Dear Colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our session “*Plugging leaks in the plumbing of the inland water carbon cycle*“ at the ASLO summer meeting in Santa Fe. The ASLO 2016 summer meeting will be held from 5 - 10 June 2016 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Abstract is due *2 February 2016* by 23:59 U.S. Central Standard Time / 06:00 Greenwich Mean Time. More details about the session topic are below and can be found here: http://www.sgmeet.com/aslo/santafe2016/sessionschedule.asp?SessionID=SS28 Feel free to contact any of us for more details or questions on this session. Best regards, Jacob Zwart , University of Notre Dame [email protected] Grace Wilkinson , University of Virginia [email protected] Dominic Vachon , University of Quebec in Montreal [email protected] Steven Sadro , University of California, Davis [email protected] *SS08 - Plugging leaks in the plumbing of the inland water carbon cycle* Inland waters have been identified as an important component in the carbon cycle from the watershed to the global scale. ‘Plumbing’ the pipes of these aquatic ecosystems demonstrated that carbon transformation through fixation, mineralization and storage is on par with carbon transport downstream. Recently, there has been a large effort to update the plumbing of the inland waters’ carbon cycle. While estimates of carbon storage and flux have been refined, gaps in our understanding of flux dynamics and their governing controls, sources and fates of carbon, and scaling of measurements have become more apparent. In this session, we welcome studies that characterize frontiers or identify gaps in our knowledge of the inland water carbon cycle across lentic and lotic systems at all spatial and temporal scales. This includes, but is not restricted to, research that constrains estimates of pools or fluxes across space or time as well as studies of factors that govern flux dynamics and how they may change in the future. Studies that employ novel measurement or modeling techniques to address knowledge gaps of inland water carbon cycling are encouraged as are studies that address the scaling of flux and pool estimates.
