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Symposium--Towards a Conceptual Model of Soil Carbon Cycling Across Scales: I

Oral Session

SSSA Division: Soil Chemistry

This session will focus on soil carbon cycling, considering molecular aspects of soil carbon chemistry and mineral associations to ecosystem-scale carbon dynamics.

Cosponsor(s):

Soil Biology & Biochemistry, Forest, Range & Wildland Soils
Tuesday, November 5, 2013: 8:30 AM-12:10 PM
Tampa Convention Center, Room 3 and 4
Organizers:
Peter Nico and Rodrigo Vargas
Presiders:
Peter Nico and Rodrigo Vargas
8:30 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:35 AM
268-1
From Litter Decomposition to SOM Formation: What Are We Missing?.
M. Francesca Cotrufo, Colorado State University
9:00 AM
268-2
Challenges to Measuring and Modeling Soil Organic Matter Stability.
Alain F. Plante, University of Pennsylvania
9:25 AM
268-3
Aggregates to Ecosystems: Representing Managment Impacts On Soil C Turnover.
Keith Paustian, Colorado State University; Eleanor Campbell, Colorado State University; Gabriel Olchin, Dupont Crop Protection; Johan Six, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
9:50 AM
268-4
Linking Aggregate-Scale Mechanisms and Landscape-Scale Drivers to Understand Soil Carbon Dynamics.
Julie D. Jastrow, Argonne National Laboratory
10:15 AM
Break
10:30 AM
268-5
Invertebrate Controlled Spatial and Temporal Gradients in Soil Chemistry.
Timothy Filley, Purdue University
10:55 AM
268-6
The Role of Mineral Surface Chemistry in Determining the Composition and Mean Residence Time of the Stabilized Soil Organic Matter Pool.
Katherine Heckman, USDA Forest Service
11:20 AM
268-7
Minerals and Fire: Controls On Soil Carbon Storage in Western Conifer Forests.
Craig Rasmussen, University of Arizona
11:45 AM
268-8
Mineral-Associated Organic Matter.
Karin Eusterhues, Institut für Geowissenschaften
12:10 PM
Concluding Remarks
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