FAES BPRC

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Welcome!

• The Climate, Water, and Carbon Program
• Informational Meeting
• March 10, 2008

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Todays Agenda

• Opening comments Dean Matt Platz
• What is the CWC? Doug Alsdorf
• OSU goals and CWC Science Policy goals
• Structure and budget
• Brief presentations
• Core Projects Rattan Lal, Ellen Mosley-Thompson
• Seed Grants Andy Keeler
• Funding opportunities Doug Alsdorf
• New core projects
• New seed grants
• Questions and Answers Moderator Doug Alsdorf
• Closing thoughts OARDC Director Steve Slack

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TIEs and OAA Goals

• These targeted areas of excellence will include
  academic programs in colleges, departments and
  centers where Ohio State has an opportunity to
  achieve worldwide recognition in existing and
  emerging fields of significance. OAA, September
  2005
• Implementation of the plans will significantly
  advance the goals of the Academic Plan and foster
  excellence among the highest-priority programs
  within and across the colleges, and the success
  of the plans will undoubtedly contribute to our
  overarching goal of becoming one of the world's
  top public research and teaching universities.
  Provosts memo, June 2006
• main assessment criteria of excellence,
  impact, and viability of the plan Provosts
  memo, June 2006
• The TIEs are intended to stimulate scholarship
  and knowledge generation that make a significant
  impact on major societal and global issues and
  also enhance the University's reputation and
  prestige. Provosts memo to PPAC, June 2007

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Just one example of TIE visibility
11 million from the central fund, plus money
from several colleges will go to form the
Climate, Water and Carbon Program to determine
whether human activity alters the climate so that
weather changes are more frequent and intense,
whether the world has enough freshwater to
sustain human life, and how to fix any damage
humans have done to Earths natural carbon cycle.
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Goals of the CWC

• Scientific goals Address three core questions
• (1) Does human intervention have the potential to
  push the climate system such that abrupt changes
  become more frequent, intense, and rapid?
• (2) Do we have enough surface water to maintain
  society what is the spatial-temporal
  variability?
• (3) How is the carbon cycle being disrupted by
  human activities how can it be re-balanced?
• Policy goals the three questions are of great
  importance to society
• Each of the science questions has a strong
  human component
• What are the policy, economic, and implementation
  implications of the scientific findings?

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The TIE in CWC

• A Targeted Investment in Excellence
• Targeted is accomplished by ensuring that all
  actions are focused on the three founding
  questions.
• Investment is accomplished by ensuring that
  every OAA dollar spent leads to more dollars and
  hence to a program that is vibrant after the
  5-year OAA investment period.
• Excellence is recognition of the past successes
  of those participating in the CWC, with the
  expectation of future excellence.

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Goals of the CWC

• CWC goals
• Excellence and impact while directly addressing
  the founding three questions
• OSU goals of the CWC
• Integrating Ideas, Tasks, Working Groups PPAC
  review of CWC, September 2007
• Connect across other core projects, with other
  TIEs, and across colleges and departments
• The CWC today and the CWC long-term
• How does the CWC develop longevity?
• Today internal funding base
• 5 years all external funding
• Transition plan

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Core Projects and Seed Grants

• Designed to meet all three goals
• Core projects and seed grants directly address
  one of the founding three questions
• They integrate across colleges, tasks, and
  research teams
• They create products and deliverables that are of
  value
• Four sources of external funds
• Federal and state agencies we know how to do
  this
• Philanthropy, Foundations, and Industry we look
  forward to further building of strong ties with
  this
• Partnerships and the CWC Plan
• We start with OSU and the CWC positioning as a
  top-ranked TIE
• Work with OSU Development, Office of Research,
  Deans offices, etc.
• Build a comprehensive CWC Plan that integrates
  products and deliverables from all CWC projects.

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Budgets

• OAA Funds
• Cash 11.35M Annual Rate 510K
• College Matches
• Annual Rate for 5 FTEs 2 FAES, 2 MPS, 1 SBS
• Three founding core projects
• Total 5.3M
• Reviewed during TIE OAA process
• (1) Managing Carbon in Terrestrial Ecosystems
  2.2M
• (2) Low Latitude Glacier Retreat, ACC, Water
  2.0M
• (3) Satellite Hydrology, Amazon and Congo 1.1M

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Budgets

• Funds Available
• Total 11.35 5.3M 0.5M
• Seminars, Operations, etc. 0.5M
• 5.5M for additional contributions
• Additional Contributions
• Start-up for new FTEs 0.85M
• First Year Seed-Grants 0.65M
• Total available today 4.0M
• Transparency of Budgets
• Budgets will be posted on CWC web page, behind a
  login

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Brief Presentations

• Core Project Rattan Lal
• Managing Carbon in Terrestrial Ecosystems
  (M-CITE)
• Core Project Ellen Mosley-Thompson
• Low-latitude glacier retreat Evidence of
  accelerating climate change and impacts on local
  to regional water resources (LLGR-ACC WR)
• Seed Grant Andy Keeler

