Scaling Root Process: Global Impacts

该奖项将部分支持学生参加旨在将地下过程扩展到更大的空间和时间领域的研讨会。研讨会主要由能源部支持，将有来自澳大利亚、中国和欧洲的约25名发言者参加。发言者将讨论根系和地下过程的实证研究和建模，部分目标是将这两个群体聚集在一起，以改善气候变化背景下的陆地碳循环模型。此外，气候变化对土壤碳通量的影响是陆地生态系统模型中最大的不确定性之一，而根系对土壤碳通量有着重要的影响。学生将以多种方式参与。在大多数会议上，会为研究生保留发言的机会;邀请将通过提交摘要的竞争产生。没有被选作口头报告，但有助于平衡研讨会主题领域的强有力的摘要将被选作海报。该提案通过为10名研究生提供参加口头或海报展示的机会来利用其他支持。学生还将被纳入小型分组，这将使他们能够与该领域的领导者密切互动，并为生态系统生态学中令人困惑的领域提供新的视角。讲习班的机会将在邮递名录服务器和参加的大学公开刊登广告。本次研讨会将为10名学生提供与生态系统，景观和全球建模科学领域的领导者互动的机会，沿着根，微生物和土壤生态学家。学生将亲身体验跨学科科学是如何进行的，并在科学探究新方向的讨论中发挥关键作用。

This award will partially support students to participate in a workshop aimed at scaling belowground processes to larger spatial and temporal realms. The workshop is primarily supported by the Department of Energy and will include approximately 25 speakers from as far away as Australia, China and Europe. Speakers will address both empirical studies and modeling of roots and belowground processes and part of the goal is to bring these two groups together to improve terrestrial carbon cycle models in the context of climatic change. Moreover, the influence of climatic change on soil carbon fluxes, on which roots have a major influence, is one of the greatest uncertainties in terrestrial ecosystem models. Students will participate in several ways. In most sessions, slots are reserved for a graduate student to speak; invitations will result from a competition of abstract submissions. Strong abstracts not chosen for oral presentation and that help balance workshop subject areas will be chosen for posters. This proposal leverages other support by providing an opportunity for 10 graduate students to participate either in oral or poster presentations. Students also will be included in small breakout groups that will enable them to interact closely with leaders in the field and provide fresh perspectives to perplexing areas inecosystem ecology. The workshop opportunities will be advertised openly on listserves and also at the participating universities. This workshop will provide opportunities for 10 students to interact with leaders in the fields of ecosystem, landscape and global modeling science, along with root, microbial and soil ecologists. Students will experience firsthand how interdisciplinary science is conducted and play key roles in discussions of new directions for scientific inquiry.