CROCUS All Hands Meeting

America/Chicago
Gwendolyn Brooks Library (Chicago State University)

Gwendolyn Brooks Library

Chicago State University

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

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.

Participants
  • Aaron Packman
  • Abby Stevens
  • Abhinav Wadhwa
  • Ahram Cho
  • Akilah Easter
  • Alberto Martilli
  • Aliyah Collins
  • Anissa Camacho
  • Anna Vincent
  • Ashish Sharma
  • Ashley Rasmussen
  • Barbara Ramaldes
  • Bernadette Petrovic
  • Beth Drewniak
  • Bhupendra Raut
  • Bilal Kaludi
  • Brandon Weart
  • Brian Argrow
  • Brian Wilson
  • Carolina Veiga
  • Carolyn Steele
  • CHARLES MACAL
  • Cheryl Weyant
  • Cristina Negri
  • Daniel Block
  • David Yocca
  • Deanna Hence
  • Dev Niyogi
  • Dimitrios Fytanidis
  • Edith Makra
  • Edward O'Loughlin
  • Edwin Saavedra C
  • Elizabeth Wawrzyniak
  • Emily Zvolanek
  • Eric Tatara
  • Estela Huizar
  • Fabiola Rios Bolivar
  • Gavin McNicol
  • Gijs de Boer
  • Haochen Tan
  • Jangho Lee
  • Jenn Nimke
  • Jeremy Jacobson
  • Jiali Wang
  • Jian Wang
  • Jing Zhang
  • Jonathan Ozik
  • Jorja Porter
  • Joseph O'Brien
  • Krishnan Raghavan
  • Liam Hamp
  • Liz Moyer
  • Liza Mohanty
  • Lu Xu
  • Marcelo Garcia
  • Maren Gingerich
  • Mark Potter
  • Matt Tuftedal
  • Max Berkelhammer
  • Mel Sabella
  • Melissa Adrian
  • Michael Kaplan
  • Miquel Gonzalez-Meler
  • Molly McDonough
  • Nathaniel Olmedo
  • Naveen Sudharsan
  • Nedra Fears
  • Nicola Ferrier
  • Paytsar Muradyan
  • Peiyuan Li
  • Rajesh Sankaran
  • Ralph Cintron
  • Rao Kotamarthi
  • Renee Skeete
  • Robert Jacob
  • Robyn Wheeler Grange
  • Roser Matamala
  • Ryan Sullivan
  • Sarah Dietzen
  • Scott Collis
  • Sean Shahkarami
  • Sen Wang
  • Seth Severns
  • Shane Querubin
  • Sicheng Wu
  • Steve Nesbitt
  • Sujan Pal
  • Sunyoung Park
  • Suzanne Beaudry
  • Tekleab Gala
  • Trinity Thomas
  • Whitney Romero
  • William Miller
  • Wilmarie Medina-Cortes
  • Xiaoyu Chen
  • Yuh-Lang Lin
Admin Contact: Nada Petrovic
  • Monday, September 16
    • 7:00 AM 8:30 AM
      Check In 1h 30m
    • 7:30 AM 8:15 AM
      Closed Session on Governance 45m

      Institutional lead PIs and Executive Committee Only

    • 8:30 AM 8:40 AM
      Welcome and Introductions 10m
      Speaker: Cristina Negri (Argonne National Laboratory)
    • 8:40 AM 9:05 AM
      Keynote Speaker 25m

      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 25m

      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 15m
      Speakers: Cristina Negri (Argonne National Laboratory), Suzanne Beaudry (Argonne National Laboratory)
    • 9:45 AM 10:00 AM
      Coffee Break 15m
    • 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 15m
      • 10:15 AM
        G3-Hydrology and land use + G4-Biogeochemistry 15m
      • 10:30 AM
        G5-Agent based modeling and scenario development 15m
      • 10:45 AM
        G6-Education and workforce development and training 15m
    • 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Discussion on State of the Thematic Groups 1h

      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 1h 15m

      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 45m

      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 1h 30m

      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 15m
    • 3:45 PM 4:30 PM
      Urban Canyon IOP - Planning for Data Translation, Impact, Publications, and Information Sharing 45m

      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 30m

      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) 1h
  • Tuesday, September 17
    • 8:00 AM 8:45 AM
      Check In 45m
    • 8:45 AM 9:00 AM
      Opening Remarks - Looking Forward 15m
      Speaker: Cristina Negri (Argonne National Laboratory)
    • 9:00 AM 10:00 AM
      Preparing for the Spring 2025 Field Campaign 1h

      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 15m
    • 10:15 AM 11:30 AM
      Preparing for Scenario Development and Analysis 1h 15m

      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 1h 30m
    • 1:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Planning the Careers of the Future Workshop 1h

      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 1h
      Speakers: Cristina Negri (Argonne National Laboratory), Suzanne Beaudry (Argonne National Laboratory)
    • 3:00 PM 3:01 PM
      All Hands adjourn 1m