Earlier in September this year the LEMONTREE Project hosted the second iteration of the Energy Partitioning Workshop (you can read about the first meeting of the consortium here).
The LEMONTREE Energy Partitioning Workshops aim to develop a better understanding of how plant pigments could transform the way we monitor Earth from space. The workshops bring together experts in remote sensing, ecosystem variability, canopy and leaf level processes, and those that work at the cellular scale.
This year the workshop focused on bringing together these scientists to push forward our knowledge on linking satellite observations of solar induced florescence with fundamental leaf level processes.
Back row: Fabienne Maignan (Laboratory for Climate and Environmental Science), Sara Pescador (University of Valencia), Christiaan van der Tol (University of Twente), Yves Goulas (École 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 (École 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).
The workshop was opened by Catherine Morfopoulos who outlined the goals for the workshop.
We then heard from three scientists on linking photosynthesis to ecosystem-scale processes. The day ended with breakout groups, mixing disciplines to identify the “big challenges” around solar-induced fluorescence (SIF).
On day 2 of the workshop the talks focused directly on SIF, ways of remotely sensing SIF, and how to link that data to various modelling approaches. The group then separated to address the questions what do we know? and what do we need?
Finally, the workshop ended with synthesising a potential review paper to summarise the state of knowledge on energy partitioning and photosynthesis. The group is now committed to finalising its data synthesis from last year, and to producing a review paper for the scientific community.
Above: PI Sandy Harrison and LEMONTREE member Catherine Morfopolous discussing core questions for the review paper at Dartington Hall.
The S.P.E.C.I.A.L group were represented by group PI Sandy Harrison and group coordinator Sophia Cain. You can read more about the specific talks in the blog about this workshop on the official LEMONTREE website.