B42C:
Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change III
Session ID#: 10249
Session Description:
Permafrost zone soils contain between 1330-1580 Pg of carbon. Permafrost degradation can change ecosystem carbon storage by enhancing microbial activity and ecosystem respiration, but can also stimulate plant growth and increase carbon stored in vegetation and surface soil. While increased permafrost carbon emissions in a warming climate are more likely to be gradual and sustained we need a better understanding of the magnitude and timing of greenhouse gas emissions from these remote regions to fully estimate the potential feedback from permafrost carbon to climate change.
This session invites papers that examine factors causing losses and gains in ecosystem carbon storage relating to the magnitude, timing and form of carbon release from permafrost. Papers may address any aspect of this topic from microbial communities to the global scale, using a range of measurements or modeling to detect and forecast permafrost thaw and the influence on the carbon cycle and future climate.
Primary Convener: Christina Schaedel, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Conveners: Edward Schuur, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Cristian Estop-Aragones, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Chairs: Cristian Estop-Aragones, University of Exeter, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom and Christina Schaedel, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
OSPA Liaison: Cristian Estop-Aragones, University of Exeter, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom
Cross-Listed:
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Thomas Kleinen and Victor Brovkin, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Robert G Hilton1, Valier Galy2, Jerome Gaillardet3, Mathieu Dellinger4, Charlotte Bryant5, Matt O'Regan6, Darren R Gröcke7, Helen Katherine Coxall6, Julien Bouchez8 and Damien Calmels8, (1)Durham University, Geography, Durham, United Kingdom, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (4)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States, (5)NERC Radiocarbon Facility, East Kilbride, United Kingdom, (6)Stockholm University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, (7)University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom, (8)Institute de Physique d Globe Paris, Paris, France
Jocelyn E Egan, Dalhousie University, Earth Sciences, Halifax, NS, Canada, Susan Natali, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, Heather Dawn Alexander, Mississippi State University, Department of Forestry, Mississippi State, MS, United States, Michael M Loranty, Colgate University, Geography, Hamilton, NY, United States, Seth Spawn, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and David A Risk, St. Francis Xavier University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Antigonish, NS, Canada
Vladimir E Romanovsky, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Dmitry Nicolsky, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States, Sergey S Marchenko, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, William Cable, Alfred Wegener Institute, Potsdam, Germany and Santosh K Panda, Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK 99775, Fairbanks, United States
Nikolay I Shiklomanov1, Frederick E Nelson2, Dmitry A Streletskiy1, Anna E Klene3 and Ziqi Li1, (1)George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Northern Michigan University, Marquette, United States, (3)University of Montana, Geography, Missoula, MT, United States
Elchin E Jafarov, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States and Kevin M Schaefer, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A, Boulder, United States
Anthony David McGuire, U.S. Geological Survey, Fairbanks, AK, United States, David M Lawrence, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Eleanor J Burke, Met Office Hadley Centre, Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Team, Exeter, United Kingdom, Guangsheng Chen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Elchin E Jafarov, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, Charles Koven, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, Andrew H MacDougall, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, Dmitry Nicolsky, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States, Shushi Peng, Peking University, Beijing, China and Annette Rinke, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Charles D Koven1, Edward Schuur2, Christina Schaedel2, Theodore J Bohn3, Eleanor J Burke4, Guangsheng Chen5, Xiaodong Chen6, Philippe Ciais7, Guido Grosse8, Jennifer W W Harden9, Daniel J Hayes10, Gustaf Hugelius11, Elchin E Jafarov12, Gerhard Krinner13, Peter Kuhry11, David M Lawrence14, Andrew MacDougall15, Sergey S Marchenko16, Anthony David McGuire17, Susan Natali12, Dmitry Nicolsky18, David Olefeldt19, Shushi Peng20, Vladimir E Romanovsky21, Kevin M Schaefer22, Jens Strauss23, Claire C Treat16 and Merritt R Turetsky24, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (3)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (4)Met Office Hadley Centre, Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Team, Exeter, United Kingdom, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (6)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (7)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, (8)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Permafrost Research Section, Potsdam, Germany, (9)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States, (10)University of Maine, School of Forest Resources, Orono, ME, United States, (11)Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm, Sweden, (12)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (13)LGGE Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, (14)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (15)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (16)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (17)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (18)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States, (19)University of Alberta, Department of Renewable Resources, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (20)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (21)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (22)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A, Boulder, United States, (23)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (24)Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, United States
