Tuesday, November 6, 2007: 9:25 AM
Convention Center, Room 222, Second Floor
213: Symposium--Can Forest Soils be Used for Carbon Credits or Registries?
Sponsor:S07 Forest, Range & Wildland Soils
Presiding:Alexander Friend, USDA-FS (Forest Service)
9:25 AM Introductory Remarks
9:30 AM213-1Forest Soil Carbon Sequestration: Quantifying this Ecosystem Service.
Mark G. Johnson, US-EPA(Environ. Protection Agency)
9:45 AM213-2Should Forest Soil Carbon be Counted?: Narrowing the Focus.
Eric Vance, National Council-Air & Steam Imprv.
10:00 AM213-3Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in Northern Forests: Values and Variability.
Coeli Hoover, USDA-FS (Forest Service)
10:15 AM213-4Genotypic and Forest Management Effects on Size-Density Fractions of Soil Carbon in a Forested Spodosol.
Deoyani V. Sarkhot, University of Florida, Eric J. Jokela, University of Florida, Nicholas Comerford, University of Florida
10:30 AM213-5Sequestration of Carbon in Forest Soils: Constraints Imposed by Nitrogen?.
Dale Johnson, University of Nevada - Reno Library, Donald Todd, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM213-6Quantifying the Impacts of Forest Management on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling.
Lucas Nave, Ohio State University - Columbus, Peter Curtis, Ohio State University - Columbus, Alexander Friend, USDA-FS (Forest Service), Eric Vance, National Council-Air & Steam Imprv.
11:15 AM213-7Representation of Soil Carbon in the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector.
Cindy Shaw, Canadian Forest Service, E. Banfield, Canadian Forest Service, B. Simpson, Canadian Forest Service, Werner Kurz, Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre
11:30 AM213-8Active vs Passive Carbon Management. The Role of Plantation Forestry in the West.
Robert F. Powers, PSW Research Station, USDA Forest Service
11:45 AM Discussion
12:00 PM Concluding Remarks
12:10 PM Adjourn

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