GC12A:
Advances in Monitoring and Reporting Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks Across Land Use Categories I

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Session ID#: 32411

Session Description:
Signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have committed to regularly producing a Greenhouse Gas Inventory that follows the guidance provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. These Inventory reports provide estimates of anthropogenic GHG emissions and sinks generally beginning in 1990 and going through the present. These Inventory reports are essential for countries to both understand the trends in GHG emissions and carbon sinks as well as progress in achieving emission reductions. This session focuses on scientific advancements in support of monitoring and reporting anthropogenic emissions and removals across land use categories to ensure transparency, consistency, completeness, comparability, and accuracy in annual submissions to the UNFCCC.
Primary Convener:  Grant M Domke, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States
Conveners:  Stephen M Ogle, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States and Thomas Charles Wirth, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Grant M Domke, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States and Stephen M Ogle, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Grant M Domke, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Applying a Systems Approach to Monitoring and Assessing Climate Change Mitigation Potential in Mexico’s Forest Sector (265881)
Marcela Itzel Olguin-Alvarez1, Craig Wayson2, Max Fellows3, Richard Birdsey4, Carolyn Smyth5, Michael Magnan5, Alexa Dugan6, Vanessa Mascorro7, Armando Alanís8, Enrique Serrano9, Werner A. Kurz3 and Richard Birdsey, (1)Consultant, Mexico City, Mexico, (2)USDA Forest Service Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC, Canada, (4)Woods Hole Research Center, New Town Square, PA, United States, (5)Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC, Canada, (6)US Forest Service, New Town Square, United States, (7)Consultant - Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, Mexico, (8)National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR), Zapopan, Mexico, (9)National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR), Zapopan, ME, Mexico
Advancing US GHG Inventory by Incorporating Survey Data using Machine-Learning Techniques (273620)
Cody Alsaker, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Stephen M Ogle, Reston, VA, United States and Jay Breidt, Colorado State University, Statistics, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Advancing Methods for Estimating Soil Nitrous Oxide Emissions by Incorporating Freeze-Thaw Cycles into a Tier 3 Model-Based Assessment (274753)
Stephen M Ogle, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, Steve DelGrosso, USDA ARS, Fort Collins, CO, United States and William J Parton, Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, United States
Updating older forest inventory data with a growth model and satellite records to improve the responsiveness and currency of national carbon monitoring (290081)
Sean P Healey, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ogden, United States, Feng Robin Zhao, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, James B. McCarter, North Carolina State University, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC, United States, Tracey Frescino, US Forest Service, Ogden, UT, United States and Sara A Goeking, United States Forest Service, Research & Development, Forest Inventory and Analysis, Logan, United States
Idaho forest carbon projections from 2017 to 2117 under forest disturbance and climate change scenarios (292303)
Andrew T Hudak1, Nicholas Crookston2, Robert E Kennedy3, Grant M Domke4, Patrick Fekety5 and Michael Falkowski5, (1)USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service (Retired), Private Forestry Consultant, Moscow, ID, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Annual measurements of gain and loss in aboveground carbon density (Invited) (241451)
Alessandro Baccini1, Wayne S Walker1, Luis Carvalho2, Mary Farina1, Damien J Sulla-Menashe3 and Richard A Houghton1, (1)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, (2)Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (3)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States

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