Please consider submitting an abstract to the following EGU Session convened by Jen Harden, Bas van Wesemael, Rose Abramoff, and Pete Smith:
Managing lands for C, energy, and other services: Soil as a renewable/provisional resource (ERE1.5/BG9.70/SSS13.6 ) Soils are becoming reservoirs for carbon sequestration and carbon-based energy based on strategic land use practices; soils also provide ecosystems with templates for physical, hydrologic, and biogeochemical processes. As resources for such diverse uses, we need frameworks for data, monitoring, and conceptual underpinnings so that the complexity of soil can be tracked and understood for planning and implementation. Processes that operate at local-regional-global scales continue to enumerate rather than consolidate into over-arching, collaborative frameworks. In this session we recognize the importance of soil as a natural resource for producing food and fiber, for stabilizing the Earth’s ecosystems, and for combating climate change through C sequestration and energy alternatives. We welcome contributions that highlight new technologies, frameworks, and big-data approaches to enable cross-cutting information, protection from erosion and degradation, and construction of incentives for implementing good soil stewardship. The European Geoscience Union General Assembly is April 23-28 in Vienna, Austria. Abstracts are due Jan 11, 2017. Website: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/sessionprogramme Cheers, Rose Abramoff
