Biogeosciences



The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land, Atmosphere, and Society
Primary Convener:  Catherine M Dieleman, University of Guelph, Department of Integrative Biology, Guelph, ON, Canada
Conveners:  Jessica L McCarty, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States, Mika Tosca, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States and Sander Veraverbeke, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Catherine M Dieleman, University of Guelph, Department of Integrative Biology, Guelph, ON, Canada


Abandoned and marginal oil and gas wells: quantifying and mitigating environmental and climate impacts
Primary Convener:  Mary Kang, McGill University, Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Montreal, QC, Canada
Conveners:  Amy Townsend-Small, University of Cincinnati, Environmental Studies, Cincinnati, United States and David Richard Lyon, Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mary Kang, McGill University, Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Montreal, QC, Canada


Advances in Bioenergy Research: Field Trials, Productivity, and Ecosystem Impacts
Primary Convener:  Courtney M Siegert, Mississippi State University, Forestry, Mississippi State, MS, United States
Conveners:  Heidi J Renninger, Mississippi State University, Forestry, Mississippi State, MS, United States and Austin Himes, Mississippi State University, Forestry, Mississippi State, United States
Primary Liaison:  Courtney M Siegert, Mississippi State University, Forestry, Mississippi State, MS, United States


Advances in large-scale studies in watershed biogeochemistry
Primary Convener:  Jiajia Lin, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, c/o US EPA Pacific Ecological System Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Sarah M Stackpoole, USGS-Branch of Reg Research, Denver, CO, United States, Robert Daniel Sabo, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, United States and Jana Compton, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Pacific Ecological Systems Division, Freshwater Ecology Branch, Corvallis, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jiajia Lin, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, c/o US EPA Pacific Ecological System Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


Advances in machine learning and deep learning for monitoring terrestrial ecosystems I
Primary Convener:  Qiuyan Yu, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Conveners:  Lara Prihodko, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Animal and range Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States and Julius Anchang, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Niall P Hanan, New Mexico State University, Plant and Environmental Sciences Department, Las Cruces, NM, United States


Advances in machine learning and deep learning for monitoring terrestrial ecosystems II poster
Primary Convener:  Qiuyan Yu, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Conveners:  Wenjie Ji, New Mexico State University, Plant and Environment Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States and Brianna M M Lind, New Mexico State Univeristy, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Niall P Hanan, New Mexico State University, Plant and Environmental Sciences Department, Las Cruces, NM, United States


Advances in Monitoring and Modeling Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Landscapes
Primary Convener:  Wenbo Zhou, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Conveners:  Modi Zhu, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States and Tianqi Zhang, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, United States
Primary Liaison:  Wenbo Zhou, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States


Advances in remote sensing for monitoring biodiversity change: Integrating data and models 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, Woody Turner, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and Ved Chirayath, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Keith Gaddis, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States


Advances in remote sensing of Agro-Hydro Meteorology in developing nations
Primary Convener:  Vikalp Mishra, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR/SPoRT, Huntsville, AL, United States; University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Hyongki Lee, University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, Lilian WANGUI Ndungu, SERVIR, Nairobi, Kenya and Chinaporn Meechaiya, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand
Primary Liaison:  Chinaporn Meechaiya, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand


Advances in Understanding Forest Dynamics using Ecological Modeling and Remote Sensing
Primary Convener:  Amanda Hildt Armstrong, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Howard E Epstein, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Xi Yang, University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Paul Montesano, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Howard E Epstein, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States


Advances in understanding vegetation shifts in the Arctic
Primary Convener:  Yanlan Liu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Margaret S Torn, Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Logan T. Berner, Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Zelalem A Mekonnen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yanlan Liu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


Advances in understanding Water-Energy-Carbon interactions
Primary Convener:  Dan Gianotti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Yanlan Liu, Ohio State University Main Campus, Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States, Vincent Humphrey, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; University of Zurich, Geography, Zurich, Switzerland and Xiangtao Xu, Cornell University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dan Gianotti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States


