Newsletter: October-2023
In this Issue
Growth, LinkedIn followers milestone, productive discussions
Group feedback on the Draft Ag & Forest GHGMIS Strategy published!
AmeriFlux & WMO representations
Invitation to connect with our members at LI-COR Connect Meeting in November in Atlanta
Invitation to visit our AGU-2023 session in December in San Francisco
Invitation to visit our AMS-2024 session in January in Baltimore
Invitation to present and meet in person at the EGU-2024 assembly in April in Vienna
All upcoming and past activities & events
Growth, LinkedIn milestone, discussions
It has been our first year, and our community has grown significantly, now involving carbon experts from a very broad range of climate and carbon sectors, representing over 160 organizations. From Directors of major Government Agencies to CEOs of major international companies.
We are also nearing our first one thousand followers on LinkedIn, a small but significant step to projecting positive influence on the global professional climate and carbon community.
We thank you very much for the many interesting and useful discussions on the mailing list, and especially in private. There is definitely a way to resolve climate and carbon issues by working together across domains, sectors, and isles! Thank you!
Coordinated feedback on the Draft Federal Strategy to Advance Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement and Monitoring for the Agriculture and Forest Sectors
We are happy to announce the publication of "Carbon Dew Coordinated Response To: The Draft Federal Strategy to Advance Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement and Monitoring for the Agriculture and Forest Sectors": here
Some of the key recommendations include:
Include a section on direct flux measurements of GHGs and evapotranspiration (ET)
Enable locally actionable GHG information through high-resolution, attributed flux maps
Establish high-quality information flows
Refer to existing emission and evapotranspiration monitoring systems
Highlight contributions from US communities
Implement AI-based data quality tools specific to directly measured GHG emission and ET
CarbonDew Members Co-Authored the Response:
George Burba (LI-COR Biosciences & Water for Food Global Institute), Stefan Metzger (NEON Program, Battelle), Tala Awada (University of Nebraska), Oleg Demidov (CarbonSpace), Ankur Desai (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Raymond Desjardins (Agriculture and Agri-food Canada), David Durden (NEON), Jack Elston (Black Swift Technologies), Robert Granat (CarbonSpace), Kyle Hemes (Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment), Steven Kannenberg (West Virginia University), John Stephen Kayode (Nigerian Army University Biu), Adam Koeppel (Agrology), Gerbrand Koren (Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University), Sung-Ching Lee (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry), Leon Mutambala (Sitlab Technology), Andrew Mwape (ZEACHO), Vitaly Pashkin (CarbonSpace), Benjamin Runkle (University of Arkansas), Susanne Schödel (Susanne Schödel GmbH Environment Data), Pitchamuthu Senthilvalavan (Annamalai University), John Shanahan (Agoro Carbon Alliance), Udayar P Surendran (Centre for Water Resources Development & Management).
If such activities and topics seem interesting to you, please join our future efforts to anchor fair and equitable climate solutions through direct measurements of sequestration and emission rates, and to collaborate with public and private entities, leveraging surface-atmosphere science and industry innovations.
AmeriFlux & WMO representations
At the AmeriFlux Annual Meeting in Gardner, MA, USA, CarbonDew co-presented a talk and a breakout session on “Joining Remote Sensing and Fluxes for Real-world Impact”. Thirty breakout participants captured six pages of ideas that Carbon Dew plans to consolidate into conference proceedings hosted from a preprint server.
People: Connections through workshops, working groups, conferences, university resources that convene diverse participants from flux, remote sensing, policy, industry, etc. Identify the needs of different stakeholders and foster trust and understanding across disciplines.
Applications: Carbon management incl. regulatory and market approaches, nature-based and technological solutions; precision Ag, urban climate and pollution, env. intelligence. Tracking carbon, offsets, additionality, and developing management solutions with high resolution spatially-explicit data.
Data Presentation: Provide high-resolution spatially-explicit data, aggregated data, annual reports, maps, storytelling, standards, and units tailored to stakeholder needs. Develop integrated datasets, tools, tutorials, and use cases to showcase value and build community awareness.
At the WMO Workshop “Observations within the Global Greenhouse Gas Watch” in Geneva, Switzerland, CarbonDew presented a poster “Carbon Dew: a New Community of Practice Leveraging Direct GHG Exchange Measurements for Equitable Climate Solutions”.
New development: WMO is undertaking a particularly important and truly enormous initiative of global GHG observations. Both GHG concentrations and directly measured fluxes (emissions and uptakes) are to be monitored.
Interactions: Positive feedback on the presentation and CarbonDew activities from WMO, European Commission, ICOS, NOAA, several private companies, and multiple new members joining CarbonDew.
Invitation to connect with our members at LI-COR Connect Meeting in November in Atlanta
Week of November 6, 2023, Atlanta, Georgia
We invite you to join us at the first inaugural LI-COR Connect 2023 Conference, organized by LI-COR Biosciences, a member of CarbonDew.
The conference will be held for three full days, with morning sessions dedicated to oral presentations: November 7 is dedicated to the leaf-scale measurements, November 8 to soil-level measurements, and November 9 to ecosystem-level measurements, covered by our invited speakers, many of whom are members of CarbonDew!
