SOCCR: The State of the Carbon Cycle Report

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SOCCR The State of the Carbon Cycle Report U.S.
Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and
Assessment Product 2.2 Anthony King1 and Lisa
Dilling2 (on behalf of the SOCCR Coordinating
Team) 1Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge
TN 2CSTPR/CIRES University of Colorado, Boulder
CO

• SOCCR Approach
• Integrated content not just natural carbon
  cycle
• Community document- written by leading
  scientific experts (50 or more involved)
• Involve authors and stakeholders from United
  States, Canada and Mexico
• Stakeholder participation very early on
• and at points
• where input can
• make a difference
• Provide opportunity
• for direct
• author-stakeholder interaction but
  responsibility for content lies with authors
• Document intended for decision maker audience-
  attention to length and style

What is the SOCCR? This State of the Carbon Cycle
Report (SOCCR) is envisioned as the first in a
series of comprehensive and informative reports
about the status and trends of carbon emissions,
sequestration, and the functioning of the carbon
cycle. The first SOCCR focuses on the carbon
budget of North America. The two broad
objectives for SOCCR are 1) to summarize
scientific knowledge about carbon cycle
properties and changes, and 2) to provide
scientific information for decision support and
policy formulation concerning carbon.
Draft SOCCR Chapters Executive Summary Part I
The Carbon Cycle in North America 1. What is the
carbon cycle and why do we care? 2. The carbon
cycle of North America in a global context 3.
The North American carbon budget past and
present 4. What are the options and measures
that can significantly affect the carbon
cycle? 5. How can we improve the application of
scientific information to decision support? Part
II Energy, Industry and Waste Management
Activities 6. Energy extraction and
conversion 7. Transportation 8. Industry and
waste management 9. Buildings Part III Land and
Water Systems 10. Agricultural lands,
grasslands, shrublands and arid lands 11. North
American forests 12. Carbon cycles in the
permafrost regions of North America 13.
Wetlands 14. Human settlements 15. Coastal
oceans, lakes and rivers
The SOCCR will be released as Synthesis and
Assessment Product 2.2 of the Climate Change
Science Program.

• SOCCR - SAP 2.2 Process
• Draft outline August 2004
• Rapid stakeholder assessment Sept. 2004
• First stakeholders workshop Nov. 2004
• First authors workshop May 2005
• Drafting Summer 2005
• Joint authors-stakeholders workshop
• November 2005
• Revision of chapters Dec.-March 2006
• First Draft for peer review May 2006
• Revision Summer 2006
• Second Draft for public comment Sept. 2006
• Final stakeholders workshop Oct. 2006
• Third Draft delivered Jan. 2007
• SAP 2.2 released March 2007

SOCCR Coordinating Team Lisa Dilling (Co-lead)
University of Colorado/NCARDavid Fairman
Consensus Building InstituteSkee Houghton Woods
Hole Research Center Tony King (Lead) Oak Ridge
National LaboratoryGregg Marland Oak Ridge
National Laboratory Adam Rose Pennsylvania State
University Tom Wilbanks Oak Ridge National
Laboratory Greg Zimmerman Oak Ridge National
Laboratory
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