Primary Convener:
Odeta Qafoku, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Convener:
Samantha Weintraub-Leff, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle
John Bargar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
William Hockaday, Baylor University
Emily Graham, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Early Career Convener:
Emily Graham, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Chair:
Samantha Weintraub-Leff, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle
William Hockaday, Baylor University

Understanding soil function responses at regional scale is key for predicting impacts on Earth systems. Soils sustain ecosystem services and host biodiversity that can power the bioeconomy. With impacts across regions, the microbial activity and abiotic reactions influence how soils store and release essential nutrients across scales, from molecular to pore-level. Yet, our ability to represent these mechanistic processes and predict soil dynamics are challenged by a lack of data-model connectivity. In this session, we welcome contributions with data from ecological networks, e.g., the Molecular Observation Network (MONet), National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER), AmeriFlux focused on cellular, molecular and pore-scale processes that provide mechanistic insights on biogeochemical cycling and enhance predictive modeling from pore to regional scales. Additionally, we encourage submissions integrating microbiological, mineralogical, physical, and biochemical perspectives to address how pore-scale structure and function, at spatial and temporal scales, informs ecosystem dynamics at global scale.

Index Terms
0410 Biodiversity
0412 Biogeochemical kinetics and reaction modeling
0426 Biosphere|atmosphere interactions
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics

Suggested Itineraries:
Biochemistry
Machine Learning and AI
Community and People-Powered Science
Open Science and Open Data

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering