Andes-Amazon Meeting: Palo Alto, CA
November 8-10, 2010
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Attendees and Presenters
Andrea Castanho
Mike Coe
Marcos Heil Costa
David Galbraith
Luis Gustavo Goncalves
Hewlley Imbuzeiro
Naomi Levine
Yadvinder Malhi
Sanaz Moghim
Paul Moorcroft
Michel Nobre
Tom Powell
Natalia Restrepo
Scott Saleska
Sepidah Sarachi
Luis Solorzano
Jingfeng Wang
Ke Zhang
Lodging
Reservations have been made for attendees at Dinah's Garden Hotel. Please mention upon check-in that your reservation is with the "Andes-Amazon Group".
4261 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California 94306
Meals
Breakfast will be available at Dinah's Poolside Grill.
Lunch will be catered at the Moore Foundation by green catering company Eclecdish. You can find out more about their menu and catering practices here: Eclecdish
The opening night dinner will be held at Trader Vic's Restaurant, adjoined to Dinah's Garden Hotel, on October 8 at 7:00 pm.
Transportation and Directions
The closest airport to Palo Alto is the San Francisco International Airport, which is 26 miles from the Hotel.
If you wish to drive, directions to Dinah's Garden Hotel can be found here: http://www.dinahshotel.com/map_of_palo_alto_california.htm
Public Transportation to Dinah's Garden Hotel from San Francisco International Airport is available through Caltrain. It's a rather complicated affair, but doable. You can find the route through Google Maps here: https://www.google.com/maps or you can consult Caltrain here: http://www.caltrain.com/main.html
Shuttle transportation to the Moore Foundation from Dinah's will be provided beginning at 8:30 each morning. Shuttles will begin return trips at 5:00 pm, with the exception of the 10th, when the shuttle will return to Dinah's after lunch at 1:00.
Palo Alto and Surrounding Areas
There are many wonderful places in California to visit that are close to Palo Alto. Below is a list suggested by our host, Luis Solorzano.
http://www.visitinglaketahoe.com/
http://www.bigsurcalifornia.org/
http://www.go-california.com/Santa-Cruz/Sightseeing-Tours/
http://www.onlyinsanfrancisco.com/
Agenda
updated 11/05/10
Disturbance SubGroup Project Meeting:
Integrating Disturbance Data
The goal of the Disturbance workshop is to bring together the modelers and those providing field measurements to design modeling experiments that will further the understanding of the dynamics of the Amazon forest ecosystem after a severe disturbance. The intention is to model three scenarios: drought, logging and fire, using four different land surface/ecosystem models: CLM, ED, IBIS and JULES.