Workshop Overview:
Terrestrial photosynthesis is the fundamental process coupling between global cycles of energy, carbon, and water. Photosynthesis is driven by incoming radiation and water availability, modulates atmospheric carbon and in turn releases water vapor that can drive cloud distributions and rainfall. But the most productive region on Earth, the tropical biosphere, remains a critical blind spot in our attempts to understand photosynthesis. Even groundbreaking satellite observations of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) are largely obscured by the persistence of tropical clouds. What lies beneath these clouds is the central enigma of the carbon cycle.
The KISS workshop will be used to articulate a vision for coupled analysis of carbonyl sulfide (OCS) retrievals with satellite-based SIF and CO2 data, providing a new window into the carbon cycle and a revolution in our understanding of carbon-climate feedbacks and crop monitoring. Key workshop goals will be to move beyond the disparate analyses of OCS, SIF, and CO2, and create a platform for a common language, basic understanding of opportunities and uncertainties, shared data sets, and roadmap for an integrated space-based OCS-SIF-CO2 mission to address critical outstanding science questions answerable through the intersection of such measurements.
Team Leads
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UC Santa Cruz
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Josh Fisher
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Le (Elva) Kuai
UCLA JIFRESSE
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California Institute of Technology
The study program schedule is available in .pdf here
- Ian Baker — Colorado State University
- Joe Berry — Carnegie Institution for Science/Stanford
- Kevin Bowman — JPL
- Elliott Campbell — UC Santa Cruz
- Huilin Chen — University of Groningen
- Roisin Commane — Harvard University
- Josh Fisher — JPL
- Christian Frankenberg — Caltech
- Liyin He — Caltech
- Timothy Hilton — UC Merced
- Le (Elva) Kuai — UCLA JIFRESSE
- Junjie Liu — JPL
- Julia Marshall — Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry
- Charles Miller — JPL
- David Noone — Oregon State University
- Nick Parazoo — JPL
- Natalia Restrepo-Coupe — University of Arizona
- Youngryel Ryu — Seoul National University
- Scott Saleska — University of Arizona
- David Schimel — JPL
- Ulli Seibt — UCLA
- James Stinecipher — UC Merced
- Wu Sun — UCLA
- Ying Sun — Cornell University
- Yuting Wang — University of Bremen
- Mary Whelan — Carnegie Institution for Science
- John Worden — JPL
- Yuk Yung — Caltech
- Zhao-Cheng Zeng — Caltech
Presentations
| Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation |
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| Ian Baker | Colorado State University | Incorporating Observations of OCS and SIF into Carbon Cycle Models (5.5 MB .pdf) |
| Joe Berry | Carnegie Institution for Science/Stanford | New Tools for Investigating the Carbon Cycle: (17 MB .pdf) |
| Elliott Campbell | UC Santa Cruz | What Carbonyl Sulfide Teaches us About Earth's Biosphere (3.79 MB .pdf) |
| Christian Frankenberg | Caltech | Remote Sensing of Solar Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence: The Past, Present and Future (24.3 MB .pdf) |
| Elliott Campbell | UC Santa Cruz | OCS Lifetime (222 KB .pdf) |
| Huilin Chen | University of Groningen | Quantum Cascade Laser Spectrometer (QCLS) (2.57 MB .pdf) |
| Roisin Commane | Harvard University | In Situ Measurements & Processes Driving Carbonyl Sulfide Fluxes (OCS/COS) (8.4 MB .pdf) |
| Nicholas Parazoo | JPL | SIF Based Estimates of Terrestrial Vegetation Photosynthesis (14.7 MB .pdf) |
| Scott Saleska | University of Arizona | Ecosystem – scale Problem: What is GPP? (3.32 MB .pdf) (1 MB .pdf) |
| Ulli Seibt | UCLA | COS-Based Flux Partitioning in a Tropical Rainforest (2 MB .pdf) |
| David Schimel | JPL | GeoCarb SIF (323 KB .pdf) |
| Wu Sun | UCLA | LRU – A Theoretical Approach (349 KB .pdf) |
| Yuting Wang | University of Bremen | OCS Measurements in NDACC-IRWG (974 KB .pdf) |
| Mary Whelan | Carnegie Institution for Science | Carbonyl Sulfide and Soil: A Primer (5.74 MB .pdf) |
