Biogenic Hydrocarbons and the Atmosphere

Gordon Research Conference

May 23 - 28, 2010
Chairs and
Vice Chairs and
Les Diablerets Conference Center
Eurotel Victoria
Les Diablerets, Vaud (fr), Switzerland
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Conference Description

The 2010 Gordon Conference on Biogenic Hydrocarbons and The Atmosphere will present and discuss cutting-edge research on the ecological and atmospheric importance of the hydrocarbon compounds released by vegetation. The Conference will feature a wide range of topics such as the biosynthetic pathways, ecological functions, and reaction mechanisms of plant-emitted hydrocarbons. Additional topics will include the conversion of hydrocarbons to particles and their associated influences on climate, and science and policy implications of biogenic hydrocarbons. Invited speakers represent a variety of scientific disciplines, including ecology, biochemistry, atmospheric science, and environmental policy. The Conference will bring together an array of investigators who are at the forefront of their research field and will provide unique opportunities for junior scientists and graduate students to present their work in poster format and exchange ideas with leaders in the field. In addition, a group of poster presenters will be selected to give brief oral presentations. The collegial and inter-disciplinary atmosphere of this Conference, with programmed discussion sessions as well as opportunities for informal gatherings in the afternoons and evenings, provides an excellent venue for scientists from different disciplines to brainstorm and to develop collaborations across scientific fields.