Advancing our understanding of vegetation stress and its feedbacks with energy, water, and carbon fluxes
Primary Convener:  Julia K. Green, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Conveners:  Nina Raoult, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, Ashley Ballantyne, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States and Kirsten Findell, NOAA / Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Julia K. Green, Columbia University in the City of New York, Palisades, NY, United States


Applications of Lab and Synchrotron X-Ray Methods to Better Understand Plant-Soil-Microbe Interactions
Primary Convener:  Tamas Varga, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Convener:  Morgan Elizabeth Barnes, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tamas Varga, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Assessing the Impacts of Climate Variability and Land Management Practices on Grasslands and Forage Crops Using Multisource Data
Primary Convener:  Yuting Zhou, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Department of Geography, Stillwater, OK, United States
Conveners:  K. Colton Flynn, USDA ARS, Grassland Soil and Water Research Laboratory, Temple, TX, United States, Pradeep Wagle, USDA-ARS Grazinglands Research Laboratory, El Reno, OK, United States, James P.S. Neel, USDA-ARS, Grazinglands Research Laboratory, El Reno, OK, United States and Patrick j Starks, USDA-ARS, El Reno, OK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yuting Zhou, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Department of Geography, Stillwater, OK, United States


Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Mechanisms for Hydro-Mechanical Modification of the subsurface
Primary Convener:  Nariman Mahabadi, University of Akron Main Campus, Akron, OH, United States
Convener:  Leon A van Paassen, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sina Nassiri, University of Akron, Civil Engineering, Akron, OH, United States


Biogeochemical responses of the cryosphere to environmental change
Primary Convener:  Jon Hawkings, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Conveners:  Lisa Bröder, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, Maya Bhatia, University of Alberta, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Loeka Jongejans, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Jon Hawkings, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States


Canopy structure and its effect on photosynthesis via mediation of the light environment
Primary Convener:  Randolph Hamilton Wynne, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Structure and Function of Ecosystems
Conveners:  Valerie A Thomas, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Jon Ranson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Elizabeth Middleton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States and Structure and Function of Ecosystems
Primary Liaison:  Randolph Hamilton Wynne, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Structure and Function of Ecosystems


Carbon cycling in drylands: New findings and emerging frontiers
Primary Convener:  Sasha Reed, Southwest Biological Science Center Moab, Moab, UT, United States
Conveners:  Brooke Bossert Osborne, Southwest Biological Science Center Moab, Moab, UT, United States and Michala Phillips, Southwest Biological Science Center Moab, Moab, UT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Brooke Bossert Osborne, Southwest Biological Science Center Moab, Moab, UT, United States


Carbon Cycling in Global Peatlands
Primary Convener:  Alison Hoyt, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Conveners:  Julie Loisel, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Massimo Lupascu, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore and Angela V Gallego-Sala, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Alison Hoyt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, CA, United States


Carbon Monitoring Systems Research and Applications
Primary Convener:  Peter C Griffith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Molly Elizabeth Brown, University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Edil Sepulveda Carlo, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / SSAI, Greenbelt, MD, United States and George C Hurtt, University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Molly Elizabeth Brown, 6th Grain Corporation, Bethesda, MD, United States


Characterizing Land Cover Change and Associated Ecosystem/Climate Responses Using Remote Sensing Data
Primary Convener:  George Z Xian, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
Conveners:  Seth M Munson, U.S. Geological Survey, Moab, UT, UNITED STATES and Kevin P Gallo, USGS EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Seth M Munson, U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States


Climate Extremes, Disturbances, and Legacy Effects in Terrestrial Ecosystems
Primary Convener:  Siyan Ma, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ana Bastos, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department Biogeochemical Integration, Jena, Germany and Asko Noormets, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Siyan Ma, US Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


Coastal wetland carbon and nitrogen cycles: Recent advances in measurements, modeling, and syntheses
Primary Convener:  Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States
Conveners:  Jianwu Tang, MBL, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Kevin D Kroeger, USGS, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Lisa Windham-Myers, USGS - National Research Program, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States


