B43C:
State of the Carbon Cycle in North America: Key Findings from Assessing a Decade of Science, Decisions, and Management Impacts I


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Session ID#: 63533

Session Description:
Carbon cycle information observed and collected from diverse managed and unmanaged systems (land, air, water, human settlements) and interfaces across North America have led to breakthrough multi-disciplinary advances in the understanding of global change and related impacts, as well as consequent decision-making across scales. This session features pertinent key findings from the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2, 2018) which assesses 10 years of carbon cycle science from the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Led by the Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (CCIWG) and U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, this report was developed by over 200 multi-disciplinary team members, incorporating assessments of observations, indicators, trends, model projections, society, and decision-support infrastructure and mechanisms, including mitigation options for carbon management across assessed systems. Presentations from related assessments, syntheses and campaigns focused on carbon cycle research, science informing decisions and decisions impacting the carbon cycle are also welcome.
Primary Convener:  Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., Carboneers, LLC, Oakton, United States; University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, CPAESS, Boulder, CO, United States and Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group and SOCCR2
Conveners:  Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States, Laura Lorenzoni, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Zhiliang Zhu, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, United States and Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group and SOCCR2
Primary Liaison:  Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., Carboneers, LLC, Oakton, United States and Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group and SOCCR2
Chairs:  Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., Carboneers, LLC, Oakton, United States, Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States and Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group and SOCCR2
OSPA Liaison:  Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States and Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group and SOCCR2
Co-Organized with:
Biogeosciences, and Public Affairs

