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The Carbon Cycle Science Working Group recently released a scoping paper outlining program goals and expected accomplishments for the next decade of US carbon cycle science. Over the next year, this document will be expanded into a full US Carbon Cycle Science Plan. If you wish to comment on this document, you may do so via the Carbon Cycle Science Planning Blog or by sending an email to CCSPlan@gmail.com.
You may also read more about the planning effort and a meeting of the Carbon Cycle Science Working Group in a recent Eos Meeting Report, published March 24 and on our Carbon Cycle Science Planning for the Next Decade page. (April 15, 2009)
A new high-resolution, interactive map of U.S. carbon dioxide
emissions from fossil fuels is now available on Google Earth.
With a few clicks on Google Earth, anyone can now view pollution from factories, power
plants, roadways, and residential and commercial areas for their state, county or per capita.
Individuals also can easily see how their county compares to others across the nation.
A team led by scientists at Purdue University developed the maps and system, named Vulcan
after the Roman god of fire. The system quantifies all of the carbon dioxide emissions that result
from burning fossil fuels such as coal and gasoline.
More information is available online:
The carbon cycle science community recently began an effort to update and revise the very successful 1999 A U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan – written by a committee chaired by Jorge Sarmiento and Steve Wofsy. The community now has an opportunity to decide how to outline and prioritize a research agenda on the carbon cycle for the next decade. Four co-chairs have been selected for this activity and an effort has been made to select a working group that represents the breadth of the U.S. carbon cycle research community. For more information about this activity, please visit our new page on Carbon Cycle Science Planning for the Next Decade. (February 11, 2009)
Benway, H.M. and S.C. Doney. 2008. Ocean carbon cycling and climate impacts on marine ecosystems. EOS, Trans. American Geophys. Union, 89(47), 472. [pdf]
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. NOAA Technical Memorandum, OAR AOML-96, 28 pp. [pdf]
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. EOS, Trans. American Geophys. Union, 90(12), 102-103. [pdf]
Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) Project. 2008. SOCAT-2 Meeting Report, Paris, France (June 16-17, 2008). IOCCP Report No. 9. 39 pp. [pdf]
Schuur, E.A.G. et al. 2008. Vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change: implications for the global carbon cycle. Bioscience 58(8):701-714. [Abstract and paper are available from Bioscience]
The calendar below displays both funding opportunities (green) and events related to carbon cycle science (blue).
You may use the arrows at the upper left to scroll through the calendar, the tabs at the upper right to change to different calendar views, and the pull down menu at the upper right to turn each of these calendars on or off. Clicking on an entry will allow you to get more information, including relevant web sites, and to add events to your own calendar. You may also subscribe to these calendars by clicking the "+ Google Calendar" button in the lower right corner.
The history of the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program and its mission and vision, research strategy, and guiding scientific questions
The U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program plans and coordinates interdisciplinary carbon cycle research via the Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group, Carbon Cycle Scientific Steering Group, the North American Carbon Program, the Ocean Carbon and Climate Change Program, and the State of the Carbon Cycle Report
Ten federal agencies and departments support and execute U.S. carbon cycle research via the Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group
Recent news about the US Carbon Cycle Science Program and related activities
Upcoming events related to the US Carbon Cycle Science Program
Learn more about the process now underway to develop a new carbon cycle science plan for the next decade
Carbon cycle research funding opportunities, including requests for proposals and postdoctoral positions
Learn more about federal carbon cycle science activities
Find all of the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program documents here, as well as links to U.S. Climate Change Science Program and U.S. Global Change Research Program documents
Links to related research efforts in the U.S. and North America, Europe, and around the world
This page last updated April 15, 2009 .