8:00 AM: Ojima, Dennis¹, Moran, Emilio², ¹ Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, USA² Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change, Bloominton, IN, USA, Evolution of land science.

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8:10 AM: Brasseur, Guy ^*,1, Vogel, Colleen ^*,1, ¹ Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, New research challenges for Earth system sciences during the Anthropocene.

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8:40 AM: Moran, Emilio^*,1, McConnell, William¹, ¹ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, The use of comparative case studies in integrative analyses of land use.

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9:00 AM: Rustad, Lindsey^*,1, Parton, William¹, Pitelka, Louis¹, ¹ USDA Forest Service, Durham, NH, USA, Integrated experimental and modeling approaches to understanding ecosystem response to global change: New perspectives from the TERACC Global Change Network.

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9:20 AM: Turner, B.^*,, , Land change as foundational science: An example from southern YUCATN.

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10:00 AM: Leadley, Paul^*,, , Predicting the effects of global change on biodiversity: a challange for the GLP and DIVERSITAS.

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10:20 AM: Liu, Jiyuan^*,, Zhuang, Dafang, Liu, Mingliang, Yan, Huimin, Guo, Jiankun, , Detecting recent land use and cover change in China by remote sensing.

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10:40 AM: Schimel, David^*,1, Ojima, Dennis², Running, Steve³, Stephens, Britt¹, Monson, Russ ⁴, Sacks, Bill ¹, ¹ NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA² Colorado State University, Ft Collins, CO, USA³ University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA⁴ University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA, Estimation of regional carbon dynamics in complex landscapes by model-data fusion using ground, airborne and satellite observations.

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11:00 AM: Rosswall, Thomas^*,1, Geller, Laurie¹, ¹ International Council for Science (ICSU), Paris, France, Research for a sustainable world.

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