We are organizing three events at the 2015 Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting: A town hall, an oral session and a poster session. Please mark your calendars. We hope to see you there!

The Town Hall will serve as an opportunity 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.

Town Hall Title: Decadal USGCRP Science Assessment of the Carbon Cycle in the US and North America:  The 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2)
Date and Time: Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 12:30 - 13:30
Location: Moscone West, 2007

Additionally,

We are organizing SOCCR-2 oral and poster sessions the previous day. These sessions will provide an overview of carbon cycle science research progress in the U.S. and North America since the the first SOCCR (2007). Presentations from USGCRP's NCA, GCIS and US Carbon Program Office/CCIWG team members are part of these sessions.

Session Number: GC12B
Session Title: Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (2016):“ A Special Scientific Assessment of Current Status and Opportunities I"
Session Type: Oral
Date and Time: Monday, 14 December 2015; 10:20 - 12:20
Location: Moscone West; 3014

Session Number: GC13F
Session Title: Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (2016):“ A Special Scientific Assessment of Current Status and Opportunities II" Posters
Session Type: Poster
Date and Time: Monday, 14 December 2015; 13:40 - 18:00
Location: Moscone South; Poster Hall

Papers (oral) to be presented on Monday, 14 December 2015; 10:20 - 12:20 PST. 

• • 10:20
  • GC12B-01
  • Special Assessment Reports: A Critical Part of the Sustained National Climate Assessment Process Glynis C Lough, U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, United States
• • 10:25
  • GC12B-02
  • Assessing and Synthesizing the Last Decade of Research on the Major Pools and Fluxes of the Carbon Cycle in the US and North America: An Interagency Governmental Perspective Gyami Shrestha, US Carbon Cycle Science Program, US Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, United States, Nancy Cavallaro, USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Daniel B Stover, Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, DC, United States and Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group and US Carbon Cycle Science Program Office (USGCRP)
• • 10:30
  • GC12B-03
  • The State of the Carbon Cycle: Ten Years On Anthony W King¹, Lisa Dilling², David M Fairman³, Richard A Houghton⁴, Gregg Marland⁵, Adam Rose⁶, Thomas J Wilbanks¹ and Gregory Zimmerman¹, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Western Water Assessment RISA, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Consensus Building Institute, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, (5)Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, United States, (6)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
• • 10:40
  • GC12B-04
  • If the North American carbon cycle was changing, would we notice? Kenneth J Davis¹, Thomas Lauvaux¹ and Martha P Butler², (1)The Pennsylvania State Unviersity, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States, (2)The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States
• • 10:50
  • GC12B-05
  • Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: an overview of planned improvements to the methodologies and activity data used to develop the carbon estimates in the Land Use, Land-use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) sector Gyami Shrestha, US Carbon Cycle Science Program, US Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, United States and Thomas Charles Wirth, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Climate Change Divison, Washington, DC, United States
• • 11:00
  • GC12B-06
  • The loss of late successional species has a disproportionate impact on terrestrial carbon storage in North America David J Moore, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
• • 11:10
  • GC12B-07
  • The Contribution of Soils to North America’s Current and Future Climate Melanie A Mayes¹, Sasha Reed², Peter E Thornton¹, Kate Lajtha³, Vanessa L Bailey⁴, Gyami Shrestha⁵, Julie D Jastrow⁶ and Margaret S Torn⁷, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Southwest Biological Science Center Moab, Moab, UT, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (5)US Carbon Cycle Science Program, US Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, United States, (6)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (7)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
• • 11:20
  • GC12B-08
  • The Alaska Land Carbon Assessment: Baseline and Projected Future Carbon Storage and Greenhouse-gas Fluxes in Ecosystems of Alaska Anthony David McGuire, U.S. Geological Survey, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Helene Genet, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Yujie He, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Sarah M Stackpoole, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States, David V D'Amore, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States, Scott T Rupp, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Scenarios Network for Alaska & Arctic Planning, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Bruce K Wylie, USGS, EROS Data Center, Baltimore, MD, United States, Xiaoping Zhou, US Forest Service Portland, Portland, OR, United States and Zhiliang Zhu, USGS, Reston, VA, United States
• • 11:30
  • GC12B-09
  • What Have We Learned About Arctic Carbon Since The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report? Edward Schuur, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
• • 11:40
  • GC12B-10
  • Aquatic carbon fluxes from the conterminous US and Alaska David E Butman, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, Sarah M Stackpoole, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States, Edward Stets, National Research Program Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Cory McDonald, Department of Natural Resources Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States, David W Clow, USGS Colorado Water Science Center Denver, Denver, CO, United States and Robert G Striegl, USGS Colorado Water Science Center Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
• • 11:50
  • GC12B-11
  • The Carbon Budget of Coastal Waters of Eastern North America Raymond Najjar, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
• • 12:00
  • GC12B-12
  • Advances on interdisciplinary approaches to urban carbon Patricia Romero-Lankao, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
• • 12:10
  • GC12B-13
  • Urbanization and the Carbon Cycle: Synthesis of Ongoing Research Kevin R Gurney, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

   

