Session: Climate Variability and Change: Challenges & Opportunities for Research and Extension

7:55 AM

8:00 AM

Southeast Climate Consortium – A Multi-Disciplinary, Multi-Institutional Program to Deliver Climate Services to Agricultural and Water Managers.
Keith Ingram, Univ. of Florida; James Jones, Univ. of Florida; James J. O'Brien, Florida State Univ., Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies; Gerrit Hoogenboom, Univ. of Georgia; David Letson, Iniversity of Miami; John Christy, Univ. of Alabama; James L. Novak, Auburn Univ.; Gail Wilkerson, North Carolina State Univ.

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8:15 AM

Extension and the Climate Change Challenge: Providing Climate Services to Citizens and Communities.
Clyde W. Fraisse, Univ. of Florida; Joan A. Dusky, Univ. of Florida; James Jones, Univ. of Florida

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8:30 AM

SISALERT - A Methodological Aproach for Decision Making On Plant Disease Management.
Willingthon Pavan, Univ. of Florida; Jose Mauricio Cunha Fernandes, Embrapa, Trigo; Clyde W. Fraisse, Univ. of Florida; Rosa Maria Valdebenito Sanhueza, Embrapa, Uva e Vinho; Cristiano Roberto Cervi, Univ. de Passo Fundo; Jaqson Dalbosco, Univ. de Passo Fundo

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8:45 AM

Using Climate Information to Minimise Agricultural Risk with a Focus On Crop Disease Management: a Collaboration Among Australia, USA and Brazil.
A.K.S. Huda, Univ. of Western Sydney; Clyde Fraisse, Univ. of Florida; E.M. Del Ponte, Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

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9:00 AM

Plant Selection Based On the Climatic Trend in the State of North Dakota, United States.
Ambika Badh, North Dakota State Univ.; Adnan Akyuz, North Dakota State Univ.; Barb Mullins, North Dakota State Univ.; Gary Vocke, USDA-ERS

9:15 AM

Simulation of Climate Change Impacts On Wheat-Fallow Cropping Systems.
Jonghan Ko, USDA-ARS; Lajpat Ahuja, USDA-ARS; Bruce Kimball, USDA-ARS; S.A. Saseendran, USDA-ARS; Liwang Ma, USDA-ARS; Timothy Green, USDA-ARS; Gerard Wall, USDA-ARS; Paul Pinter Jr., USDA-ARS

9:30 AM

Modelling Effects of Climate Change and Rising CO2 On Crop Production and Water and Nitrogen Management in Different Regions of Germany.
Kurt Kersebaum, ZALF; Claas Nendel, ZALF; Wilfried Mirschel, ZALF

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9:45 AM

Break

10:00 AM

Influences of Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Ozone Concentrations On Soil Respiration, Soil Microbial Biomass, Nutrient Availability and Soil C Dynamics in a Soybean-Wheat No-till System.
Fitzgerald Booker, USDA-ARS, Plant Science Res. Unit; Lei Cheng, North Carolina State Univ.; Kent Burkey, USDA-ARS, Plant Science Res. Unit; Edwin Fiscus, USDA-ARS, Plant Science Res. Unit; Shuijin Hu, North Carolina State Univ.

10:15 AM

Ploughing Reduced N2O Emissions From Forage Fields Compared to Chemical Fallow.
J. Douglas MacDonald, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Philippe Rochette, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Denis Angers, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Martin Chantigny, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Isabelle Royer, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Marc-Olivier Gasser, Inst. de recherche et developpement en agroalimentaire

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10:30 AM

Carbon Sequestration Potential of a Switchgrass Bioenergy Crop.
R. Howard Skinner, USDA-ARS; Paul Adler, USDA-ARS

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10:45 AM

Environmental Impacts of Sugarcane Production.
Owen T. Denmead, CSIRO; Ben C.T. Macdonald, Australian National Univ.; David W.T. Griffith, Univ. of Wollongong; Glenn Bryant, Univ. of Wollongong; Travis Naylor, Univ. of Wollongong; Stephen Wilson, Univ. of Wollongong; Weijing Wang, Queensland Dep. of Natural Resources and Water; Deli Chen, Univ. of Melbourne; Phil Moody, Queensland Dep. of Natural Resources and Water

11:00 AM

Concluding Remarks

11:15 AM

Adjourn