Primary Convener:
Florian Max Schwandner, NASA Ames Research Center

Convener:
Joshua Fisher, Hydrosat

Chair:
Florian Max Schwandner, NASA Ames Research Center
Joshua Fisher, Hydrosat

Geology provides the terrestrial biosphere with nutrients and substrates, but can have adverse, even catastrophic impacts through landslides, erosion, and volcanic eruptions. For instance, volcanology explores processes acting at time scales from minutes to years, over vast areas including vegetated flanks of volcanic edifices, acting continuously between eruptions and at times hidden from direct observation. Ecology explores processes acting at molecular to biome scales, with emphasis on structure, function, and composition in response to external and intrinsic conditions and forcing. Plants can record signals of volcanic activity and reflect changes in conditions including moisture, soil pH, CO₂ flooding, SO₂ and heat damage, and other factors. Geological systems can provide well-drained, nutrient-rich substrates and excess CO₂ conditions. These interactions offer important proxies of future conditions and of geological activity. We invite contributions from disciplines that explore intersects of geology, volcanology, land cover / land use change, terrestrial ecology, and related disciplines.

Index Terms
0428 Carbon cycling
0476 Plant ecology
8408 Volcano|climate interactions
8430 Volcanic gases

Cross-Listed:
NH - Natural Hazards
A - Atmospheric Sciences
V - Volcanology‚ Geochemistry and Petrology
GC - Global Environmental Change

Co-Organized Sessions:
Volcanology‚ Geochemistry and Petrology

Suggested Itineraries:
Biochemistry

Neighborhoods:
2. Earth Interior
3. Earth Covering