CROCUS All Hands Meeting

Sep 16, 2024, 7:00 AM → Sep 17, 2024, 5:00 PM America/Chicago

Gwendolyn Brooks Library (Chicago State University)

Cristina Negri (Argonne National Laboratory), Suzanne Beaudry (Argonne National Laboratory)

Please join us for the annual CROCUS All Hands. This meeting is for all CROCUS team members. Please plan to attend in person – hybrid capability will be limited.

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Monday, September 16

7:00 AM → 8:30 AM Check In

7:30 AM → 8:15 AM Closed Session on Governance

Institutional lead PIs and Executive Committee Only

8:30 AM → 8:40 AM Welcome and Introductions

Speaker: Cristina Negri (Argonne National Laboratory)

8:40 AM → 9:05 AM Keynote Speaker

Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome
Senior Director for Environmental Justice

Summary: Dr. White-Newsome will speak about the important intersection of research, community, and data and why getting this balance right provides the foundation for groundbreaking research and long-term impact.

Speakers: Dr Jalonne White-Newsome (White House Council on Environmental Quality), Robyn Wheeler Grange (Argonne National Laboratory)

9:05 AM → 9:30 AM CROCUS recap and introduction to scenario co-design

Summary: We’ll draw a quick recap of CROCUS and introduce the new activity for next year, scenario co-design. The in-depth discussion will be on Day 2, so the team has time to think about it.

Speakers: Chick Macal (Argonne National Laboratory), Cristina Negri

9:30 AM → 9:45 AM Updates from the Executive Committee

Speakers: Cristina Negri (Argonne National Laboratory), Suzanne Beaudry (Argonne National Laboratory)

9:45 AM → 10:00 AM Coffee Break

10:00 AM → 11:00 AM State of Thematic Groups: Science presentations from each thematic group

Science presentations from each thematic group (each 10-12 min)
● G1/G2 Street-scale city-scale issues
● G3/G4 Biogeochemistry & hydrology
● G5 Agent-based modeling and scenario development
● G6 Education and workforce development and training
● Measurement Strategy Team

Convener: Rao Kotamarthi (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:00 AM G1-Street scale +G2-City Scale

10:15 AM G3-Hydrology and land use + G4-Biogeochemistry

10:30 AM G5-Agent based modeling and scenario development

10:45 AM G6-Education and workforce development and training

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Discussion on State of the Thematic Groups

Summary: Discuss takeaways from the presentations, including how to improve the thematic group work, whether we need to reshuffle the thematic groups, etc

Speaker: Rao Kotamarthi (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:00 PM → 1:15 PM Working Lunch

WORKING LUNCH ACTIVITY: Mapping progress towards our goals within the CROCUS canvas
Summary: Each investigator will write a description of their impact on the map of CROCUS goals/deliverables posters, then we will read aloud and discuss what is done and what is missing.

1:15 PM → 2:00 PM Discussion: Data inventory and framework

Summary: Thematic groups and PIs share the data they have developed and how they plan to make them broadly available to the CROCUS team

Deliverables:
● Develop an inventory data collected to date and available from other sources
● Review draft proposed data platform - how to add data to ESS-DIVE?
● Leveraging all data to the max: Building case study list from data available
● Discussion of accessibility and barriers to data use by scientists, educators and practitioners, translation for non-scientists. Who needs which data.

Speakers: Ashish Sharma (Argonne National Laboratory), Scott Collis (Argonne National Laboratory)

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Urban Canyon IOP - Producing Impactful Science with Our Data

Summary: Why is this campaign important? Why does it touch everything we do?
● Discussion of the meteorological conditions during the IOP days/ synoptic and local conditions (COLLIS) (8 min + 5min Q&A)
● Study plan, instruments and data availability (COLLIS) (8 min + 5min Q&A)
● SPARC instruments, measurements and highlights (NESBITT OBO WAGNER) (8 min + 5min Q&A)
● Ballons and measurements at Comer (NESBITT) (8 min + 5min Q&A)
● Surface meteorological instrument measurements and highlights (MURADYAN or GROVER) (8 min + 5min Q&A)
● Aerosol measurements, instruments, measurements and highlights (JIAN WANG) (8 min + 5min Q&A)
● Street Temperature instruments (MOYER) (5 min + 5min Q&A)

Speakers: Rao Kotamarthi (Argonne National Laboratory), Steve Nesbitt (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC))

3:30 PM → 3:45 PM Coffee Break

3:45 PM → 4:30 PM Urban Canyon IOP - Planning for Data Translation, Impact, Publications, and Information Sharing

Summary: Focus on going forward working together. Rao and Jing will offer a few example titles for discussion, team to pitch in their ideas, volunteer for co-authors.

