Biogeosciences



The William S. and Carelyn Y. Reeburgh Lecture
Primary Convener:  Robert F Anderson, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States
Convener:  Clare E Reimers, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Robert F Anderson, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States


B001
Active remote sensing of 3D structure for ecosystem and surface-topography studies
Primary Convener:  James R Kellner, Brown University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Providence, RI, United States
Conveners:  Hao Tang, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States and Michelle A Hofton, Univ Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  James R Kellner, Brown University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Providence, RI, United States


B002
Addressing Spatial-Temporal Variation, Plasticity and Acclimation of Key Hydraulic and Photosynthetic Plant Traits for Predicting Forest Responses to Climate Change
Primary Convener:  Martin Venturas, University of Utah, School of Biological Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Conveners:  Anna T Trugman1, Yujie Wang1 and Xiaonan Tai2, (1)University of Utah, School of Biological Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States(2)University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Martin Venturas, University of Utah, School of Biological Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States


B003
Advances in Aerobiology: Investigations and Techniques for Atmospheric Microbiology
Primary Convener:  Diana Gentry, NASA Ames Research Center, Biospheric Science Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Conveners:  Samantha Waters, Universities Space Research Association, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and David Joseph Smith, NASA Ames, Mountain View, United States
Primary Liaison:  Diana Gentry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States


B004
Advances in Remotely Sensed Image Fusion: Methods and Applications
Primary Convener:  Josh Gray, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States
Convener:  Feng Gao, USDA-Agricultural Research Service Beltsville, Hydrology and Remote Sensing, Beltsville, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Josh Gray, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States


B005
Advances in Soil Health: Characterizing the Biogeophysical Components of Sustained Productivity in Managed Soils
Primary Convener:  Claire Louise Phillips, USDA-ARS, Forage Seed and Cereal Research Unit, Corvallis, CA, United States
Conveners:  Markus Kleber, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Daniel Liptzin, Soil Health Institute, Denver, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Claire Louise Phillips, USDA-ARS, Forage Seed and Cereal Research Unit, Corvallis, CA, United States


B006
Advances in the application of remote sensing for biodiversity monitoring: Integrating data across scales and technologies
Primary Convener:  Keith Gaddis, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Gary N Geller, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, William W Turner, NASA Headquarters, Washington DC, DC, United States and Michael M Little, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Keith Gaddis, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States


B007
Advances in the Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle
Primary Convener:  Holly Croft, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Shawn Serbin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, NY, United States, Alemu Gonsamo, McMaster University, School of Geography & Earth Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada and Jeff W Atkins, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Holly Croft, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom


B008
Advances in Understanding Post-Fire Environmental Impacts in Watersheds
Primary Convener:  Michelle E Newcomer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Margaret S Torn, Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and E. Natasha Stavros, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycles group, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Erin Hestir, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States


B009
Advances in understanding water-carbon interactions
Primary Convener:  Vincent Humphrey, California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Markus Reichstein, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Jena, Germany, Ana Bastos, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München, Germany and Pierre Gentine, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Vincent Humphrey, California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States


B010
Agricultural Sustainability – A Balancing Act of Land Management, Food Security, and Environmental Consciousness
Primary Convener:  Susanne Wiesner, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, US Dairy Forage Research Center, Madison WI, Oak Ridge, TN, United States; University of Wisconsin, Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States
Conveners:  Ankur R Desai, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States, Alison Duff, US Dairy Forage Research Center, Madison, WI, United States and Kevin Panke-Buisse, US Dairy Forage Research Center, Madison, United States
Primary Liaison:  Susanne Wiesner, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States; Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, US Dairy Forage Research Center, Madison WI, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


B011
Agricultural systems: links between hydrology and biogeochemical cycling
Primary Convener:  Benjamin Runkle, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
Conveners:  Michele L Reba, USDA, State University, AR, United States, Arlene Adviento-Borbe, USDA-ARS, Jonesboro, United States and Kosana Suvocarev, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kosana Suvocarev, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States; University of California, Davis, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States


B012
Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Monitoring with Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Primary Convener:  Sanaz Shafian, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States and Michael Cosh
Conveners:  Michael H Cosh, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States, Jason Karl, USDA-ARS Jornada Exp. Range, Las Cruces, NM, United States and Michael Cosh
Primary Liaison:  Ebrahim Babaeian, University of Arizona, Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States and Michael Cosh


B013
Agriculture in the 21st Century: Leveraging Technological Advances to Provide Insights and Promote Sustainability
Primary Convener:  Matthew Hayes, Granular, Data Science, Des Moines, IA, United States
Conveners:  Dane Kane, Yale, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, New Have, United States, Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, IL, United States; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Anuradha Swatantran, Corteva, Des Moines, United States
Primary Liaison:  Matthew Hayes, Granular, Data Science, Des Moines, IA, United States


B014
Agriculture on the Edge: Food and Feed Production in Drylands.
Primary Convener:  Ilya Gelfand, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Convener:  Peter M Homyak, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ilya Gelfand, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel


B015
Agro-geoinformatics: Connecting geospatial technologies with agriculture
Primary Convener:  Eugene Yu, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
Conveners:  Liping Di, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States, Feng Gao, USDA-Agricultural Research Service Beltsville, Hydrology and Remote Sensing, Beltsville, MD, United States and Zhengwei Yang, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Research and Development Division, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Eugene Yu, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States


B016
Aligning Soil Organic Matter Mechanisms, Measurements, and Models Across Scales: Honoring the Complexity of Soil Processes
Primary Convener:  Katherine A Heckman, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States
Conveners:  Corey R Lawrence, US Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, CO, United States, Susan E Crow, University of Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Joseph C Blankinship, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Katherine A Heckman, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States


B017
Arctic Land Surface Energy Fluxes and their Impact on the Earth System under Current and Future Conditions
Primary Convener:  Jacqueline Oehri, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Conveners:  Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Michael M Loranty, Colgate University, Geography, Hamilton, NY, United States and Sara M. Morris, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland


B018
Assessing the Impacts of Climate Variability and Human Activities on Grasslands using Multi-source Data
Primary Convener:  Yuting Zhou, Oklahoma State University, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Stillwater, OK, United States
Conveners:  Prasanna H Gowda, USDA-ARS, El Reno, OK, United States, Pradeep Wagle, USDA-ARS Grazinglands Research Laboratory, El Reno, OK, United States and K. Colton Flynn, Oklahoma State University, Fayetteville, United States
Primary Liaison:  Pradeep Wagle, USDA-ARS Grazinglands Research Laboratory, El Reno, OK, United States


B019
Biogeochemical and hydrological functioning across scales in river corridors
Primary Convener:  Kelly C Wrighton, Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Convener:  James Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biological Sciences, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  James Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biological Sciences, Richland, WA, United States


B020
Biogeochemical Processes of Natural Organic Matter and Emerging Organic Contaminants in Aquatic Ecosystems
Primary Convener:  Yong Ran, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China and Dainan Zhang
Convener:  Jingdong Mao, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States and Dainan Zhang
Primary Liaison:  Yong Ran, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China and Dainan Zhang


B021
Biological weathering in the Critical Zone: An integrated multi-domain approach
Primary Convener:  Dawson Fairbanks, University of Arizona, Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Susana Roque-Malo, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Nicholas C Dove, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States and Pamela L Sullivan, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Susana Roque-Malo, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States


B022
Biomarkers from Source to Sink: Bridging the Transition from Empirical Relationships to Mechanistic Theory
Primary Convener:  Cindy De Jonge, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
Conveners:  Nemiah Ladd, University of Freiburg, Ecosystem Physiology, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany and Zhirui Zeng, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Cindy De Jonge, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland


B023
Bridging the Data Gap: Methods that Link Remote Sensing with Forest Models Toward Improving Spatial and Temporal Scales
Primary Convener:  Amanda Hildt Armstrong, Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States
Convener:  Batuhan Osmanoglu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Amanda Hildt Armstrong, Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States


B024
Building resilient agricultural systems supported by near-term climate and yield forecasts
Primary Convener:  Bernhard Schauberger, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
Conveners:  Christoph Gornott1, Jonas Jägermeyr2 and Jascha Lehmann2, (1)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany(2)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Bernhard Schauberger, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany


B025
Carbon and Nutrient Cycle Feedbacks of Terrestrial Ecosystems over the 21st Century
Primary Convener:  Jennifer Soong, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Sara Marañon-Jimenez, CREAF, Cerdanyola Del Valle, Spain, Andreas Richter, University of Vienna, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, Vienna, Austria and Josep Peñuelas, CREAF, Cerdanyola del Valles, Spain
Primary Liaison:  Jennifer Soong, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Science, Berkeley, CA, United States


B026
Carbon feedbacks in Earth’s climate system: beyond emergent patterns and towards mechanistic processes to reduce future ocean and land uncertainties
Primary Convener:  Ashley Ballantyne, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States and Abhishek Chatterjee
Convener:  Abhishek Chatterjee, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GMAO, Greenbelt, MD, United States; USRA, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Abhishek Chatterjee
Primary Liaison:  Benjamin Poulter, NASA GSFC, Biospheric Science, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Abhishek Chatterjee


B027
Carbon Monitoring Systems Research and Applications
Primary Convener:  David Lagomasino, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  George C Hurtt, University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States and Peter C Griffith, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  David Lagomasino, University of Maryland, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States


B028
Causes and consequences of changing disturbance regimes in boreal forests across the globe
Primary Convener:  Heather Dawn Alexander, Mississippi State University, Forestry, Starkville, MS, United States and jennie demarco
Conveners:  Jennie DeMarco, Western Colorado University, Gunnison, CO, United States, Alison Paulson, Mississippi State University, Forestry, Starkville, MS, United States, Rebecca E Hewitt, Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and jennie demarco
Primary Liaison:  Heather Dawn Alexander, Mississippi State University, Forestry, Starkville, MS, United States and jennie demarco


B029
Centennial: Biogeophysics - New Frontiers for Understanding Subsurface Microbial Processes from Their Geophysical Signatures
Primary Convener:  Estella A Atekwana, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Conveners:  Lee D Slater, Rutgers University, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States and Chi Zhang, University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lee D Slater, Rutgers University, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States


B030
Centennial Session: Biogeosciences at the threshold: What our living planet has taught us so far
Primary Convener:  Durelle Scott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Conveners:  Aditi Sengupta, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Benjamin N Sulman, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Dork L Sahagian, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dork L Sahagian, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States


