Dear Colleagues, Please consider contributing you research to the AGU session: Biogeochemical cycles across the genomes-to-ecosystems cascade: Observations and computational approaches across scales (ID: 8943), at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting to be held in San Francisco, USA, Dec 2015.
Please find the session description. Microorganisms regulate most ecosystem biogeochemical fluxes. Although, qualitative linkages between microbial functional diversity and biogeochemical processes have been made over small spatial scales a current challenge is to move towards a more quantitative framework with the capacity to upscale new mechanistic understanding derived from fine scale analyses such as genomics. This session serves as a platform to discuss novel experimental and modeling approaches designed to meet this scaling challenge. We encourage abstracts across disciplines of microbiology, plant biology, biogeochemistry, hydrology and others working from bottom-up to examine how genomic data can be used to infer biogeochemical functioning and improve models, and from top-down to identify large-scale physical properties of ecosystems and their impacts on microbial processes (e.g. formation of biogeochemical hotspots). Research using approaches such as biogeochemical flux measurements, isotope systematics, microbial and plant ‘omics, geophysical and/or hyperspectral remote sensing and approaches for their integration using models are especially encouraged. Here is a direct link to the session for submission: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/preliminaryview.cgi/Session8943 We look forward to seeing you at AGU 2015. Yours Sincerely, Conveners Yiwei Cheng (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Haruko Wainwright (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Jinyun Tang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Eoin Brodie (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