Afternoons will have a choice of twenty-three highly-focused workshops and trainings, ranging widely from light response curves fitting to eddy covariance data visualization. Technicians, students, postdocs, and other attendees can select multiple of these (two each day) during the registration process.
Evenings will be dedicated to poster sessions on the latest innovations in carbon, water, and GHG measurements at multiple scales.
Invitation to visit our AGU-2023 session in December in San Francisco
Week of December 11, 2023, San Francisco, California
We invite you to join us at the inaugural session “Surface-Atmosphere Interactions: Flux Measurements for Real-World Impact” at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, virtually or in person. The session is organized by CarbonDew, Battelle, IBM, LI-COR, Lynker, and NEON, and focuses on how we can utilize direct flux measurements for tangible societal benefits.
Please join us to discuss how we can together develop a global paradigm for maximum integrity, low-latency, and economically sound earth stewardship, anchored in direct flux measurements!
Invitation to visit our AMS-2024 session in January in Baltimore
Week of January 28, 2024, Baltimore, Maryland
Please join us at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Session “Toward a Unified Monitoring, Measurements, Reporting, and Verification (MMRV) Framework for GHG Mitigation and Carbon Removal”, organized by CarbonDew, Lynker, LI-COR, NEON, and Battelle
Achieving net zero emissions requires rapid GHG reduction and carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Monitoring, measurement, reporting, and verification (MMRV) based on scientific standards are crucial for effective emission reduction.
This session highlights research on CDR, GHG mitigation, and MMRV, focusing on nature-based and technological approaches, societal applications, and governance. It aims to foster innovative strategies through partnerships with various sectors.
Topics include in-situ and remote sensing measurements of carbon sequestration, leak quantification, and landfill management. Discussions seek efficient carbon removal, GHG reduction, and the establishment of a standardized MMRV framework for a carbon-negative future.
Invitation to present and meet in person at the EGU-2024 assembly in April in Vienna
Week of April 14, 2024, Vienna, Austria
More information will be coming soon, as it becomes available from EGU.
Presentations: several presentations are being planned, and details are coming.
All upcoming and past activities & events
Upcoming Activities
Week of April 14, 2024: European Geophysical Union General Assembly
Let’s meet in person! Details are coming
Presentations: several presentations are being planned, and details are coming
Week of January 28, 2024: American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting
Proposal for Session “Using Flux Measurements for Immediate Societal Benefits”
Presentations: several presentations are being planned, and details are coming
Week of December 11, 2023: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
Inaugural Carbon Dew Sessions “Surface-Atmosphere Interactions: Flux Measurements for Real-World Impact”
Presentations: several presentations are being planned, and details are coming
Past Activities
October 17-18, 2023: National Academies for Science, Engineering and Medicine
Workshop "Atmospheric Methane Removal: Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities"
Week of October 2, 2023: World Meteorological Organization
Workshop “Observations within the Global Greenhouse Gas Watch”
Presentation “Carbon Dew: a New Community of Practice Leveraging Direct GHG Exchange Measurements for Equitable Climate Solutions”
Week of October 2, 2023: AmeriFlux Annual Meeting
Presentation “Carbon Dew: Anchoring Equitable Climate Solutions in Directly Measured Greenhouse Gas Exchange”
Breakout “AmeriFlux and NEON: Joining Remote Sensing and Fluxes for Real-world Impact”
August 11, 2023: Coordinated feedback on the Draft Federal Strategy to Advance Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement and Monitoring for the Agriculture and Forest Sectors
Carbon Dew facilitated a well-balanced, moderated, and professional group response and set of recommendations, with signatories from academia, observing networks, industry, and other stakeholders:
● The draft strategy: here
● The CarbonDew group response: here
Week of August 6, 2023: Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
Presentation: “Carbon Dew: a New Community of Practice Leveraging Direct GHG Exchange Measurements for Equitable Climate Solutions”
Week of April 23, 2023: European Geophysical Union General Assembly
Presentations:
“Carbon Dew: Direct Greenhouse Gas Exchange Measurements Anchor Equitable Climate Solutions Worldwide”
April 19, 2023: Coordinated feedback on the draft Federal Strategy to Advance an Integrated U.S. Greenhouse Gas Monitoring and Information System
Carbon Dew facilitated a well-balanced, moderated, and professional group response and set of recommendations, with signatories from academia, observing networks, industry, and other stakeholders:
● The draft strategy: here
● The CarbonDew group response: here
Week of March 27, 2023: Battelle Conference "Innovations in Climate Resilience”
Presentation "Carbon Dew: Direct Greenhouse Gas Exchange Measurements for Equitable Worldwide Emissions Trading"
Presentation "Emission Observations and Data Analysis System: Towards Robust and Scalable Measurement, Reporting and Verification"
February 21-23, 2023: NACP/US Carbon Cycle Science Program
Workshop "Measuring, Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MMRV) for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)"
Week of January 30, 2023: iLEAPS-OzFlux Joint Conference
Presentation "Eddy Covariance Method for Immediate Societal Benefits: The Value of Simple Explanations, Data Cross-Sharing, and AWS-Like Approach"