B031
Centennial Session: Biogeosciences toward the next Centennial: What we still need to learn and why.
Primary Convener:  Durelle Scott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Conveners:  Dork L Sahagian, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States, Benjamin N Sulman, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Aditi Sengupta, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dork L Sahagian, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States


B032
Characterizing and Monitoring Land Change and Associated Ecosystem Responses Using Long-term Time Series Remote Sensing Data
Primary Convener:  George Z Xian, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
Convener:  Seth M Munson, U.S. Geological Survey, Moab, UT, UNITED STATES
Primary Liaison:  Zhe Zhu, University of Connecticut, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, CT, United States


B033
Characterizing Dissolved Organic Matter Composition Across Spatial, Temporal, and Hydrologic Gradients
Primary Convener:  Lucy Rose, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Convener:  Rachel S Gabor, The Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Columbus, OH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lucy Rose, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States


B034
Coastal wetland carbon: recent advances in measurements, modeling, and syntheses
Primary Convener:  Jianwu Tang, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Kevin Kroeger
Conveners:  Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States, Kevin D Kroeger, USGS, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Lisamarie Windham-Myers, U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Mission Area, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Kevin Kroeger
Primary Liaison:  Jianwu Tang, The Ecosystems Center, MBL, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Kevin Kroeger


B035
Controls, dynamics, and responses of deep soil carbon to land use and climate change
Primary Convener:  Kathleen A Lohse, Idaho State University, Biological Sciences, Idaho Falls, ID, United States
Conveners:  Jianwu Tang, The Ecosystems Center, MBL, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Ashlee Laura Denton Dere, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States and Steve A. Banwart, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Kathleen A Lohse, Idaho State University, Biological Sciences, Idaho Falls, ID, United States


B036
Creating Data Synchronicity Across Earth Microbiome Research
Primary Convener:  Elisha M Wood-Charlson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Bonnie L Hurwitz1, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh2 and Kjiersten Fagnan2, (1)University of Arizona, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States(2)Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elisha M Wood-Charlson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


B037
Determinants of ecosystem sensitivity to intensified drought
Primary Convener:  Osvaldo Sala, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Melinda Dianne Smith, Colorado State University, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Laureano Gherardi, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Osvaldo Sala, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States


B038
Does rising CO2 increase the terrestrial carbon sink?
Primary Convener:  Yao Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Anthony P Walker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and David JP Moore, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yao Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


B039
Ecological Forecasting in the Earth System
Primary Convener:  Michael Dietze, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Conveners:  Gordon B Bonan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Quinn Thomas, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Jason S McLachlan, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Michael Dietze, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States


B040
Ecological Insights into the Sustainable Development of Bioenergy from Forests
Primary Convener:  Doug P Aubrey, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
Conveners:  Charles Rhett Jackson1, Andy Horcher2 and Gabriel William Dias Ferreira1, (1)University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States(2)US Forest Service, Aiken, SC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Doug P Aubrey, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States


B041
Elucidating Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Integrating Theory, Observations, Experiments, and Models
Primary Convener:  William R Wieder, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Fiona Soper, Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States, Sasha Reed, U.S. Geological Survey, Moab, UT, United States and Cory C. Cleveland, University of Montana, Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, Missoula, MT, United States
Primary Liaison:  William R Wieder, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States


B042
Emergent Behavior in the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle
Primary Convener:  Nicholas Parazoo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Alexandra G. Konings, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, Junjie Liu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and A. Anthony Bloom, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Junjie Liu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


B043
Engineered Nanomaterials in the Environment: the benefit of mesocosm experimentation
Primary Convener:  Armand Masion, CEREGE Europole de l Arbois, Aix-en-Provence, France
Convener:  Armand Masion, CNRS CEREGE, AIx en Provence, France
Primary Liaison:  Armand Masion, CNRS CEREGE, AIx en Provence, France


B044
Examining Transpiration from Ecosystem to Global Scales
Primary Convener:  Jacob A Nelson, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Conveners:  Russell L Scott, USDA-ARS, Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, AZ, United States, Brianna Rita Pagán, Ghent University, Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management, Gent, Belgium and Markus Reichstein, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Jena, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Jacob A Nelson, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany


B045
Expanding the Critical Zone concept to examine biogeochemistry in Latin America and beyond
Primary Convener:  Zachary Scott Brecheisen, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Conveners:  Erika Jean Foster, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Eleanor E Campbell, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Zachary Scott Brecheisen, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States


B046
Exploring microbial ecosystems using cutting edge advances in isotope and omics analyses
Primary Convener:  James Moran, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Paul Dijkstra, Northern Arizona Univ, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Steven Blazewicz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  James Moran, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


B047
Exploring the Biotic Fringe
Primary Convener:  Everett Shock, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Marshall Wayne Bowles, MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Chauvin, LA, United States, Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Mark Alexander Lever, ETH Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Biogeochemistry & Pollutant Dynamics, Zürich, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Everett Shock, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States


B048
Exploring the nature and ecosystem functional role of DOM in freshwaters – novel approaches and new insights
Primary Convener:  Adam Wymore, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, NH, United States
Conveners:  Charlotte Lloyd, University of Bristol, School of Chemistry, Bristol, United Kingdom, Christopher Alan Yates, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom and Sujay Kaushal, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Adam Wymore, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


B049
Fate and Effects of Metals, Organic Matters, and Other Emerging Environmental Contaminants
Primary Convener:  Minming Cui, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Wenhong Fan, Beihang University, Environmental Science and Engineering, Beijing, China and Jian Xu, CRAES Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Beijing, China
Primary Liaison:  Minming Cui, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States


B050
Filling The Gaps In The Sulfur Cycle: Using Modern Biotic And Abiotic Analogues To Understand Ancient Systems
Primary Convener:  Cody Sheik, University of Minnesota Duluth, Large Lakes Observatory, Duluth, MN, United States
Conveners:  Kathryn M Schreiner, University of Minnesota Duluth, Large Lakes Observatory, Duluth, MN, United States and Sergei Katsev, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Cody Sheik, University of Minnesota Duluth, Large Lakes Observatory, Duluth, MN, United States


B051
Fire management as climate policy
Primary Convener:  Carly Anne Phillips, Union of Concerned Scientists Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Brendan M Rogers, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Peter C Frumhoff, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Carly Anne Phillips, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States


B052
Forest Disturbance in the Context of Shifting Climate: Understanding Disturbances and their Interactions as Agents of Forest Change
Primary Convener:  Adrianna Foster, Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Jacquelyn K Shuman, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Brendan M Rogers, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States and Winslow Deming Hansen, Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, NYC, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Adrianna Foster, Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States


B053
Forests and Forest Sector Climate Change Mitigation
Primary Convener:  Carolyn Smyth, Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada and sanchez
Conveners:  William Stewart, University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science Policy and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, Daniel Sanchez, University of California Berkeley, of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States and sanchez
Primary Liaison:  Carolyn Smyth, Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada and sanchez


B054
Forging Linkages in Carbon Cycle Science
Primary Convener:  Gyami Shrestha, U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program & UCAR, Washington, DC, United States and Joint Team of U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program & E.U. Integrated Carbon Observation System
Conveners:  Werner Leo Kutsch, ICOS ERIC, Head Office, Helsinki, Finland, Zhiliang Zhu, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States, Alexander T Vermeulen, Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands, Petten, Netherlands and Joint Team of U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program & E.U. Integrated Carbon Observation System
Primary Liaison:  James H Butler, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States and Joint Team of U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program & E.U. Integrated Carbon Observation System


B055
Gas Fluxes from and into Inland and Coastal Waters:  Integrating Hydrodynamics and Biogeochemistry
Primary Convener:  Patrick M Crill, Stockholm University, Dept. of Geological Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm, Sweden and John Prytherch: Stockholm University, Dept. of Meteorology
Conveners:  Sally MacIntyre, Univ California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, John Prytherch, Stockholm University, Department of Meteorology, Stockholm, Sweden and John Prytherch: Stockholm University, Dept. of Meteorology
Primary Liaison:  Patrick M Crill, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden and John Prytherch: Stockholm University, Dept. of Meteorology


B056
Geovirology: viruses in Earth’s biomes and their impacts on microbial ecology and biogeochemistry
Primary Convener:  Joanne B Emerson, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Convener:  Ella Sieradzki, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ella Sieradzki, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


B057
Global Biogeochemical Cycles as Drivers for Climate and Life Evolution through Earth’s History
Primary Convener:  Flavia Boscolo-Galazzo, Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff, CF24, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Ernest Chi-Fru, Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Gordon Neil Inglis, University of Bristol, Organic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom and Jamie Devereux Wilson, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Flavia Boscolo-Galazzo, Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff, CF24, United Kingdom


B058
Going out (to sea) with a bang: Biogeochemical cycling and intersections with ecology as rivers traverse through deltas, estuaries, and river plumes
Primary Convener:  Peter J Hernes, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Conveners:  Kenneth H Dunton, University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute, Austin, TX, United States and James W McClelland, University of Texas Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Peter J Hernes, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States


B059
How Microbial Functional Traits Regulate Terrestrial Carbon And Nutrient Cycling From Local To Global Scales
Primary Convener:  Yang Song, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute & Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Melanie A Mayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Malak M Tfaily, University of Arizona, Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yang Song, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute & Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


B060
Hydrological and biogeochemical connectivity across coastal watersheds and estuaries: linking terrestrial and aquatic processes
Primary Convener:  Nicholas D Ward, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Patrick Megonigal, Smithsonian Env Research Ctr, Edgewater, MD, United States and Michael R Sanclements, NEON, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nicholas D Ward, University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, WA, United States


B061
Imaging Spectroscopy for Advancing Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Primary Convener:  Peng Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  Jin Wu, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Bingqing Liang, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, United States and Shawn Serbin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Carl Bernacchi, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States


B062
Impacts of aerosols on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
Primary Convener:  Albert Rivas-Ubach, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Swarup China, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Yina Liu, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, United States
Primary Liaison:  Albert Rivas-Ubach, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


B063
Impacts of winter climate change on hydrobiogeochemical dynamics of terrestrial and aquatic systems during the winter and shoulder seasons
Primary Convener:  Alexandra Contosta, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, Durham, NH, United States
Conveners:  Elizabeth Burakowski, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Fereidoun Rezanezhad, University of Waterloo, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Waterloo, ON, Canada and Patrick Sorensen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alexandra Contosta, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, Durham, NH, United States