Colloids and beyond: Insights into biogeochemical colloid processes in the nanometer to watershed scale
Primary Convener:  Maya Engel, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Conveners:  John Bargar1, Aaron Thompson2, Daniel I Kaplan3 and Vincent Noel1, (1)SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Menlo Park, CA, United States(2)University of Georgia, Crop and Soil Science, Athens, GA, United States(3)Savannah River National Lab, Aiken, SC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Maya Engel, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Menlo Park, CA, United States


Data Fusion in Earth Observation Science
Primary Convener:  Tanya Harrison, Planet Labs, Federal, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Joseph Mascaro, Planet Labs, San Francisco, CA, United States and Rasmus Houborg, Planet Labs, San Francisco, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tanya Harrison, Planet Labs, Federal, Washington, DC, United States


Deep-sea hydrothermal vents ecosystems: past, present and future, from deep to lab
Primary Convener:  Samuel Marre, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France
Convener:  Anais Cario, CNRS, ICMCB, Paris Cedex 16, France
Primary Liaison:  Anais Cario, CNRS, ICMCB, Paris Cedex 16, France


Dynamics Soil Information Systems: where we are, where we need to go, and why
Primary Convener:  Katherine E Todd-Brown, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
Conveners:  Bruno Basso, Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, Alison R Marklein, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States and Rodrigo Vargas, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Primary Liaison:  Katherine E Todd-Brown, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States


Ecological Forecasting in the Earth System
Primary Convener:  Michael Dietze, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States and Ecological Forecasting Initiative
Conveners:  Kelly Heilman, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Ann Raiho, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Jacob Zwart, USGS Integrated Information Dissemination Division, Data Science Branch, Middleton, United States and Ecological Forecasting Initiative
Primary Liaison:  Michael Dietze, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States and Ecological Forecasting Initiative


Ecosystem Disturbance: Leveraging research networks to improve understanding of dynamic ecosystems
Primary Convener:  Brady S Hardiman, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Conveners:  Sydne Record, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, United States, Jaclyn Hatala Matthes, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, United States, Jasper Van doninck, Michigan State University, Integrative Biology, East Lansing, MI, United States and Brandon Alveshere, University of Connecticut, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, CT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Brady S Hardiman, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States


Emergent Behavior in the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle
Primary Convener:  A. Anthony Bloom, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Silvia Caldararu, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany and Alexandra G Konings, Stanford University, Department of Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nicholas Parazoo, University of California Los Angeles, JIFRESSE, Los Angeles, CA, United States


Forest Disturbance and Resulting Changes in Structure, Composition, and Biogeochemistry
Primary Convener:  Adrianna Foster, Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Jacquelyn K Shuman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Christopher Michael Gough, VCU-Biology, Richmond, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Adrianna Foster, Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States


Forest Ecophysiology: Forest Physiological and Ecological Processes from Molecules to Ecosystems
Primary Convener:  Doug P Aubrey, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
Conveners:  Daniel M. Johnson, University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Athens, GA, United States, Assaad Mrad, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, United States, William Hammond, Oklahoma State University, Department of Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, Stillwater, OK, United States and Andrew Maguire, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States
Primary Liaison:  Doug P Aubrey, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States


Gas Fluxes from and into Inland and Coastal Waters: Integrating Hydrodynamics and Biogeochemistry
Primary Convener:  Sally MacIntyre, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Conveners:  Patrick M Crill, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden and John Prytherch, University of Leeds, Institute for Climate & Atmospheric Science, Leeds, United Kingdom; Stockholm University, Department of Meteorology, Stockholm, Sweden
Primary Liaison:  Sally MacIntyre, Univ California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States


Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry of Dust
Primary Convener:  Gregory T Carling, Brigham Young University, Geological Sciences, Provo, UT, United States
Conveners:  Janice Brahney, Utah State University, Department of Watershed Sciences, Logan, UT, United States, Thomas E Gill, University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences / Environmental Science and Engineering Program, El Paso, TX, United States and Mengqiang Zhu, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Gregory T Carling, Brigham Young University, Geological Sciences, Provo, UT, United States


