{"id":2659,"date":"2025-10-08T10:08:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/lemontree\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2025-10-08T10:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:08:42","slug":"energy-partitioning-workshop-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/lemontree\/energy-partitioning-workshop-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Partitioning Workshop Two: Beyond Solar Induced Florescence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last October, we hosted our first Energy Partitioning Workshop, bringing together a cross-disciplinary team to explore how better understanding of plant pigments could transform the way we monitor Earth from space. (You can revisit that first meeting here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Back then, we promised to meet up again in a year\u2014and at the end of September 2025, we did just that. This time, the team gathered for three productive days at Dartington Hall, Totnes, England, under a new banner:<\/p>\n

\u201cEcosystem processing of absorbed solar energy and it\u2019s coupling to carbon fixation: towards a new synthesis.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The workshop brought together experts in remote sensing, ecosystem modelling, field ecology, and plant physiology to push forward our collective efforts to link satellite observations with the fundamental processes that drive plant growth and the carbon cycle.<\/p>\n

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Back row: Fabienne Maignan (Laboratory for Climate and Environmental Science), Sara Pescador (University of Valencia), Christiaan van der Tol (University of Twente), Yves Goulas (\u00c9cole Polytechnique), Haoran Liu (Imperial College London, ICL). Middle row: Lina Mercado (Exeter University), Colin Prentice (ICL), Youngryel Ryu (Seoul National University), Xiangzhong (Remi) Luo (University of Singapore), Gabriel Hmimina (\u00c9cole Polytechnique). Front row: Catherine Morfopoulos (ICL), Sandy Harrison (University of Reading), Wenjia (Shirley) Cai (ICL), Lisa Wingate (INRAE). Online participants: Alexander Ruban (Queen Mary University of London), Shari Van Wittenberghe (University of Valencia), Ying Sun (Cornell University) and Lianhong Gu (Oakridge National Laboratory). Photo by Sophia Cain (University of Reading).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The invitation captured the aim:<\/p>\n

\u201cA deeper understanding of primary production can be gained by closely examining leaf pigments, their role in photosynthesis, and their presence in data collected by existing and upcoming Earth Observation satellites.\u201d<\/p>\n

Building on our 2024 workshop, this second meeting focused on non-photochemical processes, evaluating and comparing hybrid models, and identifying the measurements needed to improve model\u2013satellite cross-evaluation.<\/p>\n

Day 1 \u2013 Recap and Aims<\/h2>\n

The workshop opened with Catherine Morfopoulos<\/strong> outlining the goals.<\/p>\n

We then heard three perspectives on linking photosynthesis to ecosystem-scale processes:<\/p>\n