B064
Improving Estimates of Ecosystem Carbon Storage
Primary Convener:  John L Campbell, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States
Convener:  Mark B. Green, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, United States
Primary Liaison:  John L Campbell, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States


B065
Inland waters as hotspots in carbon cycles and energy and water exchange in climate systems
Primary Convener:  Heping Liu, Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States
Convener:  Nadav G Lensky, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
Primary Liaison:  Heping Liu, Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States


B066
Integrated Understanding of Global Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles and Their Feedbacks in CMIP6
Primary Convener:  Forrest M. Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Earth Sciences Group and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Junjie Liu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Charles Koven, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Joellen L Russell, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Forrest M. Hoffman, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States


B067
Integrating data from heterogeneous sources across spatial and temporal scales to advance knowledge of ecosystem structure, function and process
Primary Convener:  Mallory Barnes, Indiana University Bloomington, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, IN, United States
Conveners:  Martha Gebhardt, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States and Amy Hudson, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mallory Barnes, Indiana University Bloomington, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, IN, United States


B068
Interactions between hydrological and biogeochemical change in permafrost environments
Primary Convener:  Peter Munroe Douglas, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Conveners:  Jeffrey M McKenzie, McGill University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, Barret Kurylyk, Dalhousie Univeristy, Civil and Resource Engineering, Halifax, NS, Canada and David Olefeldt, University of Alberta, Department of Renewable Resources, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Peter Munroe Douglas, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada


B069
Mapping and Monitoring Irrigated Agriculture: New Methods and Synergies
Primary Convener:  Jesslyn F Brown, USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
Conveners:  Gabriel B Senay, U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science, EROS/ North Central Climate Science Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Jillian M Deines, Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jesslyn F Brown, USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States


B070
Mercury Biogeochemistry and Environmental Change
Primary Convener:  Michael S Bank, Institute of Marine Research, Norway, Bergen, Norway
Conveners:  Sophia Veronica Hansson, Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Roskilde, Denmark and Baohua Gu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Baohua Gu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


B071
Mesoscale Research – Challenges and Opportunities for Water Resources and Environmental Issues
Primary Convener:  Yuxin Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Convener:  Mohamed M Azaroual, Univ. Orléans, CNRS, BRGM, ISTO, UMR 7327, F-45071, Orléans, France, BRGM, Water Environment & Ecotechnologies, Orleans, France
Primary Liaison:  Yuxin Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States


B072
Methane dynamics in warming permafrost
Primary Convener:  Hanbo Yun, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Conveners:  Anping Chen, Colora do State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Qianlai Zhuang, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Youmi Oh, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States


B073
Microbes in Terrestrial Biogeochemical Cycles: Linking Processes to Ecosystem Function and Environmental Change
Primary Convener:  Noelle J Espinosa, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Martha Gebhardt1, Dawson Fairbanks2 and Rachel E Gallery1, (1)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States(2)University of Arizona, Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Noelle J Espinosa, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States


B074
Microbial contributions to methane cycling
Primary Convener:  Ellen Grace Lauchnor, Montana State University, Civil Engineering, Bozeman, MT, United States
Conveners:  Christopher Abin, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Microbiology and Plant BIology, Norman, OK, United States and Erika Espinosa-Ortiz, Montana State University, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Bozeman, MT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ellen Grace Lauchnor, Montana State University, Civil Engineering, Bozeman, MT, United States


B075
Microbial Ecology of the Cryosphere
Primary Convener:  Megan Dillon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Neslihan Tas, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Rachel Mackelprang, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Megan Dillon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


B076
Microbial Metabolisms and Biogeochemical Processes in Earth’s Subsurface
Primary Convener:  James Andrew Bradley, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Cara Magnabosco, Simons Foundation, Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Biology, New York, NY, United States and Nagissa Mahmoudi, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Primary Liaison:  James Andrew Bradley, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States


B077
Modeling Soil Organic Carbon and the Role Data Plays In That Effort
Primary Convener:  Toni Viskari, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Convener:  Jari Liski, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Primary Liaison:  Toni Viskari, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland


B078
Multi-hypothesis studies of ecological and hydrological systems
Primary Convener:  Anthony P Walker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and ming ye
Convener:  Ming Ye, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States and ming ye
Primary Liaison:  Anthony P Walker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and ming ye


B079
Multiple Isotope Patterns within Organic Compounds: Determining Biogeochemical and Environmental Drivers
Primary Convener:  Elisabeth L Sikes, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Marilyn L Fogel, University of California Riverside, EDGE Institute, Riverside, CA, United States, Katherine Freeman, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States and Hilairy Ellen Hartnett, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration and School of Molecular Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Marilyn L Fogel, University of California Riverside, EDGE Institute, Riverside, CA, United States


B080
Multi-scale controls on soil organic matter: leveraging networks, synthesis, and long-term studies
Primary Convener:  Samantha Rose Weintraub, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  William R Wieder, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Alejandro N Flores, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States and Kate Lajtha, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Samantha Rose Weintraub, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States


B081
Narrowing uncertainty in GHG emissions using UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) platforms
Primary Convener:  Torben R Christensen, Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Conveners:  Mikhail Mastepanov, Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Andreas Westergaard-Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, Department for Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, København K, Denmark and Thomas Friborg, University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Copenhagen, Denmark
Primary Liaison:  Torben R Christensen, Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark


B082
Natural Wetlands and Open Waters in the Global Methane Cycle: Modeling, Syntheses, Characterization, Observations, and Challenges
Primary Convener:  Elaine Matthews, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Conveners:  Matthew S Johnson, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Karla Martinez-Cruz, University of Magallanes, Sciences and Natural Resources, Punta Arenas, Chile and Tonya DelSontro, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Elaine Matthews, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States


B083
New Avenues of Multiproxy Dendroecology: Synthesis, Challenges, and Opportunities of High-Resolution Tree-Ring Research
Primary Convener:  Emanuele Ziaco, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States
Conveners:  Soumaya Belmecheri, University of Arizona, Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, Tucson, AZ, United States and Paul Szejner, University of Arizona, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Tucson, AZ, United States; University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Emanuele Ziaco, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States


B084
Observing and Modeling Biogeochemical Responses to Disturbance
Primary Convener:  Lisa Haber, Virginia Commonwealth University, Integrative Life Sciences, Richmond, VA, United States
Conveners:  Kayla Cerise Mathes, Virginia Commonwealth University, Integrative Life Sciences, Richmond, VA, United States, Jeff W. Atkins, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, United States and Christopher Michael Gough, VCU-Biology, Richmond, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lisa Haber, Virginia Commonwealth University, Integrative Life Sciences, Richmond, VA, United States


B085
Omics-Informed Models of Microbial Dynamics and Processes from Cells to Ecosystems
Primary Convener:  Timothy D Scheibe, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Romy Chakraborty, Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, Pamela Weisenhorn, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, United States and John D Moulton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Timothy D Scheibe, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


B086
Open Science Successes and Challenges: Learning from Biogeoscience Use-Cases
Primary Convener:  Amy E. Goldman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Energy and Environment Directorate, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Aditi Sengupta, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Richland, WA, United States, Ben P Bond-Lamberty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States and James Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biological Sciences, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Amy E. Goldman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Energy and Environment Directorate, Richland, WA, United States


B087
Plant hydraulics and mechanistic drought responses in the Earth system
Primary Convener:  Alexandra G Konings, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Anna T Trugman, University of Utah, School of Biological Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and William Anderegg, University of Utah, School of Biological Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alexandra G Konings, Stanford University, Department of Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States


B088
Plant traits, adaptation and biogeochemical cycles – from measurements to models
Primary Convener:  Jens Kattge, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Conveners:  Michael Bahn, University of Innsbruck, Institute of Ecology, Innsbruck, Austria, Han Wang, Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China and Oskar Franklin, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Ecosystem Services and Management Program, Laxenburg, Austria
Primary Liaison:  Jens Kattge, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany


B089
Plants-microbes-minerals: interactions that drive soil organic matter cycling
Primary Convener:  Avni Malhotra, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Noah Sokol1, Jennifer Pett-Ridge1 and Jennifer W Harden2, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States(2)Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Primary Liaison:  Avni Malhotra, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States


B090
Putting Contemporary Wildfires Into Historical Context
Primary Convener:  Adam La Salle Moreno, California Air Resources Board, Air Quality Planning and Science Division, Sacramento, CA, United States
Conveners:  Alan F Talhelm1, Chris Keithley2 and Jamie Lydersen2, (1)California Air Resources Board, Transportation and Toxics Division, Sacramento, ID, United States(2)California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Fire and Resource Assessment Program, Sacramento, United States
Primary Liaison:  Adam La Salle Moreno, California Air Resources Board, Air Quality Planning and Science Division, Sacramento, CA, United States


B091
Putting 'Dark Matter’ Biodiversity on the Map: Crosslinking Metagenomics, Phylogenetics and Specimen Occurrence Data Infrastructures to Advance Scientific Understanding and Policy Relevance of Cryptic Biodiversity
Primary Convener:  Kyle Copas, GBIF Secretariat, Copenhagen, Denmark
Conveners:  Emily Jane McTavish, University of California Merced, Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States and Urmas Kõljalg, University of Tartu, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, Tartu, Estonia; University of Tartu, Natural History Museum, Tartu, Estonia
Primary Liaison:  Kyle Copas, GBIF Secretariat, Copenhagen, Denmark


B092
Pyrogenic Organic Matter: Production, Characterization and Cycling in the Environment
Primary Convener:  Andrew R Zimmerman, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Conveners:  Patrick G Hatcher, Old Dominion University, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Norfolk, VA, United States, Cristina Santín, Swansea University, Geography & Biosciences, Swansea, United Kingdom and Thea Whitman, University of Wisconsin, Soil Science, Madison, WI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Andrew R Zimmerman, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States


B093
Quantifying Ecological Impacts of Forest Ecosystem Management and Policy
Primary Convener:  Loretta Moreno, California Natural Resources Agency, Office of the Secretary, Sacramento, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ali Dunn, California State Water Resources Control Board, Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program, Sacramento, CA, United States and Caren Dymond, Government of British Columbia, Office of the Chief Forester British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, British Columbia, BC, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Loretta Moreno, California Natural Resources Agency, Office of the Secretary, Sacramento, CA, United States


