Publication: The effect of size and competition on tree growth rate in old-growth coniferous forests, by Adrian Das, Product of the 2010 Powell Center Working Group: Characterizing a link in the terrestrial carbon cycle: a global overview of individual tree mass growth
2011 Powell Center Working Group: Global Croplands and Their Water Use for Food Security in the Twenty-first Century - subsequent to Powell Center participation, this Working Group developed a proposal titled "Global Cropland Area Database (GCAD30) through Landsat and MODIS Data Fusion for the Years 2010 and 1990 and Its Dynamics Over Four Decades using AVHRR and MODIS" for which it received a $3.5 million dollar, 5-year grant from the NASA program: Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs). Read more....
USGS News Release - Big Data a Big Deal
ADMINISTRATION'S DIGITAL DATA INITIATIVE TO INCLUDE USGS PROJECTS. The Hill (3/29, Sasso) reports in its "Hillicon Valley" blog that the USGS is one of the agencies taking part in the Administration's $200 million initiative "to research new technologies to manage and sift through large volumes of digital data," which "could lead to breakthroughs in science, engineering, healthcare and national security." In a statement, David McQueeney, IBM's vice president of software, praised the announcement, saying, "The Administration's work to advance research and funding of big data projects, in partnership with the private sector, will help federal agencies accelerate innovations in science, engineering, education, business and government." Other agencies taking part include the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Energy Department and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The National Journal (3/30, Smith) reports that at an event on Thursday, USGS Director Marcia McNutt said, "We're in danger of drowning in data while starving for understanding." She said that "too often, the government is gathering unmanageable amounts of information." The Federal News Radio (3/30) reports that McNutt added that "the John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis in Fort Collins, Colo. is bucking that trend."
In Eos article titled: White House announces "big data" initiative, USGS Director Marcia MacNutt states: "The huge advantage of the Big Data initiative is that it will create many more large data sets that are discoverable, available, and interoperable on the Web that will be fodder for these Powell Center projects and any other USGS research. I expect that other tools developed for data discovery and analysis through other agencies’ initiatives will also prove very valuable to the USGS."
Call
for Proposals Announcement
Featured in Eos, an American
Geophysical Union publication, for Working Groups initiating
research in FY13. Announcement includes information regarding
joint funding of annual Working Groups by Powell Center and
the National Science Foundation.
Meeting
Report: Climate Model Simulations of the Mid-Pliocene:
Earth’s Last Great Interval of Global Warmth
PlioMip Working Group Product featured in Eos, an American
Geophysical Union publication
John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis, USGS Fact Sheet Publication, by Jill Baron and Martin Goldhaber
Call
for USGS-NSF Earth System Science Synthesis Proposals
Featured in National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences
(EAR) Fall 2011 Newsletter.
Call
for Proposals Announcement
Featured in Eos, an American
Geophysical Union publication, for Working Groups initiating
research in FY12 and FY13. Announcement includes information
regarding joint funding of 2 to 3 annual Working Groups by
Powell Center and the National Science Foundation.
Powell
Center - Announcing the Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 Working
Groups
Memo from USGS Director Marcia McNutt
Powell Center Grand Opening Congratulatory Letters
from: Bill
Ritter (Colorado Governor), Michael
Bennett (U.S. Senator, Colorado), Mark
Udall (U.S. Senator, Colorado)
Circumpolar Avian/Plant Mismatch Working Group convenes at Powell Center
September 21 - September 24, 2010, Group Photo
Tree Mass Growth Working Group convenes at Powell Center
August 30 - September 1, 2010, Group Photo
Resource Assessment Working Group convenes at Powell Center
August 17 - 19, 2010, Group Photo
NEON Welcomes
New Partner in New USGS Powell Center
National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc. (NEON) article,
August 2010
USGS
Offcially "Opens" the John Wesley Powell Center for
Analysis and Synthesis
USGS Fort Collins Science Center News, July 30, 2010
Announcing
the USGS John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis
Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Working Group Selections and the Call
for FY 2011
Director Marcia McNutt's memorandum to USGS employees,
February 12, 2010
The
John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis
USGS Colloquium Presentation, October 7, 2009
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