Dear Colleagues, This is a reminder of the following session at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting in San Francisco. We would like to bring this session to your attention:
*B041. Mechanistic representations of the temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition<http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/scientific-program/session-search/sessions/b041-mechanistic-representations-of-the-temperature-sensitivity-of-soil-organic-matter-decomposition-2/> .* We encourage you to consider submitting your abstract to this exciting session. Please distribute this notice as you see fit. *Confirmed Invited Speakers:* Eric Davidson, Woods Hole Research Center Jean-François (Jeff) Exbrayat, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Jinyun Tang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory *Description:* The temperature sensitivity of decomposition of soil organic matter (SOM) is uncertain, yet critical for accurate climate prediction. SOM decomposition depends on various interacting processes (e.g., microbial activity, surface interactions, aggregation, and input C and SOM chemistry), all of which depend differently on temperature. We invite presentations evaluating the effects of temperature on the biogeochemical cycling of carbon, focusing on (1) How do these processes vary with depth? (2) What are the impacts of abiotic controls? (3) How do we best model all these interactions to estimate overall temperature sensitivity? (4) What are the required observations to develop and test models? *Conveners:* Dipankar Dwivedi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Bhavna Arora, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory William Riley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Best regards, Dipankar Dwivedi Postdoc Fellow Climate Sciences Department Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Cyclotron Road Building 84-117 Berkeley, CA, 94720-0001