B094
Recent advances and improvement of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) applications for Agricultural monitoring
Primary Convener:  Olaniyi A Ajadi, Corteva Agriscience, Johnston, IA, United States
Conveners:  Jeremiah Barr, Corteva Agriscience, Johnston, IA, United States, Franz Josef Meyer, University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Paul Robert Siqueira, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Olaniyi A Ajadi, Corteva Agriscience, Johnston, IA, United States


B095
Regional budgets, trends and drivers of major greenhouse gases (N2O, CH4 and CO2)
Primary Convener:  Hanqin Tian, Auburn University, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research and School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States
Conveners:  Josep Gili Canadell, CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Res, Canberra, Australia, Prabir Kumar Patra, Res. Inst. for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan and Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hanqin Tian, Auburn University, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research and School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States


B096
Remote Sensing to Support Investigations in Plant-Climate Interactions
Primary Convener:  Jonathan A Greenberg, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States
Conveners:  Shawn Serbin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, NY, United States and Bailey Danielle Morrison, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jonathan A Greenberg, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States


B097
Resolving ecosystem scale interactions using large-scale stable isotope labeling and other novel techniques
Primary Convener:  Nemiah Ladd, University of Freiburg, Ecosystem Physiology, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Conveners:  Laura K Meredith, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States; University of Arizona, Biosphere 2, Tucson, AZ, United States, Christiane Werner, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany and Pawel K Misztal, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States; NERC center for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Nemiah Ladd, University of Freiburg, Ecosystem Physiology, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany


B098
Satellite Land Surface Product at Medium, High and Very-High Resolution: Algorithms, Validation and Applications
Primary Convener:  Jean-Claude Roger, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  François-Marie Bréon, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement / CEA, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France and Ferran Gascon, European Space Agency, ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
Primary Liaison:  Jean-Claude Roger, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States


B099
Scientific Surprises from Sensors: What Have We Learned About Ecosystem Science from Advancement of in situ Sensors?
Primary Convener:  Andrew Robison, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
Conveners:  Erin R Hotchkiss, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Biological Sciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Christopher Thomas Whitney, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Andrew Robison, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States


B100
Simulating the future of North American Forests with Next Generation Dynamic Global Vegetation Models
Primary Convener:  John B Kim, USFS, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Christopher J Still, Oregon State University, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Corvallis, OR, United States and Yueyang Jiang, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  John B Kim, USFS, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, United States


B101
Smart Farming Enabled by Remotely Sensed Big Data
Primary Convener:  Yun Yang, USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States; University of Maryland College Park, ESSIC, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Martha Anderson, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States, Xiaoyuan Yang, The Climate Corporation San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States and Zhe Zhu, University of Connecticut, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, CT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yun Yang, University of Maryland College Park, ESSIC, College Park, MD, United States; USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States


B102
Soil Carbon Change and Persistence in the Anthropocene
Primary Convener:  Kate Lajtha, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Marc G Kramer, Washington State University Vancouver, School of the Environment, Vancouver, WA, United States and Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kate Lajtha, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States


B103
Solution to Climate Change and Emerging Contaminants in Agricultural and Forestry Environments
Primary Convener:  Zhibin Sun, Colorado State University, UV-B Monitoring and Research Program, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Yixiang Wang, Haibo Zhang and Weijun Fu, Zhejiang Agricultural and Forestry University, Hangzhou, China
Primary Liaison:  Zhibin Sun, Colorado State University, UV-B Monitoring and Research Program, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States


B104
Spatiotemporal changes of forest area, phenology, and biomass under human activities and climate change
Primary Convener:  Yuanwei Qin, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
Conveners:  Jie Wang, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Spatial Analysis, Norman, OK, United States, Jinwei Dong, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Xiangming Xiao, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Spatial Analysis, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yuanwei Qin, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States


B105
Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence as a proxy of photosynthesis: measurements, modeling, and applications from field, airborne, and satellite platforms
Primary Convener:  Yongguang Zhang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Conveners:  Joanna Joiner, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States and Xi Yang, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joanna Joiner, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States


B106
Surface-Atmosphere Interactions: Advances in Spatial and Temporal Scaling of Surface-Atmosphere Fluxes
Primary Convener:  Brian Butterworth, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States
Conveners:  Stefan Metzger, NEON, Battelle, Boulder, CO, United States, Ke Xu, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Pierre Gentine, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Brian Butterworth, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States


B107
Surface-Atmosphere Interactions: From Single Site Measurements to Integrated Syntheses
Primary Convener:  Housen Chu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Dario Papale, University of Tuscia, Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest systems (DIBAF), Viterbo, Italy, Hongyan Luo, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle, Boulder, CO, United States and Sebastien Biraud, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Housen Chu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


B108
Surface-Atmosphere Interactions: Latest Developments and Emerging Approaches for Ecosystem Flux Data Analysis
Primary Convener:  Anne Griebel, Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Richmond, NSW, Australia
Conveners:  George G Burba, LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, NE, United States, Stefan Metzger, National Ecological Observatory Network Program, Battelle, Boulder, CO, United States and Gilberto Pastorello, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Anne Griebel, Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Richmond, NSW, Australia


B109
Temperature at multiple scales: measuring, modeling, and analyzing leaf and canopy temperatures by any means necessary
Primary Convener:  Gerald F M Page, Oregon State University, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Christopher J Still, Oregon State University, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Corvallis, OR, United States and William J Riley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Gerald F M Page, Oregon State University, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Corvallis, OR, United States


B110
The Bio-atmospheric N cycle: N emissions, transformations, deposition, and terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem impacts
Primary Convener:  Stuart B Weiss, Creekside Center for Earth Observation, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Conveners:  Meredith Galanter Hastings, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, and Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Providence, RI, United States, Rebecca Ryals, University of California Merced, School of Natural Resources, Merced, CA, United States and Maya Almaraz, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Stuart B Weiss, Creekside Center for Earth Observation, Menlo Park, CA, United States


B111
The Global Methane Cycle
Primary Convener:  Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Marielle Saunois1, Benjamin Poulter2 and Philippe Bousquet1, (1)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France(2)NASA GSFC, Biospheric Science, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States


B112
The Resilience and Vulnerability of Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems to Climate Change
Primary Convener:  Michelle C Mack, Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Natalie Boelman, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observ., Palisades, NY, United States, Abhishek Chatterjee, USRA, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Peter C Griffith, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Michelle C Mack, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States


B113
The Utility of State Factors in the Biogeosciences in the 21st Century: Revisiting the Legacy of Hans Jenny
Primary Convener:  Ronald Amundson, University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States
Convener:  Marc G Kramer, UC Santa Cruz / USDA, Albany, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Marc G Kramer, Washington State University Vancouver, School of the Environment, Vancouver, WA, United States


B114
Towards Predictive Understanding of the Frequency and Outcomes of Compounding Disturbances across Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems
Primary Convener:  James Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biological Sciences, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Kirsten S Hofmockel, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Nate McDowell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  James Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biological Sciences, Richland, WA, United States


B115
Towards Visualizing Rhizosphere Processes for a Sustainable Future: X-Ray Based Soil/Root Imaging and Spectroscopy for Understanding Nutrient Fixation in Plants
Primary Convener:  Tamas Varga, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Convener:  Ryan Tappero, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tamas Varga, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


B116
Tree drought stress and mortality: the interplay of climate, physiology, hydrology, and lithology
Primary Convener:  Xiaojuan Liu, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Henry D Adams, Oklahoma State University, Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, Stillwater, OK, United States, Alexander J. Turner, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Leander DL Anderegg, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xiaojuan Liu, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States


B117
Trends in Digital Agriculture: Crop sensing technologies towards climate resilient agricultural systems
Primary Convener:  Nicolas E Bambach-Ortiz, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Conveners:  William P Kustas, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States, Andrew J McElrone, USDA ARS, Department of Viticulture and Enology, UC Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Maria Mar Alsina, E&J Gallo, Modesto, United States
Primary Liaison:  Andrew J McElrone, USDA ARS, Department of Viticulture and Enology, UC Davis, Davis, CA, United States


B118
Trends in Forest Water Use Efficiency: Observations, Drivers, and Consequences
Primary Convener:  Todd M Scanlon, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Conveners:  Jacob Malcomb, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Matthew A Vadeboncoeur, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and Justin Michael Mathias, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
Primary Liaison:  Todd M Scanlon, Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States


B119
Tropical forests under a changing environment
Primary Convener:  Robinson I Negron Juarez, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Helene C Muller-Landau, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama, Tana E Wood, USDA Forest Service, San Juan, PR, United States and S Joseph Wright, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Gainesville, Gainesville, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nate McDowell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


B120
Tropical Mountains and Forests: Understanding Processes and Interactions between Land, Atmosphere, Plants, and Water Across Disciplines
Primary Convener:  Han Tseng, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Geography and Environment, Honolulu, HI, United States
Conveners:  Tomo'omi Kumagai, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Alison Nugent, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States and Thomas W Giambelluca, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Geography and Environment, Honolulu, HI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Han Tseng, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Geography and Environment, Honolulu, HI, United States


B121
Uncovering past and present biodiversity using ancient and environmental DNA from sediments
Primary Convener:  Sarah E Crump, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Trisha L Spanbauer, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Integrative Biology, Austin, TX, United States, Rachel Meyer, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Mikkel Winther Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, The Lundbeck Foundation Centre for GeoGenetics, Copenhagen, Denmark
Primary Liaison:  Sarah E Crump, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States


B122
Understanding atmospheric nitrogen exchange in coastal and estuarine ecosystems
Primary Convener:  Nebila Lichiheb, NOAA Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge, TN, United States; NOAA ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  LaToya Myles, NOAA ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, John T Walker, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States and Kari A St.Laurent, Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Dover, DE, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nebila Lichiheb, NOAA ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN, United States; NOAA Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


B123
Understanding past, present, and future peatland responses to natural and anthropogenic drivers of change
Primary Convener:  Julie Loisel, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
Conveners:  Sarah A Finkelstein, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and Zicheng Yu, Lehigh University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Julie Loisel, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States


B124
Understanding Phenological Responses and Feedbacks in Terrestrial Vegetation: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Consequences
Primary Convener:  Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Xiangtao Xu, Harvard University, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Theresa M Crimmins, USA National Phenology Network, Tucson, AZ, United States and William Walter Hargrove, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


