BLUEGEM

Forthcoming BLUEGEM meetings

• We have monthly meetings with all PIs, turned to plenary meetings every 3 months
• Our time zone constraints
• Schedules are given for Japan/Taiwan/Laos/France/Michigan (24h format)
• Our "summer schedule" is 21/20/19/14/8 (when France and US in daylight saving time)
• In winter, the schedule varies
• Quarterly plenary meetings
• 2024, July 1st at 21/20/19/14/8
• Monthly PI meetings 
• 2024 : April 30 (21/20/19/14/8)

Former BLUEGEM meetings

• Plenary meetings
• April 3, 2024: slides
• Jan 10, 2024: link to slides
• October 4, 2023: link to slides
• July 5, 2023: link to slides
  
• April 5, 2023: minutes with link to slides
• January 5, 2023: minutes with link to slides
• October 6, 2022: minutes with link to slides
• June 2, 2022, with talks on soil carbon and social science activities in France: minutes with link to slides
• March 7, 2022, with talks on soil carbon and hydrological simulations: minutes with link to slides
• December 2, 2021, with a focus on Mekong: minutes with link to slides
• September 9, 2021, with a focus on LSMs and ESMs: minutes with link to slides
• May 6, 2021, kick-off meeting: slides, minutes
• PI meetings
• 2024: Wed Feb 14 (21/20/19/13/7), Wed March 6 (22/21/20/14/8)
• 2023: Wed February 8 (22/21/20/14/8), Wed March 1st (22/21/20/14/8), Wed May 3rd (21/20/19/14/8), Wed May 31st (21/20/19/14/8), Wed Sept 6 (21/20/19/14/8), Wed Nov 8 (22/21/20/14/8), Wed Dec 6 (22/21/20/14/8)
• 2022: Mon January 3 (22/21/20/14/8), Mon February 7 (22/21/20/14/8), Friday April 8 (21/20/19/14/8), Mon May 2 (21/20/19/14/8), Thu July 7 (21/20/19/14/8), Thu September 8 (21/20/19/14/8), Thu December 8 (22/21/20/14/8)
• 2021: June 10, July 8, October 7, November

Other news

• Several BLUEGEM participants contribute to IRRMIP (Irrigation Model Intercomparison project), to be launched in 2022
• Tanjila Akhter (MSU) received a travel grant from the Soils CRA Coordination
• PIs Agnès Ducharne and Min-Hui Lo received the 2021 Franco-Taiwanese Scientific Prize awarded by the French Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Sciences and Technology
  

News from the Belmont Forum

• SRI 2024 Conference: June 10-15, in Helsinki, Finland - The Soils2020 session is scheduled on June 11
• SRI 2023 Conference: June 26-30, in Panama City - The Soils2020 session is scheduled on June 28, 9 AM - 12:30 PM ET
• SRI 2022 Conference: June 20-24, in Pretoria, South Africa and online
• Kick-off meeting of the CRA Soils 2020 at the SRI 2021 virtual conference (June 12-14 2021, Brisbane, Australia). Dedicated event on Sunday, June 13, 12:00- 15:00 UTC (so start at 9pm in Tokyo, 8 pm in Taipei, 2pm in Paris, 8 am in Michigan).
• Annual reports prepared for June 15, 2021 and 2022
• Our proposal is approved for funding since February 2021