|
Field Campaigns and Major Projects
1995– Present
LBA-ECO is the Ecology component of the Large-scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), the largest cooperative international scientific project ever to study the interaction between the Amazon Forest and the regional and global atmosphere.
2002–Present
The North American Carbon Program (NACP) and North American Carbon Program Mid-Continent Intensive (NACP MCI) central objective is to measure and understand the sources and sinks of Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4), and Carbon Monoxide (CO) in North America and in adjacent ocean regions.
2005–Present
Ocean Carbon and Climate Change (OCCC) focuses directly on the ocean carbon system and its interaction with the atmosphere and land carbon reservoirs.
2002–Present
Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI) strives to understand how the land ecosystems and continental water dynamics in northern Eurasia interact with and alter the climate system, the biosphere, the atmosphere, and the hydrosphere of the Earth.
2007–Present
The Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment III (SO GasEx III) will look at both the controls on air-sea gas exchange and on pCO2.
2000
The SAFARI 2000 (S2K) project was an international science initiative to study the linkages between land and atmosphere processes in the southern African region.
1993– 1998
Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) and BOREAS Follow-on investigated exchanges of energy, water, heat, CO2, and trace gases between the boreal forest of central Canada and the atmosphere.
1990– 1991
Oregon Transect Ecosystem Research (OTTER) The purpose of the project was to estimate major fluxes of carbon, nitrogen, and water in forest ecosystems using an ecosystem-process model driven by remotely sensed data.
1987– 1993
The First ISLSCP (International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project) Field Experiment (FIFE) and FIFE Follow-on was a large-scale climatology project set in the prairies of central Kansas designed to improve understanding of carbon and water cycles; to coordinate data collected by satellites, aircraft, and ground instruments; and to use satellites to measure these cycles.
Late 1980’s
US Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (US JGOFS) started in the late 1980s to study the ocean carbon cycle with the goal to understand the controls on the concentrations and fluxes of carbon and associated nutrients in the ocean.
|
