2008 Partnership Highlights
Chinese Partnership Focuses on Climate Change Effects
A U.S-China Carbon Consortium (USCCC) on carbon and water flux, including Chinese universities (3) and research institutes (2), U.S. universities (3), and U.S. Forest Service research stations (3), contributes global comparisons and understanding of the coupling effects of climate change and land management on carbon sequestration and water resources. Funding for research projects and activites of USCCC were provided from individual team members, external funding agencies in China (e.g. Ministry of Science and Technology) and the U.S. (e.g. NASA). A scientist working with the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center is one of the USCCC members that uses mutually agreed research protocols, meets once a year as a group to update project progresses, and conducts periodic training workshops for graduate students involved. A special journal issue is being prepared for Agricultural and Forest Meteorology to report USCCC research findings from the past three years.
Contact: Ge Sun, research hydrologist, (919) 515-9498, gesun@fs.fed.us
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