Dear Colleagues,
We would like to bring the following session at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting in San Francisco to your attention: * Understanding the processes that affect soil organic matter decomposition by linking process-rich experiments and models <https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/webprogrampreliminary/Session2933.html>* *Session ID#: *2933 The deadline for submission of abstracts is approaching (6 August, 2014), and we encourage you to consider submitting to this exciting session. Please distribute this notice as you see fit. *Description:* The decomposition of soil organic matter (SOM) depends on various interacting processes, e.g., microbial ecology and activity, OM-mineral interactions, aggregation, input C diversity, SOM chemistry, all of which also depend differently on temperature and moisture. We invite both empirical and modeling evaluations of how various processes modulate the biogeochemical cycling of carbon in the subsurface, focusing on (1) How do these processes vary with depth? (2) What are the direct and indirect impacts of biotic and abiotic controls? (3) How do we best model all these interactions to estimate overall temperature sensitivity? And (4) what are the required observations to develop and test models? *Confirmed Invited Speakers:* 1. *William J Riley*, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA , 2. *Sharon A Billings*, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 3. *Yiqi Luo*, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, and 4. *M Francesca Cotrufo, *Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO *Conveners:* 1. *Dipankar Dwivedi, *Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, C 2. * Biao Zhu, *Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 3. * Jinyun Tang, *Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, and 4. *Margaret S Torn, *Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA -- Dipankar Dwivedi -- Postdoc Fellow Climate Sciences Department Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Cyclotron Road Building 84-117 Berkeley, CA, 94720-0001
