Puneet Kishor attended "Archive '10," NSF Workshop on Repeatable Scientific Experiments, to be held at the Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Puneet's presentation, titled "Interoperability As A Guiding Principle For Long-Term Archives", focused on the questions that a scientist may want to ask with regards to data. Our work with very large amounts of data used in carbon modeling give us first hand experience on how ready data accessibility, or lack thereof, can slow down the process of science. The presentation focused on legal issues surrounding data accessibility.

Tom Gower and Puneet Kishor gave two separate presentations at the 2010 GLBRC Annual Retreat in South Bend, Indiana, on May 18, 2010. Tom's presentation focused on the issues surrounding woody biomass as a biofuel feedstock. Tom discussed the pros and cons of plantations vs. natural forests, and sustainability ramifications of biofuels. Puneet's presentation gave an introduction to Biome-BGC, focused on data needs for the model, and the future direction that the Carbonmodel team is considering with regards to using multiple climate data scenarios and making the data easily accessible to the greater scientific community.