B23D:
The Role of Fire in the Carbon Cycle: Quantification and Characterization of Emissions, Fluxes, and Sequestration Potential III Posters

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Session ID#: 14899

Session Description:
Fire is one of the main perturbations in the Earth System, strongly impacting the global carbon cycle. Fire in the landscape (wildfires and prescribed fires) accelerates oxidation of carbon from vegetation and soil organic matter, leading to substantial carbon emissions. However, fire also transforms part of the biomass fuel into carbon forms with longer residence times in the environment (charcoal, black carbon, pyrogenic carbon, biochar). Furthermore, fire can lead to alterations in vegetation and soil dynamics.  

This interdisciplinary session aims to highlight and address uncertainties in key processes determining the role of fire in the carbon cycle; such as fuel consumption; trace gas and particulate emission factors; pyrogenic carbon production and fate in the atmosphere, soil, sediments and water; and post-fire vegetation and soil dynamics. We welcome contributions from the atmospheric, terrestrial and aquatic sciences communities, focusing on small, regional or global scales, and involving lab-, field- or modelling approaches.

Primary Convener:  Cristina Santin, Swansea University, Cardiff, CF5, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Andrew R Zimmerman, University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Stefan Doerr, Swansea University, Geography, Swansea, United Kingdom and Gavin R McMeeking, Handix Scientific, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Cristina Santin, Swansea University, Cardiff, CF5, United Kingdom and Andrew R Zimmerman, University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Cristina Santin, Swansea University, Cardiff, CF5, United Kingdom
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0486 Soils/pedology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Modeling prescribed burning experiments and assessing the fire impacts on local to regional air quality (151927)
Luxi Zhou1, Kirk R Baker1, Sergey L Napelenok2, Robert A Elleman1 and Shawn P Urbanski3, (1)Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (2)U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, United States
Use of ordinary kriging to interpolate observations of fire radiative heat flux sampled with airborne imagery (126844)
Carine Klauberg Silva, Rocky Mountain Research Station Moscow, Moscow, ID, United States, Andrew T Hudak, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, United States, Benjamin C Bright, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID, United States, Matthew B Dickinson, US Forest Service, Delaware, OH, United States, Robert Kremens, Rochester Institute of Techno, Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester, NY, United States, Ronan Paugam, University of Washington Seattle Campus, College of Forest Resources, Seattle, WA, United States and William Mell, US Forest Service Seattle, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA, United States
Alteration of soil hydraulic properties and soil water repellency by fire and vegetation succession in a sagebrush steppe ecosystem (196303)
David G Chandler, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States and Mark S Seyfried, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, United States
The molecular characteristics of pyrogenic organic materials and their aqueous leachates (178693)
Andrew S Wozniak, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States, Patrick G Hatcher, Old Dominion University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Norfolk, VA, United States, Siddhartha Mitra, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States, Kyle Wyman Bostick, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States and Andrew R Zimmerman, University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Thermal alteration of dissolved organic matter: observations from a lab heating experiment and fire-impacted watersheds of the Sierra Nevada, California (182524)
Fernanda Santos, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, Adam S Wymore, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and Asmeret Asefaw Asefaw Berhe, University of California Merced, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States
Production and Composition of Dissolved Black Carbon from Various Biochars and Environmentally-aged Charcoals (188322)
Kyle Wyman Bostick, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Andrew R Zimmerman, University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Patrick G Hatcher, Old Dominion University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Norfolk, VA, United States, Siddhartha Mitra, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States and Andrew S Wozniak, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States
Pyrogenic Carbon as a Nonlinear Driver in the Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles (Invited) (150513)
Caroline A Masiello, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, Jonathan J Silberg, Rice University, BioSciences, Houston, TX, United States, Hsiao-Ying Cheng, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, Xiaodong Gao, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States and Ilenne Del Valle, Rice University, Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology, Houston, TX, United States
Production, Stocks and Characteristics of Wildfire Charcoal in Canadian Boreal Forests; a Preliminary Synthesis (165870)
Caroline M Preston, Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, BC, Canada and Martin Simard, Universite Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
Soil Black Carbon Loss and Sediment Black Carbon Accumulation in a Central Texas Woodland (165932)
William C Hockaday, Baylor University, Department of Geosciences, Waco, United States, Joseph D White, Baylor University, Department of Biology, Waco, TX, United States and Eugenie Alexandra Schieve, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States
The Evolution of Black Carbon Physicochemical Properties in Soils (176537)
Yvette Muñiz, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, United States, Lacey A Pyle, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States and Caroline A Masiello, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Influence of Soil Organic Matter type on Priming of Biochar (Pyrogenic soil C) Mineralization (and the reverse) (187314)
Andrew R Zimmerman1 and Lei Ouyang1,2, (1)University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, Guangzhou, China
Fire as a Removal Mechanism of Pyrogenic Carbon in Soils: Effects of Fire Characteristics and Pyrogenic Carbon Properties (144643)
Cristina Santin, Swansea University, Cardiff, CF5, United Kingdom, Stefan Doerr, Swansea University, Geography, Swansea, United Kingdom and Agustin Merino, University of Santiago de Compostela, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Towards a Global Assessment of Pyrogenic Carbon from Vegetation Fires (146143)
Stefan Doerr, Swansea University, Geography, Swansea, United Kingdom, Cristina Santin, Swansea University, Cardiff, CF5, United Kingdom, Caroline A Masiello, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, Mikael Ohlson, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Ås, Norway, Jose Maria De La Rosa, Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Seville, Seville, Spain, Caroline M Preston, Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, BC, Canada and Thorsten Dittmar, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Oldenburg, Germany
Fire Effects on Vegetation Community, Carbon Pools, and Permafrost Vulnerability in Subarctic Tundra (180152)
Sarah Ludwig1,2, Susan Natali3, Robert Max Holmes2, Dr. Paul James Mann4, Jonathan Sanderman5 and John D Schade6, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Biology and Wildlife, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, (3)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (4)Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, (5)Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, United States, (6)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Development and Deployment of a Particle-into-Liquid sampling - Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometer (PiLs-ESI/MS) for Characterization of Water-Soluble Biomass Burning Aerosols (188709)
Chelsea E. Stockwell, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, Bartlomiej Witkowski, University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland, Ranajit K Talukdar, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Ann Middlebrook, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Dr. James Roberts, PhD, NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States
Experimental Nitrogen Deposition Alters Post-fire Carbon Balance Recovery in Alberta Bogs (182365)
R. Kelman Wieder1, Melanie A Vile2, Kimberli D Scott1, Cara Melissa Albright3 and Kelly McMillen3, (1)Villanova University, Biology, Villanova, PA, United States, (2)Villanova University, Geography & the Environment, Villanova, PA, United States, (3)Villanova University, Villanova, PA, United States
Black carbon content in a ponderosa pine forest of eastern Oregon with varying seasons and intervals of prescribed burns (196163)
Lauren Matosziuk and Jeff A Hatten, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Rapid recovery of gross ecosystem production and ecosystem-level respiration in a semiarid sagebrush shrubland following prescribed fire. (162651)
Aaron Fellows, Agricultural Research Service Boise, Boise, ID, United States and Gerald N Flerchinger, USDA - ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States

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