Third USDA Symposium on Greenhouse Gases and
Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture and Forestry
March 22-24, 2005
Baltimore, Maryland
Tuesday, March 22: Opening Plenary Session
Room: International A-C
8:15 a.m. Welcome,
Logistics, and Introduction
Charles Rice, Kansas
State University
Bruce Knight, Chief, USDA
Natural Resources Conservation Service
8:30 a.m. Keynote
Address
James L. Connaughton, Chair,
White House Council on Environmental Quality
9:00 a.m. Inventory Systems/Technologies and
Practices/Decision Support Systems - Agriculture Overview. Charles Rice, Kansas
State University.
9:30 a.m. Inventory Systems/Technologies and
Practices/Decision Support Systems -
Forestry Overview. Richard Birdsey, USDA
Forest Service.
10:00 a.m. Morning
Break
10:30 a.m. Panel
Discussion. Moderator: William Hohenstein, Director, USDA Global Change Program
Office
Panel Members:
- Agriculture: Troy Bredenkamp,
American Farm Bureau Federation
- Forestry: Robert Prolman,
Weyerhauser Corporation
- NGO: Gordon Smith, Environmental
Defense
- Policy: John Reilly, MIT
11:30 a.m. Questions
and Comments
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Tuesday, March 22
12:00 p.m. Luncheon.
Speaker: Jack Williams, USA
Today “Communicating Science to the Public”
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Tuesday,
March 22: Session 1A
Dominant
Theme: Bioenergy
Room:
International A
Moderator:
Harvey Bolton, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory
1:30 p.m. Greenhouse
Gas Reduction Opportunities via Processing Agricultural Residues in Rural
Biorefineries. Kiran Kadam, PureVision Technology, Inc.
1:50 p.m. Evaluating
Strategies for Biomass Fuel Production in New York State. Peter B. Woodbury, Cornell University.
2:10 p.m. Growing
Energy: How Biofuels Can Help End
America's Energy Dependence. Jeff
Fiedler, National Resources Defence Council.
2:30 p.m. Biomethanol Production and CO2
Emission Reduction from Forage Grasses, Trees and Residues of Crops. Hitoshi Nakagawa, National Institute of
Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS).
2:50
p.m. Grass
Bioenergy in the Northeastern
USA. Jerry Cherney,
Cornell University.
3:10 p.m. Afternoon
Break
Tuesday,
March 22: Session 1B
Dominant
Theme: Inventory, Observations, Measurements, Monitoring
Room:
International A
Moderator:
Jeff Smith, Washington State University
3:40 p.m. Estimating the Economic Potential for Agricultural
Soil Carbon Sequestration in the Central U.S. Using an Aggregate Econometric-Process Simulation Model. Susan Capalbo, Montana State University.
4:00 p.m. Rangeland Carbon Fluxes in the Northern
Great Plains. Bruce Wylie, SAIC, USGS
National Center,
EROS.
4:20
p.m. Soil
Organic Carbon Accumulation with Feedlot Cattle Manure Application. Chi Chang, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
4:40 p.m. Impact
of Tree Species on Carbon in Swedish Forest
Soils. Maj-Britt
Johansson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).
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Tuesday,
March 22: Session 2
Dominant
Theme: Applications and Decision Support Systems
Room:
International B
Moderator:
Scott Staggenborg, Kansas State University
1:30 p.m. Estimating
and Comparing the Levelized Cost ($/ton CO2e) of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions
Associated with Four Different Approaches to Developing and Managing Forest
Carbon Sequestration Projects. Adam
Diamant, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
2:10 p.m. Assessing
Alternatives for Mitigating Net Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Increasing Yields
from Rice Production in China Over the Next 20 Years. Changsheng Li, University of New Hampshire.
2:30 p.m. Overview
of Electric Power Industry UtiliTree Carbon Company and PowerTree Carbon
Company Programs. John Kinsman,
Edison Electric Institute.
2:50 p.m. Development of
Maine Forestry Climate Change Mitigation Options and Results of Full Life Cycle
Benefit and Cost Analysis. Thomas D.
Peterson, Penn State University.
3:10 p.m. Afternoon
Break
3:40 p.m. Simulation
of the Effects of Manure Quality, Soil Type, and Climate on N and Supply to Sorghum and Pigeon Pea in Semi-Arid
Tropical India. Sucharitha Revanuru,
ICRISAT.