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Managing Carbon In Terrestrial Ecosystems (M-CITE)

• MISSION STATEMENT
• To study processes and practices governing
  retention, turnover and coupled transport of C,
  water and nutrients in terrestrial ecosystems

2. The project is aimed at identifying ways to
minimize C loss and maximize retaining C in land,
off-setting anthropogenic emissions of GHGs (CO2,
CH4, N2O)
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Specific Objectives

• Measuring and predicting current and potential
  rates and magnitude (total sink capacity) of C
  sequestration for diverse soils/vegetation and
  management options,

2. Understanding the underpinning processes and
mechanisms of C dynamics including retention
(both SOC and SIC), turnover and transport in
natural and managed ecosystems,
3. Determining C sink capacity for major
soils and biomes of the priority benchmark
regions,
4. Establishing relation between SOC pool and
soil quality and other ecosystem services for
different land use and management systems,
5. Assessing the fate of C transported by
erosional processes, and
6. Standardizing methods of measuring,
monitoring and verification (MMV) of soil C pool
over multiple scales.
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Benchmark Sites

• Biome Tropics
• Site Costa Rica

Biome Temperate Site Ohio River Basin
Biome Artic Site Iceland
Biome Sub-Tropics Site South Asia
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SOC Pool Under Different Forestry Systems in
Costa Rica (Jimenez and Lal, 2007)
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Erosion-induced changes in SOC budget at the
global scale (Lal, 2006)
Mineralization and emission into the
atmosphere (0.8-1.2 Pg C/yr)
SOC Pool (1550 Pg)
Input or accretion
Redistribution of SOC over the
landscape (2.8-4.2 Pg C/yr)
Photosynthetic products
Erosion 4.0-6.0 Pg C/yr
Leaching of DOC
Burial of SOC
0.4-0.6 Pg C/yr
Precipitation Of DOC

• Deposition in depressional sites/
• aquatic ecosystems
• Re-aggregation and stabilization
• of SOC
• Increase in mean residence time
• of buried SOC

Transport by seepage water
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List of Publications 2007

• Books 2
• Refereed Journal Articles 27
• Book chapters 12
• Invited Keynote Presentations 11
• Others 24
• Total Publications 76

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Brief Presentations

• Core Project Rattan Lal
• Managing Carbon in Terrestrial Ecosystems
  (M-CITE)
• Core Project Ellen Mosley-Thompson
• Low-latitude glacier retreat Evidence of
  accelerating climate change and impacts on local
  to regional water resources (LLGR-ACC WR)
• Seed Grant Andy Keeler

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Project Low-latitude Glacier Retreat Evidence
of accelerating climate change and impacts
on local to regional water resources (LLGR - ACC
WR)
Project Team (to date) Lonnie Thompson (School
of Earth Sciences Byrd Polar Research Center)
Ellen Mosley-Thompson (Dept. of Geography Byrd
Polar Research Center) Bryan Mark (Dept. of
Geography Byrd Polar Research Center) Paolo
Gabrielli (School of Earth Sciences Byrd Polar
Research Center) Andy Keeler (John Glenn School
of Public Affairs) Dave Kraybill (Agricultural
Economics)

• The Basic Questions
• 1) Do human activities have the potential to
  push the climate system such
• that abrupt climate changes may become
  more frequent, intense and rapid?
• 2) How rapid are the worlds water towers
  (glaciers) retreating? These ice fields
• provide critical water supplies, especially
  during the annual dry season.
• How will the loss or diminishment of these water
  resources affect the
• natural ecosystems and human activities in
  the affected regions?

