Soil carbon storage regulates our climate and provides the basis for ecosystem and agricultural productivity.....

...Despite many observations of the terrestrial, marine, atmosphere and anthropogenic carbon cycles, models don’t simulate the processes that are important for the future climate well....

NASA, USDA, DOE, and NOAA seek proposals to improve understanding of changes in the distribution and cycling of carbon among the active land, ocean, coastal, and atmospheric reservoirs and how that understanding can be used to establish a scientific foundation for societal responses to global environmental change....