Hi there ECO-LOGgers, I thought I'd advertise here for a session I am co-convening at AGU this year. Abstracts are due by this upcoming Wednesday the 6th. The session will investigate land/atmosphere interactions, particularly with respect to vegetated surfaces, and their impact on climate; this kind of quantitative work will be showcased in the context of the economic valuation of climatic ecosystem services for climate change regulations. While a significant amount of work has gone into thinking about forests and carbon, this session will highlight other climate services, particularly albedo and energy fluxes.
We have a wonderful series of invited speakers: Rob Jackson, Stanford Eduoard Davin, ETH Zurich Ryan Bright, NTNU Norway Kristina Anderson-Teixeira, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Here's the abstract for the session: Abstract: The biophysical properties of vegetation play a large part in controlling the exchange of energy between the Earth's surface and the atmosphere. As a result, vegetated surfaces can provide critical climate-regulating ecosystem services. Currently, only carbon storage is considered in climate change mitigation frameworks despite the fact that other biophysical properties, particularly albedo, can counteract the cooling influence of carbon sequestration. It is thus paramount to incorporate albedo and other biophysical properties and processes (e.g. evapotranspiration, surface roughness, and emissivity) into climate regulation frameworks in order to create efficient and accurate policies which properly incentivize management of the planetary surface. This session will serve to unite high-quality research on the study of vegetation's role in the generation of climate-regulating ecosystem services, with a focus on integrating observations with climate and economic models to understand temporal and spatial dynamics and tradeoffs with other ecosystem properties. Please feel free to email me at [email protected] with any questions and/or instructions on how to submit an abstract. Submission Page: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/gc/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=3660 (you'll need an AGU account to submit, though) Hope to see you in San Francisco! Dave Lutz Post-doctoral Research Associate Environmental Studies Program Dartmouth College http://www.epscor.unh.edu/
