QUEST: Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System
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Past Core Team Activities - 2007
December 2007
- 10-14 December: Marko Scholze convenes AGU land use session at the AGU fall meeting, San Francisco
November 2007
- 27-30 November: Colin Prentice to attend and give invited keynote presentation at the inaugaural CAWCR workshop in Melbourne
- 14-15 November: Colin Prentice attended the 35th anniversary conference of IIASA in Vienna
- 14 November: Colin Prentice and Marko Scholze attended QESM project meeting, Reading
- 13 November: Wolfgang Knorr attends NERC sponsored consultation meeting on the management of palaeo-data by and for NERC funded projects - report
- 12-13 November: Colin Prentice attended the EU ENSEMBLES General Assembly in Prague
- 8-9 November: Colin Prentice QUEST hosted a scoping meeting for a research project on UK soil carbon losses and vulnerability to climate change (contact: Jo House), jointly with the Environment Agency
- 6-7 November: Colin Prentice attended a QUERCC project meeting, Wallingford
October 2007
- 29 October: Peter Thornton, NCAR visited the QUEST core team
- 22-24 October: Colin Prentice and Pru Foster hosted the annual EU HYMN (Hydrogen, Methane and Nitrous Oxide) workshop, Totnes
- 17-18 October: Colin Prentice attended the joint strategy workshop of Living With Environmental Change and Microsoft Research, Cambridge
- 16 October: Colin Prentice attended the QUEST Integration Team meeting, London
- 15-16 October: Marko Scholze attended the A-SCOPE MAG meeting at ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- 9-12 October: Sarah Cornell attended the iLEAPS/QUEST/ACCENT expert workshop on "The relevance of surface and boundary processes for the exchanges of reactive and greenhouse gases", Wageningen, Netherlands - report
- 3-6 October: Colin Prentice attended the GCOS-WCRP-IGBP workshop on "Learning from the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report", Sydney
- 1-5 October: Sarh Cornell and Pru Foster attended the 4th International Nitrogen Initiative Conference in Brazil - report
September 2007
- 27-28 September: Colin Prentice attended the inaugural meeting of the UK-French project DESIRE (Dynamics of the Earth System and the Ice Core Record), which was also attended by most of the PMIP group
- 25-26 September: Colin Prentice represented QUEST at the international Palaeoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) meeting at Dartington Hall
- 21 September: Marko Scholze to attend PaleoQUMP project meeting at the Met Office, Exeter
- 20-21 September: Colin Prentice attended an international workshop on interdisciplinarity at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Durham - see Colin's thinkpiece
- 18-19 September: Colin Prentice attended the London launch at the Royal Geographical Society of the IPCC Working Group 2 report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability
- 14 September: Marko Scholze attended an IMECC project meeting at FastOpt, Hamburg
- 11-13 September: Marko Scholze lectured at the CarboOcean summer school, IfM, Kiel
- 10- 21 September: QUEST's ES4 Summer School took place in Bristol
- 7 September: Colin Prentice attended a planning meeting in Paris for the IGBP-Diversitas Fast Track Initiative on Plant Functional Types
- 7 September: Marko Scholze attended the QUAAC project meeting at CEH Edinburgh
- 5 September: Colin Prentice attended the JULES Management Board meeting, Sheffield
August 2007
- 28-31 August: Leverhulme Conference on using observations of the past to understand the future (Colin Prentice is on the steering committee)
- 27-31 August: Marko Scholze attended the 2nd International Conference on Earth System Modelling, in Hamburg, Germany
July 2007
- 28 July-3 Aug: Colin Prentice attended the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Conference in Cairns, Australia
- 14-17 July: Colin Prentice attended the Second QUAVIDA working group meeting Sydney, Australia
- 3-4 July: Marko Scholze attended the A-SCOPE MAG meeting at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- 2 July: PalaeoQUMP project meeting, Exeter
June 2007
- 28-29 June: Colin Prentice attended the JULES workshop
- 27 June: Marko Scholze and Jo House attended the Biofuels working group kick-off workshop at Imperial College, London
- 25 June: Marko Scholze and Colin Prentice attended a QESM evaluation strategy meeting at University of Reading
- 12-13 June: Jo House attended the Royal Society discussion meeting on biodiversity - report
- 8 June: Colin Prentice, Marko Scholze, Jo House and Cat Downy visited the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to discusss possible future research cooperations with Kew scientists
- 6 June: Jo House participated in the Earth Observation Strategy Land Workshop, at DEFRA Innovation Center Reading - report
- 4-6 June: Colin Prentice chairedthe AIMES Scientific Steering Committee meeting, at Dartington Hall
- 2-4 June: Marko Scholze chaired the AIMES Young Scholars' Network workshop, Bristol
May 2007
- 30 May-1 June: Colin Prentice, Sarah Cornell to attend Green Ocean working group, Villefranche
- 28-31 May: Wolfgang Knorr attended the International Conference "Hurricanes and Climate Change" in Hersonissos, Crete - report
- 23-24 May: Wolfgang Knorr attended the kickoff meeting, in Budapest, of the QUEST Demonstrator Forestry project, led by Forest Research, UK, and Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria - report
- 22-23 May: Colin Prentice, Pru Foster and Rita Wania to attended a HYMN modelling subgroup meeting, Brussels.