4:00 p.m. Economic Analysis of Efficient
Risk Allocation in Contracts to Sequester Carbon in Agriculture and Forestry. Adeyemi Esuola, University
of Guelph.
4:20 p.m. Projecting Private Forest Investment and
Forest Carbon with the Forest and Agricultural Sector Optimization Model –
Green House Gas. Lucas Bair, USDA-Forest Service.
4:40 p.m. Short-Term and Long-Term Approaches
to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from “Land Use, Land Use Change, Bioproducts
& Transport” Systems. Arthur C. Riedacker,
INRA.
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Tuesday, March 22: Session 3A
Dominant
Theme: Technologies and Practices
Room:
International C
Moderator:
Larry Jacobson, University
of Minnesota
1:30 p.m. Wetlands
Restoration and the Emerging Carbon Market.
Richard G. Kempka, Ducks
Unlimited, Inc.
2:10 p.m. Miscanthus:
Climate Change Mitigation Potential of a High Yielding Energy Crop in Illinois. Emily Heaton, University of Illinois.
2:30 p.m. Carbon Sequestration in Spring
Wheat Producing Regions of the Northern Great Plains. Dean Bangsund,
North Dakota State University.
2:50 p.m. Utilization
of Conservation Tillage Practices to Rebuild Organic Carbon in a Sandy, Coastal
Plain Soil. Jeff Novak, USDA-
Agricultural Research Service.
3:10 p.m. Afternoon
Break
Tuesday, March 22: Session 3B
Dominant
Theme: Inventory, Observations, Measurements, Monitoring
Room:
International C
Moderator:
Larry Jacobson, University
of Minnesota
3:40 p.m. Annual CO2 Exchange in
Irrigated and Rainfed Maize-Based Agro Ecosystems. Shashi. B Verma, University
of Nebraska.
4:00 p.m. Carbon
Sequestration by Hybrid Poplars in the Pacific Northwest. Jon D. Johnson, Washington
State University.
4:40 p.m. Effect
of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) on Soil Carbon. Jay Atwood,
USDA-Natural Resource Conservation Service.
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Tuesday, March 22: Session 4
Dominant Theme: International Focus on the
Science of Inventory, Observations, Measurement, and Monitoring
Room: Carroll Room
Moderator: Patricia Garffer, USAID, Office
of Environment and Science Policy
1:30 p.m. Comments
from Patricia Garffer, USAID
1:40 p.m. Alice Ruhweza, Uganda
2:10 p.m. Peter Grace, Australia
2:40 p.m. Cesar Izaurralde, PNNL
3:10 p.m. Afternoon
Break
3:40 p.m. Bert VandenBygaart, Canada
4:10 p.m. Telmo Amado, Brazil
4:40 p.m. Discussion
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Tuesday, March 23
6:00-8:00 p.m. Poster Session and Catered Reception
(International D-E, Foyer)
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Wednesday,
March 23: Session 5
Dominant
Theme: Inventory, Observations, Measurement, and Monitoring
Room:
International A
Moderator:
Phil Gassman, Iowa State University
8:00 a.m. Full C-Cost Accounting and Global Warming Potential
of Irrigated and Rainfed Maize-Based Cropping Systems that Produce Renewable
Energy from Grain. Daniel Walters, University of Nebraska.
8:20 a.m. Changes
in Soil- and Litter-C Stocks with Progressive Farming Practices in Irrigated
and Rainfed Maize-Based Agroecosystems.
Achim Dobermann, University of
Nebraska.
8:40 a.m. Permanence Discounting for
Land-Based Carbon Sequestration. Bruce McCarl, Texas A&M University.
9:00 a.m. Spatial
Variation of Carbon Dioxide and Energy Balance Fluxes Among Corn and Soybean
Fields in Central Iowa. Jerry
Hatfield, USDA-Agricultural Research Service.
9:20 a.m. Rapid
Identification and Quantification of Soil Organic Carbon Forms Using Pyrolysis
Molecular Beam Mass Spectrometry.
Kim Magrini, National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
9:40 a.m. Open
10:00 a.m. Afternoon
Break
10:30 a.m. Spatial
Distribution of Lignin Biopolymers and Aggregate Stability of Forest
and Tilled Soil Types. E.J. Park, Michigan State University.
