Chairs: Christopher Swanston, USDA Forest Service, Houghton, MI, United States, Lucas E Nave, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Lifen Jiang, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
Primary Conveners: Lucas E Nave, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Co-conveners: Christopher Swanston, USDA Forest Service, Houghton, MI, United States, Margaret S Torn, Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Nancy J Hess, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States
8:15 AM
Estimating National Trends in Soil Organic Carbon Stocks for US Agricultural Lands Using Large Datasets
Stephen M Ogle1, Keith Paustian2, Kendrick Killian1, Mark Easter1, Stephen Williams1, Ram Gurung1, Ernest Marx1, Shannon Spencer1, Steve Del Grosso3 and William J Parton2, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)USDA-ARS Soil Plant Nutrient Research, Fort Collins, CO, United States
8:30 AM
Understanding the Dynamics of Soil Carbon in CMIP5 Models
Katherine E Todd-Brown1, Yiqi Luo1, James Tremper Randerson2, Steven D Allison2 and Matthew J Smith3, (1)Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (2)Univ California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom
9:15 AM
The Unified North American Soil Map and Its Implication on the Soil Organic Carbon Stock in North America
Yaxing Wei1, Shishi Liu2, Deborah N Huntzinger3, Anna M Michalak4, Wilfred M Post1, Robert B Cook1, Kevin M Schaefer5 and Michele Thornton1, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Huazhong Agricultural University, College of Resources and Environment, Wuhan, China, (3)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (4)Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States, (5)University of Colorado, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
9:30 AM
Deep Soil Carbon and Its Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change: Process Understanding and Representation in Earth System Models
Margaret S Torn1, Charles D Koven2, William J Riley3, Biao Zhu2, Caitlin Hicks Pries2 and Claire Louise Phillips4, (1)Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Oregon State University, Department of Crops and Soil Science, Corvallis, OR, United States
9:45 AM
Zero-D to One-D: Challenges and implications of considering vertical soil C profiles in Earth System Models
Charles D Koven, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, David M Lawrence, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, William J Riley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States and Margaret S Torn, Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
