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Overview
Conference Announcement and Overview

September 25th-30th, 2005

Summary:

Since 1981, the international community of carbon dioxide research scientists has held a Carbon Dioxide Conference every four years. The word carbon has become synonymous with climate, generating substantial interest across broad fields of science, technology and policy. At the 6th conference held in Sendai, Japan in 2001 (about 300 attendees compared to about 40 at Bern, Switzerland in 1981) it was decided that the 7th conference in 2005 would be held in the U.S. (for the first time) and be organized by NOAA/CMDL.

Areas of interest include atmospheric monitoring networks, ocean measurements, terrestrial ecosystems and fluxnets, carbon cycle process models in all of these settings, inverse transport models that infer surface source/sink patterns from the observations, new observational techniques, and the ice core record. New areas will be carbon sequestration (both natural and engineered) and human dimensions such as fossil fuel use and land-use decisions. In the past, a special issue of a peer-reviewed scientific journal has been dedicated to a sub-set of papers based on oral presentations and posters presented at the conferences. Guest Editors will be chosen to continue this tradition.

The main sponsors of the conference will be the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), DOC/NOAA/OAR, and the U.S. Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group, which is comprised of members of U.S. Federal agencies including DOE, NASA, NOAA, NSF, USDA, and USGS.

Background:

The implications of the observed increase in concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide for global climate change, and the inherently international scope of the associated scientific and public policy issues, have led to a series of international scientific meetings to gain a better understanding of the global carbon cycle. Beginning in 1981, the international community of carbon dioxide research scientists has held a Carbon Dioxide Conference every four years. The first meeting in Bern, Switzerland, called the "Bern Carbon Dioxide Symposium", focused primarily on atmospheric measurements of carbon dioxide and related species. In subsequent meetings (Kandersteg, Switzerland 1985, Hinterzarten, Germany 1989, Carqueiranne, France 1993, Cairns, Australia 1997, and Sendai, Japan 2001) attention has been focused on obtaining a better understanding of the global carbon cycle.

ICDC7 will be the first of this series of conferences to be convened in the United States. An estimated 500 participants are expected. The attendance at the sixth conference, held in Sendai, Japan in October of 2001 was approximately 300 participants. Many scientists did not attend the Sendai conference due to travel restrictions and concerns following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Conference Objective:

The purpose of this conference is to bring together scientists from varied disciplines to assess the current state of knowledge, identify gaps in understanding, and communicate the most recent results pertinent to the global carbon cycle, with an emphasis on understanding the contemporary increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Topics will include atmospheric and oceanic measurements and monitoring networks (including all species that provide insight into the carbon cycle), terrestrial ecosystems and land use change, carbon cycle process models, source/sink inverse models, the ice core record of carbon dioxide and methane, new observational techniques, long-term potentials and vulnerabilities of carbon sequestration, and the human impact on the carbon cycle.









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