l (particularly U.S.) carbon sinks and appraisals of potential future feedbacks between climate change and carbon cycling. These developments will provide technical background for announcing the U.S. Carbon Cycle Research Program. This program began with a grassroots plan developed within the research community to address large uncertainties in the global carbon budget and in the prediction of future trends in atmospheric carbon dioxide. The program calls for increased coordination of Federal funding and research and increased scientific guidance and review in the ongoing development of overall research priorities.
Panel:
D. James Baker, Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Silver Spring, Maryland; Co-Chair, Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, National Science and Technology Council
Jorge L. Sarmiento, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Co-chair, Carbon and Climate Working Group, which wrote the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan
Christopher Field, Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, California; Chair, Science Steering Panel, U.S. Carbon Cycle Research Program
Berrien Moore III, Professor and Director, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire; Chair, U.S. National Committee for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program
(Session U51A)
10:00 AM
Opposites Attract to Provide Energy for Auroras and Space Weather
Space physicists have made the first direct observations of magnetic reconnection occurring naturally in the space around Earth. The finding helps settle a 50-year-old debate about how and where space weather and auroras originate. (Imagery will be available at the press conference and on the web as of June 1.)
Panel:
Atsuhiro Nishida, Director (Retired), Institute for Space and Astronautical Science, T
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Contact: Harvey Leifert
hleifert@agu.org
202-777-7507
American Geophysical Union
18-May-2000
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