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • PA - Public Affairs

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4806 Carbon cycling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A carbon cycle partnership and program: reaching out towards international engagement and collaborations (452738)
Nancy Cavallaro, USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., Carboneers, LLC, Oakton, United States, Zhiliang Zhu, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, United States, Prof. Rodrigo Vargas, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, United States, Richard Birdsey, Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, United States and Catherine Ste-Marie, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
The North American Carbon Program – a core component of the US Carbon Cycle Science Program (444751)
Libby K Larson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Christopher A Williams, Clark University, Worcester, United States, Andrew M Fox, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., Carboneers, LLC, Oakton, United States
Looking Back Over the First Decade of the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program: What’s Next For Ocean Carbon Cycle Science? (443477)
Heather M Benway, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program, Woods Hole, MA, United States
The SOCCR2 Architecture: What did over 200 minds across government, academic and private institutions assess across North America? Why and How We Did It. (415272)
Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., Carboneers, LLC, Oakton, United States, Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States, Zhiliang Zhu, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, United States, Richard Birdsey, Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, United States, Melanie A Mayes, ORNL, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, United States, Raymond Najjar, The Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, Patricia Romero-Lankao, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Sasha Reed, U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, United States and Laura Lorenzoni, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
State of the Carbon Cycle in North America: Key Findings from Assessing a Decade of Science, Decisions, and Management Impacts (390938)
Richard Birdsey, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, Melanie A Mayes, ORNL, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, United States, Sasha Reed, U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, United States, Raymond Najjar, The Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, Patricia Romero-Lankao, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States and Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., Carboneers, LLC, Oakton, United States
A Synthesis across the Major Components of the North American Carbon Budget (424825)
Daniel J Hayes, University of Maine, School of Forest Resources, Orono, ME, United States, Prof. Rodrigo Vargas, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, United States and Richard Birdsey, Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, United States
Recent trends, drivers, and projections of carbon cycle processes in forests of North America (443942)
Grant M Domke, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States, Christopher A Williams, Clark University, Worcester, United States, Richard Birdsey, Woods Hole Research Center, New Town Square, PA, United States, John Coulston, US Forest Service Asheville, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Adrien Finzi, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Christopher Michael Gough, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, VA, United States, Robert Haight, USDA Forest Service, St Paul, MN, United States, Jeffrey A Hicke, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, Maria Janowiak, USDA Forest Service, Houghton, MI, United States, Bernardus de Jong, COLPOS, Montecillo, Mexico, Werner A. Kurz, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC, Canada, Melissa Sue Lucash, Portland State University, Portland, United States, Stephen M Ogle, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, Marcela Itzel Olguin-Alvarez, Consultant, Mexico City, Mexico, Yude Pan, USDA Forest Service, Durham, NH, United States, Margaret Skutsch, Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Morelia, Mexico, Carolyn Smyth, Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Chris Swanston, USDA Forest Service, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, Houghton, MI, United States, Pamela H Templer, Boston University, Department of Biology, Boston, MA, United States, David N Wear, United States Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Raleigh, NC, United States and Christopher W Woodall, US Forest Service St. Paul, St. Paul, United States
Arctic and Boreal Carbon: Key Findings from the State of the Carbon Cycle Report (417576)
Edward Schuur, Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS), Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Anthony David McGuire, Univ Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Vladimir E Romanovsky, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Biogeochemical Effects of Rising Atmospheric CO2 on Terrestrial and Ocean Systems (442477)
David JP Moore1, Sarah R Cooley2, Simone R Alin3, David E Butman4, David W Clow5, Nancy H F French6, Richard A Feely3, Zackary Johnson7, Gretchen Keppel-Aleks8, Steven E Lohrenz9, Ilissa Ocko10, Elizabeth H Shadwick11, Adrienne J Sutton12, Christopher S Potter13, Yuki Takatsuka14 and Rita Yu15, (1)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Ocean Conservancy Inc., Washington, United States, (3)NOAA PMEL, Seattle, United States, (4)Yale University, New Haven, United States, (5)USGS Colorado Water Science Center Denver, Denver, CO, United States, (6)Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Houghton, MI, United States, (7)Duke University, Marine Science and Conservation, Beaufort, NC, United States, (8)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (9)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, School For Marine Science and Technology, New Bedford, United States, (10)Environmental Defense Fund, New York, United States, (11)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, United States, (12)NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, United States, (13)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (14)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (15)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
Carbon cycling across the land–ocean aquatic continuum of North America (457565)
Raymond Najjar, The Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, David E Butman, Yale University, New Haven, United States, Wei-Jun Cai, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States, Katja Fennel, Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada, Randy Kolka, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Grand Rapids, United States, Carl Trettin, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Cordesville, SC, United States and Lisamarie Windham-Myers, U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Mission Area, Moffett Field, United States
State of the Carbon Cycle in Terrestrial Wetlands of North America (360381)
Randy Kolka, US Forest Service Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids, MN, United States, Carl Trettin, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Cordesville, SC, United States, Wenwu Tang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Center for Applied GIScience, Charlotte, United States, Ken Krauss, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), 8124 Highway 56, Chauvin, LA 70344 USA, LUMCON, Chauvin, United States, Sheel Bansal, U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, United States, Judith Z Drexler, U.S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, United States, Kimberly Wickland, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, Rodney Chimner, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States, Dianna M Hogan, USGS, Reston, VA, United States, Emily Pindilli, U.S. Geological Survey, Science and Decisions Support Center, Reston, VA, United States, Brian Benscoter, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, United States, Brian Tangen, Usgs, Washington, United States, Evan S Kane, Michigan Technological University, College of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences, Houghton, United States, Scott D Bridgham, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States and Curtis John Richardson, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, United States
Chapter 3: SOCCR2: The North American Energy System Contribution to the Global Carbon Cycle (386678)
Peter J Marcotullio, CUNY Hunter College, Geography, New York, United States, Lori Bruhwiler, NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Steven J Davis, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Jill Engel-Cox, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Clean Energy Manufacturing Analysis Center, Golden, CO, United States, John Field, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Conor Gately, Harvard University, Boston, United States, Kevin R Gurney, Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, United States, Daniel M Kammen, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group and Goldman School of Public Policy, Berkeley, CA, United States, Emily McGlynn, University of California Davis, Agriculture and Resource Economics, Davis, DC, United States, James McMahon, William Morrow, Department of Energy, Berkeley, United States, Ilissa Ocko, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, United States and Ralph Torrie, Torrie Smith Associates, Cobourg, Canada
Chapter 4: Urban Systems (452513)
Kevin R Gurney, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States, Patricia Romero-Lankao, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Stephanie Pincetl, UCLA, Los Angeles, United States, Michele Betsill, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Mikhail Chester, Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, United States, Felix Creutzig, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, Germany, Kenneth J Davis, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, Riley Duren, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Guido Franco, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, United States, Sara Hughes, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Lucy Hutyra, Boston University, Earth & Environment, Boston, MA, United States, Christopher Kennedy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, Robert Krueger, Sapporo Hokkaido, Japan, Peter J Marcotullio, CUNY Hunter College, Geography, New York, United States, Diane E Pataki, University of Utah, Department of Biology, Salt Lake City, United States, David Sailor, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, United States and Karina V Schafer, Rutgers University Newark, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, United States
Chapter 5: SOCCR2: Current State of the Carbon Cycle in Agricultural Systems in North America (433627)
Benjamin Runkle, University of Arkansas, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Fayetteville, AR, United States, Jane M F Johnson, USDA ARS, Morris, United States, Alexander N. Hristov, Pennsylvania State University, Animal Science, University Park, PA, United States, Charles W Rice, Kansas State University, Agronomy, Manhattan, United States, Molly Elizabeth Brown, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Richard T Conant, Colorado State University, Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Stephen J Del Grosso, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, Noel Gurwick, SERC, Washington, DC, United States, C. Alan Rotz, USDA ARS, University Park, PA, United States, Upendra M Sainju, USDA-ARS, Sidney, MT, United States, R Howard Skinner, USDA ARS, State College, United States, Tristram West, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, United States, Henry Janzen, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, Sasha Reed, U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, United States, Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States and Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., Carboneers, LLC, Oakton, United States
The social dimensions of the carbon cycle: progress and challenges (436917)
Patricia Romero-Lankao, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Richard Birdsey, Woods Hole Research Center, Downingtown, UNITED STATES, Melanie A Mayes, ORNL, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, United States, Sasha Reed, U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, United States, Raymond G Najjar, The Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, Kevin R Gurney, Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, United States, Stephanie Pincetl, UCLA, Los Angeles, United States, Elizabeth Malone, Retired, Washington, DC, United States, Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States and Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., Carboneers, LLC, Oakton, United States
SOCCR2 Chapter 7: Indigenous Traditional Knowledge Role in Carbon Cycling on Tribal Lands (399661)
Maureen McCarthy, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, United States, Margaret Redsteer, USGS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Beverly Ramsey, Desert Research Institute Reno, Earth & Ecosystem Sciences, Reno, NV, United States and John Phillips, First American Land-grant Consortium, Washington, United States
State of the Carbon Cycle in North America: Carbon Management Experiences and Opportunities (432818)
Melanie A Mayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Patricia Romero-Lankao, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Fort Collins, Fort Collins, United States, Richard Birdsey, Woods Hole Research Center, New Town Square, PA, United States, Sasha Reed, U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, United States, Raymond Najjar, The Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, Peter Marcotulio, City University of New York, Hunter College, New York, United States, Tristram West, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, United States, Alexander N. Hristov, Pennsylvania State University, Animal Science, University Park, PA, United States, Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States and Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., Carboneers, LLC, Oakton, United States
Future of the North American Carbon Cycle (455991)
Abhishek Chatterjee, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States; Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, United States, Deborah N Huntzinger, Northern Arizona University, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Melanie A Mayes, ORNL, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, United States and SOCCR-2 Chapter 19 Contributing Authors

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