B125
Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change on Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Dynamics Over the Pan-Arctic with Observations and Models
Primary Convener:  Jing Tao, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States; University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
Conveners:  Qing Zhu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Rebecca Bergquist Neumann, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States and Zhen Zhang, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jing Tao, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States; University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States


B126
Utilizing remote sensing data for crop model implementation at regional scales - A potential way forward for data scarce regions
Primary Convener:  Vikalp Mishra, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR/SPoRT, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Amor V M Ines, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, Christopher Hain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and Walter Lee Ellenburg, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States; NASA-SERVIR, Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Vikalp Mishra, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR/SPoRT, Huntsville, AL, United States


B127
Vegetation canopies: physiology, structure, function
Primary Convener:  Trevor F Keenan, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
Conveners:  Nicholas G Smith, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Cecilia Chavana-Bryant, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., Berkeley, United States and Han Wang, Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China
Primary Liaison:  Trevor F Keenan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States; University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


B128
Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change
Primary Convener:  Christina Schaedel, Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS), Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Convener:  Elaine Pegoraro, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christina Schaedel, Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS), Flagstaff, AZ, United States


B129
Vulnerability of soil organic carbon stocks and persistence in a warming world
Primary Convener:  Chabbi Abad, INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Paris Cedex 07, France
Conveners:  Johannes Lehmann, Cornell University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, Caitlin Hicks Pries, Dartmouth College, Department of Biological Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States; Dartmouth College Life Sciences Center, room 349 78, Hanover, NH, United States and Cornelia Rumpel, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France
Primary Liaison:  Marie-France Dignac, INRA, Paris, France


B130
Water and Society: Adapting institutions to address future water resource challenges
Primary Convener:  Keyvan Malek, Cornell University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States
Conveners:  Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Kirti Rajagopalan, Washington State University, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Pullman, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Keyvan Malek, Cornell University, CEE, Ithaca, WA, United States


B131
Water-energy-carbon fluxes over terrestrial water surfaces in a warming world
Primary Convener:  Yuanbo Liu, NIGLAS Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
Conveners:  Jiquan Chen, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States and Ankur R Desai, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jiquan Chen, Michigan State University, Geography, Environment, and Spatial Science; CGCEO, East Lansing, MI, United States


Building Momentum: Developing Sustainable Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations
Primary Contact:  Caitlyn A Hall, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Presenters:  Julia Guimond, University of Delaware, Geological Sciences, Newark, DE, United States, Samuel Michael Illingworth, Manchester Metropolitan University, School of Science and the Environment, Manchester, United Kingdom and Tim H M van Emmerik, The Ocean Cleanup, Rotterdam, Netherlands


DOE’s Modeling Investments in the Arctic
Primary Contact:  Renu Joseph, Department of Energy Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Presenters:  Gerald L Geernaert1, Sally A McFarlane2, Robert Vallario1, Elizabeth Clare Hunke3, Wilbert Weijer4 and Joel C Rowland4, (1)Department of Energy, Washington, DC, United States(2)Department of Energy Germantown, Germantown, MD, United States(3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, T-3 Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States(4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States


How Can Public Private Partnerships Use Earth Observations to Tackle Global Agricultural Challenges?
Primary Contact:  Alyssa K Whitcraft, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
Presenters:  Nancy Colleton, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Arlington, VA, United States, Keely Roth, The Climate Corporation, San Francisco, CA, United States, Anu Swatantran, Corteva Agriscience, Indianapolis, United States, Sylvain Coutu, Swiss Re, Armonk, NY, United States and Molly Elizabeth Brown, University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD, United States


International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG) Town Hall
Primary Contact:  Cara Wilson, NOAA/NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Monterey, CA, United States
Presenter:  Cara Wilson, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States


NASA Surface Topography and Vegetation Incubation Community Forum
Primary Contact:  Benjamin R Phillips, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Presenters:  Benjamin R Phillips, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Hank A Margolis, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, Michael J Falkowski, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Blaize A Denfeld, American Association for the Advancement of Science Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States


NASA’s Earth Observations from the Private Sector Small Constellation Satellite Data Product Pilot Project
Primary Contact:  Kevin Ward, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Presenters:  Kevin J Murphy, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Alfreda Hall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Novel Approaches to Achieving Research Goals - Increasing Accessibility to Field Data
Primary Contact:  Aisling Force, Adventure Scientists, Bozeman, MT, United States
Presenters:  Marcus Pearson, Aisling Force and Katie Holsinger, Adventure Scientists, Bozeman, MT, United States


OceanObs’19 – Ocean  Science, Service and Application Priorities for the next decade
Primary Contact:  Jay Pearlman, FourBridges, Port Angeles, WA, United States
Presenters:  Eric J Lindstrom, NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C., United States, Martin Visbeck, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Tony Lee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Sabrina Speich, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Paris, France, Minhan Dai, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, Sanae Chiba, Japan Agency for Marine-Science and Technology, Environmental Biogeochemical Cycles Research Program, Research Institute for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan and Frank Muller-Karger, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, United States


OneGeochemistry: Toward a Global Network of Geochemical Data
Primary Contact:  Kerstin Lehnert, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Presenters:  Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, UNITED STATES


Seafloor Fluid Expulsion Anomalies (SEAFLEAs) Database Collaboration – Recent Improvements and Moving Forward
Primary Contact:  Benjamin J Phrampus, US Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Presenters:  Taylor Runyan Lee, US Naval Research Laboratory, Geology and Geophysics, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Benjamin J Phrampus, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States


The Sagan Lecture
Primary Convener:  Rosaly M C Lopes, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Convener:  Michael Mischna, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rosaly M C Lopes, Tracys Landing, MD, United States


Updates from the Coastal Carbon Research Coordination Network: Year 2
Primary Contact:  James Robert Holmquist, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, MD, United States
Presenter:  Patrick Megonigal, Smithsonian Env Research Ctr, Edgewater, MD, United States


Water in the Coupled Earth-Human System: Leveraging Convergence to Move Science to Action to Support a Healthy Environment and Safe Water System
Primary Contact:  Julie A Vano, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Presenters:  Scott Tyler, University of Nevada, Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States, Aubrey K. Miller, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States, Elise Pendall, Western Sydney University, Penrith 2751, NSW, Australia, Yi-Chen Ethan Yang, UMASS-Civil & Environ Engrg, Amherst, PA, United States and Sarah Freeman, Oslo


Water in the Coupled Earth-Human System: Moving from science to action to address societal water and health needs with convergent research
Primary Contact:  Sarah Freeman, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States
Presenter:  Scott Tyler, University of Nevada, Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States


A023
Aerosols, Clouds and Chemistry in Polar and Pristine Regions
Primary Convener:  Paul Zieger, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Conveners:  Markus M Frey, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Christina Williamson, NOAA/CIRES, Boulder, United States and Kerri Pratt, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Chemistry and Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kerri Pratt, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Chemistry and Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States


A034
Biomass burning and its impacts: emission, chemical evolution, and beyond
Primary Convener:  Lu Hu, University of Montana, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Missoula, MT, United States
Conveners:  Emily Fischer, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Shane M Murphy, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lu Hu, University of Montana, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Missoula, MT, United States


A035
Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions and Atmospheric Chemistry
Primary Convener:  Olivia Clifton, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Sam James Silva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, Sally Pusede, University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Jeffrey Geddes, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, United States
Primary Liaison:  Olivia Clifton, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States


A038
Boundary Layer Processes and Turbulence
Primary Convener:  Dan Li, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Conveners:  Marc Calaf, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Ying Pan, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dan Li, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States


A049
Constraining Greenhouse Gas Exchange Processes Using Remote Sensing and in Situ Observations
Primary Convener:  Abhishek Chatterjee, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GMAO, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Mary Whelan, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, United States, Andrew E Schuh, Colorado State University, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Thomas Lauvaux, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Abhishek Chatterjee, USRA, Greenbelt, MD, United States


A060
Dust in a changing climate: from small‐scale insights to large‐scale understanding
Primary Convener:  Jasper F Kok, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Chun Zhao, PNNL / Climate Physics, Richland, WA, United States, Olga V. Kalashnikova, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Carlos Pérez García-Pando, NASA/GISS, New York, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jasper F Kok, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States


A071
Fluxes of Greenhouse Gases and Related Pollutants on Urban Scales.
Primary Convener:  Russell R Dickerson, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  James H Butler, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States and Riley M Duren, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Paul B Shepson, Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States


A072
Fog: Atmosphere, biosphere, land, and ocean interactions
Primary Convener:  Travis Allen O'Brien, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Alicia Torregrosa, U S Geological Survey, Western Geographic Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Warren Blier, NOAA/National Weather Service, San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey Weather Forecast Office, Monterey, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Travis Allen O'Brien, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States


A103
Observations and Predictability of the Atmosphere over Complex Terrain
Primary Convener:  Holly J Oldroyd, University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA, United States
Conveners:  Natalie S Wagenbrenner, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT, United States; USDA Forest Service, Moscow, ID, United States, Heather Holmes, University of Nevada Reno, Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Physics, Reno, NV, United States and Daniel Nadeau, Laval University, Civil and Water Engineering, Quebec City, QC, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Holly J Oldroyd, University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA, United States


A114
Remote Sensing of CH4 and CO2 from Space: the expanding observing system
Primary Convener:  Annmarie Eldering, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Christopher O'Dell, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Scot Miller, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States and Charles E Miller, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christopher O'Dell, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States


B091
Putting 'Dark Matter’ Biodiversity on the Map: Crosslinking Metagenomics, Phylogenetics and Specimen Occurrence Data Infrastructures to Advance Scientific Understanding and Policy Relevance of Cryptic Biodiversity
Primary Convener:  Kyle Copas, GBIF Secretariat, Copenhagen, Denmark
Conveners:  Emily Jane McTavish, University of California Merced, Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States and Urmas Kõljalg, University of Tartu, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, Tartu, Estonia; University of Tartu, Natural History Museum, Tartu, Estonia
Primary Liaison:  Kyle Copas, GBIF Secretariat, Copenhagen, Denmark


C006
Arctic and Antarctic subglacial environments: Bridging the gap between modern observations and paleoclimate records
Primary Convener:  Ryan Venturelli, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, Tampa, FL, United States
Conveners:  Chloe Gustafson, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Alexander B Michaud, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States and Matthew R Siegfried, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Matthew R Siegfried, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, CO, United States


