e-NEWS December 2005
VULNERABILITY OF CARBON IN TROPICAL PEATLANDS |
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23-26 January 2006, Sumatra, Indonesia |
The first workshop of a series will take place in Sumatra in January
2006. Over 40 scientists from all over the world working on tropical
peatlands will start a synthesis and modelling project to assess the
likely trajectories of carbon emissions from tropical peatlands due
to land use change and warming. A second component of the activity will
develop strategies for increased resilience and sustainability of tropical
peatlands. The activity is conducted under a partnership between the
GCP, the Global Environment Centre (Malaysia), and CIFOR (Indonesia).
The activity is supported by a grant from the Asia Pacific Network (APN)
and funding from the three partner members. Workshop Scoping Paper (pdf, 128Kb) Contact: Pep Canadell, Faizal Parish, and Daniel Murdiyarso. |
NETWORKS OF COMMUNITY ACTION FOR DECARBONIZING JAPAN |
9 February 2006, Tokyo, Japan |
In preparation for the Mexico City conference on Carbon Management at
Urban and Regional Levels (Sept. 4-8, 2006) and the Beijing meeting
on Dynamic Change in Asia-Pacific Carbon Cycle within the Earth System
Context (March 13-15, 2006), the GCP will host a networking meeting
of researchers, community leaders, and international champions of ozone
layer protection. The conference, entitled Creating Networks of Community
Action for Realizing a Decarbonized Society in Japan, will be held at
the Tokyo offices of NIES. Contact: Penelope Canan |
SUSTAINABLE HUMAN SETTLEMENTS |
14-26 February 2006, South Africa |
Local Governments for Sustainability, together with the University of
Cape Town, invite you to a Researchers’ Symposium to be held on
the 24-25 February 2006 prior to the ICLEI World Congress 2006 in Cape
Town, South Africa. This event seeks to attract researchers from a wide
range of disciplines involved in empirical and applied research in the
field of Sustainable Human Settlements and their governance. Symposium Website: www.iclei.org/worldcongress2006/researcher |
ASIA-PACIFIC TERRESTRIAL CARBON SINK DYNAMICS IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT |
13-15 March 2006, Beijing, China |
As the major inaugural regional effort of the new GCP Affiliated Office
in Beijing a workshop on the Asia Pacific terrestrial sink dynamics
will take place in Beijing. The goals of the workshop are to produce:
i) a synthesis publication on the dynamics of Asian-Pacific terrestrial
carbon sink and research directions; and ii) a collaborative research
program on the dynamic regional carbon budget through synthesis of multi-scale
observational data and mechanistic modeling. Workshop Scoping Paper (pdf, 416Kb) Contact: Mingkui Cao Website: http://www.cern.ac.cn/12lj/caomingkui/gcpindex.htm |
VULNERABILITY OF FROZEN CARBON |
28-30 March 2006, Santa Barbara, California |
A
workshop series to undertake a synthesis and modeling exercise on the
future carbon dynamics of frozen soil will start in March 2006 at the
National Center of Analyses and Ecological Synthesis (NCEAS) in Santa
Barbara, CA, USA. This activity is conducted under a partnership between
the GCP, the International Permafrost Association (IPA), and the WCRP-Climate
and the Cryosphere project (CliC). The activity is supported by grants
from NCEAS and ICSU. Workshop Scoping Paper (pdf, 91Kb) Contact: Chris Field, Pep Canadell |
CLIMATE
VARIABILITY AND THE CARBON CYCLE (Past, Present and Future): CL044-EuroCLIMATE open session in European Geosciences Union (EGU) |
2-7 April 2006, Vienna, Austria |
EuroCLIMATE
is an ESF-EUROCORES programme that calls for basic research addressing
climate variability and the carbon cycle (past, present and future),
and in particular their interrelationship, in a European framework.