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Climatologically we are in unfamiliar
territory, and the worlds ice cover is
responding dramatically.
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Thompson, OSU
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Key questions that the Kilimanjaro component
of LLGR ACC WR proposes to address
(1) What processes are driving the accelerating
ice loss? (2) What is the remaining volume of
water residing in the Kilimanjaro ice fields?
(3) How much of the water used by people living
around Kilimanjaro (in its watershed) is
supplied by the seasonal release of water from
the ice fields versus precipitation that
falls on the surrounding plains and in the
cloud forests on the mountains slopes? (4) How
do local people approach climate change (at the
household and village level) as it affects
water availability and their livelihoods.
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Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru
2002
Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru
Thompson, OSU
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Retreat of Quelccayas major outlet glacier Qori
Kalis Glacier
1978 no lake
Thompson, OSU
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Quelccaya Ice Cap, 2002
Plant
Thompson, OSU
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The Andean Project includes NSF proposal was
submitted Feb 4 to drill ice cores from Hualcán
in northern Peru 1) A major glacier feeding
the Amazon River CWC will support drilling on
Pucahirca - the largest Andean glacier
feeding the Amazon River 2) Reconstruct
regional temperature and precipitation histories
3) Extract high resolution records of ENSO
variations as well as abrupt changes 4) Measure
ice thickness calculate ice volumes compare
to 1991 observations 5) Exploit preserved trace
and ultra trace element histories a richer
perspective on local and regional climate
variability (droughts, volcanic activity, mass
balance) NSF MRI proposal was
submitted in Jan 2008 for ICP-SFMS
Rapid tropical glacier recession presents a
critical mandate and opportunity 1) Implement
a watershed approach to quantify the fluxes,
climatic sensitivity, and biophysical
impacts of the tropical hydrologic cycle. 2)
Use cutting edge LIDAR technology to map ice
surface/depth (2008-2009) 3) Leverage existing
NASA funds to acquire additional coverage of
sites in Cordillera Blanca and Cordillera
Raura, focusing on the ice core watersheds 4)
Monitor stream discharge and end-member
contributions (shallow groundwater) 5) Quantify
the ice melt contribution to stream flow 6)
Measure suspended sediment load in proglacial
streams/lakes 7) Conduct participant
observations and semi-structured interviews to
evaluate perceptions of change,
resilience, and adaptation to climate-hydrologic
changes.
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12,000 cubic kilometers of freshwater is stored
in 15,000 Himalayan glaciers that provide a
hydrologic lifeline for millions of people (IPCC,
2007)
Thompson, OSU
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The Himalayan Component of CWC is further in
future
Knowledge and expertise gained in the Andes will
translate to the Himalayas
CWC plans are to mount a reconnaissance project
to both sides of the Himalayas (Chinese and
Indian) Chinese planning is underway Develop
scientific contacts in India with the assistance
of Icelands President Grimsson who has
offered to facilitate direct contact Indias
President (his OSU visit was sponsored by
our FAES CWC colleagues, R. Lal) India lacks
glaciological expertise so there is the potential
to build human capacity (graduate students
and post-docs)
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Brief Presentations

• Core Project Rattan Lal
• Managing Carbon in Terrestrial Ecosystems
  (M-CITE)
• Core Project Ellen Mosley-Thompson
• Low-latitude glacier retreat Evidence of
  accelerating climate change and impacts on local
  to regional water resources (LLGR-ACC WR)
• Seed Grant Andy Keeler

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Seed Grants

• My experience
• Tanzania
• Working with existing core project Low-latitude
  glacier retreat Evidence of accelerating climate
  change and impacts on local to regional water
  resources
• Purpose is to add economic and policy dimensions
  to research on glacier retreat and hydrology
• Seed grant made collaboration possible between
  FAES, JGSPA, SBS, and MAPS
• Funds were used for travel and preliminary data
  collection on Mt Kilimanjaro

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Reconnaissance on southern slope, Summer 2007
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Content of aggregated mountain-region SAM
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Seed Grants

• My experience
• Ecuador
• Funded the first year of a Ph.D. student to work
  on sequestration policy in developing countries
• Field work in Ecuador
• New proposal development
• Integration into core project proposal with SBS
  and FAES
• Led to other research opportunities

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Seed Grants

• Move new ideas forward
• Facilitate collaboration at OSU
• Flexible in terms of how the funding is used
• Opportunities exist to use seed grants to work
  off the strengths of existing core projects

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New Core Projects Seed Grants

• Leadership is limited to OSU faculty
• Work will be conducted by faculty, students,
  post-docs, researchers, etc.
• Core Projects
• Will further address the founding three questions
• Provide opportunity for sustained growth of the
  CWC
• Few restrictions on numbers of new projects or
  budgets
• Expected new core projects
• Ohio river basin with an Ohio focus Please join
  us for a Meeting March 12th 333 Kottman Hall,
  noon.
• Ecosystems Incentives, see Brent Sohngen
• Seed Grants
• Opportunistic, responsive to researcher and CWC
  needs
• Restricted to one year and about 50K

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Questions and Answers

• We welcome any and all questions
• Questions might include
• Are the core project and seed grant guidelines
  really just end-members or very specific,
  especially regarding budgets?
• Are there any risks in the longevity of the CWC
  OAA funds?
• How do CWC moneys differ from a grant?
• How many new FTEs are related to the CWC?
• I know a really good speaker, will the CWC
  sponsor this persons lecture?

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Todays Agenda

• Opening comments Dean Matt Platz
• What is the CWC? Doug Alsdorf
• OSU goals and CWC Science Policy goals
• Structure and budget
• Brief presentations
• Core Projects Rattan Lal, Ellen Mosley-Thompson
• Seed Grants Andy Keeler
• Funding opportunities Doug Alsdorf
• New core projects
• New seed grants
• Questions and Answers Moderator Doug Alsdorf
• Closing thoughts OARDC Director Steve Slack