EP005
Biogenic and Cryogenic Sediment Transport in Ancient and Modern Environments
Primary Convener:  Clara Chang, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Frances Rivera-Hernandez, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States and Clara Mendoza-Lera, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Clara Chang, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States


EP012
Connectivity: an integrating concept across process domains in geomorphology and study of the Earth's surface
Primary Convener:  Greg S Okin, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Convener:  Anthony J Parsons
Primary Liaison:  Greg S Okin, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States


EP013
Data-driven approaches toward understanding Earth surface processes on continental and global scales
Primary Convener:  Shuang Zhang, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Conveners:  Tao Wen, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Jens Hartmann, Universität Hamburg, Geosciences / Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), Hamburg, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Shuang Zhang, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States


EP017
Earth Surface Processes and the Global Carbon Cycle
Primary Convener:  Mark A Torres, Rice University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Gen Li, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Melissa J Murphy, University College London, London, United Kingdom and Jordon Hemingway, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Gen Li, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States


EP019
Ecohydraulics and Ecomorphodynamics: Flow-Biota and Sediment-Biota Interactions Across Scales.
Primary Convener:  Rafael O Tinoco, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  Maria Maza, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain, Lucie Guertault, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States and Heide Friedrich, University of Auckland, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Auckland, New Zealand
Primary Liaison:  Rafael O Tinoco, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States


EP027
Machine Learning Applications in Earth Surface Processes Research
Primary Convener:  Kristen Splinter, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Conveners:  Margaret L Palmsten, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Evan B Goldstein, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, Greensboro, NC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kristen Splinter, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia


EP034
River Deltas: Hydrology, Geomorphology, and Sedimentology
Primary Convener:  Jaap Nienhuis, Utrecht University, School of Geosciences, Utrecht, Netherlands
Convener:  Alejandro Tejedor, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jaap Nienhuis, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands


EP038
Signatures of Climate on Earth's Surface
Primary Convener:  Anastasia Piliouras, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Carli A Arendt, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, Diana L Karwan, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Colin B Phillips, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Anastasia Piliouras, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States


EP042
Vegetation and large wood: Impacting hydrodynamics and transport from headwaters to the coast
Primary Convener:  Matthew R Hiatt, Louisiana State University, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Convener:  Katherine B Lininger, Colorado State University, Geography, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Matthew R Hiatt, Louisiana State University, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States


GC010
Changes and impacts of climate variability in South America
Primary Convener:  Laia Andreu-Hayles, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Valerie Daux, Université de Versailles Sant Quentin en Yvelines, Versailles, France, Milagros Rodríguez-Catón, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, NY, United States and Ernesto Tejedor Vargas, University at Albany State University of New York, Albany, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Laia Andreu-Hayles, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States


GC011
Changes in Disturbance Frequency in High Latitude Ecosystems: Implications for Ecological, Hydrological, and Biogeochemical Processes
Primary Convener:  Katherine Hayes, University of Colorado Denver, Integrative and Systems Biology, Denver, CO, United States
Conveners:  Jason Shabaga, University of Florida, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Gainesville, FL, United States, Adrienne Michelle Marshall, University of Idaho, Water Resources Program, Moscow, ID, United States and Melissa Sue Lucash, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Katherine Hayes, University of Colorado Denver, Integrative and Systems Biology, Denver, CO, United States


GC015
Climate Variability and the African Environment, Water Resources, and Food Security
Primary Convener:  Charles M Ichoku, Howard University, Washington, DC, United States
Convener:  Amin Dezfuli, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tsegaye Tadesse, National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States


GC024
Disturbance impacts on ecological and biogeochemical processes in coastal wetlands
Primary Convener:  Karina V Schafer, Rutgers University Newark, Newark, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Inke Forbrich, Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Christopher Michael Gough, VCU-Biology, Richmond, VA, United States and Rodrigo Vargas, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Primary Liaison:  Karina V Schafer, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States


GC028
Advances in understanding impacts of land use and land cover change in a changing climate using Earth system records and models
Primary Convener:  Maoyi Huang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Convener:  Dan Li, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dan Li, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States


GC029
Humans in the Earth System
Primary Convener:  Hannah Liddy, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States
Conveners:  Victor Brovkin, MPI for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, Natasha MacBean, Indiana University - Bloomington, Bloomington, United States and Alan V Di Vittorio, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hannah Liddy, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States


GC036
Expansion and Intensification of the Tropical Agricultural Footprint: Trends, Causes, and Consequences
Primary Convener:  Matthew E Fagan, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Meha Jain, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, Victor Gutierrez-Velez, Temple University, Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Philadelphia, PA, United States and Marcia Macedo, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Matthew E Fagan, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States


GC039
Four Decades and Counting: NASA Earth Observations and Agricultural Monitoring
Primary Convener:  Alyssa K Whitcraft, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Stephanie Schollaert Uz1, Inbal Becker-Reshef2 and Kim Ann Locke2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alyssa K Whitcraft, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States


GC045
Incorporating Human Sciences into Geophysical and Biophysical Global Change Research to Tackle Challenges at the Nexus of Food Insecurity, Water Scarcity, Human Health, and Conflict
Primary Convener:  Annette Trierweiler, University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Conveners:  Patrick Regan, University of Notre Dame, Keough School of Global Affairs, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Gopal Penny, University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Annette Trierweiler, University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States


GC054
Modeling and Monitoring the Carbon-Water-Nutrient Nexus for Agroecosystems
Primary Convener:  Bin Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences and National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  Zhenong Jin, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences and National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, IL, United States and Jinyun Tang, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bin Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, IL, United States


GC058
Multi-scale Water-Energy-Food Nexus under the Environmental, Socio-Economic and Climate Changes
Primary Convener:  Makoto Taniguchi, RIHN Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan
Conveners:  Fi-John Chang, National Taiwan University, Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, Luis Rodriguez, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States and Sanghyun Lee, RIHN Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Sanghyun Lee, RIHN Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan


GC067
Protecting Earth’s Climate for the Next Centennial
Primary Convener:  Margaret S Torn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Tanya Furman, Penn State Univ, University Park, PA, United States, Maggie Walser, National Academy of Science, Washington, DC, United States and Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  William Drew Collins, Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


GC069
Quantifying Nutrient Budgets for Sustainable Nutrient Management
Primary Convener:  Eric A Davidson, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States
Conveners:  Xin Zhang, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States, Jill Baron, US Geological Survey, John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Katherine Lynn Tully, University of Maryland College Park, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Eric A Davidson, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States


GC074
Resilience in an era of climate change…what does that even mean?
Primary Convener:  Chris Swanston, USDA Forest Service, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, Houghton, MI, United States
Conveners:  Caitriana M Steele1, Emile Elias1 and Randi Johnson2, (1)New Mexico State Univ, Las Cruces, NM, United States(2)USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Chris Swanston, USDA Forest Service, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, Houghton, MI, United States


GC080
The Changing Face of Wildfires and Effects on Human Health
Primary Convener:  Hannah Liddy, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States
Conveners:  Benjamin Poulter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert D Field, Columbia University of New York, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Palisades, NY, United States and Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hannah Liddy, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States


GC090
Urban Areas and Global Change
Primary Convener:  Joseph P McFadden, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Conveners:  Galina Churkina, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, United States, Burak Guneralp, Texas A & M University, Geography, College Station, TX, United States and Lei Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joseph P McFadden, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States


GC091
Urbanization, Climate Change, and the Environment
Primary Convener:  Peng Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  Yanhua Xie, University of Wisconsin Madison, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Madison, WI, United States, Annemarie Schneider, University of Wisconsin Madison, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, Madison, WI, United States and Soe Win Myint, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Peng Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States


GH026
Water in the Coupled Earth-Human System: Convergent science addressing societal water and health needs
Primary Convener:  Alexander van Geen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Winston Yu, The World Bank & IWMI, Washington, DC, United States, Elise Pendall, Western Sydney University, Penrith 2751, NSW, Australia and Laurna Kaatz, Denver Water, Denver, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alexander van Geen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States


GP002
Biogeomagnetism, Biogenic Magnetic Minerals, and the Environment
Primary Convener:  Yongxin Pan, Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Ioan Lascu, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, United States, Dennis A Bazylinski, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States and John Anthony Tarduno, University of Rochester, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ioan Lascu, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States


GP012
Magnetic Investigation of Sedimentary Processes as a Tool to Understand Paleomagnetic Records and Past and Present Environmental Changes
Primary Convener:  Sara Satolli, University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Italy
Conveners:  Sarah P Slotznick, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Myriam Annie Claire Kars, Kochi University, Center for Advanced Marine Core Research, Nankoku, Japan and Eric C. Ferré, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, School of Geosciences, Lafayette, LA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sara Satolli, University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Italy


H007
Advances in ecohydrology of water-limited environments
Primary Convener:  Sujith Ravi, Temple University, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Convener:  Lixin Wang, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Department of Earth Sciences, Indianapolis, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sujith Ravi, Temple University, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States


H008
Advances in Green Infrastructure Research, Development, and Community Adoption
Primary Convener:  Thomas Meixner, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, University of Maryland, College Park, Environmental Science and Technology, College Park, MD, United States, Jennifer Guohong Duan, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Courtney Crosson, University of Arizona, Architecture, Tucson, United States
Primary Liaison:  Thomas Meixner, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States


H016
Advances in subsurface contaminant transport and remediation: addressing current and emerging challenges
Primary Convener:  Thomas J Phelan, US Air Force Academy, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, USAF Academy, CO, United States
Conveners:  Amalia Kokkinaki, University of San Francisco, Environmental Science, San Francisco, CA, United States, Amanda Lawter, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Kevin Mumford, Queen's University, Department of Civil Engineering, Kingston, ON, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Thomas J Phelan, United States Air Force Academ, U S A F Academy, CO, United States


H021
Advancing Science through Long-Term Monitoring, Observation, and Experimentation in Catchment, Critical Zone, and Ecosystem Studies
Primary Convener:  Stephen D Sebestyen, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States
Conveners:  James B Shanley, USGS, Montpelier, VT, United States, Jonathan M Duncan, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, PA, United States and Taehee Hwang, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Geography, Bloomington, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Stephen D Sebestyen, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States


H024
Agrohydrology in a Changing World: From Global Processes to Local Outcomes
Primary Convener:  Bonnie M. McGill, University of Kansas, Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States
Conveners:  Mallika Arudi Nocco, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Samuel C Zipper, University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, United States and Anthony D Kendall, Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bonnie M. McGill, University of Kansas, Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States


