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Optional Post-Conference Field Trip(s)
Coweeta Hydrologic Lab: a Long-Term Ecological Research Site (LTER)
Otto, NC
(Sep 17-19,2009)
Cost: $150 (includes transportation and box lunches; hotel and dinner costs are additional (breakfast is included with hotel))
Space is limited to 40 participants.
Note: This field trip is full. In the event that cancellations occur, we will notify conference registrants via email and accommodate additional participants on a first come, first served basis.
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The Coweeta watershed, representing one of world’s oldest forest hydrology research sites, contains 5600 acres of mountain land divided into distinct small drainages.
The steep slopes, varying in elevation from 2250 to 5230 feet above sea level, are covered with dense forests typical of the southern Appalachian Mountains.
Ecohydrological measurements are used to show how disturbances to the watershed change stream characteristics.
Learn more at http://coweeta.ecology.uga.edu or http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/coweeta/
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Hotel Accommadations
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A block of rooms has been reserved at The Dillard House for field trip participants attendees at the special group rate of $89 (per diem rate is available for government employees) for the nights of September 17 and 18, 2009.
Please contact the hotel directly to reserve your room before August 16, 2009.
When contacting the hotel be certain to mention that you are with the "international forestry meeting" to get the special rate, which will help us with the expenses of this meeting.
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The Dillard House
1158 Franklin Street
Dillard, GA 30537
(800) 541-0671 or (706) 746-5348
http://www.dillardhouse.com/
The conference organizers will provide free shuttle service to the Raleigh Durham International Airport after the field trips. A sign up sheet will be posted in The Brownstone Hotel lobby.
Carbon and Water Eddy Flux Studies
Biofuels Research Site in Oxford, NC
Parker Tract near Plymouth, NC
Alligator River National Wildlife Refuges near Manteo, NC
(Sep 17-18, 2009)
Cost: $100 (includes transportation and box breakfasts & lunches; hotel and dinner costs are additional)
Space is limited to 20 participants
Participants are advised to bring field clothes and should be prepared to walk to and from field sites (approx 0.5 mile).
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Coastal plain forests remain one of the few uncharacterized ecosystems in the otherwise dense Ameriflux network of eddy covariance sites that measure energy, carbon, and water fluxes.
Many coastal forests are characterized by deep organic soils with carbon pools up to an order of magnitude greater than uplands forests. As a result of drainage during site preparation, these soils may be vulnerable to decomposition, particularly in a warming climate with altered precipitation regimes.
On the other hand, sea level rise, which is already affecting these coastal forests, may modulate their hydrologic regime as well as carbon balance.
Currently, there are large uncertainties about the role of these ecosystems in the global carbon cycle.
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The USDA Forest Service has established two study sites in intensively managed loblolly pine plantations located on the lower coastal plain in Weyerhaeuser’s Parker Tract to elucidate the mechanisms that regulate the variation in the magnitude of carbon fluxes and their relationship to hydrology.
Our data indicate that intensively managed commercial timber plantations can sequester over 8 tons of carbon per hectare per year, but this sink strength is very sensitive to hydrologic patterns during any given year.
Participants on this field trip will tour 5-and 17-year old unthinned loblolly pine plantations and learn about the eddy-flux, micrometeorology, biomass, tree sapflow, soil respiration, and water table measurements being collected to analyze carbon, water, and energy fluxes.
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Hotel Accommadations
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A block of rooms has been reserved at the Ramada for field trip participants attendees at the special group rate of $63.75 for the night of September 17, 2009.
Please contact the hotel directly to reserve your room before August 16, 2009.
When contacting the hotel be certain to mention that you are with the "Forest Service Water Conference" to get the special rate, which will help us with the expenses of this meeting.
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Ramada Plaza Nags Head Beach
1701 S Virginia Dare Trail
Kill Devil Hills/Nags Head, NC 27948
(800) 635-1824 or (252) 441-2151
http://www.ramadaplazanagshead.com/
The conference organizers will provide free shuttle service to the Raleigh Durham International Airport after the field trips. A sign up sheet will be posted in The Brownstone Hotel lobby.
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