  Papers (Posters to be presented on Monday, 14 December 2015; 13:40 - 18:00 PST

  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1211
    • The new forest carbon accounting framework for the United States Grant M Domke, US Forest Service St. Paul, St. Paul, MN, United States; USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, St. Paul, MN, United States, Christopher W Woodall, Northern Research Station, Saint Paul, MN, United States, John Coulston, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station Forest Inventory and Analysis Unit, Knoxville, TN, United States, David N Wear, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Integrated Forest Science, Raleigh, NC, United States and Sean P Healey, Rocky Mountain Research Statio, Ogden, UT, United States
  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1212
    • Estimating Ecosystem Carbon Stock Change in the Conterminous United States from 1971 to 2010 Jinxun Liu, Contractor, USGS Western Geographic Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States
  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1213
    • From carbon numbers to ecosystem services: usable results comparing natural versus managed lands Dominique M Bachelet¹, Ken Ferschweiler¹, Tim Sheehan², Benjamin M Sleeter³ and Zhiliang Zhu⁴, (1)Conservation Biology Institute, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Environmental Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)USGS, Tacoma, WA, United States, (4)USGS, Reston, VA, United States
  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1214
    • Improving the assessment of the State of the Carbon Cycle in North America by integrating inventory- and process- based approaches: A case study for Canada Daniel J Hayes¹, Carolyn Smyth², Guangsheng Chen¹, Werner Kurz³, Graham Stinson³ and Anthony David McGuire⁴, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (3)Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, Canada, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States
  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1215
    • Quantifying Carbon Consequences of Recent Land Management and Disturbances in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystems (GYE) by linking inventory data, remote sensing and carbon modeling Feng Zhao, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Chengquan Huang, University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Sean P Healey, Rocky Mountain Research Statio, Ogden, UT, United States, James B. McCarter, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, Chris Garrard, Utah State University, RS/GIS Laboratory, Logan, United States and Zhiliang Zhu, USGS, Reston, VA, United States
  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1216
    • Simulated Net Ecosystem Carbon Balance of Western US Forests Under Contemporary Climate and Management Zhenlin Yang¹, Beverly Elizabeth Law¹ and Matthew O Jones², (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)NTSG - University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States
  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1217
    • Impact of uncertainty in attributing modeled North American terrestrial carbon fluxes to anthropogenic forcings Daniel M Ricciuto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1218
    • Soil Organic Carbon Response to Cover Crop and Nitrogen Fertilization under Bioenergy Sorghum Upendra M Sainju¹, Hari P Singh² and Bharat P Singh², (1)USDA-ARS, Sidney, MT, United States, (2)Fort Valley State University, Agricultural Research Station, Fort Valley, GA, United States
  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1219
    • Closing the North American Carbon Budget: Continental Margin Fluxes Matter! Heather M Benway¹, Samantha A Siedlecki², Raymond Najjar³, Elizabeth W Boyer⁴, Wei-Jun Cai⁵, Paula G Coble⁶, Jessica N Cross^7,8, Marjorie Anne Friedrichs⁹, Miguel A Goni¹⁰, Peter C Griffith¹¹, Maria Herrmann³, Steven E Lohrenz¹², Jeremy T Mathis¹³, Galen A McKinley¹⁴, Cynthia H Pilskaln¹², Richard A Smith¹⁵, Simone R Alin¹⁶ and Coastal CARbon Synthesis (CCARS) Workshop and Science Plan Contributors, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Univ of Washington-JISAO, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State Univ, Bellefonte, PA, United States, (5)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (6)USF, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (7)NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, (8)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (9)Virginia Inst Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, (10)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States, (13)NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States, (14)Univ. Wisconsion - Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (15)USGS, Reston, VA, United States, (16)NOAA, Seattle, WA, United States
  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1220
    • Towards the Development of Historical Indicators of Spatial Carbon Dynamics in Drylands: A Blue Oak Woodlands of California Case Study Kyle Landolt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1221
    • Dissolved Organic Carbon Fluxes in Rivers of the Conterminous United States: Influence of Terrestrial – Aquatic Linkages Sarah M Stackpoole, USGS, Denver, CO, United States, David E Butman, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, Edward Stets, National Research Program Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Robert G Striegl, USGS Colorado Water Science Center Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Dominique M Bachelet, Conservation Biology Institute, Corvallis, OR, United States and Zhiliang Zhu, USGS, Reston, VA, United States
  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1222
    • Inclusion of Coastal Wetlands in theInventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks? Stephen Crooks, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1223
    • Coastal Carbon Synthesis for the Continental Shelf of the North American Pacific Coast (NAPC) Samantha A Siedlecki, Univ of Washington-JISAO, Seattle, WA, United States
  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1224
    • Effects of land use on greenhouse gas fluxes and soil properties of wetland catchments in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America Brian Tangen¹, Raymond G. Finocchiaro² and Robert A. Gleason², (1)usgs, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, ND, United States
  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1225
    • Towards a more complete SOCCR: Establishing a Coastal Carbon Data Network Emily Pidgeon¹, Jennifer Howard¹, Jianwu Tang², Kevin D Kroeger³ and Lisamarie Windham-Myers⁴, (1)Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States, (2)Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)USGS, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1226
    • National Ecological Observatory Network’s (NEON) future role in US carbon cycling and budgets Hank W Loescher, National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, CO, United States
  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1227
    • USGCRP Global Change Information System Support for the SOCCR-2 Robert Edward Wolfe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
  • • 13:40
    • GC13F-1228
    • The LandCarbon Web Application: Advanced Geospatial Data Delivery and Visualization Tools for Communication about Ecosystem Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes Nancy Thomas, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States