Colleagues, Please consider submitting an abstract to the following session: AGU 2014 B095 Soil Organic Matter: Mechanisms of Stabilization and Change.
Session ID#: 1842 https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/webprogrampreliminary/Session1842.html Session Description: Soils are essential components of the Critical Zone, and are both responders and drivers of the most critical environmental changes facing the earth during the Anthropocene. Soil organic matter dynamics play a major role in determining C storage in ecosystems and in regulating atmospheric CO2 concentrations. How will climate change and man’s alteration of the terrestrial landscape affect soil organic matter dynamics? This session will focus on empirical and modeling studies of soils and carbon: storage potential, mechanisms of stabilization/ destabilization/ long term storage, and ecosystem vulnerability. Invited Speakers (Confirmed): Louis Schipper, University of Waikato, New Zealand Craig Rasmussen, University of Arizona Tim Filley, Purdue University Conveners: Kate Lajtha, Oregon State University Susan E Crow, University of Hawaii Marc G. Kramer, University of Florida, Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC Co-Sponsor(s): • GC - Global Environmental Change Index Terms: 0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES] 0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES] 0486 Soils/pedology [BIOGEOSCIENCES] 1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
