The Scientific Advisory Board Meeting on Oct 15-16th will review potential SERDP projects for funding. The presentation schedule is included below.

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Tuesday, October 15, 2024

1000Convene & SAB Business

Kimberly Spangler, Ph.D

SERDP Executive Director, DFO

1030FY25 Weapons Systems and Platforms SON: Environmentally Sustainable Resins for Coatings and Sealants

John La Scala, Ph.D.

Weapons Systems and Platforms  
Program Manager 

1040WP25-C3-4826: Environmentally Sustainable Resins for DoD-Grade Thermosetting Polymer Networks (FY25 New Start)Erick Iezzi, Ph.D.
Naval Research Laboratory
1125WP25-C3-4956: Epoxy Functional Polyurethanes with Tunable Structures and Properties for Coatings and Sealants (FY25 New Start)Dean Webster, Ph.D.
North Dakota State University
1210Lunch 
1310FY25 Resource Conservation & Resilience SON Overview: Non-Indigenous Invasive Species Surveillance Mitigation and Biosecurity Measures Affecting Military Readiness - IndoPacific

John Kevin Hiers 

Resource Conservation & Resilience  
Program Manager 

1320RC25-C1-0201: A Predictive Model for Invasive Terrestrial Arthropod Species in the Indo-Pacific (FY25 New Start)Mark Johnson, Ph.D.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center
1405RC25-C1-4893: Biocontrol of Invasive Plants in Hawaii and Pacific Islands
(FY25 New Start)

Matthew Johnson, Ph.D.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Forest Service

1450Break 
1505RC25-C1-0097: Developing Novel Genetic and AI-Assisted Tools to Facilitate Detection, Tracking, and Eradication of Aquatic Invasive Species in Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam (FY25 New Start)Jonathan Whitney, Ph.D.
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
1550Public Comment Period 
1605AdjournSAB Chair


 

Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024

1000Convene SAB Chair
1005FY25 Resource Conservation & Resilience SON Overview: Addressing Uncertainties in Ecosystem Carbon Pools and Fluxes

John Kevin Hiers 

Resource Conservation & Resilience  
Program Manager  

1015RC25-C3-4751: Addressing Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Uncertainties Through Iterative Model-Data Assimilation (FY25 New Start)Michael Dietze, Ph.D. 
Boston University  
1100RC25-C3-4902: Predicting Carbon Sink Strength in DoD Costal Wetlands – A Simple Transferable Empirical Approach (FY25 New Start)Craig Tobias, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut
1145Lunch 
1245RC25-C3-4905: Reducing Uncertainty in Carbon Pools and Free Phase Gas Fluxes in Peatland Ecosystems from Spatially Rich Geophysical Datasets (FY25 New Start)Xavier Comas, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University
1330RC25-C3-4650: Disturbance Impacts on Permafrost Soil Carbon Pools and Fluxes in the Black Spruce Forests of Interior Alaska (FY25 New Start)Michelle Mack, Ph.D.
Northern Arizona University
1415Public Comment Period 
1430RC25-C3-0215: Multi-model Approach to Estimating Carbon Storage and Informing Uncertainty-Investment Tradeoffs for Guiding Carbon Accounting on Semiarid DoD Installations (FY25 New Start)Matthew Germino, Ph.D.
U.S. Geological Survey
1515RC25-C3-0189: Reducing Uncertainty in Vegetation Stress Responses and Stress Tolerance on Ecosystem Carbon Cycling (FY25 New Start)Sanna Sevanto, Ph.D.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
1600Break 
1615SAB Business 
1645Public Comment Period 
1700AdjournSAB Chair