Plenary Talks

Theme 2: Process and regional studies

Tropics

09.00 – 09.15
Climate-fire feedbacks in tropical ecosystems: Insight from a 12-year satellite time series of global fires
James Randerson (Irvine/GB), Guido van der Werf (Amsterdam/NL), Michael Tosca, Fuu-Ming Kai,Yang Chen, Mingquan Mu (Irvine/GB), Louis Giglio, Douglas Morton, G. James Collatz (Greenbelt/US), Prasad Kasibhatla (Durham/US), Ruth DeFries (New York/US)

09.15 – 09.30
The seasonal behaviour of carbon fluxes in the Amazon: fusion of FLUXNET data and the ORCHIDEE model
Hans Verbeeck (Gent/BE), Philippe Peylin, Cédric Bacour, Philippe Ciais(Gif sur Yvette/F)

09.30 – 09.45
Seasonal, interannual and decadal variability of the sea-to-air CO2 fluxes in the tropical Pacific and Atlantic Ocea
Xiujun Wang, Raghu Murtugudde, Antonio Busalacchi (College Park/US)

09.45 – 10.00
Physical and biogeochemical influences on the oceanic CO2 system revealed by the first 20 years of the Hawaii Ocean Time-series
John Dore (Bozeman/US), Roger Lukas, Daniel Sadler, Matthew Church, David Karl (Honolulu/US)

High latitudes

11.30 – 11.45
An Analysis of the Carbon Balance of the Arctic Basin from 1997 to 2006
Dave McGuire, Daniel Hayes (Fairbanks/US), David Kicklighter (Woods Hole/US), Manfredi Manizza (Cambridge/US), Qianlai Zhuang, Min Chen (West LafayetteUS), Mick Follows (Cambridge/US), Kevin Gurney (West Lafayette/US), James McClelland (Port Aransas/US), Jerry Melillo, Bruce Peterson (Woods Hole/US), Ronald Prinn (Cambridge/US)

11.45 – 12.00
The carbon cycle of Arctic Fennoscandia: Assimilating multi-scale observations into ecological models
Mathew Williams, Paul Stoy (Edinburgh/UK), Robert Baxter (Durham/UK), Mathias Disney (London/UK), Jon Evans (Wallingford/UK), Ben Fletcher (Sheffied/UK), Jemma Gornall (Durham/UK), Richard Harding (Wallingford/UK), Iain Hartley (Stirling/UK), Tim Hill, John Moncrieff (Edinburgh/UK), Gareth Phoenix, Victoria Pope (Sheffied/UK), Rafa Poyatos (Durham/UK), Ana Prieto-Blanco (London/UK), Lorna Street, Tom Wade (Edinburgh/UK), Phil Wookey (Stirling/UK)

12.00 – 12.15
Permafrost thaw stimulates old carbon release and alters net carbon exchange from tundra
Edward Schuur, Jason Vogel, Kathryn Crummer, Hanna Lee (Gainesville/US), James Sickman (Riverside/US), Tom Osetrkamp (Fairbanks/US)

12.15 – 12.30
Modeling and quantifying the contemporary CO2 sink of the Arctic Ocean (1996-2007)
Manfredi Manizza, Michael Follows, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Christopher Hill (Cambridge/US), Dimitris Menemenlis (Pasadena/US), Robert Key (Princeton/US)

Global processes and key feedbacks

14.30 – 14.45
The potential of marine biogeochemical processes to feedback to atmospheric CO2.
Marion Gehlen, Leif G. Andersen, Richard J. Bellerby, Jorgen Bendtsen, Laurent Bopp, Lei Chou, Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Richard J. Geider, Christoph Heinze, Fortunat Joos, Julie LaRoche, Christopher M. Moore, Ulf Riebesell, Joachim Segschneider, Dieter A. Wolf-Gladrow (Gif-sur-Yvette/FR)

14.45 – 15.00
Large scale response of the marine biological carbon pumps to high CO2 as inferred from global sediment modeling
Christoph Heinze (Bergen/NO)

15.00 – 15.15
Monitoring the Global Cycles of Carbonyl Sulfide and CO2: A Possible New Window on the Carbon Cycle.
Joe Berry, Elliott Campbell (Stanford,Merced/US)

15.15 – 15.30
Using the age of microbially respired carbon to indicate the capacity for ecosystem carbon storage and changes in soil carbon cycling
Susan Trumbore, Claudia Czimczik, Nicole Nowinski, Xiaomei XU, Matthew Khosh, Francesca Hopkins, James Randerson (Jena/DE, Irvine/US)

Regional budget studies

17.00 – 17.15
Towards well-constrained continental flux estimates: Progress in the North American Carbon Program
Kenneth Davis (University Park/US), Simone Alin (Seattle/US), Paula Coble (Tampa Bay/US), Robert Cook (Oak Ridge/US), Scott Denning (Fort Collins/US), Peter Griffith (Greenbelt/US), Andrew Jacobson (Boulder/US), Deborah Huntzinger (Ann Arbor/US), Anthony King, Wilfred Post, Peter Thornton (Oak Ridge/US), Stephen Ogle (Fort Collins/US), Andrew Richardson, Linda Heath (Durham/US), Kevin Schaefer (Boulder/US), Steven Wofsy (Cambridge/US), Alan Barr (Saksatoon/CA), Werner Kurz (Victoria/CA), Daniel Ricciuto (Oak Ridge/US)

17.15 – 17.30
How well can we infer hourly fossil fuel CO2 using high-precision 14C and quasicontinuous CO observations?
Felix Robert Vogel, Bernd Kromer, Ingeborg Levin (Heidelberg/DE), Christoph Gerbig, Axel Steinhof (Jena/DE)

17.30 – 17.45
Attenuation of low frequency underwater sound absorption due to ocean acidification
Tatjana Ilyina, Richard Zeebe (Honolulu/US), Peter Brewer (Moss Landing/US)

17.45 – 18.00
Air-sea CO2 flux in the North Atlantic in 2004 through 2006 estimated by the neural network
Maciej Telszewski, Ute Schuster, Andy J. Watson, Dorothee C.E. Bakker (Norwich/US), Melchior González-Dávila, Magdalena Santana-Casiano (Las Palmas/ES), Truls Johannessen, Are Olsen (Bergen/NO), Arne Körtzinger, Tobias Steinhoff, Douglas W.R. Wallace (Kiel/DE), Heike Lüger, Rik Wanninkhof (Miami/US), X.A. Padin, Aida Rios (Vigo/ES)