Scaling boundaries in Science: A North American Carbon Cycle Example
Abstract
The North American Carbon Program (NACP) is a multi-agency, multidisciplinary scientific research program focused on carbon (C) sources, sinks and fluxes in North American and its adjacent oceans. This community of practice includes ~2600 participants from universities, government agencies, research institutes, and non-profit and other stakeholder organizations. Scientists funded by federal entities such as the Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group agencies and departments that form and support the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program normally participate in the NACP. This engagement allows for coordination among, and, synthesis of observational, experimental, and modeling efforts, yielding deeper insight into terrestrial, oceanic, atmospheric, and human components of the carbon cycle. Many NACP researchers contribute significantly to major international, highly influential scientific publications and activities such as the Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2), the National Climate Assessment, the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP), the Megacities Project, Coastal Carbon Coordination Network, the CO2-USA Network, the Global Carbon Project and IPCC. In recent years, the NACP community has encouraged and pursued the development of stronger linkages with relevant decision-makers to improve and convey actionable scientific understanding and knowledge across a range of ecosystems and scales. This presentation highlights pertinent key outcomes and upcoming high level products and opportunities made possible via collaborations facilitated by the NACP and U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program with U.S., North American and global science communities conducting research across land, ocean, atmosphere and society for over 20 years.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFM.B53J2520S
- Keywords:
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- 0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions;
- ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE;
- 0428 Carbon cycling;
- BIOGEOSCIENCES;
- 1631 Land/atmosphere interactions;
- GLOBAL CHANGE