We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to our session “Soil Carbon Is Dead, Long Live Soil
Carbon! Assessing and Predicting Transformations, Protection, and Turnover” at the SSSA
International Soils Meeting, January 6-9, 2019 in San Diego.
https://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2019sssa/webprogrampreliminary/Session18274.html
Title: Soil Carbon Is Dead, Long Live Soil Carbon! Assessing and Predicting Transformations,
Protection, and Turnover
Session abstract: The response of the soil to environmental change has emerged as a primary source
of uncertainty in global C cycle models. In order to quantify and predict the response to disturbance,
the physical, chemical, and biological mechanisms regulating soil turnover need to be integrated with
terrestrial C cycle models. We seek contributions focusing on: (1) identifying physical and
biogeochemical mechanisms controlling soil turnover rates; (2) quantifying the contributions of
individual mechanisms across spatial and temporal scales; (3) developing modeling approaches to
represent rate-controlling mechanisms; and (4) identification of knowledge gaps that hinder model-
data fusion.
Conveners: Marco Keiluweit (UMass Amherst), Corey Lawrence (USGS), Joey Blankinship (U of
Arizona), Susan Crow (U of Hawaii), and Kathrine Heckman (US Forest Service)
