– The Permafrost Carbon Network is a CliC sponsored activity
A few news items from the Permafrost Carbon Network (PCN)….
An update on the PCN lead/co-lead workshop
PCN had a very successful workshop for synthesis leads and co-leads on May 11-12, 2015, in Flagstaff, AZ. In advance of the workshop, participants prepared scoping papers which contained details about the new synthesis activities that were then discussed at the workshop. All scoping papers are available on the Google Drive for PCN members. There are opportunities for interested members to become involved in these synthesis activities and so we encourage you to have a look through the suggested activities and to get in touch with the corresponding lead if you have data to share or are interested in participating. The full agenda and a list of participants can be found online. The meeting was co-sponsored by CliC.
PCN Session at the Paris Conference on ‘Our Common Future under Climate Change’
The Permafrost Carbon Network is co-chairing a session titled ‘Biogeochemical Feedbacks to Climate Change’ at the conference ‘Our Common Future under Climate Change’ in July in Paris. There are two talks related to Permafrost Carbon by Charlie Koven and Iain Hartley, and there will be an associated poster session.
Some recent publications
Bohn TJ, Melton JR, Ito A et al. (2015) WETCHIMP-WSL: intercomparison of wetland methane emissions models over West Siberia. Biogeosciences,12, 3321-3349.
Hollesen J, Matthiesen H, Moller AB, Elberling B (2015) Permafrost thawing in organic Arctic soils accelerated by ground heat production. Nature Clim. Change,5, 574-578.
Koven CD, Lawrence DM, Riley WJ (2015) Permafrost carbon−climate feedback is sensitive to deep soil carbon decomposability but not deep soil nitrogen dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,112, 3752-3757.
Natali SM, Schuur EaG, Mauritz M et al.(2015) Permafrost thaw and soil moisture driving CO2 and CH4 release from upland tundra. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences,120, 525-537.
Ping CL, Jastrow JD, Jorgenson MT, Michaelson GJ, Shur YL (2015) Permafrost soils and carbon cycling. SOIL,1, 147-171.
Roy Chowdhury T, Herndon EM, Phelps TJ et al. (2015) Stoichiometry and temperature sensitivity of methanogenesis and CO2 production from saturated polygonal tundra in Barrow, Alaska. Global Change Biology,21, 722-737.
Schneider Von Deimling T, Grosse G, Strauss J et al.(2015) Observation-based modelling of permafrost carbon fluxes with accounting for deep carbon deposits and thermokarst activity. Biogeosciences,12, 3469-3488.
Strauss J, Schirrmeister L, Mangelsdorf K, Eichhorn L, Wetterich S, Herzschuh U (2015) Organic-matter quality of deep permafrost carbon – a study from Arctic Siberia. Biogeosciences,12, 2227-2245.
Treat C, Natali SM, Ernakovich J et al. (2015) A pan-Arctic synthesis of CH4 and CO2 production from anoxic soil incubations. Global Change Biology.