International Center for Tropical Highlands Ecosystems Research (ICTHER)
Bidoup-Nui Ba National Park, Vietnam
January 5-6, 2019

Participants

  1. Brendan Martin Buckley, Columbia University
  2. Orawan Buckley, Columbia University
  3. Kathleen Rose Johnson, California Irvine University
  4. James Alexander Paul Bendle, California Irvine University
  5. Christopher Thompson Wood, California Irvine University
  6. Lora Rachelle Landon, California Irvine University
  7. Jessica Kamain Wang, California Irvine University
  8. Michael Lindgren Griffiths, William Paterson University
  9. Xu Chenxi, China Academy of Science and Technology
  10. Vasile Ersek, Northumbria University
  11. Trịnh Anh Đức, Institute of Energy (Ha Noi)
  12. Nguyễn Tân Thái Hưng, Singapore University of Technology and Design
  13. Nguyễn Văn Thiết, Institue of Forest Science
  14. Lê Cảnh Nam, Institue of Forest Science
  15. Nguyễn Văn Ngọc, Da Lat University
  16. Lưu Hồng Trường, South Institue of Ecology
  17. Trần Quốc Trung, South Institue of Ecology
  18. Lê Thanh Tịnh, Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park
  19. Bùi Ngọc Thành, Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park
  20. Trần Xuân Mùi, Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park
  21. Lê Thuận Kiên, Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park
  22. Mr Bình, Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park
  23. Lê Văn Hương, Bidoup Nui Ba National Park
  24. Lê Văn Sơn, Bidoup Nui Ba National Park
  25. Trương Quang Cường, Bidoup Nui Ba National Park

Program

Saturday, January 5th – 2019
6:00 – BREAKFAST at Hotel du Parc
8:00 – Bus departs for ICTHER from in front of Hotel du Parc
9:00 – 10:00 – Arrival and check-in at ICTHER dorms
VISITOR CENTER CONFERENCE ROOM
10:00 – 10:15 – WELCOME (Mr. Le Van Huong, Director of Bidoup Nui Ba National Park)
10:15 – 10:30 – Workshop Objectives (Brendan Buckley)
10:30 – 11:00 – The SE Asian Tree Ring project: historical perspective (Brendan Buckley)
11:00 – 11:30 – Isotopes in Precipitation: An Overview (Kathleen Johnson)
11:30 – 12:00 – Isotopes and Speleothems: Southeast Asian Records (Kathleen Johnson)
BDNP CAFETERIA
12:00 PM – 13:00– LUNCH
VISITOR CENTER CONFERENCE ROOM
13:00 – 14:00 – Isotopes in Tree Ring Cellulose: Southeast Asian Records (Chenxi Xu)
14:00 – 15:00 PM – Isotopes in Lake Sediments: Southeast Asian Records (Lora Stevens)
15:00 – 15:30 PM – Coffee/discussion break
15:30 – 16:00 PM – Environmental monitoring in Vietnamese caves (Dr. Duc Trinh Anh)
16:00- 17:00 PM – Discussion: Research Needs, Potential Collaborations, Products/Outcomes, etc.) (Kathleen, Mick, and Brendan facilitate)
17:00 – 18:00 PM – FREE TIME
18:00 – 19:00 PM- Workshop Dinner

Sunday, January 6th – 2019
7:00 – 8:00 – Breakfast
8:00 – 8:30 – Trace elements and radiocarbon in SE Asian speleothems (Christopher Wood)
8:30 – 9:00 – Hydroclimate variability in Southeast Asia over the past two millennia (Jessica Wang)
9:00 – 9:30 – Organic biomarkers in tropical soils and karst deposits (James Bendle)
9:30 – 10:00 – Coffee Break/Discussion
10:00 – 10:30 – Four centuries of streamflow variability in the Asian Monsoon region revealed through two climate-informed reconstructions (Nguyen Tan Thai Hung)
10:30 – 11:00 – Landscape-scale disturbance history and the dynamics of conifer taxa of Bidoup Nui Ba national park, Vietnam (Nguyen Van Thiet)
11:00 – 12:00 – Climate and cultural changes in Southeast Asia during the Holocene (Michael Griffiths)
12:00 – 13:00– Lunch
13:00 – 16:00 – Excursion in National Park
16:00 – Drive back to Da Lat