GC12B:
Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (2016):€“ A Special Scientific Assessment of Current Status and Opportunities I


Session ID#: 10358

Session Description:
In 2015, the USGCRP’s U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program initiated plans for the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2).This session will include pertinent updates and recent highlights of carbon cycle syntheses and assessments from the government and community scientists and stakeholders, with potential directions and projections into the future as a result of predicted changes in climate. The focus is on U.S. (national and biogeographical regions) and North American carbon stocks and fluxes, in the context of and interactions with global scale budgets and climate change impacts in managed and unmanaged systems.  Abstracts on carbon stocks and fluxes in soils, water, vegetation, aquatic-terrestrial interfaces (coastal/estuaries/wetlands), human settlements, agriculture, forestry etc. are requested, in addition to those covering relevant carbon management science perspectives and support tools for informing decisions, as addressed in the White House Climate Action Plan (2013), U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan (2011) and National Climate Assessment.
Primary Convener:  Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, Washington, United States
Conveners:  Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States, Daniel B Stover, Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, United States and Zhiliang Zhu, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, United States
Chairs:  Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, Washington, United States, Nancy Cavallaro, USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Daniel B Stover, Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, United States and Zhiliang Zhu, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, Washington, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Special Assessment Reports: A Critical Part of the Sustained National Climate Assessment Process (85798)
Glynis C Lough, Aspen Global Change Institute, Washington, D.C., United States
Assessing and Synthesizing the Last Decade of Research on the Major Pools and Fluxes of the Carbon Cycle in the US and North America: An Interagency Governmental Perspective (74660)
Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, Washington, United States, Nancy Cavallaro, USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Daniel B Stover, Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, United States, Zhiliang Zhu, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, United States, Erica Hudson Ombres, NOAA, Ocean Acidification Program, Silver Spring, United States, Ben Deangelo, USGCRP, Washington, DC, United States and Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group and US Carbon Cycle Science Program Office (USGCRP)
The State of the Carbon Cycle: Ten Years On (70902)
Anthony W King1, Lisa Dilling2, David M Fairman3, Richard A Houghton4, Gregg Marland5, Adam Rose6, Thomas J Wilbanks7 and Gregory Zimmerman7, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Western Water Assessment RISA, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Consensus Building Institute, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, (5)Appalachian State University, Research Institute for Environment, Energy, and Economics (RIEEE), Boone, NC, United States, (6)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
If the North American carbon cycle was changing, would we notice? (Invited) (65641)
Kenneth J Davis, The Pennsylvania State Unviersity, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, Thomas Lauvaux, The Pennsylvania State Unviersity, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States and Martha P Butler, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States
Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: an overview of planned improvements to the methodologies and activity data used to develop the carbon estimates in the Land Use, Land-use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) sector (Invited) (63342)
Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, Washington, United States, Thomas Charles Wirth, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Climate Change Divison, Washington, DC, United States and Marci Baranski, US Department of Agriculture, Office of Chief Economist, Washington, DC, United States
The loss of late successional species has a disproportionate impact on terrestrial carbon storage in North America (73094)
David JP Moore1, Jason S McLachlan2, Adrian V Rocha3, Jody Peters3, Andria Dawson4, Ann Raiho5, Bethany Blakely5, Kelly Heilman5, Christopher J Paciorek6, Quentin Read7, Xiaoping Feng8, Charles V Cogbill9, Simon J Goring10 and PalEON Science Team, (1)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, United States, (2)University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (3)University of Notre Dame, Department of Biological Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (5)University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, United States, (6)University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (8)University of Wisconsin Madison, Statistics, Madison, WI, United States, (9)Harvard Forest, Forestry, Petersham, MA, United States, (10)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geography, Center for Climatic Research, & Data Science Institute, Madison, United States
The Contribution of Soils to North America’s Current and Future Climate (70536)
