sources of uncertainty in hydrologic outputs of water and
solutes at Wakayama, Hubbard
Brook, and Coweeta. The sources of
uncertainty to be considered include the measurement of discharge rates and
solute chemistry, the selection of models to estimate annual solute export, the
measurement of catchment area, and spatial variation in replicated headwater
catchments.
Workshop meetings will take place at 11 a.m. local time, 10
p.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time, and will address topics defined by the
sources of uncertainty listed above.
June 13 Compare
sites (without uncertainty)
June 14 Discharge
uncertainty
June 15 Model
selection (define variables to include in predictive model)
June 16 Analytical
uncertainty
June 20 Watershed
delineation
June 23 Results:
Analytical uncertainty
June 24 Results:
Discharge uncertainty
June 27 Results:
Watershed delineation
June 28 Results:
Model selection
June 29 Results:
Weekly vs. Monthly sampling
June 30 Final
Results and plan for the future (just in case we didn't write the whole paper in
3 weeks)
Please join us on Skype, or join us in Japan! (Kyoto or Tokyo, depending on the date)
Scheduling is subject to change without notice, please check
with Ruth Yanai rdyanai@syr.edu if you
have any questions.
