GC079
Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change: Monitoring and Modeling Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Agroecosystems
Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change: Monitoring and Modeling Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Agroecosystems
Session ID#: 158691
Session Description:
Climate change and land-use intensification have presented humanity with great challenges in maintaining food security and environmental sustainability. Agricultural ecosystems have a great potential for mitigating climate change by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and enhancing carbon sequestration over farmland. Improved modeling and monitoring capacities to track Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) changes and GHG emissions at granular scales for the agroecosystems are urgently needed in both academia and industry. We invite submissions focusing on: (1) developing scalable and cost-effective monitoring capacities to track SOC changes and GHG emissions; (2) synthesis of multi-source observations to infer cropland SOC changes and GHG emissions, including those from near-surface/airborne/satellite remote sensing, ground surveys, long-term agricultural experiments, and intensive sensor networks; (3) multi-scale process-based modeling of crop, management, environmental, and economic aspects of the agricultural system; and (4) systematic model-data integration to support measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of GHG emissions and decision-making for improved farming practice, policy design, and economic returns.
Co-Organized:
- B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:
0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Primary Convener: Bin Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Agroecosystem Sustainability Center, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Urbana, United States
Conveners: Zhenong Jin, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, Saint Paul, United States, Jinyun Tang, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States and Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Urbana, United States
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