H028
A Race against Time: Legacy Effects of Land Use on Water Quality, Watershed Processes, and Ecosystem Function
Primary Convener:  Nandita B Basu, University of Waterloo, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Waterloo, ON, Canada and Shreeram Inamdar
Conveners:  Shreeram P Inamdar, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Meter, Kimberly Van, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada and Shreeram Inamdar
Primary Liaison:  Meter, Kimberly Van, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada and Shreeram Inamdar


H031
Building and Evaluating Floodplain Socio-Ecological Resilience
Primary Convener:  Ryan R Morrison, Colorado State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS), Uppsala, Sweden, Adam S Ward, Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, IN, United States and Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ryan R Morrison, Colorado State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States


H034
Characterizing Spatial and Temporal Variability of Hydrological and Biogeochemical Processes across Scales
Primary Convener:  Bhavna Arora, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Convener:  Haruko Murakami Wainwright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bhavna Arora, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States


H044
Diagnostics, Sensitivity, and Uncertainty Analysis of Earth, Hydrologic and Environmental Models, Including Multiple Hypotheses and Extremes
Primary Convener:  Juliane Mai, University of Waterloo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Conveners:  Lucy Amanda Marshall, University of New South Wales, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Meredith L Carr, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, Rockville, MD, United States and Hoshin Vijai Gupta, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Juliane Mai, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany


H048
Ecohydrologic General Contributions
Primary Convener:  Salli Dymond, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, United States
Conveners:  Steven P Loheide III, University of Wisconsin Madison, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, WI, United States, Yannis Dialynas, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States and Shishir Basant, Texas A&M University, Ecosystems Science and Management, College Station, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Salli Dymond, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, United States


H050
Trace Elements, Heavy Metals, and Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Environmental Waters: Sources, Transformations, Monitoring and Mitigation
Primary Convener:  Mohd Yusuf Jameel, University of Florida, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Gainesville, FL, United States
Conveners:  Mason Stahl, Union College, Geology, Schenectady, NY, United States, Charles Franklin Harvey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States and Benjamin C Bostick, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mohd Yusuf Jameel, University of Florida, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Gainesville, FL, United States


H052
Environmental Nanogeoscience: Occurrence and Behavior of Small Colloids and Nano-Colloids, From Pores to Watersheds.
Primary Convener:  Kenton Alan Rod, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Jing Yan, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States and Dengjun Wang, National Research Council at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ada, OK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kenton Alan Rod, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


H054
Evapotranspiration (ET): Advances in In Situ ET Measurements and Remote Sensing-Based ET Estimation, Mapping and Evaluation
Primary Convener:  Gabriel B Senay, U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Science and Applications Branch, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Naga Manohar Velpuri, ASRC Federal at USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States and Pamela L Nagler, USGS Southwest Biological Science Center, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Gabriel B Senay, U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Science and Applications Branch, Fort Collins, CO, United States


H056
Experimental, Field and Modeling Approaches for Understanding Complex Karst Processes in the Critical Zone
Primary Convener:  Zexuan Xu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Convener:  Bill X Hu, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
Primary Liaison:  Zexuan Xu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


H058
Fate, Transport, and Remediation of Contaminants of Emerging Concern and Their Transformation Products in the Critical Zone
Primary Convener:  Marc F Benedetti, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Conveners:  Ishai Dror, Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rehovot, Israel, Chunming Su, US Environmental Protection Agency, Ada, OK, United States and Dengjun Wang, National Research Council at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ada, OK, United States


H059
Forest water dynamics under water limitation and disturbance
Primary Convener:  Elizabeth Agee, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Convener:  Ashley M Matheny, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elizabeth Agee, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States


H061
Frontiers in Surface Water Quality Measurements, Modeling, and Management
Primary Convener:  Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States
Convener:  Douglas A Burns, USGS, Troy, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States


H068
Groundwater discharge to surface waters: patterns, processes and ecological implications
Primary Convener:  Jan Franssen, University of Montreal, Geography, Montreal, QC, Canada
Conveners:  Martin A Briggs, USGS Office of Groundwater, Hydrogeophysics Branch, Reston, VA, United States, Donald O Rosenberry, US Geological Survey, Lakewood, CO, United States and Barret Kurylyk, Dalhousie Univeristy, Civil and Resource Engineering, Halifax, NS, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Jan Franssen, University of Montreal, Geography, Montreal, QC, Canada


H069
Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions: Identifying and Integrating Physical, Biological, Geomorphic and Chemical Patterns and Processes across Systems and Scales
Primary Convener:  Nicolai Brekenfeld, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Noah M Schmadel, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Reston, VA, United States, Calla M. Schmidt, University of San Francisco, Environmental Science, San Francisco, CA, United States and Arial Shogren, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nicolai Brekenfeld, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom


H073
Hydrobiogeochemistry in dynamic river corridors across various scales
Primary Convener:  Xingyuan Chen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Dipankar Dwivedi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Matthew Kaufman, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Stephen Bruce Ferencz, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xingyuan Chen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


H094
Managing and Modeling Tradeoffs and Challenges of Environmental and Low Flows in the 21st Century
Primary Convener:  Mauricio Eduardo Arias, University of South Florida Tampa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tampa, United States
Conveners:  Santosh K Aryal, CSIRO Land & Water, Canberra, ACT, Australia, David A Kaplan, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States and Yongqiang Zhang, CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijng, China
Primary Liaison:  Mauricio Eduardo Arias, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand


H097
Mixing and reaction in heterogeneous subsurface environments: New experimental, numerical and theoretical approaches
Primary Convener:  Marco Dentz, IDAEA-CSIC, Institute of Enviromental Assessment and Water Research, Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain
Conveners:  Andreas Englert, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Tanguy Le Borgne, University of Rennes, Geosciences Rennes, CNRS, UMR 6118, Rennes Cedex, France and Felipe de Barros, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Marco Dentz, IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain


H124
Stable Isotopes in the Critical Zone: Methods, Applications, and Process Interpretations
Primary Convener:  Stephen P Good, Oregon State University, Department of Biological & Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Natalie Orlowski, University of Freiburg, Freiberg, Germany, Matthias Sprenger, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain and Scott T Allen, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Zurich, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Stephen P Good, Oregon State University, Department of Biological & Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States


H127
Stochastic Modeling of the Hydrosphere and Biosphere
Primary Convener:  G. H. Crystal Ng, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Conveners:  Xue Feng, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Civil, Environmental, Geo-Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Christoforos Pappas, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Sally E Thompson, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  G. H. Crystal Ng, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States


H150
Water, Energy, and Society in Urban Systems
Primary Convener:  Daniel Bain, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Conveners:  Chingwen Cheng, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Darrel Jenerette, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States and Bernice Rosenzweig, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Daniel Bain, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States


H152
Water Quality and Watersheds: From Scientific Innovations to Actions
Primary Convener:  Jonathan M Duncan, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners:  Heather E Golden, US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research & Development, Cincinnati, OH, United States and Tim P Covino, Colorado State University, Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jonathan M Duncan, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, PA, United States


H153
Water quality dynamics in low-order watersheds: identifying and understanding the impacts of environmental change
Primary Convener:  David M Hannah, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom
Convener:  Iain Malcolm, Marine Scotland Science, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  David M Hannah, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom


H155
Wildfire Effects on Water Resources, Natural Hazards, and Ecosystems
Primary Convener:  Nina Oakley, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States
Conveners:  Ryan J Niemeyer, University of California Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Alicia M Kinoshita, San Diego State University, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, San Diego, CA, United States and Kevin D. Bladon, Oregon State University, Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management, Corvallis, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nina Oakley, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States


IN041
Recent Innovations in Open Science Platforms: Data and Algorithm Sharing Usher in a New Era of Earth Science
Primary Convener:  Aimee Barciauskas, Development Seed, Washington DC, DC, United States
Conveners:  Chris Lynnes, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Marco Lavalle, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Amanda Whitehurst, ASRC Federal Holding Company, Beltsville, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Aimee Barciauskas, Development Seed, Washington DC, DC, United States


IN047
Tracks across the Ocean, Sky, and Land
Primary Convener:  Bruce E Wilson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Heather Holbach, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Hurricane Research Division, Miami, FL, United States, Deborah Smith, NASA IMPACT Project, Airborne Data Management Group, Huntsville, AL, United States and Shawn R Smith, Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bruce E Wilson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


NH045
Wildfire Damage Assessment and Mitigation: Strategies, Tools, and Lessons Learned
Primary Convener:  Philip John Shaller, Engineering Systems Inc., Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners:  Frank Carroll, Professional Forest Management, LLC (PFMc), Custer, SD, United States and Kristina Cydzik, Engineering Systems Inc., Irvine, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Philip John Shaller, Engineering Systems Inc., Irvine, CA, United States


NS012
Near-surface geophysics in the critical zone
Primary Convener:  Gregory Mount, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Main Campus, Geosciences, Indiana, PA, United States
Conveners:  Roman A DiBiase, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, Jorden Hayes, Dickinson College, Carlisle, United States and Kristina Keating, Rutgers University Newark, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jorden Hayes, Dickinson College, Carlisle, United States


NS015
Time-lapse and Baseline Geophysical Studies in Coastal Areas and Floodplains
Primary Convener:  Juan M Lorenzo, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Convener:  Sarah Kruse, Univ South Florida, School of Geosciences, Tampa, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Juan M Lorenzo, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA, United States


OS009
Effects of Ocean Acidification
Primary Convener:  Christina Buscher, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Convener:  Stephen A Macko, Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christina Buscher, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States


OS011
Cold Seeps of the Eastern Pacific – New Technologies Yield New Perspectives on the Biogeochemical Processes of a Well-Studied Subduction Margin
Primary Convener:  Richard Camilli, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Conveners:  Lori Summa, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Erik E Cordes, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States and Benjamin Ayton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lori Summa, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States


OS018
Harmful algal blooms across river-sea continuum: Understanding its cascading impacts from food webs, biogeochemical cycles to human infrastructure
Primary Convener:  Yiwei Cheng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Marilou Sison-Mangus1, Clarissa Anderson2 and Raphael Martin Kudela1, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States(2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yiwei Cheng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


