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空间和时间领域的研讨会。该研讨会主要由美国能源部支持，将包括来自澳大利亚、中国和欧洲的大约25位演讲者。演讲者将讨论树根和地下过程的实证研究和建模，部分目标是将这两个小组联合起来，以改进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式中最大的不确定因素之一，而土壤碳通量是根系的主要影响因素。学生将以多种方式参与。在大多数会议上，都为研究生预留了发言的时间；邀请将从抽象提交的竞争中产生。不用于口头陈述的、有助于平衡研讨会主题领域的强有力的摘要将被选为海报。该提案通过为10名研究生提供参与口头或海报展示的机会来利用其他支持。学生们还将参加小组讨论，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。研讨会的机会将在名单上和参与的大学公开宣传。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以及根、微生物和土壤生态学家进行互动的机会。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.