B22C:
The Role of Fire in the Carbon Cycle: Quantification and Characterization of Emissions, Fluxes, and Sequestration Potential II
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Session ID#: 15367
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: Stefan Doerr, Swansea University, Geography, Swansea, United Kingdom and Ezra Levin, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
OSPA Liaison: Cristina Santin, Swansea University, Cardiff, CF5, United Kingdom
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Guido van der Werf1, James Tremper Randerson2, Louis Giglio3, Niels Andela3 and Margreet van Marle4, (1)Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mehmet Talat Odman, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, Yongtao Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, United States and Armistead G Russell, Georgia Inst Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
Johannes Lehmann1, Verena Jauss2, Zia Ahmed3, Patrick J. Sullivan2, Jonathan Sanderman4 and Peter Woodbury5, (1)Cornell University, School of Integrative Plant Science, Ithaca, United States, (2)Cornell University, Natural Resources & the Environment, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)CIMMYT, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (4)Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, United States, (5)Cornell University, School of Integrative Plant Science, Ithaca, NY, United States
Caroline A Masiello1, Brandon Dugan2, Xiaodong Gao3, Lacey Pyle4, Giovambattista Sorrenti5, Larisa LaMere4, Zuolin Liu4 and Kyriacos Zygourakis4, (1)Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Hydrologic Science & Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, (3)Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States, (4)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (5)University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Burke Chadfield Leonce, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, United States, Omar Richard Harvey, Texas Christian University, Geological Sciences, Fort Worth, TX, United States, Yina Liu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, United States and Li-Jung Kuo, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States
Dr. James Roberts, PhD1, Robert J Yokelson2, Carsten Warneke3, Ann Middlebrook4 and Dr. Joshua Peter Schwarz, PhD3, (1)NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (3)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Allison C Aiken1, Orlando Leone2, Kim L Nitschke2, Manvendra Krishna Dubey3, Christian Carrico4, Stephen R. Springston5, Arthur J Sedlacek III5, Thomas B Watson5, Chongai Kuang6, Janek Uin5, Gavin R McMeeking7, Paul J DeMott8, Sonia M Kreidenweis9, Allen L Robinson10, Robert J Yokelson11 and Paquita Zuidema12, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States, (5)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (6)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, NY, United States, (7)Handix Scientific, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (9)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (10)Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (11)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (12)University of Miami, Rosenstiel School, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Miami, United States
Hilairy Ellen Hartnett, University of Washington, Seattle, United States and George Hamilton, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
