Dear colleagues, We want to call your attention to and encourage abstract submissions from a wide range of disciplines to the following session on river carbon dynamics at the *2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting <https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/> in San Francisco, California this December.*
* <https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12481>* *EP037: The Distribution, Transformation, and Retention of Organic Carbon along River Corridors <https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12481>* *Session Description: *Recent research emphasizes the role of rivers in the global carbon budget, but syntheses of organic carbonin freshwater systems have largely treated rivers as carbon conduits with focus on losses to the atmosphere and delivery to oceans. Closing fluvial carbon budgets, however, requires substantial storage within the geosphere. The sources and fates of riverine organic carbon are regulated by feedbacks among climate, geologic controls, lithology, channel form and process, hydrologic regime and connectivity, vegetation, large wood, and soils. To assess the importance of river corridors as both conduits and active contributors to local and global carbon cycling, new research must address the sources, transport, distribution, retention, transformation, and long-term storage of carbon at the interface of aquatic and riparian ecosystems. This session invites contributions that will increase interdisciplinary understanding of carbon dynamics in river corridors with particular focus on sources and sinks within floodplains, hyporheic zones, and river channels. This session is cross-listed with and co-organized by *Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, Biogeosciences, and Hydrology* with the goal of highlighting research across disciplines regarding carbon dynamics in rivercorridors. There is roughly 1 week left to *submit your abstract by August 3rd*. Please feel free to contact me with questions about the session. Confirmed Invited Speakers *Gerard Govers* (University of Leuven) - "Carbon transport, transformation and retention in tropical systems: the lower Tana river corridor as a natural laboratory" *Matthew Ricker *(Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania) - "Major biotic and abiotic factors that influence soil carbon dynamics in forested floodplains of the eastern United States" Conveners: Nicholas Sutfin (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Katherine Lininger (Colorado State University) Tim Covino (Colorado State University) Alison Appling (U.S. Geological Survey Center for Integrated Data Analytics) Sincerely, Nicholas A. Sutfin Postdoctoral Research Associate Earth and Environmental Science Division, EES-14 MS-J495 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: 505-606-1641 Email: nsut...@lanl.gov