Conference Program

SUNDAY
4:00 pm - 8:00 pmArrival and Check-in (Check-in Desk Closed 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmWelcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff
7:40 pm - 9:30 pmBVOCs AND THE ATMOPHERE: PAST AND PRESENT
Discussion Leader: Guenther Seufert (Institute for Environment and Sustainability, European Commission, JRC-Ispra, ITALY)
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm Thomas D. Sharkey (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA)
"BVOC Research: Past, Present, and Future"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm Laurens Ganzeveld (Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, NETHERLANDS)
"BVOCs and the Atmosphere: From leaves to the globe"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmBIOSYNTHESIS AND EMISSION OF BVOCs FROM PLANTS
Discussion Leader: Mary Anne Carroll (Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am Jörg-Peter Schnitzler (Institute of Meteorology and Climate, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GERMANY)
"Progress in the biosynthesis and regulation of BVOCs in natural and transgenic plants"
9:40 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break / Group Photo
10:30 am - 11:10 am Russell K. Monson (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA)
"BVOC emissions: From Laboratory to the field"
11:10 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm Jürgen Kesselmeier (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Biogeochemistry Department, Mainz, GERMANY)
"Biosynthesis and emission of oxygenated BVOCs in plants"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 5:30 pmPoster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF BVOCs EMITTED BY PLANTS
Discussion Leader: Dorothea Tholl (Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA)
5:30 pm - 6:10 pm Francesco Loreto (Istituto di Biologia Agro-ambientale e Forestale del C.N.R., Area della Ricerca di Roma1, Montelibretti, ITALY)
"New hypotheses on the ecological role of BOVC emissions in plants"
6:10 pm - 6:30 pm Discussion
6:30 pm - 7:10 pm Natalia Dudareva (Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA)
"Function of BVOCs in the natural world"
7:10 pm - 7:30 pm Discussion
8:00 pmDinner
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmATMOSPHERIC REACTIVITY OF BVOCs
Discussion Leader: William H. Brune (Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am John J. Orlando (Atmospheric Chemistry Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA)
"Progress in the gas-phase chemistry of BVOCs"
9:40 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am Robert J. Griffin (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA)
"Mechanisms of particle formation from BVOCs"
11:10 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm Jos Lelieveld (Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Mainz, GERMANY)
"BVOCs and the atmosphere’s oxidizing capacity"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 5:30 pmPoster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmEARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS I
Discussion Leader: Nicholas C. Hewitt (Lancaster Environmental Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK)
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm Steffen M. Noe (Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, ESTONIA)
"Modeling possible cellular regulation schemes of isoprene synthesis and emission under current and elevated ambient carbon dioxide levels"
5:45 pm - 5:50 pm Discussion
5:50 pm - 6:05 pm Patricia Oikawa (Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA)
"Environmental and ontogenetic regulation of methanol production, emission, and d13C values from Lycopersicon esculentum"
6:05 pm - 6:10 pm Discussion
6:10 pm - 6:25 pm Saewung Kim (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA)
"Branch Enclosure OH Reactivity Measurement-Constraint for the sources of missing OH reactivity"
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm Thomas Holst (Lund University, SWEDEN)
"Eddy Covariance BVOC fluxes from Eastern Siberian larch Forest growing on permafrost soils"
6:45 pm - 6:50 pm Discussion
6:50 pm - 7:05 pm Frank Keutsch (Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA)
"Analysis of rapid VOC oxidation in forest canopies from gradient measurements of formaldehyde and glyoxal"
7:05 pm - 7:10 pm Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:25 pm Jeong-Hoo Park (Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA)
"Observations of BVOC (Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound) Fluxes and Vertical Gradients in a Ponderosa Pine Forest during BEARPEX 2009"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm Discussion
8:00 pmDinner
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmBVOCs AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Discussion Leader: Paulo Artaxo (Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL)
9:00 am - 9:40 am Markku Kulmala (Division of Atmospheric Sciences at the Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FINLAND)
"An overview of field studies to assess SOA formation"
9:40 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am Meinrat O. Andreae (Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Department of Biogeochemistry, Mainz, GERMANY)
"Impact of SOA in cloud formation and precipitation"
11:10 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm Joyce E. Penner (Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
"Direct and indirect effect of SOA on climate"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 5:30 pmPoster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmEARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS II
Discussion Leader: Allison L. Steiner (Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm Federico Brilli (IONICON Analytik Gesellschaft M.B.H., Innsbruck, AUSTRIA)
"Application of the new Proton Transfer Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (PTR-ToF-MS) for improved detection of green leaf odor emitted after plant wounding"
5:45 pm - 5:50 pm Discussion
5:50 pm - 6:05 pm Delphine Farmer (Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA)
"Eddy-covariance measurements with time-of-time mass spectrometry: A new approach to chemically-resolved organic particle and gas fluxes"
6:05 pm - 6:10 pm Discussion
6:10 pm - 6:25 pm Brett Gantt (Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA)
"Measuring and modeling marine biogenic volatile organic compounds"
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm Nadine Unger (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York City, NY, USA)
"Photosynthesis-dependent isoprene emissions in a coupled global chemistry-climate-ecosystem model"
6:45 pm - 6:50 pm Discussion
6:50 pm - 7:05 pm Xiaoyan Jiang (The Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA)
"Modeling secondary organic aerosols and their sensitivity to future climate change in the United States with the WRF/Chem"
7:05 pm - 7:10 pm Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:25 pm Kristi Ashworth (Department of Environmental Science, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK)
"Atmospheric impacts of biofuels"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm Discussion
8:00 pmDinner
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 amBusiness Meeting: Part I
(Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms)
9:00 am - 12:30 pmBVOCs AND INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES
Discussion Leader: Thomas E. Pierce (Atmospheric Modeling and Analysis Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA)
9:00 am - 9:30 am Katja Behnke (Institute of Meteorology and Climate, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GERMANY)
"BVOCs and new fuels"
9:30 am - 9:45 am Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am Franco Biasioli (Fondazione Edmund Mach, Istituto Agrario di San Michele all'Adige, S. Michele All'Adige, ITALY)
"BVOCs in the taste and aromas of food"
10:15 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am Elena E. Stashenko (Research Center for Biomolecules, Industrial University of Santander, Bucaramanga, COLOMBIA)
"BVOCs in medicine"
11:30 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm Arlene Fiore (The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA, Princeton, NJ, USA)
"Scale effects of BVOC and AVOC in the air quality"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 5:30 pmPoster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmFUTURE DIRECTIONS
Discussion Leader: Rainer Steinbrecher (Institute of Meteorology and Climate, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GERMANY)
5:30 pm - 6:10 pm Ted Turlings (Institute of Zoology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, SWITZERLAND)
"New trends in plant insect interactions and the possible role of pollution"
6:10 pm - 6:30 pm Discussion
6:30 pm - 7:10 pm Jochen Rudolph (Centre of Atmospheric Chemistry, York University, Toronto, ON, CANADA)
"New trends in the determination of AVOC and BVOC emission by isotopic ratio measurements"
7:10 pm - 7:30 pm Discussion
7:30 pm - 8:00 pmBusiness Meeting: Part II
(Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair)
8:00 pmDinner
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart

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