The QUEST Session at American Geophysical
Union merged with three other proposed sessions to get a full day of
talks, Monday December 12, in Moscone West
2004.
Quantifying
Uncertainties and Merging Observations, Experiments, and Models for Improving
Estimation, Mapping, and Forecasting of Terrestrial Ecosystem Dynamics I and II. Session: B11J and B12C
The first three talks and one
late morning talk were part of the original QUEST session:
08:00 Why Quantify
Uncertainty in Ecosystem Studies: Obligation versus Discovery Tool? Mark E.
Harmon, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
08:15
High-Resolution
Precipitation Mapping in a Mountainous Watershed: Ground Truth for Evaluating
Uncertainty in a National Precipitation Dataset. Christopher Daly1,
Melissa E. Slater2, Joshua A Roberti2, Stephanie H. Laseter3 and Lloyd W.
Swift3, (1)PRISM Climate Group, College of Engineering, Oregon State
University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)National Ecological Observatory
Network, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, USDA
Forest Service, Otto, NC, United States
08:30
What if
the Hubbard Brook weirs had been built somewhere else? Spatial uncertainty
in the application of catchment budgets. Scott W Bailey, US Forest
Service Durham, Durham, NH, United States
12:05
From
Small Forest Inventory Plots to Regional Biomass Estimates: Dealing with
Uncertainty from Inventory Sampling by Focusing on Trees Instead of Biomass.
Bradley Tomasek1, Erin M Schliep2, Alan E. Gelfand1 and James S Clark1, (1)Duke
University, Durham, NC, United States, (2)University of Missouri Columbia,
Columbia, MO, United States
The following presentations are posters, please visit them in Moscone South
from 1:40 to 6:00.
Manoj Kc1,2, Kim Winton3, Michael A Langston3 and Yiqi Luo1,
(1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)New
Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Dept. Earth & Environmental
Science, Hydrology Program,, Socorro, NM, United States, (3)USGS South Central
Climate Science Center, Norman, OK, United States
B13E-0666 How to Avoid
Errors in Error Propagation: Prediction Intervals and Confidence Intervals in
Forest Biomass. Paul Lilly1, Ruth D. Yanai2, Hannah L Buckley3,
Bradley S Case3, Richard C Woollons4, Robert J Holdaway5 and James Johnson6,
(1)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, (2)SUNY College
of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States, (3)Lincoln
University, Lincoln, New Zealand, (4)University of Canterbury, Christchurch,
New Zealand, (5)Landcare Research NZ, Lincoln, New Zealand, (6)University
College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
B13E-0667 Quantifying
uncertainty in carbon and nutrient pools of coarse woody debris. Craig Robert See, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN, United States, John L Campbell, USDA Forest Service, Northern
Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States, Shawn Fraver, University of
Maine, School of Forest Resources, Orono, ME, United States, Grant M Domke, US
Forest Service St. Paul, St. Paul, MN, United States, Mark E. Harmon, Oregon
State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Jennifer D Knoepp, Coweeta
Hydrologic Laboratory, U.S. Forest Service, Otto, NC, United States and
Christopher W Woodall, US Forest Service Durham, Northern Research Station,
Durham, NH, United States
B13E-0668 Uncertainty
Propagation in Predictions of Hydraulic Parameters Based on the Pedotransfer
Functions. Boris Faybishenko, Tetsu K Tokunaga, Yongman Kim and Deb
Agarwal, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
B13E-0669 Uncertainty
in a certain world: standardized approach to evaluating uncertainty in
measurement results. Janae Lynn Csavina and Joshua A Roberti, National
Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, CO, United States
B13E-0670 Sources of
variability in tissue chemistry in northern hardwood species. Yang Yang1,
Ruth D. Yanai2, Farrah Roxanne Fatemi3, Carrie R Levine4, Paul Lilly5 and
Russell Briggs2, (1)State University of New York Environmental Science and
Forestry, Environmental Science, Syracuse, NY, United States, (2)SUNY College
of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States, (3)St.
Michael’s College, Colchester, VA, United States, (4)University of California
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC,
Alameda, CA, United States
B13E-0671 Interannual
variability, correlated errors, and trend detection of evapotranspiration at
AmeriFlux sites. Angela Jean Rigden and Guido Salvucci, Boston
University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States
B13E-0672 ‘spup’ – An
R Package for Analysis of Spatial Uncertainty Propagation and Application to
Trace Gas Emission Simulations. Kasia Sawicka1, Lutz Breuer2, Tobias
Houska2, Ignacio Santabarbara Ruiz3 and Gerard B.M. Heuvelink1, (1)Wageningen
University, Soil Geography and Landscape group, Wageningen, Netherlands,
(2)Justus Liebig University Giessen, Institute for Landscape Ecology and
Resources Management, Giessen, Germany, (3)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
B13E-0673 Evaluating
Random Error of Long-term, Multi-plot Flux Gradient Measurements of
Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Shannon E Brown1, Claudia
Wagner-Riddle1 and Muhammad Firdaus Sulaiman2, (1)University of Guelph, School
of Environmental Sciences, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)University of Guelph, Guelph,
ON, Canada
B13E-0674 Uncertainties
in detecting decadal change in extractable soil elements in Northern Forests.
Olivia Bartlett, University of New Hampshire Main Campus,
Durham, NH, United States, Scott W Bailey, US Forest Service Durham, Durham,
NH, United States and Mark J Ducey, University of New Hampshire (UNH),
Department of Natural Resources & Environment, Durham, NH, United States
B13E-0675 A geospatial
framework for improving the vertical accuracy of elevation models in Florida’s
coastal Everglades. Hannah Cooper1, Caiyun Zhang1 and Matthew
Sirianni2, (1)Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, United States,
(2)Florida Atlantic University, Geosciences, Davie, FL, United States
B13E-0676 Quantifying
the impact of the longitudinal dispersion coefficient parameter uncertainty on
the physical transport processes in rivers. Vivian Veronica Camacho
Suarez, James Shucksmith and Alma Schellart, University of Sheffield,
Sheffield, United Kingdom
B13E-0677 Forested
hillslope water budget uncertainty: understanding the pathway from
precipitation to biota to stream discharge. Heather Nicole Speckman1,
Daniel Beverly2, Jason Mercer2, Suman Chitrakar3, Drew Thayer3, Bradley Carr4,
Andrew Parsekian5 and Brent E Ewers2, (1)University of Wyoming, WyCEHG,
Laramie, WY, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Botany, Laramie, WY,
United States, (3)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States,
(4)University of Wyoming, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY,
United States, (5)University of Wyoming, Geology, Laramie, WY, United States
