International Joint

Synthesis Centre meeting

October 2013, CESAB

Synthesis model uptake

NCEAS

Synthesis model uptake

NCEAS

CERN

CEES

Synthesis model uptake

NCEAS

CERN

CEESNESCENTNIMBIOS

Synthesis model uptake

NCEAS

ACEAS

CESAB

Powell

CERN

CEESNESCENTNIMBIOS

Synthesis model uptake

NCEAS

ACEAS

CESAB

Powell

CERN

CEESNESCENTNIMBIOS

TansleyEOSsDiV

The Synthesis Centre

Some questions

• How does one define the synthesis centre

approach?

Some questions

• How does one define the synthesis centre

approach?

• What is the added value of the science conducted

in syntheses centres?

Some questions

• How does one define the synthesis centre

approach?

• What is the added value of the science conducted

in syntheses centres?

• What different approaches have been adopted by

the different synthesis centres, and why?

Some questions

• How does one define the synthesis centre

approach?

• What is the added value of the science conducted

in syntheses centres?

• What different approaches have been adopted by

the different synthesis centres, and why?

• What is the role of bioinformatics in the synthesis

process?

Some questions

• How does one define the synthesis centre

approach?

• What is the added value of the science conducted

in syntheses centres?

• What different approaches have been adopted by

the different synthesis centres, and why?

• What is the role of bioinformatics in the synthesis

process?

• Is one of the important benefits the provision of

crystallised data to resource managers and policy

makers?

Outcomes?

Outcomes?

• A journal article about the importance and

role of synthesis centres in the modern

world?

Outcomes?

• A journal article about the importance and

role of synthesis centres in the modern

world?

• Identification of opportunities for future

collaboration and possible synergies for

regular interaction and funding options.

Day 1time topic lead

09:30 NCEAS Frank Davis

09:50 NESCENT Allen Rodrigo

10:10 NIMBIOS Lou Gross

10:30 Morning tea

10:50 ACEAS Alison Specht

11:10 John Wesley Powell Jill Baron

11:30 CESAB Eric Garnier

11:50 EOS Dawn Field

Day 1time topic lead

13:10

CERN• Synthesis of ecosystem

monitoring and research: 20-year

experiences and lessons from

CERN

• Synthesis of ecological and

meteorological monitoring and

research: products from CMA.

Luguang Jiang

and

Huixia Zhao

13:30 sDiV Marten Winter

13:50 discussion all

14:10

The attraction of a

synthesis centre to policy

makers and government

Andrew Campbell

14:30Reflections on the

stakeholdersRichard Price

14:45 Afternoon tea