- 21-22 May: Wolfgang Knorr attended a workshop, in Budapest, on Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) options under the Kyoto Protocol for Annex I countries - report
- 18 May: Colin Prentice chaired CLASSIC Steering Committee at CEH, Wallingford
- 17 May: Wolfgang Knorr attended the ENSEMBLES Management Board, in Venice - report
- 2 May: Colin Prentice, Sarah Cornell QUEST Programme Board, Bristol
April 2007
- 30 April: PalaeoQUMP project meeting, Bristol
- 24-27 April: Marko Scholze attends the TransCOM meeting, Purdue, West-Lafayette, US
- 24 April: Colin Prentice attended UK Climate Modelling Strategy Group
- 17-19 April: Colin Prentice chaired a symposium on applications of non-linear dynamics and optimization for ecological and Earth systems science at the British Applied Mechanics Colloquium hosted by the University of Bristol.
- 3-4 April: Marko Scholze attended the IMECC kick-off meeting, Paris
March 2007
- 30 March: Colin Prentice attended JULES workshop
- 23 March: Colin Prentice, Wolfgang Knorr and Jo House attended the Moderating Panel for the Invitation to Tender (Biosphere Management), Swindon
- 20-22 March: Colin Prentice attended the Workshop on Amazonia, Oxford
- 19-20 March: Colin Prentice attended an Earth System Atlas editorial planning meeting, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- 13-14 March: Marko Scholze attended the MAG meeting at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- 13-16 March: Colin Prentice attended an IGBP Scientific Committee meeting, Angra dos Reis, Brazil
- 8 March: Colin Prentice attended a Stakeholder meeting at DfID, London - report
- 8 March: Marko Scholze attended QESM project meeting, Reading
- 5 March: Marko Scholze gave a research seminar at the Meteorology Department, University of Reading
- 1-2 March: Jo House attended a Royal Society Discussion meeting, in London, on "The Science of Climate change: A Royal Society showcase of the IPCC 4th Assessment Working Group 1 Report" - report
February 2007
- 27 -28 February: Colin Prentice gave a research seminar and was involved in discussions biosphere modelling at the University of Toronto
- 27 February: PalaeoQUMP project meeting, Exeter
- 23 February: Jo House attended a UNEP-WCMC workshop, in Cambridge, on the potential for Earth Observation (EO) Technology and Products within the Global Biodiversity Community - report
- 21-23 February: Marko Scholze attended the QUEST-sponsored CGIAR-ESSP Workshop, Oxford - report
- 20-23 February: Colin Prentice attended the first QUAVIDA working group meeting in Sydney
- 17 February: QUEST brainstorming meeting on "Dynamics and Modelling of Grazing Systems", Bristol
- 14 February: Colin Prentice attended the CLASSIC science event at the Royal Society, London
- 12-16 February: Marko Scholze attended 3rd WGNE Workshop on Systematic Errors in Climate and NWP Models, San Francisco - report
- 7-9 February: Colin Prentice attends the first workshop of the IGBP Fast Track Initiative on Plant Functional Classification, (co-sponsored by QUEST) in Alicante - report
- 6 February: Colin Prentice, Rita Wania, Pru Foster attended the HYMN discussion on coupling modelled biogenic trace gas emissions and atmospheric chemistry, in Paris
January 2007
- 30 January: PalaeoQUMP project meeting, Exeter
- 25 January: "Summit" meeting to discuss research and stakeholder synergies with Tyndall Centre and UKERC, held at UKERC (Imperial College), London
- 23 January: Colin Prentice attended the NERC event "Our Changing Atmosphere" held at the Institute of Physics, London
- 22 January: JULES Management Board hosted by QUEST
- 16 January: Jim Giles from Nature visited QUEST for discussions with the core team
- 12 January: Colin Prentice attended Quaternary QUEST meeting, Reading
- 8-10 January: Sarah Cornell attended the Joint SOLAS/QUEST/ACCENT workshop, on "Integrated, long term ocean-atmosphere observations in the tropical Atlantic", in Cape Verde - report (pdf 996 KB)