The workshop’s primary goals were to improve understanding of the vulnerability and resilience of carbon in soils and to improve prediction of the critical role of soils in generating feedbacks to the climate. An additional goal was to inform the second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2), a special report of the U.S. Sustained National Climate Assessment scheduled for release in 2018. The EOS report is available here:

https://eos.org/meeting-reports/advancing-soil-carbon-cycle-science