U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program

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Latest News

New assessment of national and regional impacts of climate change

Climate change is already having visible impacts in the United States, and the choices we make now will determine the severity of its impacts in the future, according to a new and authoritative federal study assessing the current and anticipated domestic impacts of climate change. The report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, compiles years of scientific research and takes into account new data not available during the preparation of previous large national and global assessments. It was produced by a consortium of experts from 13 U.S. government science agencies and from several major universities and research institutes. With its production and review spanning Republican and Democratic administrations, it offers a valuable, objective scientific consensus on how climate change is affecting—and may further affect—the United States. More information is available from the US Global Change Research Program announcement. (June 19, 2009)

Terrestrial and coastal carbon fluxes in the Gulf of Mexico

A meeting summary and full workshop report from the May 2008 Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry scoping workshop on Terrestrial and Coastal Carbon Fluxes in the Gulf of Mexico are now available. (May 7, 2009)

CarboNA website launches

The new CarboNA website is now available at http://nacarbon.org/carbona/index.htm. CarboNA is an international collaboration between Canada, Mexico, and the United States for carbon cycle science research throughout North America and adjacent coastal waters. The overall goal is to understand the temporal and regional distribution and magnitudes of carbon pools and greenhouse gas fluxes throughout North America, and how these affect and are affected by disturbances, human behavior, and climate and related changes, in order to predict future climate change and evaluate carbon related mitigation strategies and new technologies. In the United States, CarboNA comes under the auspices of the US Carbon Cycle Science Program and the Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group and includes work from both the North American Carbon Program and the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry program. (May 7, 2009)

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