Dear Isogeochem subscriber:

If you have used C-14 as a research tool to study any aspect of  
terrestrial ecology, please consider giving a presentation at this  
year's AGU Fall Meeting in a session titled '14C in terrestrial  
ecology: reductionism to synthesis.' The session (number B02) is  
intended as a survey of insights generated by C-14 measurements,  
whether at natural abundances or through tracer studies. Abstracts are  
due 4 August, and details about that can be found at  
<http://sites.agu.org/fallmeeting/>. I, along with co-organizers Jen  
Harden and Chris Swanston, hope that the session will receive interest  
from a wide variety of researchers from multiple disciplines.

A brief description of the session is at the bottom of this email, and  
I'll be glad to provide more info to anyone interested.

Thanks for your consideration,
Luke Nave ([log in to unmask])



Session Description:
Carbon (C) cycling in terrestrial ecosystems has been greatly informed  
by studies of radiocarbon (14C) abundance and distribution. This  
analytical tool has been applied to many specific, focused  
(reductionist) questions, and used as a synthesis tool to assess  
broader patterns. This session seeks to highlight the use of 14C for  
answering ecological questions from reductionist (e.g., site- or  
process-specific) to synthetic (e.g., many sites or multiple C pools  
and fluxes) scales of investigation, with emphasis on findings that a)  
demonstrate change over time at a specific site or in a specific C  
cycling process, or b) establish similarity of C cycling processes  
across sites or consistency of temporal changes observed at multiple  
locations.


Lucas Nave
Coordinator, National Soil Carbon Network
Research Fellow, University of Michigan Biological Station

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