Geoclimatic Drivers of Nitrous Oxide (N2O) and Nitric Oxide (NO) Emissions: From Microscale Variability to Global Influences
Primary Convener:  Eliza Jean Harris, ETH Zurich, Swiss Data Science Centre, Zurich, Switzerland
Conveners:  Peter M Homyak, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, Longfei Yu, Jinan University, Institute of Groundwater and Earth Sciences, Guangzhou, China and Wendy H Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation; Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment; Department of Plant Biology; Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Eliza Jean Harris, ETH Zurich, Swiss Data Science Centre, Zurich, Switzerland


Geomicrobiology of the Deep Biosphere
Primary Convener:  Beth Orcutt, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States
Conveners:  Magdalena R Osburn, Northwestern University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States, James Andrew Bradley, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom and Julie A Huber, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Beth Orcutt, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States


Hydro-biogeochemical dynamics of subsurface interfaces
Primary Convener:  Christian Dewey, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  John Bargar1, Elizabeth Herndon2, Peter S Nico3 and Maya Engel1, (1)SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Menlo Park, CA, United States(2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States(3)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christian Dewey, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States


Illuminating genes-to-ecosystems-to-genes feedbacks in model ecosystems
Primary Convener:  Ruth K Varner, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
Conveners:  Virginia Isabel Rich, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Zhen Li, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Ahmed Zayad, Ohio State University Main Campus, Department of Microbiology, Columbus, OH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ruth K Varner, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States


Imaging Spectroscopy and Agro-Ecosystems: More Than Meets the Eye
Primary Convener:  Kaitlin Gold, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
Convener:  Philip A Townsend, University of Wisconsin, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kaitlin Gold, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States


Improving Earth System Predictability: New Mechanisms, Feedbacks, and Approaches for Predicting Global Biogeochemical Cycles in Earth System Models
Primary Convener:  Forrest M. Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Min Xu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Katherine Dagon, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Precious Mongwe, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Oceanography, Cape Town, South Africa
Primary Liaison:  Forrest M. Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


Improving Understanding of Land-Atmosphere Interactions through Integration of Surface Layer, Atmospheric Composition, and Atmospheric Boundary Layer Measurements
Primary Convener:  Manuel Helbig, Dalhousie University, Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Halifax, NS, Canada
Conveners:  Celia Faiola, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Ana Maria Yáñez-Serrano, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain and Volker Wulfmeyer, University of Hohenheim, Institute of Physics and Meteorology, Stuttgart, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Manuel Helbig, Dalhousie University, Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Halifax, NS, Canada


Integrating and Advancing Understanding of Coastal Ecosystem Structure, Function and Dynamics
Primary Convener:  Allison Myers-Pigg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory, Sequim, WA, United States
Conveners:  Stephanie Pennington, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, Ben P Bond-Lamberty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States and Nicholas D Ward, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Allison Myers-Pigg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory, Sequim, WA, United States; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Integrating biological components in biogeochemical models: towards improving global circulation model representations of methane emissions
Primary Convener:  Jorge A Villa, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, School of Geosciences, Lafayette, LA, United States
Conveners:  Ellen JoAnne Stuart-Haëntjens, USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States and Timothy Hector Morin, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Environmental Resources Engineering, Syracuse, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ellen JoAnne Stuart-Haëntjens, USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States


Interactions between hydrological and biogeochemical change in permafrost environments
Primary Convener:  Peter Munroe Douglas, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Conveners:  David Olefeldt1, Julia Guimond2,3 and McKenzie Ann Ann Kuhn1,4, (1)University of Alberta, Department of Renewable Resources, Edmonton, AB, Canada(2)Dalhousie University, Department of Civil and Resource Engineering, Halifax, NS, Canada(3)University of Delaware, Civil and Resource Engineering, Halifax, NS, Canada(4)Wheaton College, Norton, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Peter Munroe Douglas, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada


Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Better Understand Environmental Microbial Carbon Processing and Nutrient Cycling
Primary Convener:  James Moran, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Mary Suzanne Lipton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental and Molecular Sciences, Richland, WA, United States and Emily Bonnell Graham, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  James Moran, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Mercury Biogeochemistry and Environmental Change
Primary Convener:  Michael S Bank, Institute of Marine Research, Norway, Bergen, Norway
Conveners:  Sophia Hansson, CNRS, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France and Baohua Gu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sophia Hansson, CNRS, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France


Microbe-mineral interactions preserved across scales
Primary Convener:  Emily Cardarelli, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Convener:  Mary Beth Wilhelm, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Emily Cardarelli, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States


Microbes in Biogeochemical Cycles: Linking Responses to Ecosystem Processes and Environmental Change
Primary Convener:  Martha Gebhardt, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
Conveners:  Dawson Fairbanks, University of Arizona, Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States, Noelle J Espinosa, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Rachel E Gallery, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Martha Gebhardt, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States


Microbial sources and sinks of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
Primary Convener:  Laura K Meredith, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Eoin Brodie, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Jordan E. Krechmer, Aerodyne Research Inc., Billerica, MA, United States and Kolby Jardine, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Laura K Meredith, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States


Modern Carbonates as Good, Great, or Mediocre Analogues for Ancient Carbonate Environments
Primary Convener:  Mingfei Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  Julia Wilcots, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Miquela Ingalls, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mingfei Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States


Molecular Understanding of Plant-Microbe-Soil Interactions in the Rhizosphere Using Surface Sensitive and Imaging Techniques
Primary Convener:  Zihua Zhu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Zihua Zhu, Mark Engelhard, John Cliff, Qian Zhao, Nancy Hess, Kirsten Hofmockel
Conveners:  Mark Engelhard1, John B Cliff2, Qian Zhao2 and Zihua Zhu, Mark Engelhard, John Cliff, Qian Zhao, Nancy Hess, Kirsten Hofmockel, (1)Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States(2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Qian Zhao, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Zihua Zhu, Mark Engelhard, John Cliff, Qian Zhao, Nancy Hess, Kirsten Hofmockel


Monitoring of Soil Arsenic (As) Content in Agricultural Soils based on Hyperspectral Reflectance
Primary Convener:  Arnab Saha, Heriot-Watt University, Institute for Infrastructure & Environment, Edinburgh, EH14, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Bhaskar Sen Gupta, Heriot-Watt University, Institute of Infrastructure and Environment, Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Sandhya Patidar, Heriot-Watt University, Institute of Infrastructure and Environment, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Arnab Saha, Heriot-Watt University, Institute for Infrastructure & Environment, Edinburgh, EH14, United Kingdom


Multi-scale Remote Sensing to Capture and Characterize Floral Resources: What is Possible?
Primary Convener:  Amy Hudson, USDA-ARS, Office of National Programs, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Conveners:  Dawn M Browning1, Shawn Taylor2, Mallory L. Barnes3 and Martha Farella3, (1)USDA Agricultural Research Service, Las Cruces - ARS, Las Cruces, NM, United States(2)USDA-ARS, Office of National Programs, SCINet, Beltsville, MD, United States(3)Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Melanie Kammerer, USDA-ARS Office of National Programs, SCINet, Beltsville, MD, United States


NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Lidar Mission: Carbon cycle, biodiversity and topography
Primary Convener:  Michael Maier Keller, US Forest Service San Juan, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, PR, United States
Conveners:  Scott J Goetz, Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Marcos Longo, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Embrapa Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, Brazil
Primary Liaison:  Michael Maier Keller, Usda Forest Service C/o Gisel, Campinas, Brazil


New Advances in Land Carbon Cycle Modeling
Primary Convener:  Lifen Jiang, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Yiqi Luo
Conveners:  Carlos A Sierra, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Theoretical Ecosystem Ecology, Jena, Germany, Alexandra G Konings, Stanford University, Department of Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, Yiqi Luo, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Yiqi Luo
Primary Liaison:  Lifen Jiang, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Yiqi Luo


