We would like to call your attention to a session at this years AGU directly focused on linking the terrestrial and aquatic carbon cycles using field based and modeling techniques. This topic is shaping up to be an exciting area of research and the AGU fall meeting will be a great place to see what everyone is up to. Thanks.
"Studies of aquatic and terrestrial C cycling are often conducted in isolation of one another. However, knowledge of the form and flux of C between land and water is critically important to our understanding and prediction of the global C cycle. Without experimentation that explores and quantifies this connection, process-based and empirically driven models of terrestrial C cycling cannot include accurate estimates of the terrestrial to aquatic flux of C. We encourage submissions from the plot scale to global carbon budgeting that investigate: (1) Mechanistic controls of C fluxes between soils and aquatic systems, (2) Cross-system comparisons of dissolved C composition, source, age, and/or reactivity (3) Watershed-scale drivers of C export." Sponsors: Biogeoscience, Global Environmental Change and Hydrology Session Organizers: Corey Lawrence (US Geological Survey) David Butman (Yale University and US Geological Survey) Yoko Masue-Slowey (Stanford University and University of California, Santa Barbara) Cory McDonald (US Geological Survey) http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/session-search/single/linking-the-terrestrial-and-aquatic- carbon- cycles/
