B51H:
Observations and Model Requirements for Understanding Drivers of Disturbance Processes in Arctic and Boreal Terrestrial Ecosystems II

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Santonu Goswami1, Daniel J Hayes1, Brian Benscoter2 and Liza K. Jenkins3, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States(2)Florida Atlantic University, Davie, FL, United States(3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Primary Conveners:  Liza K. Jenkins, Michigan Technological University, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Co-conveners:  Santonu Goswami1, Daniel J Hayes1 and Brian Benscoter2, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States(2)Florida Atlantic University, Davie, FL, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Brian Benscoter, Florida Atlantic University, Davie, FL, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

0108
 
Overstory and Understory CO2 and Energy Fluxes of a Black Spruce Forest in Interior Alaska
Hiroki Ikawa1, Taro Nakai2, Robert Busey3, Yongwon Kim3, Hideki Koayashi4, Shin Nagai4, Masahito Ueyama5, Kazuyuki Saito4, Rikie Suzuki4 and Larry D Hinzman3, (1)International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)HyARC Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya, Japan, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (5)Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Japan
0109
 
Disturbance Regimes and Landscape Heterogeneity in the Boreal Forest
Evan A Lyons and Yongwei Sheng, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
0110
 
Influence of fire frequency on carbon consumption in Alaskan blackspruce forests
Elizabeth Hoy, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Eric S Kasischke, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
0111
 
Quantifying the Distribution and Landscape Controls of Peatlands and Organic Layer Thickness within Alaska
Bruce K Wylie, USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Neal Pastick, Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Torre Jorgenson, Alaska Ecoscience, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Shawn Nield, Natural Resource Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Palmer, AK, United States and Kristofer D Johnson, U.S. Forest Service, Newtown Square, PA, United States
0112
 
The forest floor characteristics and C accumulation rate of black spruce forests across a climate gradient
Jason G Vogel, Texas A&M, College Station, TX, United States and Edward A G Schuur, Northern Arizona University, Biology, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
0113
 
The Interactions between Biogeophysical and Biogeochemical Processes and their Feedbacks on Permafrost Soil Carbon Stocks
Atul K Jain1, Bassil ElMasri1, Rahul Barman2, Shijie Shu3 and Yang Song2, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)UIUC, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
0114
 
Influence of Fire on Permafrost in Lowland Forests of the Tanana Flats, Interior Alaska
Dana Nossov Brown1, Torre Jorgenson2, Thomas A Douglas3, Vladimir E Romanovsky1, Knut Kielland1, Eugenie Susanne Euskirchen1 and Roger Ruess1, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)Alaska Ecoscience, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL, United States
0115
 
Effects of fire on decomposition: assessing the relative importance of soil environment versus charring on decomposition in boreal conifer forests
Kristen Manies, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Merritt R Turetsky, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada and Jennifer W Harden, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States
0116
 
Environmental Partitioning of Biomass Combustion Biomarkers in Arctic Rivers across the Spring Freshet Hydrograph
Allison Myers-Pigg1, Patrick Louchouarn1,2, Nikita Tananaev3 and Roman Teisserenc4,5, (1)Texas A&M University, Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M-Galveston Bldg 3029, Marine Sciences, Galveston, TX, United States, (3)Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Branch, Melnikov Permafrost Institute Igarka Geocryology Laboratory, Igarka, Russia, (4)Université de Toulouse, INP, UPS, EcoLab (Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement), ENSAT, Castanet Tolosan, France, (5)CNRS, EcoLab, Castanet Tolosan, France
0117
 
The Riverine Export of Particulate and Dissolved Black Carbon Following a Colorado Wildfire
Sasha Wagner1, Kaelin Cawley2, Fernando Rosario-Ortiz2 and Rudolf Jaffe1, (1)Florida International University, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Miami, FL, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States
0118
 
Mediation of Fire-Climate Linkages by Vegetation Types in Alaskan Arctic Tundra Ecosystems: Impacts of Model Uncertainty on GCM-Based Forecasts of Future Fire Activity
Paul Duffy1, Philip E Higuera2, Adam M Young2, Fengsheng Hu3 and Michael Dietze4, (1)Neptune and Company, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, (4)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
0119
 
Assessment of Fire Occurrence and Future Fire Potential in Arctic Alaska
Nancy H F French1, Liza K. Jenkins2,3, Tatiana V Loboda4, Laura L Bourgeau-Chavez3 and Matthew A Whitley3, (1)Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Houghton, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
0120
 
Soil Active Layer Freeze/Thaw Detection Using Combined L- and P-Band Radar Remote Sensing
Jinyang Du, University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, Missoula, MT, United States, John S Kimball, The University of Montana, Flathead Lake Biological Station, Polson, MT, United States and Mahta Moghaddam, University of Southern California, The Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electr. Eng., Los Angeles, CA, United States
0121
 
Improved fire radiative energy estimation in high latitude ecosystems
Andrea Melchiorre and Luigi Boschetti, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States
 
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