Coordinated carbon cycle research: achievements and opportunities for innovation

Abstract:

Providing an overview of milestones achieved by one of the longest running U.S. interagency partnerships in the geosciences, the USGCRP's U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, this talk will examine the model employed for its success. The innovative pathways that the Program established in collaboration with the scientific community in order to catalyze scientific advances will be described, along with the governmental mandates and community input that guided their implementation. Within the context of emerging and innovative U.S. global change priorities and instruments, new challenges and opportunities for additional engagement, coordination and collaborations among government and non-government entities involved in funding, conducting, facilitating and using carbon cycle science will be explored.