New Developments and Integrated Approaches in the Earth-Life Sciences
Primary Convener:  Greer Dolby, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States; Arizona State University, Center for Mechanisms of Evolution, Tempe, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Rebecca J Dorsey, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States, Maria José Sanín, Universidad CES, Facultad de Ciencias y Biotecnología, Medellin, Colombia; Arizona State University, West, Glendale, AZ, United States and Tara M. Smiley, Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Stony Brook, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Greer Dolby, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States; Arizona State University, Center for Mechanisms of Evolution, Tempe, AZ, United States


Observing and modeling spatial gradients in forest processes
Primary Convener:  Mingjie Shi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Charles Koven, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States; Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,, Berkeley, CA, United States and Yilin Fang, Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yilin Fang, Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Opportunities and vulnerabilities related to ecosystem services of coastal ecosystems under climate change
Primary Convener:  Kyle Andreas Arndt, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States
Conveners:  Sparkle L Malone, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States and Rebecca Sanders-DeMott, USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kyle Andreas Arndt, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States


Past, Present and Future of Water-Limited Dryland Ecosystems: Local Trends to Global Impacts
Primary Convener:  Natasha MacBean, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
Conveners:  Shishir Basant, Texas A&M University, Ecosystems Science and Management, College Station, TX, United States, Luiza Maria T Aparecido, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States and Mallory L. Barnes, Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Natasha MacBean, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States


Permanganate Oxidation: A Return to Chemical Reductionism or a Way Forward in Soil Organic Matter Study and Management?
Primary Convener:  Andrew J. Margenot, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and carlos romero
Conveners:  Juliana D'Andrilli, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Chauvin, LA, United States, Carlos Matias Romero, University of Lethbridge, Biological Sciences, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, Jordon Wade, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, United States and carlos romero
Primary Liaison:  Andrew J. Margenot, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and carlos romero


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:  Benjamin Poulter, NASA GSFC, Biospheric Science, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Ana Bastos, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department Biogeochemical Integration, Jena, Germany, Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Josep Gili Canadell, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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


Remote Sensing for Soil Health
Primary Convener:  Martha Gebhardt, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
Convener:  Mallory L. Barnes, Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Martha Gebhardt, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States


River Corridor Hydro-Bio-Geochemistry Across Scales From Headwaters to Coasts
Primary Convener:  Mikayla Borton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Amy E Goldman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and James Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mikayla Borton, Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States


Roles of Insects and other Animals in Woody Plant Turnover: Consequences for the Earth System
Primary Convener:  Nicole Hemming-Schroeder, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners:  Benjamin Sulman1, Louise Ashton2, Abbey Yatsko3 and Amy Zanne3, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States(2)The University of Hong Kong, School of Biological Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong(3)The George Washington University, Department of Biological Sciences, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Benjamin Sulman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


Science and Applications Enabled by Remote Sensing Data Fusion and Time Series Analysis
Primary Convener:  Yun Yang, University of Maryland College Park, ESSIC, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Martha B. Anderson, USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, 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


Science for mitigation of agricultural trace gas emissions
Primary Convener:  Alison R Marklein, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
Conveners:  Tibisay Perez, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas, Venezuela; University of California Berkeley, Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, United States and Francesca Mia Hopkins, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alison R Marklein, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States


Soils in the Anthropocene: Linking soil health indicators to functions
Primary Convener:  Claire Louise Phillips, USDA-ARS, National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, Ames, IA, United States
Conveners:  Dan Liptzin, Soil Health Institute, Morrisville, NC, United States and Susan E Crow, University of Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Claire Louise Phillips, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


Soils in the Anthropocene: Mechanisms of Stabilization and Change
Primary Convener:  Avni Malhotra, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Conveners:  Katerina Georgiou, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Jennifer W Harden, US Geological Survey - Emeritus, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Kate Lajtha, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Katerina Georgiou, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States


