The AGU Fall Meeting 2019 abstract submission deadline is 31 July. Please consider submitting your abstract to the session 'Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change (B128)'. Session conveners are Christina Schaedel and Elaine Pegoraro. For submitting your abstract to our session you can use the following link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/81978
Session Details: Permafrost carbon (C) remains one of the most important C cycle feedbacks to climate, with implications for global society. Permafrost region soils contain 1440-1600 billion tons of C; release of just a fraction of this pool as carbon dioxide and methane can accelerate climate change. Permafrost degradation can change ecosystem C storage by enhancing microbial activity and ecosystem respiration, but can also stimulate plant growth and increase C stored in vegetation and surface soil. This session invites papers that examine factors causing losses and gains in permafrost C that contribute to current observations and future projections of changing permafrost C through time. Papers may address any aspect of this topic from microbial communities to the global scale, using a range of field or laboratory measurements or modeling to detect and forecast permafrost thaw and the influence on the C cycle and future climate.
