4th CarboEurope meeting and Open Science Conference on the GHG Cycle in the
Northern Hemisphere
Crete, 14-17 November 2006
Aim of the conference
Invitation of the research community outside CarboEurope/(CarboOcean) in order to:
 demonstrate progress made
 integrate between experimentalists and modellers, ecosystem and atmosphere science
 understand and integrate scientific progress outside the projects
 involve ongoing research outside the project(s) into the scientific activities
 promote and start joint research activities
Draft programme for discussion
13 Nov.: full day: CarboEurope parallel sessions, maybe ESF soil respiration workshop
14 Nov.: morning: Component meetings
14 Nov afternoon – 17 Nov morning: open science conference
17 Nov afternoon: CarboEurope plenary (summary of Components, General Assembly)
Time
9:00-10:45
13.11.2006
Monday
14.11.2006
Tuesday
15.11.2006
Wednesday
CarboEurope-IP
parallel sessions /
satellite meetings
CarboEurope-IP
component meetings
/ satellite meetings
3. Ocean basin C
cycling
CarboEurope-IP
parallel sessions /
satellite meetings
CarboEurope-IP
4. Climate feedbacks
component meetings on the carbon and
/ satellite meetings
nitrogen cycle
18.11.2006
Saturday
6. Regional nitrogen 9. Human impacts on
and other greenhouse
regional carbon
gas fluxes
cycling
10. Greenhouse gas
7. Partitioning of
research in relation to
ecosystem C fluxes
policy
Lunch
13:00-14:30
14:30-16:15
17.11.2006
Friday
Coffee break
10:45-11:15
11:15-13:00
16.11.2006
Thursday
CarboEurope-IP
parallel sessions /
satellite meetings
1. Keynotes about
projects and
programmes
Poster Session
Poster Session
CarboEurope-IP
Plenary
8. Carbon and
nitrogen turnover in
soils
CarboEurope-IP
Plenary
Social Dinner
Dinner
Coffee break
16:15-16:45
16:45-18:30
CarboEurope-IP
parallel sessions /
satellite meetings
19:30-21:30
Dinner
2. Regional terrestrial 5. Regional hotspots
carbon balance
of vulnerability of the
estimates
biosphere C cycle
Welcome Cocktail
Dinner
Postconference
excursion
(Greek culture)
Scope of the conference
Proposal for 10 plenary sessions (2-3 hours each)
1. Keynotes about projects and programmes
Opening
Presentation of current and planned FP6 research projects (Lipiatou)
Presentation of CarboEurope-IP
Presentation of NitroEurope
Presentation of CarboOcean
5 min
20 min
20 min
15 min
15 min
2. Regional terrestrial carbon balance estimates (Heimann)
This session will present regional to continental scale terrestrial greenhouse gas balances
derived by top-down as well as bottom-up approaches.
3. Ocean basin C cycling (Heinze)
Carbon cycling within oceans as well as the exchange of carbon between the oceans and
the atmosphere will be main topics of this session. The focus will be on the North Atlantic.
4. Climate feedbacks on the carbon and nitrogen cycle (Ciais)
This session will include climate scenarios and their feedback to the carbon and nitrogen
cycles on land and in oceans.
5. Regional hotspots of vulnerability of the biosphere carbon cycle (Dolman)
“Hot spots” are regions where climate and human impact could cause large positive
feedbacks of the biosphere to climate change (e.g. permafrost areas, wetlands, boreal and
tropical forests, Mediterranean ecosystems and ecosystems sensitive to drought and
atmospheric pollution). Siberia and Africa may be regions discussed concerning their
vulnerability to climate change and possible feedback mechanisms in this session.
6. Regional nitrogen and other greenhouse gas fluxes (Sutton)
This session will deal with the interactions between carbon and nitrogen in terrestrial
ecosystems. Topics include the nitrogen constraints on carbon cycling as well as the
formation of N2O und NO.
7. Partitioning of ecosystem C fluxes (Janssens)
The partitioning of ecosystem carbon fluxes into assimilation, autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration and losses due to disturbances will be discussed in this session. Topics
will also include the formation and loss of CH4 and VOC and the leaching of DIC / DOC.
8. Carbon and nitrogen turnover in soils (Schulze)
Soil processes play an important role in the carbon cycle of terrestrial ecosystems. This
session will deal with the turnover of carbon in soils and the different ways of carbon
stabilisation and will discuss heterotrophic respiration. The sensitivity of carbon
decomposition to climate and land use will be a main topic.
9. Human impacts on regional carbon cycling (Levin)
Humans have large impacts on carbon cycling both by land use and management and due
to the emission of CO2 via the consumption of fossil fuels. This session will include the
discussion of fossil fuel inventories in urban and suburban areas as well as the influence of
human land management on the interannual variability of regional C-fluxes
10. Greenhouse gas research in relation to policy (Valentini)
This session will discuss issues relating to climate policy beyond 2012 such as avoiding
deforestation,, land carbon management, trade-offs between C sequestration and C use in
products etc.
Style of the conference
Pre-conference accession to CarboEurope parallel meetings for interested scientists. The
conference will take place similar to the CO2 conference as pure plenary conference.
 oral sessions with invited keynote lecture (review) and scientific presentations chosen
out of an open call for abstracts
 poster sessions
 exhibits of instrumentation
 post-conference excursion
Draft schedule:
15 Mar 06
Announcement and call for papers
1 June 06
Deadline for abstracts
1 July 06
Decision about oral/poster programme
1 Sep 06
Deadline for submitting paper for conference proceedings
Deadline for registration
13-17 Nov 06 CarboEurope-IP meeting and Conference
To be announced: Nature or Science, AGU, GCP, NEU kick-off, EGU, IGBP Beijing