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Session Proposal: Data-driven approaches to improve climate impact accounting for nature-based carbon removal (AGU25)

GC038
Data-driven approaches to improve climate impact accounting for nature-based carbon removal

Session ID#: 251058

Session Description:
Natural ecosystems already take nearly a third of anthropogenic emissions out of the atmosphere each year. Enhancing this effect by restoring forest ecosystems has the potential to remove an additional ~2-4 billion tons CO2 annually. Despite the large potential, consensus on how to measure the net climate impact of nature-based carbon removal projects remains elusive and impedes investment on the ground. In addition to the challenge of precisely quantifying the carbon stored in soil and biomass, project-scale climate impact accounting includes quantification of additionality, leakage, durability, biophysical impacts, and other unintended climate benefits or harms. This session seeks submissions from interdisciplinary researchers working on practical and data-driven approaches to measure the net climate impact of restoration and reforestation for carbon removal. We welcome contributions that experiment with observational, modeling, synthesis, forecasting, or data-driven tools to the community more completely quantify the climatic impact of restoration for nature-based carbon removal.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

0481 Restoration [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1694 Instruments and techniques [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Primary Convener:  Connor Nolan, Stanford University, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, United States
Conveners:  Kimberly A Novick, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, United States, Kyle Hemes, Amazon Worldwide Sustainability, Seattle, United States and Trevor Keenan, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, United States
 
Accounting for Carbon in Forests Where Disturbance Is the Rule, Not the Exception (1846736)
Katharyn Aurora Duffy1,2, Joe Shannon2,3, Ethan Yackulic1, David Diaz4, Sophie Gilbert4 and Michael Koontz5, (1)Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, United States, (2)Vibrant Planet, Applied Science, Truckee, United States, (3)Michigan Technological University, School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences, Houghton, United States, (4)Vibrant Planet, Truckee, United States, (5)U.S. Geological Survey Fort Collins Science Center, Fire Science, Fort Collins, United States
 
A data-driven framework to quantify nature -based carbon removal from historic silvoarable landscapes (1858363)
Filippo Brandolini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, Cambridge, United States
 
Translating Science To Next-Generation Reforestation Standards: Lessons And Next Steps From The ABACUS Label (1858978)
Connor Nolan, Kyle Hemes and Christopher B Field, Stanford University, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, United States
 
Beyond Models: A Strategic Framework for a Data-Driven Forest Carbon Decision-Making Ecosystem (Invited) (1861132)
Christopher Woodall, CTrees, Washington, United States, Holly Munro, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Monroe, United States, Jeff Atkins, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, United States, Bronson P. Bullock, University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Athens, GA, United States, Coeli Hoover, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States, Aaron Weiskittel, University of Maine, Center for Research on Sustainable Forests, Orono, United States, William Anderegg, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States, Kimberly A Novick, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, United States and Benjamin Poulter, Spark Climate Solutions, San Francisco, United States
 
Scaling microbiome restoration for climate impact: Linking soil fungal diversity to tree growth and carbon accumulation in managed forests (1899423)
Dawson Fairbanks, Ann Raiho, Alison Ketz, Zoey Werbin, Denis Willet, Ian Ware, Caylon Yates, Tyler Claxton and Colin Averill, Funga PBC, Austin, United States
 
Global Estimates of Nature-Based Carbon Removal through Restoration of Riparian and Floodplain Ecosystems (1916453)
Mahya Hashemi1,2, Kashif Shaad3, Vivian Griffey4, Ibrahim N. Mohammed5, Maira Bezerra4, Starry Sprenkle-Hyppolite6 and John D Bolten7, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, SCIENCE APPLICATION INTL CORP, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Conservation International, Moore Center for Science, Arlington, United States, (4)Conservation International, Arlington, United States, (5)SCIENCE APPLICATION INTL CORP, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory at Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, United States, (6)Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States, (7)Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, United States
 
Advancing Forest-Based Climate Solutions through Data-Driven Carbon Flux Estimation (1923761)
Mallory Barnes1, Xian Wang2, Siddhanth Hegde3 and Kimberly A Novick3, (1)Indiana University, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, United States, (2)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (3)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, United States
 
