This summer we organized the second in-person NSFC–STINT workshop on “Carbon cycle in the climate-vulnerable regions: modeling and observations” in Nanjing, China. This time, the workshop was complemented by a summer school, providing early-career scientists with hands-on training in running three cutting-edge ecosystem modeling systems: the Terrestrial Carbon Community Assimilation System (TCCAS), Biosphere–atmosphere Exchange Process Simulator (BEPS), and Nanjing University Carbon Assimilation System (NUCAS). There were also lectures on the Global Carbon Assimilation System (GCAS) and machine learning applications in carbon cycle research.
The workshop and summer school attracted a large and diverse group of participants, and generated lively discussions across disciplines.