News and Opportunities

(Unless otherwise noted, all news pieces were written by Gyami Shrestha.)

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2014

September, 2014

...The 2014 Budget comprises four analyses that present emissions data for 2013, projections for 2014, and implications for future climate change and energy choices....The Global Carbon Atlas, worldwide and by country....

Conceptualized during the the CCIWG/US Carbon Cycle Science sponsored Workshop on Human-Carbon Interactions in Urban Systems....

August, 2014

Since its initiation in 2007, this activity has brought together scientists involved in two core elements of the USGCRP: the North American Carbon Program (NACP) and the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program (OCB)....

...investigations to advance the development of a carbon monitoring system (CMS). Emphasis is directed towards continued development of CMS pilot studies and acquisition, field sampling, quantification, and development of prototype Monitoring Reporting and Verification (MRV) system capabilities.

...of interest to AmeriFlux, Fluxnet, NACP, CarboNA principal investigators, researchers & students; those interested in the carbon cycle of North America & adjacent coastal waters; scientists and government managers associated with US, Canadian, and Mexican Carbon Programs; social scientists, policy makers, stakeholders; and others seeking to improve the scientific basis of decision making.

July, 2014

Applications should focus on measurements, experiments, modeling or synthesis to provide improved quantitative and predictive understanding of terrestrial ecosystems....

Multi-agency earth observations, global climate change, R & D for informed policy-making and management are prioritized by OMB and OSTP....

Several sessions, including ours, are accepting carbon, GHG research abstracts for the December 2014 AGU meeting in San Francisco....

A blueprint for maximizing the value of observations collected by Federal agencies of the Earth’s land surfaces, oceans, and atmosphere....

Regional Ecosystem Prediction Program; Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research, Multiple effects of ocean acidification and nutrient loading to coastal marine ecosystems...

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