Workshop:

NOVEL DATA MINING STRATEGIES FOR EXPLORING

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES AND BIOSPHERE-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS

June 08-10, 2009 at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Idea

Regional and global observations of biogeochemical cycles, such as ecosystem-atmosphere fluxes or biospheric responses to climate, lead to high dimensional spatiotemporal data matrices. Environmental diagnostics and prognostics under non-stationary climate conditions require insight in the coupling of multiple data streams, posing novel problems to statistics and bioinformatics. Merging the expertise from relevant backgrounds is expected to allow the identification of common goals and open new methodological perspectives.

Please find here an elaborated outline of the workshop, the preliminary program and the abstracts of the contributions here: .pdf Δ

Methodological aspects

Machine learning (pattern extraction, classification, nonlinear regression)
Dimensionality reduction, pattern visualization
Information measures, information transfer
Nonlinear multivariate time series analysis, synchronization

Environmental focus

Biogeochemical cycle data
Exchange fluxes of H₂O, CO₂, and energy
Interaction of the terrestrial biosphere and atmosphere
Spatiotemporal monitoring of biological activity of the biosphere
Hypothesis generation, Empirical modeling, and Upscaling

Time line

08-10.06.2009 WORKSHOP
10.05.2009 FINAL PROGRAMME DUE
08.05.2009 DEADLINE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Organization

The format of the workshop is following the idea of a "round table" discussion. We invite you to present your ideas and relevant studies on the topic in talks, mini presentations or demonstrations. Please let us know the title and type of your contribution together with a short abstract (ca 400 words + illustrations if feasible) latest one month before the event takes place (08.05.2009). Key note lectures by Prof. Parveen Kumar (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois) and Prof. Jürgen Kurths (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) will help setting the stage.

Venue

The workshop will take place in the Institute which is easily reachable from Jena center by public transport. An short description how to reach the city and the institute from various airports and train stations can be found here:

Accommodation

We have made a hotel reservation for 30 people from Sun. 07-06 to Wed 10-06 (nice hotel in Jena center: Schwarzer Bär). If you plan to stay there please inform us and send us your travel plans (arrival and departure days) latest one month before the workshop takes place (08.05.2009).

Contact

Please contact any of the organizers for further information:

Miguel Mahecha	(mmahecha( AT )bgc.mpg.de)
Markus Reichstein	(mreichstein( AT )bgc.mpg.de)
Nuno Carvalhais	(ncarvalhais( AT )fct.unl.pt)
Mirco Migliacaca	(m.migliavacca1( AT )campus.unimib.it)

Preliminary list of participants (open and to be modified):

Abramowitz, Gab	Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Ahrends, Hella	Institute of Geography, University of Bern and ETH Zürich.
Atanasova, Nataša	Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana.
Barbosa, Susana	Instituto D. Luiz, University of Lisbon.
Brender, Pierre	Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement (LSCE), Paris.
Carvalhais, Nuno	Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon.
Ciais, Philippe	Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement (LSCE), Paris.
Crucifix, Michel	Institut d'astronomie et de géophysique Georges Lemaître, Université catholique de Louvain.
Davin, Edouard	Land-Climate Interactions Group, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH, Zürich.
Donner, Reik	Dresden University of Technology.
Harmeling, Stefan	Department Empirical Inference, Max Planck Inst. for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen.
Häring, Tim	Bavarian agency for forestry, Weihenstephan.
Heimann, Martin	Dep. Biogeochem. Systems, Max Planck Inst. for Biogeochemistry, Jena.
Hothorn, Torsten	Institut for statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München.
Janzing, Dominik	Department Empirical Inference, Max Planck Inst. for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen.
Jung, Martin	Biogeochem. Model-Data Integration Group, Max Planck Inst. for Bioegochemistry, Jena.
Kumar, Praveen	Dep. of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana.
Kurths, Jürgen	Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam.
Lange, Holger	Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute, Aas.
Luyssaert, Sebastian	Dep. of Biology, University of Antwerp.
Mahecha, Miguel	Biogeochem. Model-Data Integration Group, Max Planck Inst. for Biogeochemistry, Jena.
Malik, Nishant	Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam.
Migliavacca, Mirco	Dipartimento Scienze dell’Ambiente e del Territorio. Università Milano-Bicocca, Milan.
Moffat, Antje	Dep. Biogeochem. Systems, Max Planck Inst. for Biogeochemistry, Jena.
Orlowsky, Boris	Land-Climate Interactions Group, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH, Zürich.
Osipov, Grigory	Nizhny Novgorod University, Nizhny Novgorod.
Reichstein, Markus	Biogeochem. Model-Data Integration Group, Max Planck Inst. for Biogeochemistry, Jena.
Richardson, Andrew	Complex Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham & Dept. of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.
Rust, Henning	Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement (LSCE), Paris.
Papale, Dario	DISAFRI, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo.
Schölkopf, Bernhard	Department Empirical Inference, Max Planck Inst. for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen.
Schröder, Boris	Inst. for Geoecology, University of Potsdam.
Strobl, Carolin	Institut for statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München.
Sulkava, Mika	Laboratory of Computer and Information Science, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo.
van der Maaten, Laurens	Tilburg centre for Creative Computing, Tilburg University.

(the randomized workshop outline created by W O R D L E . N E T)