Soils in the Anthropocene: New insights into soil carbon cycling from big data synthesis, research networks, and long-term studies
Primary Convener:  Samantha R Weintraub, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Olga Vindušková, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and William R Wieder, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Avni Malhotra, Stanford University, Stanford, United States


Soils in the Anthropocene: The Effect of Plant Communities and Their Microbial Associations on Soil Biogeochemistry
Primary Convener:  Caitlin Hicks Pries, Dartmouth College, Department of Biological Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States
Conveners:  Richard P Phillips, Indiana University, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN, United States and Ashley Lang, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Caitlin Hicks Pries, Dartmouth College Life Sciences Center, room 349 78, Hanover, NH, United States


Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence as a proxy of photosynthesis: measurements, modeling, and applications from field, airborne, and satellite platforms
Primary Convener:  Jennifer E Johnson, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Xi Yang, University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Yongguang Zhang, Nanjing University, International Institute for Earth System Sciences, Nanjing, China and Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jennifer E Johnson, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, United States


Surface-Atmosphere Interactions: From Single Flux Measurements to Integrated Synthesis
Primary Convener:  Gilberto Pastorello, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Christopher Florian, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle, Boulder, CO, United States, Housen Chu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Dario Papale, University of Tuscia, Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest systems (DIBAF), Viterbo, Italy
Primary Liaison:  Gilberto Pastorello, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States


Temporal Dynamics of Fire Disturbances on Terrestrial and Aquatic Biogeochemical Cycles
Primary Convener:  Alan Roebuck, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sequim, WA, United States
Conveners:  Emily Bonnell Graham1, Allison Myers-Pigg2 and Jianqiu Zheng1, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States(2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Sequim, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alan Roebuck, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sequim, WA, United States


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


The Resilience and Vulnerability of Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems to Climate Change
Primary Convener:  Peter C Griffith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Michelle C Mack, Abhishek Chatterjee, USRA, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Natalie Boelman, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observ., Palisades, NY, United States and Scott J Goetz, Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Abhishek Chatterjee, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GMAO, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Thermodynamic Regulation of Microbial Metabolism and Biogeochemistry with Environmental Change
Primary Convener:  Emily Bonnell Graham, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Hyun-Seob Song, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Biological Systems Engineering, Lincoln, NE, United States and Jianqiu Zheng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Emily Bonnell Graham, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Tropical Forests Under a Changing Environment
Primary Convener:  Robinson I Negron Juarez, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jennifer Holm, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Tyeen Taylor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jennifer Holm, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


Tropical Mountains and Forests: Connections in a Complex, Changing World
Primary Convener:  Han Tseng, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Geography and Environment, Honolulu, HI, United States
Conveners:  Thomas W Giambelluca, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Geography and Environment, Honolulu, HI, United States; University of Hawaii at Manoa, Water Resources Research Center, Honolulu, HI, United States and Giuseppe Torri, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Han Tseng, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Geography and Environment, Honolulu, HI, United States


Understanding Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbances in Biogeochemistry and Carbon-water Coupling
Primary Convener:  Yue Li, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jonathan Wang1, Maria Uribe1 and Hui Yang2, (1)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States(2)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department Biogeochemical Integration, Jena, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Yue Li, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States


Understanding Phenological Responses and Feedbacks in Terrestrial Vegetation: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Consequences
Primary Convener:  Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Min Chen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Richland, WA, United States, Jin Wu, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Forrest M. Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


Vegetation canopies: physiology, structure, function
Primary Convener:  Trevor F Keenan, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Nicholas G Smith, Texas Tech University, Biological Sciences, Lubbock, TX, United States, Chi Chen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Danica L. Lombardozzi, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Chi Chen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change
Primary Convener:  Edward Schuur, Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Heidi Rodenhizer, Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS), Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Craig Robert See, Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Heidi Rodenhizer, Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS), Flagstaff, AZ, United States


