FY16 Year-In-Review
Program Meetings and Support for 2016 / Highlights
In FY6, besides leading the organization of the on-site monthly meetings of the CCIWG at the USGCRP NCO with the CCIWG co-chairs, the U.S. Carbon Program Office facilitated and served with community science teams that successfully developed and conducted four CCIWG sponsored workshops, with logistical support from UCAR CPAESS. These four topical workshops were convened in California, Colorado and Maryland and focused on:
1. Science of Blue Carbon,
2. Soil Carbon Resilience and Vulnerability,
3. Sustained Carbon Observations,
4. Carbon Cycle Predictions
Additionally, the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program Office organized the first Public Forum and the first kick-off workshop for the development of the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2) at NOAA National Weather Service (Maryland) as well as several AGU and other public and scientific engagements. More details below. Two North American Carbon Program (NACP) Scientific Leadership Group (SLG) meetings led by the NACP Office leadership team from NASA Goddard and the science community were also supported. Similar to previous years, the U.S. Carbon Program Office and CCIWG members have been serving on the Meeting Planning Committee of the 6th Joint NACP-Ameriflux All-Investigators Meeting to be held in Washington DC in March 2017. A report of the prior biennial NACP PI meeting to which the U.S. Carbon Program Office contributed was published in AGU EOS here: 'Integrating carbon cycle research into decision-making'. More information on the 2017 meeting can be found on www.nacarbon/org.
With the CCIWG, the U.S. Carbon Program Office led the conceptualization and planning for a CCIWG Town Hall and two sessions (oral and poster) on SOCCR-2 at AGU in Dec 2015: Oral Session Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (2016):“ A Special Scientific Assessment of Current Status and Opportunities I" ; Poster Session Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (2016):“ A Special Scientific Assessment of Current Status and Opportunities II" Posters;Town Hall Decadal USGCRP Science Assessment of the Carbon Cycle in the US and North America: The 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2). More at http://carboncyclescience.us/news/public-events-2nd-state-carbon-cycle-report-Dec2015-Feb2016. In close collaboration with the CCIWG co-chairs, the Office initiated new collaborative opportunities and conceptualized the process for the Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2) to update SOCCR-1 (2007) as a product of the Sustained National Climate Assessment and input to the Fourth National Climate Assessment, co-leading the development of the foundational documents to initiate, develop, coordinate and disseminate SOCCR-2 with over 200 community scientists and federal program managers from the U.S., Mexico and Canada, including the draft prospectus, the first federal register notice and subsequent report development frameworks and mechanisms. Public info on SOCCR-2 is available here: https://carboncyclescience.us/state-carbon-cycle-report-soccr.
In FY16, the U.S. Carbon Program Office served on the USGCRP team that developed the Update to the 2012-2021 USGCRP Strategic Plan (USP). Additionally, U.S. Carbon Program Office updates and articles were published in the USGCRP bi-monthly newsletters (http://www.globalchange.gov/news/newsletters).
Publications and Products
The U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program website (http://www.carboncyclescience.us/) and documents included in it encompass the FY16 products of the Program, some of which are highlighted at the end of this document*. In addition to the web content and regular news content created by U.S. Carbon Program Office, U.S. Carbon Program Office also served as a co-author on publications that evolved from the aforementioned CCIWG sponsored workshops and meetings, accessible via the links below:
Soil Carbon Resilience and Vulnerability,
CCIWG Carbon Cycle Predictions Workshop report published,
2015 North American Carbon Program Meeting overview paper 'Integrating carbon cycle research into decision-making',
Managing the carbon cycle requires strong science
*Highlights of CCIWG and U.S. Carbon Program Office FY2016 activities and some of the pertinent CCIWG member news items posted on https://CarbonCycleScience.us
November, 2016
CCIWG Carbon Cycle Predictions Workshop report published
Improving Carbon Cycle Projections for Better Carbon Management
National Academies Call for Nominations: Review of SOCCR-2
A new ad hoc committee of the Academies will conduct an independent review of the SOCCR-2 draft report, which will be available in early 2017....
October, 2016
Please join us at AGU in December 2016!