10:50 a.m. Determining Amounts of Carbon Loss and Change in
Carbon Isotope Values from Soils Due to Biomass Burning. Scott Werts, Johns Hopkins University.
11:10 a.m. Studies
on Carbon Dioxide Concentration and Carbon Flux in a Forested Region in
Suburban Baltimore. John L. Hom, USDA-Forest Service.
11:30 a.m. Carbon
Dynamics of Fire Management in the New Jersey
Pinelands. Kenneth Clark, USDA-Forest Service.
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Wednesday, March 23: Session 6A
Dominant
Theme: N2O and Methane Mitigation
Room:
International B
Moderator:
Cesar Izaurralde, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory
8:00 a.m. Nitrous Oxide Emissions From
Soils Receiving Combinations of Dairy Manure and Mineral Nitrogen Fertilizers. Curtis Dell,
USDA- Agricultural Research Service.
8:20 a.m. Physical
and Microbial Controls over Trace Gas Fluxes Following Initial
Cultivation. A. Stuart Grandy, Michigan
State University.
8:40 a.m. Agricultural
Soil N2O Emissions in the U.S.
Greenhouse Gas Inventory: A Comparison of Methodologies. Margaret Walsh,
ICF Consulting.
9:00 a.m. DAYCENT
National Scale Simulations of N2O Emissions from Cropped Soils in the USA. Stephen Del Grosso, USDA- Agricultural
Research Service.
9:20 a.m. Nitrous Oxide Losses Are Increased
Under No-Tillage and Early Fertilization.
Ivy Tan, Cornell University.
9:40 a.m. Factors
Affecting Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Croplands in Asia
and Potential Mitigation Options. Xiaoyuan Yan, Frontier Research Center for Global Change.
10:00 a.m. Morning
Break
Wednesday, March 23: Session 6B
Dominant
Theme: Applications and Decision Support Systems
Room:
International B
Moderator:
Cesar Izaurralde, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory
10:30 a.m. Competitiveness of Agricultural
Greenhouse Gas Offsets: Are They a Bridge to the Future? Ronald D. Sands,
Joint Global Change Research Institute.
10:50 a.m. Field-Scale Variation in Nitrogen Use
Efficiency and the Agronomic. David Huggins, USDA- Agricultural Research
Service.
11:10 a.m. Transaction
Costs of Project-Based Carbon Reduction: Evidence from the Forestry
Sector. Camille
Antinori, NETL.
11:30
a.m. Open
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Wednesday, March 23: Session 7
Dominant Theme: Inventory, Observations,
Measurement, and Monitoring
Room: International C
Moderator: Mike Jawson,
USDA-ARS
8:00 a.m. Potential
for Soil Carbon Sink Enhancement in Three Northern Great Plains States. Karen
Updegraff, SD School of Mines & Technology.
8:20 a.m. Carbon Budget of Mature
No-till Ecosystem in North Central Region of the United States. Carl Bernacchi, Illinois
State Water Survey.
8:40 a.m. Estimating
the Potential Carbon Supply from Changes in Land Use: Afforestation of Grazing
Lands in the USA as a Case Study. Sandra Brown, Winrock International.
9:00 a.m. Management Effects on Carbon Dioxide
Exchange over Northeastern Pastures.
Howard Skinner, USDA- Agricultural Research Service.
9:20 a.m. Effects
of Land Use Change on Forest Carbon Budgets Throughout the Southern USA from 1900 to 2050.
Peter. B Woodbury, Cornell University.
9:40 a.m. CarboInvent
- Multi-source Inventory Methods for Quantifying Carbon Stocks and Stock
Changes in European Forests. Bernhard
Schlamadinger, Joanneum Research.
10:00 a.m. Morning
Break
10:30 a.m. Forest
Carbon Dynamics under Changing Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Yude Pan, USDA-Forest Service.
10:50 a.m. Spatial
and Temporal Patterns of the Contemporary Carbon Sources and Sinks in the Ridge and Valley Ecoregion of
the United States.
Shuguang Liu, SAIC, USGS National Center
for EROS.
11:10 a.m. Significant
Bomb C-14 Responses in Soils Below 30 cm Depth:
A Previously Unrecognized Decadal C Pool? W. Troy Baisden, Landcare
Research NewZealand Ltd.
