B51J:
Integrating In Situ and Remote Sensing Observations of the Terrestrial Biosphere to Provide Insights into Earth System Function I


Session ID#: 7321

Session Description:
In this session we call for contributions of current advances in terrestrial ecology and carbon cycle science that integrate in-situ and remote sensing observations of the terrestrial biosphere, and models of ecosystems, in ways that provide regional and global insights into earth system functions.  We seek synthetic, interdisciplinary contributions that use orbital and/or suborbital remote sensing systems to address pressing questions in terrestrial ecology, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, land use and land cover change, and carbon cycle science. Much of this work will have been made possible by past and present field campaigns that have catalyzed major scientific advances, such as FIFE, BOREAS, LBA-Ecology, the North American Carbon Program, and the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment.
Primary Convener:  Peter C Griffith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Convener:  Michael Maier Keller, Usda Forest Service C/o Gisel, Campinas, Brazil
Chairs:  Peter C Griffith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Michael Maier Keller, US Forest Service San Juan, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, PR, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Peter C Griffith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0466 Modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

FIFE and BOREAS (Invited) (58644)
Piers J Sellers and Forrest G Hall, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
FLUXNET to MODIS: Connecting the dots to capture heterogenious biosphere metabolism (85729)
Katharyn Aurora Duffy, Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Christopher Schwalm, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Deborah N Huntzinger, Northern Arizona University, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Richard Massey, Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Benjamin Poulter, NASA GSFC, Biospheric Science, Greenbelt, United States and Thomas Kolb, Northern Arizona University, School of Forestry, Flagstaff, United States
Carbon Sources and Sinks of North America as Affected by Major Drought Events During the Past 30 Years (48387)
Zelalem A Mekonnen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States and Robert F Grant, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Long-Term Influence of the BOREAS Field Experiment on Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem Research in Canada (63466)
Hank A Margolis, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
The Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment: Observing, Understanding, and Predicting Social-Ecological Change in the Far North (Invited) (64813)
Michelle C Mack, Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Scott J Goetz, Woods Hole Research Ctr, Falmouth, MA, United States, Eric S Kasischke, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, John S Kimball, University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, College of Forestry & Conservation, Missoula, MT, United States and Natalie Boelman, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observ., Palisades, NY, United States
HIGH-RESOLUTION REGIONAL BIOMASS MAP OF SIBERIA FROM GLAS, PALSAR L-BAND RADAR AND LANDSAT VCF DATA (79870)
Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Kenneth Ranson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Paul Montesano, ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt, Greenbelt, United States, Zhiyu Zhang, RADI Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Viacheslav Kharuk, V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Lab. of Forest Monitoring, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
The Modern Era of Research in Biosphere Atmosphere Interactions (75067)
Inez Y Fung, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Piers J Sellers, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Prof. David A Randall, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, Compton J Tucker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Christopher B Field, Stanford University, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States, Joseph A Berry, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, United States and Susan Ustin, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Impact and Recovery of Ecologically and Hydrologically Diverse Wetlands after the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico (71620)
Susan Ustin1, Shruti Khanna1, Kristen Shapiro1 and Maria J Santos1,2, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)Utrecht University, Department of Innovation, Environmental and Energy Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands

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