Vulnerability of Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests in the face of increasing Human and Climate Change impacts
Primary Convener:  Hugo Alberto Gutierrez-Jurado, University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States; Flinders University, Bedford Park, Australia
Conveners:  Luis A Méndez-Barroso, Sonora Institute of Technology, Sonora, Mexico, Gabriel De Oliveira, University of Toronto, Department of Geography and Planning, Toronto, ON, Canada and Enrico A. Yepez, Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, Departamento de Ciencias del Agua y Medio Ambiente, Ciudad Obregón, SO, Mexico
Primary Liaison:  Hugo Alberto Gutierrez-Jurado, Flinders University, Bedford Park, Australia; University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States


Wetland carbon fluxes – Impacts on and responses to paleoclimate change
Primary Convener:  Sheel Bansal, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, ND, United States
Conveners:  Miriam Jones, U.S. Geological Survey., Reston, VA, United States, Sarah A Finkelstein, University of Toronto, Department of Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada and Debra A Willard, USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Miriam Jones, U.S. Geological Survey., Reston, VA, United States


Wetlands and Peatlands in a Changing Climate: Science and Management
Primary Convener:  Eunji Byun, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Conveners:  Fereidoun Rezanezhad1, Philippe Van Cappellen1 and Bernd Lenartz2, (1)University of Waterloo, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Waterloo, ON, Canada(2)University of Rostock, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Rostock, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Eunji Byun, University of Toronto, Department of Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada


Advances in wildland fire - atmosphere interactions
Primary Convener:  Tirtha Banerjee, University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners:  Janine Baijnath-Rodino, University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, Bruna R F Oliveira, Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal and William C Porter, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tirtha Banerjee, University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States


Boundary Layer Processes and Turbulence
Primary Convener:  Marco Giovanni Giometto, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States
Conveners:  Shane Mayor, California State University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Chico, United States, Ying Pan, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States and Scott Salesky, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Marco Giovanni Giometto, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States


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:  Andrew E Schuh, Colorado State University, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Thomas Lauvaux, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States and Mathias Goeckede, MPI Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Abhishek Chatterjee, USRA, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Dust in a changing climate: from small‐scale insights to large‐scale understanding
Primary Convener:  Chun Zhao, University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China
Conveners:  Adeyemi Adebiyi, University of California – Merced, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States, Martina Klose, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Department Troposphere Research, Karlsruhe, Germany and Cassandra Gaston, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Adeyemi Adebiyi, University of California – Merced, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States


Emissions and Air Quality in Africa
Primary Convener:  Claire Granier, Laboratoire d'Aerologie and CIRES/NOAA, Toulouse, France and Boulder, USA, France
Conveners:  Benjamin Gaubert, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and Evelyne N'datchoh Toure, University Félix Houphouët-Boigny, UFR SSMT - LASMES, Abidjan, Côte D'ivoire
Primary Liaison:  Benjamin Gaubert, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States


Large Ensemble Climate Model Simulations as Tools for Exploring Natural Variability, Change Signals, and Impacts
Primary Convener:  Sebastian Milinski, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Conveners:  Nicola Maher, CIRES/ATOC CU Boulder, Boulder, United States, Raul R. Wood, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Geography, Munich, Germany and Yohei Takano, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sebastian Milinski, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany


Multi-sensor, Model, and Measurement Synergy to Improve our Understanding of Aerosol Distributions and Processes
Primary Convener:  Meloe S Kacenelenbogen, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Conveners:  Olga V. Kalashnikova, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Edward P Nowottnick, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Peter Richard Colarco, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Meloe S Kacenelenbogen, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States


Remote Sensing of Fire Processes and Biomass Burning (BB) Emissions
Primary Convener:  Edward J Hyer, Naval Research Lab Monterey, Marine Meteorology, Monterey, CA, United States
Conveners:  Shobha Kondragunta, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Sanath Sathyachandran Kumar, ASRC Federal Data Solutions, Contractor to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States and Olga V. Kalashnikova, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Shobha Kondragunta, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States


The past and future of fire
Primary Convener:  Yang Li, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States
Convener:  Pengfei Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yang Li, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States