Global
Change Consulting Consortium, Inc.|
Global
Change Consulting Consortium, Inc. |
Contracts
fulfilled in work for the Consortium,
and closely related projects
These
are detailed on the right-hand column of the home page. The first two contracts for the Consortium
were on
·
Air pollution
control at an oil terminal in
· Comprehensive modeling of fluxes (water, water vapor, CO2, heat, radiation) in pecan orchards, using physiological and micrometeorological process models. This project, which is ongoing, has the goal of devising the optimal strategy of deficit irrigation, for preserving the greatest fraction of nut yield with a specified cutback in water availability.
The
project is tied to a parallel effort in satellite remote sensing of evaporative
water use by orchards (evapotranspiration).
Under separate contracts, the Consortium members and a part-time
employee are automating all steps an energy-balance method for computing
evapotranspiration (ET), from locating and retrieving satellite imagery to
producing maps and GIS files of ET.
Completed to date are:
·
A sensitivity
analysis (in press, Trans. Amer. Soc. Agric. Biol. Engineers) of the algorithm
for processing satellite data. With this study, we have
identified the surface parameters that are most important to estimate accurately.
·
Major
improvement of the calculation of ET on sparsely-vegetated
landscapes, by extracting details of surface conditions. This work applies to newly established
orchards with low cover. More
importantly, it is applicable to basin-wide and statewide estimates of water
fates for water managers.
·
A related
review (PDF, 1.8 MB)
of how well remote sensing can enable estimates of water stress, fire hazard,
fire progress, and insect damage.
Acquisition and management of grants
and contracts in prior academic work,
constituting large multi-year projects
Dr. Gutschick has held a number of federal,
regional, and university grants.
These grants inherently involved financial and personnel management.
Additional
management
experience includes a year as program officer at the National Science
Foundation and leadership of university-wide programs
Current
work organizing workshops and meeting sessions
·
Lead organizer
of a workshop
for researchers from 13 nations, Mathematical modeling of
plant development,
27 Sept. - 1 Oct. 2010 at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at
the
·
Organizer of a
special session, Gaps In Predicting
Vegetation Change - Physiological And Genetic Variation And Extreme Events,
at the 95th annual
meeting of the Ecological Society of America, 1-6 August 2010
Policy
studies, pro bono
·
Member,
Advisory Group, Southwest
Biofuels Association. Two
full-day meetings, March and April 2010.
·
Preparation of
a review on switchgrass
as a biofuel for the Association.
Membership
in public service groups
·
http://www.climatemediapartnership.org/>Climate
Change Media Partnership
·
AGU Climate Science Q&A for
· Joined the newly-formed AGU Science Experts Referral Service, 14 June 2010 (Web presence and other functions are under development by the AGU)
· For viewing here: Opinion on barriers to green technology transfer, a reply to inquiry by journalist Servaas van den Bosch, in advance of the Copenhagen conference
Technical
reviews, prepared
specifically for developing Consortium capabilities
·
Challenges in
integrating renewable
energy sources into the energy economy
·
Biofuels
pros, cons, niches
·
Water
issues - supply, demand, impacts, solutions
·
Issues in
forests
of the
Scientific
publications and presentations
specifically related to global change
·
Climate change and extreme events:
2003, 2007, 2010.
The latter two journals are not
open-access. Please
email
us a brief note when you view them, as an alternative to a cumbersome
password system.
· Presentations at national meetings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2007 (poster, ppt, 4.1 MB), 2008 (ppt, 2.4 MB), 2009 (ppt, 0.9 MB)
A more extensive list of presentations on all topics by Dr. Gutschick is linked here.
More
short reviews can be viewed on
other
pages of this website
Public
education work, most recent
·
Participation
in grant proposal to the National Science Foundation, Climate Change Education
Partnerships program, Phase I
(CCEP-I)
·
Co-organizer,
Sustainable Resources Group, in Las Cruces, NM - a new, informal group working
with state representatives and candidates on issues of energy and environment
·
Lecture series
on biological effects of global change, for the program of the
Academy
for Learning in Retirement,
·
Light essays
on general
science topics for the public, on topics ranging beyond global change
Endorsement
of Dr. Gutschick's qualifications from Prof. Louis
J. Gross, University of Tennessee, on
LinkedIn.com
"It is still a rarity to find individuals such as Vince who have the ability to consider complex biological systems from a holistic viewpoint, with the experience to know what details to include and what may readily be ignored to investigate basic as well as applied questions in biology. Vince is a modeler with both the mathematical intuition and biological insight necessary for analysis of life science questions involving multiple scales and levels in the biological hierarchy."
Dr. Gutschick appreciates the global nature of
issues. He has
collaborated
extensively with researchers and institutions in the