11:30
a.m. Open
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Wednesday,
March 23: Session 8A
Dominant
Theme: Below-Ground Processes
Room:
Carroll Room
Moderator:
Alexander Friend, USDA Forest
Service, and William Horwath, University of California-Davis
8:00 a.m. Simulating Carbon Dynamics in Forests - What May We
Learn From Agriculturalists? P. V. Bolstad, University
of Minnesota.
8:20 a.m. Carbon Input, Aggregate Stability,
and Carbon Stabilization in Mediterranean Cropping Systems. Angela Kong,
University of California-Davis.
8:40 a.m. Evaluating Changes in Landscape-scale
Soil Organic C Due to Tillage.
Dennis Rolston, University of California-Davis.
9:00 a.m. Belowground Carbon Allocation in Forests in Response
to Global Change. Christian
Giardina, USDA-Forest Service.
9:20 a.m. The “Carbon Cascade” into Forest Soils: BioticControl Points, With a Focus on Mycorrhizal Fungi. Erik Lilleskov, USDA-Forest Service.
9:40 a.m. Impact of Nitrogen Fertilization and Crop Rotations
on Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration and Soil Quality. David Laird, USDA–Agricultural Research
Service.
10:00 a.m. Morning
Break
Wednesday,
March 23: Session 8B
Dominant
Theme: Inventory, Observations, Measurement, and Monitoring
Room:
Carroll Room
Moderator:
Larry Jacobson, University
of Minnesota
10:50 a.m. Comparison
of Tower and Aircraft Eddy Covariance Measurement of CO2 and H2O
Fluxes Over Corn and Soybean Fields in Central Iowa. John Prueger,
USDA-Agricultural Research Service.
11:10 a.m. Assessing the Usefulness of Simple
Mathematical Models to Describe the Soil Carbon Dynamics. Armen R.
Kemanian, Washington State University.
11:30 a.m. Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen
Accumulation of Rhizoma Perennial Peanut and Bahiagrass Grown under Elevated CO2
and Temperature. L. H. Allen,
USDA-Agricultural Research Service.
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Wednesday, March 23: Session 9
Dominant
Theme: Inventory, Observations, Measurement, and Monitoring
Room:
International A
Moderator:
Scott Staggenborg, Kansas State University
1:30 p.m. Modeling Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling
and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agricultural Systems. Armen Kemanian, Washington State University.
1:50 p.m. BioSAR: A VHF Radar for the
Airborne Measurement of Terrestrial Biomass and Carbon. Patrick
Johnson, Zimmerman Associates, Inc.
2:30 p.m. Forest Management Impacts on Carbon -
Some Counter Intuitive Findings. Bruce Lippke, University of Washington.
2:50 p.m. Inventorying Agricultural
Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Methods Used by Annex 1 Countries. Erandathie Lokupitiya, Colorado State University.
3:10 p.m. Afternoon
Break
3:40 p.m. Effects of Cropland Abandonment
and Forest Regrowth on Terrestrial Carbon Storage in Southeastern U.S. Hua
Chen, Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences.
4:00 p.m. Biological,
Chemical and Physical Sequestration of Soil Carbon in Response to Tillage. K. Rafik Islam, The Ohio State University.
4:20 p.m. Forest Soil Carbon Spatial Variation
and Precision Accounting on Mined Land.
Beyhan Amichev, Virginia Tech University.
4:40 p.m. Collaboration Between NASA and USDA for Carbon
Management. Edwin Sheffner, NASA.
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Wednesday,
March 23: Session 10
Dominant
Theme: Applications and Decision Support Systems
Room:
International B
Moderator:
Debbie Reed, National Environmental Trust
1:30 p.m. The Agriculture Sector in a Carbon-Constrained
World. Jeff Fiedler, NRDC.
1:50 p.m. Modeling Long-Term Soil
Organic Carbon Dynamics as Affected by Management and Water Erosion. R. Cesar Izaurralde, Joint Global Change
Research Institute.
2:10 p.m. The Impact of Albedo Change on
Carbon Sequestration Strategies. Maithilee
Kunda, MIT.
2:30 p.m. Mainstreaming
Payments/Incentives for Ecosystem Services in Regional and National
Planning/Policy Dimensions. Alice
Ruhweza, NEMA-UGANDA.
