| NCED Working Groups are small (10-20) groups of NCED PIs, Partners, and academic, agency or industry researchers from outside NCED. The goal of these groups is to promote a multi-disciplinary theoretical and applied approach to issues of land use planning, resource management, and landscape restoration. The groups, which often meet on a continuing basis, serve as a venue for research collaborations, data analysis and tool exchange between NCED, its Partners and the wider community.
To propose an NCED Working Group, please contact Karen Campbell, kmc@umn.edu
Some examples of NCED Working Groups:
Novel methods for modeling the surface evolution of geomorphic interfaces I
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2004 and July 2005
Conveners: Vaughan Voller and David Mohrig
The group’s charge was to explore state-of-the-art methodologies for modeling the surface evolution of geomorphic interfaces. Eighteen researchers, from diverse backgrounds covering mathematical and numerical methods, experimental techniques and field observations, were involved. Three areas (questions) were identified for further work at the first workshop. Discussions continued in July, 2005 at the group's second meeting.
Carbon Storage in Floodplains Working Group
Seattle, Washington, June 2005
Convener: Rolf Aalto
The group's charge was to study quantitatively and mechanistically the role of river and deltaic floodplains in storing carbon and thus influencing Earth's climate on decadal to century time scales. The group comprised experts in biogeochemistry and physical sedimentation from both the marine and terrestrial communities.
Conclusions are
(1) that preliminary data suggest that the effect of floodplains in storing carbon is globally significant on the time scales of interest,
(2) that there is potential for major advances in understanding fundamental mechanisms of carbon transport and binding to particles, and
(3) that there is potential for rapid progress in quantifying terrestrial carbon storage by transferring concepts and methods from research in marine sediments to terrestrial sediments. |
