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Session Proposal: Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change: Towards Decarbonization of Agri-food Systems (AGU25)

GC100
Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change: Towards Decarbonization of Agri-food Systems

Session ID#: 250622

Session Description:
Agroecosystems have a great potential for mitigating climate change by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and enhancing carbon sequestration over managed land. Improved modeling and monitoring capacities to track Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) changes and GHG emissions for agroecosystems are urgently needed in both academia and industry. We invite submissions focusing on: (1) developing scalable and cost-effective monitoring capacities to track SOC changes and GHG emissions; (2) synthesizing multi-source observations to infer SOC changes and GHG emissions, including those from near-surface/airborne/satellite remote sensing, ground surveys, long-term experiments, and intensive sensor networks; (3) multi-scale process-based modeling of plant, management, environmental, and economic aspects of the agricultural system; (4) systematic model-data integration to support measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of GHG emissions and decision-making for improved farming practice, policy design, and economic returns; and (5) new protocols, standards, market mechanisms, project methodologies, and policies related to decarbonization of agri-food systems.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • SY - Science and Society
Index Terms:

0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Primary Convener:  Bin Peng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Crop Sciences, Urbana, United States
Conveners:  Zhenong Jin, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, Saint Paul, United States, Jinyun Tang, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States and Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Agroecosystem Sustainability Center, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Urbana, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Jie Yang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
 
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Yujing Gao, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States, Gerrit Hoogenboom, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States and Baojing Gu, Zhejiang University, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Hangzhou, China
 
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Nationwide Reduced-Fertilizer Cultivation Trials and Weather-Responsive Modeling of Nitrogen Mineralization from Composts for Sustainable and Climate-Smart Agriculture (1889749)
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Global Synthesis of Cover Cropping-Induced Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions (1895147)
Mr. Yu Peng, Prof. Lixin Wang, PhD and Pierre-André Jacinthe, Indiana University Indianapolis, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indianapolis, United States
 
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David Encarnation1, Robert Powell1 and Adam Pellegrini2, (1)University of Cambridge, Plant Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
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Dong-Gill Kim1,2, Gezu Shimelis3, Fantaw Yimer4 and Menfese Tadesse4, (1)Kyung Hee University, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, (2)Hawasa University, Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, Wondo Genet, Ethiopia, (3)Oda Bultum University, Department of Land Administration and Surveying, Institute of Land Administration, Chiro, Ethiopia, (4)Hawassa University, Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, Wondo Genet, Ethiopia
 
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Arshdeep Singh1,2, Patty Y Oikawa1, John F Knowles3, Joseph G Verfaillie4, Daphne J. Szutu4, Eduardo Gamez1,5, Inbar Amitay1, Garrett C Liles2, Logan Smith2, Sandrine J Matiasek2, Jacob Brimlow2, Zion Brigham2 and Cynthia Daley2, (1)California State University, East Bay, Hayward, United States, (2)California State University, Chico, Chico, United States, (3)Montana State University, Bozeman, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (5)University of California Davis, Davis, United States
 
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Anurag Mandalika1, Manab Dutta2, Anandkumar Arumugam3, Brian Snyder4 and Kanchan Maiti3, (1)Louisiana State University, Center for Energy Studies, Baton Rouge, United States, (2)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (3)Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, United States, (4)Louisiana State University, Environmental Sciences, Baton Rouge, United States
 
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Improving SOC Estimation in Paddy Fields by Modifying the RothC Model's Decomposition Rate Modifier for Moisture (1952695)
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Jung Woo Lee1,2, Chunhwa Jang3, Nictor Namoi4, Allison Cook5, Rhea Chawla5, Wendy H Yang6 and DoKyoung Lee7, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Savoy, IL, UNITED STATES, (2)Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, Champaign, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation; Department of Crop Sciences, Urbana, United States, (4)University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Center for Advanced Bioenergy & Bioproducts Innovation; Department of Crop Sciences, Urbana, United States, (5)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States, (6)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Plant Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, (7)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation; Department of Crop Sciences, Urbana, United States
 
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Robert Skylar Powell1, David Encarnation1, Tiago Morais2, Shelby McClelland3, Andrew Smerald4, Steven Davis5, Dominik Wisser6, Giuseppe Tempio6 and Adam Pellegrini7, (1)University of Cambridge, Plant Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, (3)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (4)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (5)Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, United States, (6)Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, (7)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
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Qi Chen1, Prof. Lixin Wang, PhD2, Mr. Yu Peng2 and Bin Peng3, (1)Indiana University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, IN, UNITED STATES, (2)Indiana University Indianapolis, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indianapolis, United States, (3)University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
 
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Pushpa Soti1, Alex Racelis2, Daphne Zapsas1, Mia Martinez1 and Anai Tabera-Cruz1, (1)University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, School of Integrative Biological and Chemical Sciences, Edinburg, United States, (2)University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences, Edinburg, TX, United States
 
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Elena Blanc-Betes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institute for Sustainability, Energy and the Environment; Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, Urbana, IL, United States, Nuria Gomez-Casanovas, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, Vernon, TX, United States, Carl Bernacchi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, Urbana, United States, Elizabeth Boughton, Archbold Biological Station, Buck Island Ranch, Venus, United States, Wendy H Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Plant Biology, Urbana, IL, United States and Evan H DeLucia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation; Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology; Department of Plant Biology, Urbana, IL, United States
 
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