Grants, opportunities and SOCCR-2 sessions and town halls in San Francisco in December 2016.....
New NOAA Funding Opportunity: Regional Vulnerability Assessments for Ocean Acidification (RVA-OA17)
NOAA is soliciting proposals for collaborative projects of up to 2 years in duration that synthesize ocean acidification information at a regional scale....
August, 2016
Workshop Report: Soil Carbon Resilience and Vulnerability
Soil carbon storage regulates our climate and provides the basis for ecosystem and agricultural productivity.....
New NOAA Climate Program Office funding opportunity
...competitive research funding through five major Programs: Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM); Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, and Climate (AC4); Climate Variability and Predictability (CVP); Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP); and Climate and Societal Interactions (CSI).
June, 2016
Abstract submissions open for the AGU session on SOCCR-2
The 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2): Assessing the Last Decades' Science of the Carbon Cycle across North America and Adjacent Oceans
March, 2016
Carbon Cycle Predictions workshop completed
...Despite many observations of the terrestrial, marine, atmosphere and anthropogenic carbon cycles, models don’t simulate the processes that are important for the future climate well....
Soil Carbon Vulnerability and Resilience Workshop completed
To determine the state of the science regarding predicting carbon stocks and fluxes...identification of data needs and availability....
February, 2016
NASA ROSES Carbon Cycle Science Interagency Solicitation 2016 Announced
NASA, USDA, DOE, and NOAA seek proposals to improve understanding of changes in the distribution and cycling of carbon among the active land, ocean, coastal, and atmospheric reservoirs and how that understanding can be used to establish a scientific foundation for societal responses to global environmental change....
North American Coastal Waters Science Plan for Carbon Cycle Research
... to synthesize existing data and improve quantitative assessments of the North American carbon budget.
Workshop: Sustained Observations to Support Carbon Cycle Science and Management
With the aim of describing sustained observational capabilities required to fulfill the objectives of the 2011 U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan, along with an assessment of current and planned capabilities for the period 2016-2025....
Federal Register Notice: 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2)
Submit author nominations, technical input and comments on the draft prospectus.....
January, 2016
Global Science and Data Network for Coastal Blue Carbon Workshop completed
47 participants from 12 countries participated in this 2.5 day workshop sponsored by the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program and the Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
February 2, 2016 Public Forum on the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report
This 1-day public forum will present an opportunity for interested parties and stakeholders to provide individual input on proposed SOCCR-2 themes.
December, 2015
New USDA USGCRP Report: Climate Change, Global Food Security and the U.S. Food System
...a peer-reviewed scientific assessment that identifies climate change effects on global food security.
Integrating carbon cycle research into decision-making processes....
Public Events: 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2)
December 2015 AGU San Francisco sessions, February 2016 Washington DC Public Forum.....
Paper: Managing the carbon cycle requires strong science
...Comprehensive plans that include both short- and long-term interdisciplinary strategies for the carbon cycle science needed to support climate policy already exist....
November, 2015
Draft Update to the 2012-2021 USGCRP Strategic Plan: public review period
This public comment period invites the public to provide comments and feedback on a triennial update to the USGCRP Strategic Plan.
Preliminary Workshop Announcement: Development of Predictive Carbon Cycle Science
To generate a roadmap on how to further develop and enhance our capacity to predict future carbon dynamics in North America, gather collective knowledge on predictive carbon cycle science from the community and inform the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2)....
October, 2015
Funding Opportunity Announcement (DOE): 2016 Environmental System Science
...The focus is on measurements, experiments, modeling or synthesis to provide improved quantitative and predictive understanding of terrestrial ecosystem and/or subsurface processes that can affect the cycling and transport of carbon, water, nutrients, and contaminants....
....to discuss the capacity for resilience and vulnerability of soil carbon in response to climate change....
NASA is particularly looking for feedback to improve the strategic science plan under consideration including feedback on the science questions, approaches, measurements....
Announcing AGU 2015 sessions on the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2)
... opportunities for the greater geophysical community to learn about and provide feedback on the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2) that we are in the process of planning...