Melanie A Mayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, United States, Sasha Reed, Southwest Biological Science Center Moab, Moab, United States, Peter E Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, Kate Lajtha, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Vanessa L Bailey, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, Washington, United States, Julie D Jastrow, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States and Margaret S Torn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
The Alaska Land Carbon Assessment: Baseline and Projected Future Carbon Storage and Greenhouse-gas Fluxes in Ecosystems of Alaska (61204)
Anthony David McGuire, U.S. Geological Survey, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Helene Genet, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Yujie He, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Sarah M Stackpoole, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States, Dave D'Amore, USDA Forest Service, Juneau, AK, United States, Scott T Rupp, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Scenarios Network for Alaska & Arctic Planning, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Bruce K Wylie, USGS, EROS Data Center, Baltimore, MD, United States, Xiaoping Zhou, US Forest Service Portland, Portland, OR, United States and Zhiliang Zhu, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, United States
What Have We Learned About Arctic Carbon Since The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report? (67857)
Edward Schuur, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Aquatic carbon fluxes from the conterminous US and Alaska (70750)
David E Butman, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, United States, Sarah M Stackpoole, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States, Edward Stets, U.S. Geological Survey, Water Mission Area, Mounds View, MN, United States, Cory McDonald, Department of Natural Resources Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States, David W Clow, USGS Colorado Water Science Center Denver, Denver, CO, United States and Robert G Striegl, USGS Water Mission Area, Hydro-Ecological Interactions Branch, Boulder, United States
The Carbon Budget of Coastal Waters of Eastern North America (83597)
Raymond Najjar1, Elizabeth W Boyer2, David Burdige3, David E Butman4, Wei-Jun Cai5, Elizabeth A Canuel6, Robert F Chen7, Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs8, Peter C Griffith9, Maria Herrmann10, W. Michael Kemp11, Kevin D Kroeger12, Antonio Mannino13, S. Leigh McCallister14, Wade R McGillis15, Margaret R Mullholland16, Joseph Salisbury II17, Sergio R Signorini9, Hanqin Tian18, Maria Tzortziou19, Penny Vlahos20, Aleck Zhaohui Wang21, Richard Carl Zimmerman22 and Cynthia H Pilskaln23, (1)The Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Penn State University, Department of Ecosystem Science & Management, University Park, United States, (3)Old Dominion University, Dept. of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States, (4)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, United States, (5)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (6)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, (7)University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (8)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, Gloucester Point, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (11)University of Maryland, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States, (12)U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (14)Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States, (15)Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, United States, (16)Old Dominion University, Ocean and Earth Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States, (17)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (18)Auburn University, Auburn, United States, (19)City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (20)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (21)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (22)Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth, & Atmospheic Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States, (23)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, School for Marine Science and Technology, New Bedford, MA, United States
Advances on interdisciplinary approaches to urban carbon (75528)
Patricia Romero-Lankao, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States
Urbanization and the Carbon Cycle: Synthesis of Ongoing Research (60130)
Kevin R Gurney1, Riley Duren2, Lucy Hutyra3, James R Ehleringer4, Risa Patarasuk5, Yang Song5, Jianhua Huang5, Kenneth J Davis6, Eric A Kort7, Paul B Shepson8, Jocelyn C Turnbull9, Thomas Lauvaux10, Preeti Rao2, Annmarie Eldering2, Charles E Miller11, Stephen Wofsy12, Kathryn McKain13, Daniel L Mendoza14, John C Lin15, Colm Sweeney16, Natasha L Miles17, Scott Richardson18 and Maria O. L. Cambaliza19, (1)Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Boston University, Earth & Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (4)Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (5)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (6)Pennsylvania State University Penn State Erie Behrend College, Erie, PA, United States, (7)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (8)Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, United States, (9)GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (10)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (11)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (12)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (13)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (14)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (15)University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, United States, (16)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (17)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (18)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (19)Ateneo de Manila University, Department of Physics, Quezon City, Philippines

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