It is supported particularly by research funding agencies from Austria,
Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, The Netherlands,
Spain, and Sweden, and by the European Science Foundation. Multi-proxy
reconstructions from all available archives bring the marine, the terrestrial
and the ice-core communities together on cross-cutting issues, such
as obtaining a common timeframe, and will allow coupled climate models
used for global warming scenarios to be validated on European and regional
scales. In this session, we invite contributions to those themes. Contact: Jelle Bijma, Bernard Avril Conference Website: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2006 |
CARBON FUSION: DATA ASSIMILATION IN TERRESTRIAL CARBON CYCLE SCIENCE |
9-11 May, 2006, United Kingdom |
This
is an international collaborative effort to bring together researchers
to determine how data assimilation can generate improved insights into
the processes underlying the terrestrial C cycle, and the enhancement
of the prognostic capabilities. Carbon Fusion is funded by the UK-NERC
with CTD, CLASSIC, DARK, and QUEST. First meeting will take place 9-11
May 2006, in the UK. Contact: Mathew Williams and Shaun Quegan Project Website: http://www.carbonfusion.org/ |
VULNERABILITY OF THE CARBON CYCLE TO DROUGHT AND FIRE |
5-9 June 2006 Canberra, Australia |
Initial
results show that recent climate trends and higher intra- and inter-annual
variability with more frequent hot and dry summers may have increased
the amplitude of the seasonal cycle of CO2 and decreased the strength
of the terrestrial carbon sink. A first workshop to explore this issue
will take place in Canberra, Australia, 5-9 June 2006. The workshop
is co-sponsored by ARC-NESS, and IGBP-AIMS. Workshop Scoping Paper (pdf, 91Kb) Contact: Mike Raupach, Pep Canadell |
MODEL-DATA FUSION: APPLICATIONS TO CARBON-CLIMATE-HUMAN SYSTEMS |
9-12 July, Vermont, USA |
Conference homepage: http://www.iemss.org/iemss2006/welcome.html Contact: Georgii Alexandrov |
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON REGIONAL CARBON BUDGETS |
August 16-18, 2006, Beijing, China |
Sponsored Conference. The purpose of this conference is to bring together
scientists from different disciplines to communicate the most recent
results pertinent to the regional carbon budgets. Topics will include
observations and measurements, ecosystem carbon processes and driving
forces, modeling and data assimilation, carbon budgets: sources, sinks
and inventories, and mitigation and adaptation. Conference Website: http://www.icrcb.org.cn/ |
6th SSC MEETING OF THE GLOBAL CARBON PROJECT |
31 August – 2 September, Mexico City |
The meeting will include a short session to interact with the newly established National Carbon Cycle Program in Mexico, and followed by the URCM conference in the same location. |
URBAN
AND REGIONAL CARBON MANAGEMENT AT LOCAL AND REGIONAL LEVELS: Connecting Development Decisions to Global Issues. Open Science Conference |
4-8 September 2006, Mexico City, Mexico |
This will be the conference to launch the Urban and Regional Carbon
Management (URCM) flagship of the GCP (Theme 3). The conference is co-sponsored
by: Urbanization and Global Environmental Change, Industrial Transformations,
Global Land Project, Analyses, Integrations and Modeling of the Earth
System, START, Metropolitan Autonomous University, and the National
Institute of Ecology (Mexico). The call for papers will be issued late
January 2006. Conference Announcement: Connecting Dev. Decisions to Global Issues (pdf, 54Kb) Contact: Penelope Canan, Paty Romero, Mike Apps |
2nd EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE PARTNERSHIP (ESSP) OPEN SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Global Environmental Change: Regional Challenges |
9-12 November, Beijing, China |
The first
Global Change Open Science Conference, held in Amsterdam in 2001, was
a milestone in the scientific, political and public understanding of this
far reaching topic. This conference provides the opportunity for the presentation
of advances since the Amsterdam Conference in our understanding of the
natural and social systems of global environmental change and to highlight
the ESSP approach to study of the Earth System. The GCP has submitted
6 proposals for sessions: South China Sea carbon–Arthur Chen; URCM-Paty
Romero; Methodologies for C footprints-Penelope Canan; Regional C budgets-Mingkui
Cao; Terrestrial carbon cycle management-Yoshi Yamagata; Vulnerabilities
of the carbon cycle-Pep Canadell/Mike Raupach. Conference Website: www.essp.org/essp/ESSP2006/index.html |
INTERNATIONAL OCEAN CARBON COORDINATION PROJECT (IOCCP) |
A number of the ocean carbon activities for which the GCP provided coordination, in conjunction with the IOC-SCOR CO2 Panel, have been transfered over the new IOCCP with new sponsorship. The project continues being very successful with the addition of Roger Dargaville as part of the Executive team along with Maria Hood. For more information visit the project website: http://ioccp.org/ |