Valuing Reversible Carbon Storage in a Zero-Emissions World (Invited) (1927459)
Allegra Mayer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Jerome Dumortier, Indiana University Indianapolis, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indianapolis, United States, Zeke Hausfather, Stripe, Oakland, United States, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Livermore, CA, United States and Eric Slessarev, Yale University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, New Haven, United States
 
Recovering young forests dominate the current and future land carbon sink (1936855)
Zhihua Liu1, Sassan Saatchi2, Susan Cook-Patton3, Ashley Ballantyne4, Philippe Ciais5, James Tremper Randerson6, Nathaniel Robinson7, Yan Yang8, Fabien Wagner8, Le Bienfaiteur Sagang Takougoum9, Ricardo Dalagnol10, Cynthia Creze11 and Adugna Mullissa12, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)CTrees, Pasadena, United States, (3)The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, United States, (4)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (5)Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris Saclay, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, (6)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, (7)The Nature Conservancy, Worthington, United States, (8)Ecosystem Research Team, CTrees.org, Pasadena, California, USA, Pasadena, United States, (9)University of California, Los Angeles, United States, (10)University of California Los Angeles, Earth Observation and Geoinformatics Division, Los Angeles, United States, (11)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (12)University of California Los Angeles, Pasadena, United States
 
What spatial and temporal variation should exist in a useful and effective satellite-based aboveground biomass data product? A practical guide (1939868)
Jonathan A Wang1, David JP Moore2, Wanwan Liang3, Jiaming Lu3, Eric Bullock3, Linqing Yang4 and William Anderegg5, (1)University of Utah, School of Biological Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of Utah, School of Biological Sciences, Salt Lake City, United States, (4)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (5)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States
 
Improving Forest Carbon Uptake Estimates by Integrating the Direct Effects of CO2 Fertilization into MODIS Vegetation Productivity datasets over India (1939947)
Ripan Das, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, Subhankar Karmakar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Environmental Science and Engineering Department, Centre for Climate Studies, Mumbai, India and Subimal Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Department of Civil Engineering, Centre for Climate Studies, Mumbai, India
 
Low-Cost, High Carbon Reforestation of Low Yield Tropical Grazing Lands (1956014)
Vivian Griffey1, Starry Sprenkle-Hyppolite2, Bronson Griscom1 and Isabel Hillman1, (1)Conservation International, Arlington, United States, (2)Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States
 
The Impact of Atmospheric CO2 on the Biogeophysical Effects of Tree Re/afforestation (1963076)
Taylor Adkins, University of California Riverside, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, United States and Robert James Allen, University of California Riverside, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States
 
Towards High-integrity Carbon Crediting for Tropical Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) (1964284)
Xueyuan Gao, Princeton University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Ecosystem Carbon Balance and Economic Trade-offs of Extended Harvest Cycles in Temperate Forests (1968368)
Ziqi Qin1, Christopher B Field2, Robert Grant3, Bodie Cabiyo2, Connor Nolan2 and Mengyu Liang2, (1)Stanford University, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, United States, (3)University of Alberta, Department of Renewable Resources, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 
Testing the Carbon Storage Capacity, Community Resistance, and Community Resilience of a Nascent Ecosystem on Reclaimed Ultramafic Mine Tailings Under Extreme Climate Events. (1974216)
Kay Kennedy1, Asma Asmaninejad2 and Michael Preston1, (1)University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada, (2)CanmetMINING, Ottawa, ON, Canada
 
Data-Driven Modeling of Soil CO2 Efflux in Urban Green Roofs Using Field-Based Monitoring Data (1993927)
Junyoung Cho and Hyomin Kim, KOREA INSTITUTE of CIVIL ENGINEERING and BUILDING TECHNOLOGY, building research, Goyang, South Korea
 
From Embodied Emissions to Carbon Payback: Evaluating Rooftop Greening Systems in Cities (1994154)
Hyomin Kim and Junyoung Cho, KOREA INSTITUTE of CIVIL ENGINEERING and BUILDING TECHNOLOGY, building research, Goyang, South Korea
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