One of the challenges in supporting interdisciplinary science is that scientific problems are often framed by individual communities. This joint meeting offers an opportunity to bridge these gaps, by purposefully bringing members of different communities together to help pose both disciplinary and interdisciplinary scientific questions that could be targets for future NASA research efforts.

Breakout groups will be asked to identify the top 5 questions that would spur Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem (CC&E) research over the coming decade. These questions can be disciplinary or interdisciplinary in nature, but should focus on science questions, rather than the measurements needed to answer such questions.

As your group considers and discusses potential questions, you can consider the following:

1. What are problems that you face in your field that require research findings from other fields?
2. What are the problems in other fields that you think the research findings produced in your field impact?
3. Can we identify big scientific gaps that keep us from addressing these problems?

If time permits at the end of the session, groups will discuss the sensor(s) and measurements that might be useful for informing the research questions.

See Breakout Charge Presentation for Group Leads/Schedule and Where to Go