Primary Convener:
Sophie von Fromm, Dartmouth College

Convener:
Avni Malhotra, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Katerina Georgiou, University of California Berkeley
Samantha Weintraub-Leff, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle

Early Career Convener:
Katherine Rocci, Colorado State University

Chair:
Sophie von Fromm, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry
Avni Malhotra, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Samantha Weintraub-Leff, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle

Soils play a major role in provisioning key ecosystem services, including nutrient supply, carbon (C) storage, and regulating atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. Better constraints on the cross-scale mechanisms that regulate soil C pools and fluxes are needed to improve understanding and provide insights into how global change will affect soil C persistence and vulnerability. This session will focus on empirical, synthesis, and modeling studies that address the stabilization and change of soil C, including but not limited to: storage capacity, ages and transit times of soil C, soil fluxes and pools, interactions with nutrients and metals, mechanisms of protection and stabilization/destabilization (including new methods to measure and monitor change), and ecosystem vulnerability. Studies involving manipulation experiments (e.g., precipitation, litter), long-term or large-scale data collection or synthesis, and model-data integration are strongly encouraged.

Index Terms
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling
0428 Carbon cycling
0470 Nutrients and nutrient cycling
0486 Soils|pedology

Suggested Itineraries:
Biochemistry
Open Science and Open Data

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering

Cross-Listed:
GC - Global Environmental Change