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

Monday, 14 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
3014 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Gyami Shrestha, US Carbon Cycle Science Program, US Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States, Daniel B Stover, Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, DC, United States and Zhiliang Zhu, USGS, Reston, VA, United States
Chairs:  Gyami Shrestha, US Carbon Cycle Science Program, US Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, United States, Nancy Cavallaro, USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Daniel B Stover, Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, DC, United States and Zhiliang Zhu, USGS, Reston, VA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Gyami Shrestha, US Carbon Cycle Science Program, US Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, United States
10:20
Special Assessment Reports: A Critical Part of the Sustained National Climate Assessment Process (85798)
Glynis C Lough, U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, United States
10:25
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)
Gyami Shrestha, US Carbon Cycle Science Program, US Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, United States, Nancy Cavallaro, USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Daniel B Stover, Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, DC, United States and Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group and US Carbon Cycle Science Program Office (USGCRP)
10:30
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 Wilbanks1 and Gregory Zimmerman1, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 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, Boone, NC, United States, (6)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
10:40
If the North American carbon cycle was changing, would we notice? (Invited) (65641)
Kenneth J Davis, The Pennsylvania State Unviersity, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States
10:50
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)
Gyami Shrestha, US Carbon Cycle Science Program, US Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, United States and Thomas Charles Wirth, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Climate Change Divison, Washington, DC, United States
11:10
The Contribution of Soils to North America’s Current and Future Climate (70536)
Melanie A Mayes1, Sasha Reed2, Peter E Thornton1 and Kate Lajtha3, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Southwest Biological Science Center Moab, Moab, UT, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
11:20
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, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Helene Genet, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Yujie He, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Sarah M Stackpoole, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States, David V D'Amore, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, 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, USGS, Reston, VA, United States
11:30
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
11:40
Aquatic carbon fluxes from the conterminous US and Alaska (70750)
David E Butman, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
11:50
The Carbon Budget of Coastal Waters of Eastern North America (83597)
Raymond Najjar, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
12:00
Advances on interdisciplinary approaches to urban carbon (75528)
Patricia Romero-Lankao, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
12:10
Urbanization and the Carbon Cycle: Synthesis of Ongoing Research (60130)
Kevin R Gurney, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States