Understanding and Empowering Soil Management as a Climate Mitigation Option

All interested researchers and students are invited to attend. No registration is required for the short course. Seating is limited and is available on a first come, first served basis.

Program

Lecture 1 – “Climate, GHG Mitigation and CO2 Removal – A Role for Soils?” – David Schimel

• A big picture overview of climate, decarbonization and potential role of soils
• ‘Global carbon cycle’, ‘1500 Pg C in top m of soil globally’, ‘Estimates of potential CO2 removal globally or US’

Lecture 2 – “Dynamics of Soil Organic C and Soil GHG Emission in Agriculture – Environmental and Management Driver” – Hanna Poffenbarger

• Ecosystem-scale framing
• General ecology/biogeochemistry of SOM dynamics and soil GHGs in agricultural systems including management (and climate, edaphic) effects
• Bringing people up to speed on e.g., what controls OM levels in soils, decomposition, and stabilization processes, N20&CH4 emissions
• What determines turnover rates, how can management affect processes and rates, etc.

Lecture 3 – “Measurement and Modeling of Soil C and Soil GHGs” – Stephen Ogle

• How we quantify (i.e., measure and model) soil carbon stocks and stock changes and soil GHG fluxes
• Models and processes in the models that are used to simulate soil C stock and GHG (CO2, N2O, sometimes CH4) fluxes, primarily at ecosystem-landscape scales

Lecture 4 – “Earth Observation of C Dynamics of Agricultural Landscapes” – Christian Frankenberg

• Remote sensing of plant and soil systems that can inform on soil carbon and soil GHG dynamics

Short Course Presentations