2:50 p.m. Climate Change Projection Impact on Soil Carbon and
Other Environmental Indicators for the Upper Mississippi River Basin. Philip Gassman, Iowa State University.
3:10 p.m. Afternoon
Break
4:00 p.m. Making
Carbon-Trading Mechanisms Accessible to Indigenous Groups: Lessons From Working
with Maori in New Zealand. W. Troy
Baisden, Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd.
4:20 p.m. Using
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Assess Virginia’s Best
Options for Sequestering Carbon through Improved Land-Use Management. Jeff Galang, Virginia Tech University.
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Wednesday,
March 23: Session 11
Dominant
Theme: Inventory, Observations, Measurement, and Monitoring
Room:
International C
Moderator:
Bryce Stokes, USDA Forest
Service
1:30 p.m. Carbon
and Microbial Community Dynamics After Addition of 13C-Labelled
Grain Sorghum Residue. Paul White, Kansas State University.
1:50 p.m. A
Comprehensive Environmental and Economic Assessment Method Applied to the
Southwest Michigan Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Cropping Experiment. Susan Subak, ISSE, NCAR.
2:30 p.m. Carbon
Sequestration in Southeast US: Ecosystem Responses to
Multiple Stresses. Hanqin Tian, Auburn University.
2:50 p.m. Forest Carbon Growth and Yield Tables and Uncertainty for U.S. Forest Types. James
Smith, USDA-Forest Service.
3:10 p.m. Afternoon
Break
3:40 p.m. On-Farm Opportunities to
Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in New York State. Jenifer Wightman, Cornell University.
4:00 p.m. Estimating Leakage from Forest
and Agricultural Carbon Sequestration Projects. Brian C. Murray, RTI International.
4:20 p.m. Effects of Urban Land-Use
Change on Soil Carbon Pools and Fluxes.
Richard Pouyat, USDA-Forest Service.
4:40 p.m. Alternative Approaches
to Quantifying and Reporting Carbon Sequestration Projects: The Case of
Afforestation. Allan Sommer, RTI
International.
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Wednesday,
March 23: Session 12A
Dominant
Theme: Technologies and Practices
Room:
Carroll Room
Moderator:
Luis Tupas, USDA-CSREES
1:30 p.m. An
Economic Feasibility Analysis of Manure Applications and No-Tillage for Soil
Carbon Sequestration in Corn Production. Dustin Pendell, Kansas State University.
1:50 p.m. Compensated
Reduction: An Innovative Framework To
Provide Incentives For Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Tropical
Deforestation. Annie Petsonk,
Environmental Defense.
2:10 p.m. Economic
Analysis of Soil Carbon Sequestration:Dynamic Model on Corn and Soybean in the
Midwest US. Suk-won Choi, Ohio State University.
2:30 p.m. Measuring
Carbon Co-Benefits of Agricultural Conservation Policies: In-stream vs.
Edge-of-Field Assessments of Water Quality.
Silvia Secchi, Iowa State University.
2:50
p.m. Open.
3:10 p.m. Afternoon
Break
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Wednesday,
March 23: Session 12B
Dominant
Theme: Inventory, Observations, Measurement, and Monitoring
Room:
Carroll Room
Moderator:
Luis Tupas, USDA-CSREES
4:00 p.m. Pressure Pumping Effects on
Soil Efflux Measurements of CO2. Alan J. Ideris, University of
California-Davis.
4:20 p.m. Annualized
Forest Carbon Estimates for U.S. National Greenhouse Gas Reporting. Linda Heath, USDA-Forest Service.
4:40 p.m. Carbon Sequestration in the Upper
Mississippi River Basin: Implications for Geographical Distribution of Economic
Benefits. Lyubov
Kurkalova, Iowa State
University.
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Wednesday,
March 23
6:30-8:00 p.m. Banquet
Speaker:
J. Read Smith, Former President - National Association of Conservation Districts;
Small Grains and Cattle Producer, St. John, Washington; Co-Chair of the
"25 X 25" Agriculture Energy Working Group
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Thursday,
March 24: Session 13
Dominant
Theme: Inventory, Observations, Measurement, and Monitoring
Room:
International A
Moderator:
Marilyn Buford, USDA Forest
Service
8:00 a.m. Soil Moisture and
Temperature Constraints on Fine Root Dynamics, Plant Growth, and Photosynthetic
Activity in a Mediterranean Forest in the Sierra Nevada, CA. Alexander Gershenson, University of
California-Santa Cruz.
