Joint workshops and publications

In addition to public engagement events at annual U.S. and international scientific meetings and at CCIWG-sponsored or co-sponsored public meetings of different science groups, the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program Office has sponsored, organized or co-organized multiple topical workshops and publications with the U.S. and global science community to advance, coordinate and communicate carbon cycle science with a collaborative and innovative approach.

Some examples of such sponsored workshops and resultant publications are listed below, with links to the pertinent news item(s) or page published on our website.

 

1. Open Science Meetings of the North American Carbon Program

...With 528 registered participants and over 1700 total views throughout 4 consecutive Fridays....

 

2. State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2)

With over 200 contributing experts, this interagency decadal Highly Influential Scientific Assessment (HISA) was led by the Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (CCIWG) and U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program under U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) auspices from 2015 to 2018. It was reviewed by 13 U.S. Government agencies and departments, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the general public before final release in November 2018. SOCCR2 is a Sustained Assessment report of the USGCRP and can be accessed via https://carbon2018.globalchange.govSee SOCCR2 Workshops and other Public engagement activities.

 

3. Regional Carbon Assessment

REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes (RECCAP) Special Issue

RECCAP-1 was an activity of the Global Carbon Project, with two major sponsors: E.U. COCOS (Coordination Action on Carbon Observation Systems) and the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program. In 2011, a joint meeting of the sponsors and all-lead authors' meeting  was organized by the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program in West Virginia….

 

4. Coastal and Blue Carbon Data

Global Science and Data Network for Coastal Blue Carbon Workshop completed

... a Global Science and Data Network for Coastal Blue Carbon Workshop in Menlo Park, California from January 12 to 14, 2016. A total of 47 ...

Workshop Announcement: 'Global Science and Data Network for Coastal Blue Carbon'

... Science Program/CCIWG and partners will convene a planning workshop to develop a template toward establishing a Global Science and Data Network for Coastal Blue Carbon. At this initial --------workshop, scientists, coastal practitioners and other data users will discuss ...

 

5. Soil Carbon

Publications: U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program International Decade of Soils

... the International Decade of Soils (2015–2024) Workshop at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in ... A number of publications were published as outputs from this workshop. The goals and outcomes of the workshop are described in the ...

Workshop Report: Soil Carbon Resilience and Vulnerability

The workshop’s primary goals were to improve understanding of the vulnerability ...

Soil Carbon Vulnerability and Resilience Workshop completed

... CO International Decade of Soils (IDOS) Workshop UCAR Campus Greene Building Boulder, CO March ... the Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (CCIWG) Workshop Planning Committee:  Melanie Mayes (ORNL), Kate Lajtha (Oregon ...

Preliminary Announcement: Workshop to celebrate 2015 International Year of Soil (Understanding Soil’s Resilience and Vulnerability)

... Cycle Science Program Office at the USGCRP, is sponsoring a workshop emerging from the 2015 International Year of Soil theme, ... role of soils in generating feedbacks to climate.  This workshop will help to inform the soils topic in the upcoming second State of ...

 

6. Carbon Observations

Workshop Report: Strengthening the Observational Basis for Carbon Science, Policy

... summarizing the CCIWG / U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program workshop 'Sustained Observations for Carbon Cycle Science and Decision ... Cycle Interagency Working Group, via the CCSP, sponsored a workshop hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s ...

Workshop: Sustained Observations to Support Carbon Cycle Science and Management

... Announcement of CCIWG/U.S. Carbon Cycle Science sponsored workshop: Sustained Observations to Support Carbon Cycle Science and Management Workshop Date:  April 13-14,  2016 (2 days)

 

7. Carbon Cycle Predictions

CCIWG Carbon Cycle Predictions Workshop report published

A report on the CCIWG sponsored Carbon Cycle Predictions workshop has been published by AGU EOS.

Carbon Cycle Predictions workshop completed

... Predictive Carbon Cycle Science.. A CCIWG-sponsored Workshop “Development of Predictive Carbon Cycle Science” was convened at ... carbon cycles, and human emission participated in the workshop.  Several CCIWG members also attended the meeting. ...

Preliminary Workshop Announcement: Development of Predictive Carbon Cycle Science

... 2, 2015 Washington, D.C.   Workshop Date: March 7-March 9, 2016 (2.5 days) Workshop Venue: NOAA NCWCP Conference Center, College Park, Maryland   ...

 

8. Human Carbon Interactions in Cities

Special Thematic Set: Urbanization, Carbon Cycle, and Climate Change

... The papers from the urban carbon and human interactions workshop that the CCIWG/US Carbon Cycle Science Program Office sponsored and ... U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program —sponsored a workshop last year with natural and social scientists and engineers from within ...

Completion of Workshop on Human-Carbon Interactions in Urban Systems

... the final publications and recommendations catalyzed by this workshop here . ... Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (CCIWG) sponsored a workshop on Human-Carbon Interactions in Urban Systems from October 16-18, 2013 ... the rationale of and outcomes from this activity. Workshop on Human-Carbon Interactions in Urban Systems October 16-18, 2013, ...

