Dear Colleagues, I would like to bring our AGU session to your attention. The description is listed below, please feel free to distribute it to anyone who is interested in this topic. The abstract submission is now open, and will close August 6, 2013.
Session: GC053 “Incorporating Microbial Mechanisms into Scalable Ecosystem Models” Section: Global Environmental Change Co-sponsors: Biogeosciences, Atmospheric Sciences Microbial-mediated ecosystem models offer exciting opportunities to improve modeling at a range of scales, by describing the decomposition of soil organic matter and transformation of nutrients driven by microbial-enzymes and mediated by pore-scale processes. Microbes are likely to acclimate to new environmental conditions, such as higher temperatures and changes in precipitation frequency and intensity. Our session will bring experimentalists and modelers together to identify current pathways and barriers to incorporating microbial mechanisms into Earth System Models (ESMs), and to discuss forward directions for scaling microbially-mediated processes observed in lab and field scales to ESMs under global change scenarios. Conveners: 1. Melanie Mayes, Oak Ridge National Lab, maye...@ornl.gov 2. Gangsheng Wang, Oak Ridge National Lab wa...@ornl.gov 3. Sindhu Jagadamma, Oak Ridge National Lab, jagadam...@ornl.gov 4. J. Megan Steinweg, Oak Ridge National Lab, steinwe...@ornl.gov Abstracts can be submitted at: https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/account/ Thanks, Meg Steinweg -- J. Megan Steinweg, PhD Microbial Ecologist Oak Ridge Associated Universities Oak Ridge National Laboratory megstein...@gmail.com **