8:20 a.m. Carbon Sequestration Following Stand
Replacing Fires in Spanish Woodlands.
Jason Kaye, Penn State University.
9:00 a.m. DOE’s
Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships Initiative: Developing
Infrastructure and Validating Carbon Sequestration Technologies. John Litynski. U.S. DOE NETL.
9:20 a.m. Factors
Controlling Carbon Sequestration at Howland Forest, Maine: Long-term Trends,
Interannual Variability, and Forest Management Impacts. Neal Scott, Woods Hole Research Center.
9:40 a. m. The 100-Year Method for
Corporate Accounting of Carbon Stored in Products-In-Use. Reid Miner, NCASI.
10:00 a.m. Morning
Break
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Thursday, March 24: Session 14
Dominant
Theme: Technologies and Practices
Room:
International B
Moderator:
Mike Jawson, USDA-ARS
8:00 a.m. Tillage and Corn-Soybean Sequence
Effects on Carbon Dynamics Estimated from Natural C-13 Abundance. David Huggins,
USDA- Agricultural Research Service.
8:20 a.m. Carbon Pools and Dynamics in Mineral Soil Horizons
of Boreal Forests Along a Climatic Gradient in Sweden. Hooshang
Majdi, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
8:40 a.m. Aggregating and Trading
Anaerobic Digester Carbon Credits. David Townsend, Premium Standard Farms Inc.
9:00 a.m. Incorporated
Source Carbon and Nitrogen Fertilizer Influence on Sequestered Carbon and
Soluble Silica in a Pacific Northwest Mollisol.
Hero Gollany, USDA- Agricultural
Research Service.
9:40 a.m. Open
10:00 a.m. Morning
Break
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Thursday,
March 24: Session 15
Dominant
Theme: 1605(b)
Room:
International C
Moderator:
William Hohenstein, Director, USDA Global Change Program Office
8:00 a.m. Mark
Friedrichs, U.S. Department of Energy
8:30 a.m. William Hohenstein,
Director, USDA Global Change Program Office
9:00 a.m. Carbon
Accounting Rules and Guidelines for the United States Forest Sector. Richard Birdsey, USDA- Forest Service.
9:30 a.m. Estimating Soil C
changes for the US 1605(b) Program ‘Voluntary
Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation’. John Brenner, USDA-Natural Resources
Conservation Service.
10:00 a.m. Morning
Break
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Thursday,
March 24: Session 16
Dominant
Theme: Black Carbon / Carbon Stabilization
Room:
Carroll Room
Moderator:
Rich Conant, Colorado State University
8:00 a.m. Black Carbon Sequestration in
Soil – A New Frontier. Johannes
Lehmann, Cornell University.
8:20 a.m. Enhancing Soil Humification:
Insights from a Model System. James
E. Amonette, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
8:40 a.m. Accounting for Black C in the
Modeling of Soil Organic Matter Turnover.
Saran Sohi, Agriculture & the Environment Division.
9:00 a.m. Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Decrease with Charcoal Additions to Tropical Soils. Marco Rondon, Centro Internacional de
Agricultura Tropical.
9:20 a.m. Iron
Stabilization of Crop Residues as a Novell Land Management Practise for
Sequestering Carbon in the Agricultural Sector. Geoff Whiteley, University of Leeds.
9:40 a.m. Long-Term
Sequestration of Carbon in Soils Using Charcoal from Renewable Energy
Production. Keshav C. Das, University of Georgia.
10:00 a.m. Morning
Break
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Thursday, March 24: Plenary Concluding
Discussion Panel
Room: International A-C
Moderator: William Hohenstein, Director,
USDA Global Change Program Office
10:30 a.m. Plenary
Concluding Discussion Panel
Panel Members:
- Forestry: Eric D. Vance,
Manager - Forest Carbon Cycle and Productivity, National
Council for Air Stream Improvement
- Academic: Phil Robertson, Michigan State
University
- NGO: Debbie Reed, National
Environmental Trust
- Aggregator: Ag Cert, Inc.
- NGO: Suzie Greenhalgh, World
Resources Institute
12:30 p.m. Adjourn