October 2013 Workshop on Human-Carbon Interactions in Urban Systems

A Workshop on Human-Carbon Interactions in Urban Systems wil be held from October ... Cycle Interagency Working Group (CCIWG) is sponsoring this workshop to examine the state of the science and gaps in knowledge related to ... interdisciplinary research community. The outcome of the workshop will be a foundational paper that will serve as an input for a truly ...

 

9. Carbon-Climate Uncertainties in Earth System Modeling

EOS article on Carbon-Climate Uncertainties and ESM Workshop

... article summarizes and presents the major outcomes of the workshop that the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program/CCIWG co-sponsored in ...

Completion of 'Key Uncertainties in the Global Carbon-Cycle' workshop

... Boulder, Colorado   The August 2013 workshop on ' Key Uncertainties in the Global Carbon-Cycle: Perspectives ... Co-sponsored by the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, this workshop's recorded videos/presentations and slides are now available here ...

Workshop on Key Uncertainties in the Global Carbon Cycle

A workshop on ' Key Uncertainties in the Global Carbon-Cycle: Perspectives ... National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. The workshop seeks to develop a multi-disciplinary approach to global carbon cycle ... The U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program is co-sponsoring this workshop with NCAR ASP, NSF, U.S. CLIVAR and OCB. LIVE WEBCAST of the ...

 

10. Paper: Managing the Carbon Cycle Requires Strong Science

'...inspired by nonconsensus discussions of the Carbon Cycle Scientific Steering Group.... Opinion Piece published in collaboration with the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program community....Current and future advances in climate policy depend on a robust infrastructure for science and observation of the carbon cycle at multiple scales......Comprehensive plans that include both short- and long-term interdisciplinary strategies for the carbon cycle science needed to support climate policy already exist....Now is the time for their implementation.’

 

11. A Carbon Cycle Science Plan (2011)

U.S. Scientists Call for Integrated Study of Carbon Cycle - In 2011, the carbon cycle science community in the United States finished its planning process for carbon cycle research for the upcoming decade. This reassessment of the U.S. carbon cycle science priorities was initiated by the U.S. Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (CCIWG) and the Carbon Cycle Science Steering Group (CCSSG) in 2008.

 

12. Previous major publications and workshop reports

Climate Change Science Program. The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American carbon budget and implications for the global carbon cycle. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research [King, A.W., L. Dilling, G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A. Houghton, G. Marland, A.Z. Rose, and T.J. Wilbanks (eds.)]. Asheville, NC: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center.  [document homepage]

Hales, B. et al. [eds.]. 2008. North American Continental Margins: a synthesis and planning workshop. Report of the North American Continental Margins Working Group for the U.S. Carbon Cycle Scientific Group and Interagency Working Group. Washington, DC: U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program.

Birdsey, R. et al. 2009. Carbon Cycle Observations: Gaps Threaten Climate Mitigation Strategies. small pdf icon in red and white Eos 90(34):292.  [supplementary material]

Michalak, A.M., R. Jackson, G. Marland, and C. Sabine. 2009. A U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan: First Meeting of the Carbon Cycle Science Working Group; Washington, D.C., 17-18 November 2008. small pdf icon in red and white EOS, Trans. American Geophys. Union, 90(12), 102-103.

Hales, B. et al. [eds.]. 2008. North American Continental Margins: A Synthesis and Planning Workshopsmall pdf icon in red and white  Report of the North American Continental Margins Working Group for the U.S. Carbon Cycle Scientific Group and Interagency Working Group. Washington, DC: U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program.  [order a hard copy]

Lueger, H., R. Wanninkhof, A. Olsen, J. Trinanes, T. Johannessen, D. Wallace, and A. Koertzinger, 2008. The CO2 Air-Sea Flux in the North Atlantic Estimated from Satellite Data and ARGO Profiling Float Data. small pdf icon in red and white NOAA Technical Memorandum, OAR AOML-96, 28 pp.

Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) Project. SOCAT Meeting Reports, Paris, France. 

The United States Carbon Cycle Science Program: An Interagency Partnership. small pdf icon in red and white Poster presented at the 50th Anniversary of the Global CO2 Record Conference, November 28-30, 2007.

Law, B. and R. Valentini. 2007. Comparative analysis of carbon balance and dynamics: influence of climate variabilitysmall pdf icon in red and white Presentation to the US-Italy Bilateral Meeting on Climate Change, June 18, 2007.

Bender, M. et al. 2002. A large-scale CO2 observing plan: in situ oceans and atmosphere (LSCOP). small pdf icon in red and white A Report of the In Situ Large-Scale CO2 Observations Working Group. A Contribution to the Implementation of the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan. Seattle, WA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

National Science Foundation, Division of Earth Sciences. 2000. The Changing Carbon Cycle: A Terrestrial Focus. Report of the Workshop on the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle small pdf icon in red and white, June 3, 2000.

A U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan (1999) (Sarmiento and Wofsy, 1999), reflects the combined knowledge and insight of prominent carbon cyclescientists and well-informed science program managers in both academia and federal government. The vision is that an integrated interdisciplinary science, multi-agency partnership, new and advanced technology and advanced modeling approaches would yield better understanding of the carbon storage, sources and sinks in North America and adjacent ocean basins, and that the research would strengthen the scientific foundation for resource management and policy decisions in numerous areas of public in numerous areas of public interest.