● Analysis of PBL heights from various instruments during the field study (GROVER & B. JACKSON) (8min + 2min Q&A)
● Early model analysis from street scale models (FYTANIDIS & S. WANG) (8min + 2min Q&A)
● Plans for modeling with high resolution WRF, LES scale and regional scale (TAN, MARTILLI, JIALI WANG, & SHARMA TEAM) (8min + 2min Q&A)
● Open Forum discussion – teams and manuscripts, how to communicate results to the community

Deliverable: produce titles and TOCs for potential manuscripts

Speakers: Rao Kotamarthi (Argonne National Laboratory), Alberto Martilli (CIEMAT)

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Discussion: Proposed Manuscripts, Authors, and TOC

Manuscript Leads: Ashish Sharma & Paytsar Muradyan
Building Trust & Collaboration Leads: Dev Niyogi and Miquel Gonzalez Meler

Summary: Are there other synergies that could deliver more manuscripts or other communication? Do we have what it takes to have an all-of-CROCUS high impact paper to which others could be references? If so what would that be?
During this time we will discuss collectively the ideas presented earlier and seek to improve them with a cross-CROCUS contribution. Including guidelines for impactful publications that are inclusive, respectful of community wishes, and enhance the CROCUS Code of Conduct. Also we will discuss how to engage the larger community in sharing results.

Leads will summarize and provide assignments to team - which then will huddle in small groups for 15-20 minutes to further plan.

Speakers: Ashish Sharma (Argonne National Laboratory), Dev Niyogi (The University of Texas at Austin), Miguel Gonzalez-Meler (University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)), Paytsar Muradyan (Argonne National Laboratory)

5:00 PM → 6:00 PM Postdoc and Graduate Student Mixer (all invited)

Tuesday, September 17

8:00 AM → 8:45 AM Check In

8:45 AM → 9:00 AM Opening Remarks - Looking Forward

Speaker: Cristina Negri (Argonne National Laboratory)

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Preparing for the Spring 2025 Field Campaign

Summary: During this time, we will work on developing the main goals of the next field campaign, focused on precipitation and flooding, learning from the Urban Canyons. Naming the campaign (communities), scientific goals, define sub-questions that can be addressed by the instrumentation available, based on that determine what we will measure. MST will be engaged but focus on the science first.
Deliverable: Further breakdown of science questions into actionable items for modelers and observation planning team.

Speakers: Beth Drewniak (Argonne National Laboratory), Max Berkelhammer (University of Illinois Chicago (UIC))

10:00 AM → 10:15 AM Coffee Break

10:15 AM → 11:30 AM Preparing for Scenario Development and Analysis

Summary: As we gain a better resolution of the impacts of climate change at the neighborhood level, and we better understand how to represent potential actions and the decisions that will lie ahead, we need to start envisioning scenarios that communities want. What do communities want for their neighborhoods?

Deliverable: action plan to start introducing discussions on scenarios.

Speakers: Chick Macal (Argonne National Laboratory), Daniel Block (Chicago State University (CSU)), Robyn Wheeler Grange (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:30 AM → 1:00 PM WORKING LUNCH – Presentation: CSU’s New Programs

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Planning the Careers of the Future Workshop

Summary: This session will plan for a winter workshop on careers of the future that will examine what is the outlook for a new workforce, what competencies will be needed, what will the new curricula need, and how CROCUS can help.

Deliverable: a draft agenda with potential speakers, content, and discussion topics, and the formation of a planning committee to own this out of G6.

Speakers: Akilah Easter (Olive-Harvey College, City Colleges of Chicago), Miguel Gonzalez-Meler, Tekleab Gala (Chicago State University (CSU))

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Summary of Action Items and Closing Remarks

Speakers: Cristina Negri (Argonne National Laboratory), Suzanne Beaudry (Argonne National Laboratory)

3:00 PM → 3:01 PM All Hands adjourn