PA002
Advances in the agricultural regulations to lower the environmental impact: new concepts and new technologies
Primary Convener:  Hyojin Kim, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Department of Groundwater and Quaternary Geology Mapping, København K, Denmark
Conveners:  Birgitte Hansen1, Tommy Dalgaard2 and Morten Graversgaard2, (1)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Department of Groundwater and Quaternary Geology Mapping, Aarhus C, Denmark(2)Aarhus University, Department of Agroecology, Tjele, Denmark
Primary Liaison:  Hyojin Kim, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Department of Groundwater and Quaternary Geology Mapping, København K, Denmark


PA009
Carbon-neutral agriculture – options and opportunities
Primary Convener:  Roland Kroebel, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Conveners:  Christina Tonitto, Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States and James M Byrne, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Roland Kroebel, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada


PA025
Geoengineering Governance: Democratizing Decision-making
Primary Convener:  Mahmud Farooque, Arizona State University, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Tempe, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Ariel D Anbar, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, Daniel Sarewitz, Arizona State University, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Tempe, AZ, United States and Timiebi Uyu Aganaba-Jeanty, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Timiebi Uyu Aganaba-Jeanty, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States


PA039
On the beneficial uses of data and science in Water-Energy-Food (W-E-F) Nexus policies and practices
Primary Convener:  Richard G Lawford, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Rabi Mohtar, Texas A&M University College Station, Biological & Agricultural Engineering, College Station, TX, United States, Jennifer Daw, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States and Jill Engel-Cox, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Clean Energy Manufacturing Analysis Center, Golden, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Richard G Lawford, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States


PA059
Sustaining Critical Zone function: challenge of incorporating socio-economic factors and developing policy
Primary Convener:  Timothy S. White, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners:  Jean-Daniel Rinaudo, BRGM, Montpellier, France, Pamela L Sullivan, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, OR, United States and Anthony John Jakeman, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Timothy S. White, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States


PA060
The Catchments behind the Data and the Process behind the Catchments
Primary Convener:  Stephen D Sebestyen, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States
Conveners:  Theresa Blume, GFZ German Research Centre, Potsdam, Germany, Jonathan M Duncan, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, PA, United States and James B Shanley, USGS, Montpelier, VT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Stephen D Sebestyen, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States


PP003
A Warming Arctic: What Records of the Past Tell Us About the Future
Primary Convener:  Jamie Marie McFarlin, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
Conveners:  Gregory De Wet, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and William Michael Longo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jamie Marie McFarlin, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States


PP004
Carbonate Sediments Through Time: Processes of Deposition and Diagenesis
Primary Convener:  Lizzy Trower, University of Colorado Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Kristin Bergmann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Theodore Michael Present, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lizzy Trower, University of Colorado Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States


PP009
Cyclostratigraphy and Astronomical Forcing of Past Climates
Primary Convener:  Mingsong Li, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners:  Chao Ma, University of Idaho, Moscow, United States and Rocio P Caballero-Gill, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mingsong Li, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States


PP020
Icehouse Collapse and Extreme Environments— Paleoclimate of the Continental Permian
Primary Convener:  Gerilyn S Soreghan, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
Conveners:  Troy Rasbury, SUNY Stonybrook, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Ying Cui, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States and Kathleen Counter Benison, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
Primary Liaison:  Troy Rasbury, SUNY Stonybrook, Stony Brook, NY, United States


PP023
Mesozoic & Early Cenozoic Greenhouse Climates: Extreme Analogs for Future Global Change
Primary Convener:  Rosie L Oakes, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Conveners:  Raquel Bryant, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States, Lauren O'Connor, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom and Joyeeta Bhattacharya, Rice University, Earth Science, Houston, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rosie L Oakes, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States


PP024
Multidisciplinary Studies of Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Systems
Primary Convener:  Oyeleye O. Adeboye, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Boone Pickens School of Geology, Stillwater, OK, United States
Conveners:  Henry M. Agbogun, Fort Hays State University, Department of Geosciences, Hays, United States and Michael Grammer, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Boone Pickens School of Geology, Stillwater, OK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Oyeleye O. Adeboye, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Boone Pickens School of Geology, Stillwater, OK, United States


PP032
Stable Isotopes in Feces: Proxies for Past and Present Climate, Diet, and Environment
Primary Convener:  Rachel E B Reid, Washington University in St Louis, Anthropology, St. Louis, MO, United States
Convener:  Ryan J Haupt, University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rachel E B Reid, Washington University in St Louis, Anthropology, St. Louis, MO, United States


PP036
The Earth System during the Precambrian: life, climate, and tectonics
Primary Convener:  Xinyang Chen, University of Washington, Isotope Laboratory, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
Conveners:  Sanjoy M Som, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA, United States, Eva E Stüeken, University of St. Andrews, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, St. Andrews, United Kingdom and Jeremy D Owens, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xinyang Chen, University of Washington, Isotope Laboratory, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States


PP039
We Didn’t Start the Fire: Paleo-perspectives on Fire in the Earth System
Primary Convener:  Allison Karp, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners:  Nadia Sae-lim, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, United States, Richard S Vachula, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States and Troy M Ferland, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Allison Karp, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States


P004
Beyond the Catastrophe: The Biological and Astrobiological significance of impact cratering in the Solar System
Primary Convener:  Haley M Sapers, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Alexandra Pontefract, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Gordon Osinski, University of Western Ontario, Earth Sciences, London, ON, Canada and Charles S Cockell, University of Edinburgh, UK Centre for Astrobiology, School of Physics and Astronomy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Haley M Sapers, University of Western Ontario, Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration, London, ON, Canada


P010
Deep Dive Enceladus
Primary Convener:  Christopher R Glein, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
Convener:  Carolyn Porco, Space Science Institute, CICLOPS, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christopher R Glein, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States


P015
Getting the Most out of Astrobiological Data: Overcoming the Too Little, Too Rare, and Too Different
Primary Convener:  Diana Gentry, NASA Ames Research Center, Biospheric Science Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Convener:  Haley M Sapers, University of Western Ontario, Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration, London, ON, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Diana Gentry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States


P023
Mars Sample Return: Balancing the Benefits of a New Phase of Mars Exploration Against Potential Risks to Earth, While Communicating Both to the Public
Primary Convener:  John D Rummel, SETI Institute, Friday Harbor, WA, United States
Conveners:  Becky McCauley Rench, NASA Headquarters, Planetary Science Division, Washington, DC, United States and Margaret S Race, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  John D Rummel, SETI Institute, Friday Harbor, WA, United States


P038
The New Mars Underground 2.0: Towards a 3D Understanding of the Martian Crustal Subsurface
Primary Convener:  Vlada Stamenkovic, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Nina Lanza, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Kris Zacny, Honeybee Robotics, Exploration Technology Group, Pasadena, CA, United States and John F Mustard, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Vlada Stamenkovic, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


T054
The Coevolution of Tectonics, Climate and Biodiversity in Central Asia
Primary Convener:  Lin Li, University of Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France
Conveners:  Guillaume Dupont-Nivet, CNRS - Potsdam University, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam-Golm, Germany, Alex Pullen, Clemson University, Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson, United States and Bo Wan, State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Primary Liaison:  Lin Li, University of Rochester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States


U007
(Inter)National Treasures: Advancing Earth, Environmental, & Planetary Sciences Through Access, Accreditation, and Use of Natural History Samples and Collections
Primary Convener:  Kerstin Lehnert, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Convener:  Lindsay A Powers, US Geological Survey, National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program, Denver, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, UNITED STATES


U014
Probing and modeling reactive transport processes in Earth systems
Primary Convener:  Hang Deng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Convener:  Jennifer L Druhan, Stanford University, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hang Deng, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States


U017
The Global Scientific Legacy of the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens—a 40-year Perspective
Primary Convener:  Jon J Major, USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, WA, United States
Conveners:  Cynthia A Gardner, U.S. Geological Survey, Vancouver, WA, United States and Claire J. Horwell, Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Jon J Major, US Geological Survey, Vancouver, WA, United States


U019
Water in the Coupled Earth-Human System: Convergent science, decision-making and community action
Primary Convener:  Sarah Freeman, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States
Conveners:  Rajul Pandya, American Geophysical Union, Thriving Earth Exchange, Washington, DC, United States, Gabriel Michael Filippelli, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN, United States and Elise Pendall, Western Sydney University, Penrith 2751, NSW, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Sarah Freeman, Oslo


V006
A window into the Hadean Earth: Investigations into the formation conditions of Earth's oldest zircon grains
Primary Convener:  Matthew M. Wielicki, University of Alabama, Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Conveners:  Gavin Kenny, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden, Elizabeth A Bell, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Simone Marchi, NASA Lunar Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Matthew M. Wielicki, University of Alabama, Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States


V017
Data-Driven Discoveries in Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Primary Convener:  Fang Huang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tetherless World Constellation, Troy, NY, United States
Conveners:  Shaunna M Morrison, Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States, Tao Wen, Pennsylvania State University, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States and Anirudh Prabhu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tetherless World Constellation, Troy, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Shaunna M Morrison, Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States


V043
Revealing the 3rd Dimension of Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems at Oceanic Plate Margins
Primary Convener:  Tobias Walter Höfig, Texas A&M University, International Ocean Discovery Program, College Station, TX, United States
Conveners:  Susan E Humphris, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Jessica M. Labonté, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Marine Biology, Galveston, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tobias Walter Höfig, Texas A&M University, International Ocean Discovery Program, College Station, TX, United States


V044
Scientific and Societal Legacies of Volcanic Eruptions
Primary Convener:  Cynthia A Gardner, U.S. Geological Survey, Vancouver, WA, United States
Conveners:  Jon J Major, US Geological Survey, Vancouver, WA, United States; USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, WA, United States and Claire J. Horwell, Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Cynthia A Gardner, U.S. Geological Survey, Vancouver, WA, United States


V049
The Influence of Oxygen Fugacity on Geochemical Processes
Primary Convener:  Robert William Nicklas, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Maryjo N Brounce, University of California Riverside, Earth Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States; California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Sonja Aulbach, Johann W Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Robert William Nicklas, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States


V054
Volcanic and tectonic outgassing
Primary Convener:  Taryn Michelle Lopez, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Conveners:  Hyunwoo Lee, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, Silvana Hidalgo, Instituto Geofisico EPN - Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador and Tobias P Fischer, University of New Mexico, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Taryn Michelle Lopez, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States