Day 1: Plenary Session

Objective: Initiate the process of building community across the Heartland by coming together to listen to, learn from, and share with others information and perspective regarding human and environmental health and well-being research, technology and outreach work underway locally, statewide, regionally and nationally.

8:00 – 8:45: Registration Coffee & Networking

8:45: Welcome – Larkin Powell, Director of School of Natural Resources; University of Nebraska-Lincoln

8:47 – 9:00: Introductions, and Charge – Brief Overview of Workshop Program and Introduction of the Harnessing the Heartland Concept – Robert Swap, NASA

9:00 – 9:45: ICEBREAKER / JAMBOARD ACTIVITY

9:45 - 10:00: Perspectives from the ‘Human side’ – Human Health and Environmental Well Being in an Age of Global Change and Climate Resilience Research – Jesse Bell, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Special thanks to our rapporteurs: Caily Schwartz (SNR), Noah Berkowitz (SNR), Alyssa Hall (Agronomy & Horticulture), Catherine Chan (SNR), Tanessa Morris (SNR). (Rapporteur notes)

10:00 – 11:00: SESSION 1 - Below Ground to Surface and Terrestrial Ecology Interactive Panel: Focus on groundwater, soil moisture, soil health, irrigation/fertigation, plant ecology, land-atmosphere interactions and internet of things resources and activities.
Lead: Larkin Powell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Panelists:
Cheyenne Morgan, University of Oklahoma
Tyson Ochsner, Oklahoma State University (Ochsner presentation)
Chittaranjan Ray, Nebraska Water Center (Ray presentation)
Joshua Roundy, University of Kansas (Roundy presentation)
Jackson Stansell, Sentinel Fertigation (Stansell presentation)

11:00 - 12:00: SESSION 2 - Surface to Air Panel Interactive Panel: Focus on observational ground-based networks, towers, drones and airborne resources and activities across variety of sectors.
Lead: Mark Stone, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Panelists:
Ruben Behnke, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Behnke presentation)
Trenton Franz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Franz presentation)
John Gamon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Gamon presentation)
Shawn Serbin, NASA
Matthew McGill, University of Iowa
Michael Moritz, NOAA/NWS (Moritz presentation)

12:00 - 12:30: POSTER SESSION/NETWORKING

12:30 - 13:15: LUNCH
Keynote speaker – Extremes in the heartland  – Jeffrey Basara, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

13:15 - 13:30: Global Hydro Intelligence, Jerry Wegiel, NASA

13:30 - 14:30: SESSION 3 - Nose height to Satellite Interactive Panel: Focus on existing, planned and possible remote sensing activities.
Lead: Robert Swap, NASA
Panelists:
Antonia Gambacorta, NASA PBL (Gambacorta presentation)
Matthew McGill, University of Iowa (McGill presentation)
Charles Stanier, University of Iowa (Stanier presentation)
Edward Nowottnick, NASA AOS (Nowottnick presentation)
Brad Pierce, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Pierce presentation)
Brian Wardlow, University of Nebraska Lincoln/CALMIT (Wardlow presentation)

14:30 - 14:45: BREAK/NETWORKING/POSTERS

14:45 - 16:00: SESSION 4 - Actionable Information for Decision Making Interactive Panel: Focus on data and modeling activities across sectors that could work across the region e.g. air quality, hydrological, sub-seasonal to season ecosystem forecasting, use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to advance our understanding/integrate information across sectors.
Lead: Mark Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center
Panelists:
Craig Allen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Allen presentation)
Ian Brosnan, NASA (Brosnan presenation)
Ibrahim Demir, University of Iowa (Demir presentation)
James Rattling Leaf, University of Colorado
Fengpeng Sun, University of Missouri-Kansas City (Sun presentation)
Tsegaye Tadesse, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jeanette Thurston, Kansas State University

16:00 - 16:45: TRANSITION to POSTERS (rapporteurs work on compiling Plenary Report Outs)

16:45 - 17:30: Plenary Report back by four sessions (10 min each) w plenary Q&A.

17:30: Adjourn

18:30: Group Dinner