Soil is made up of four main things: minerals, air, water, and organic matter. By soil carbon, people usually only refer to the organic matter component of soil (SOC). Yet, there are also inorganic carbon in soils, known as SIC.
Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is a carbon dioxide removal technology which has the potential for rapid large-scale upscaling, but has not yet full technological readiness. ERW refers to an artificial acceleration of the natural reaction of silicate-bearing rocks with atmospheric carbon dioxide forming carbonates in the soil - thereby removing...
Soils store a massive amount of carbon, much more than is stored in vegetation or in the atmosphere. How soil organic carbon (SOC) forms and persists remains uncertain. This makes it challenging to predict how soil carbon will respond to climatic change. Recently, Tao et al. reported in Nature that microbes and their carbon use efficiency are...
Microbial controls on soil carbon changes under climate change [3 years PhD thesis]. The Le Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) and University Exeter are looking for a motivated candidate for a PhD thesis on Microbial controls on soil carbon changes under climate change. The successful candidate will use land surface...
The fate of carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation plays a critical role in determining atmospheric CO2 levels and, consequently, climate change. Earth System Models (ESMs) project a non-linear response of the natural carbon cycle, which weakens both land and ocean sinks in response to warming. This leads to a steeper rise in...
We are seeking seven (7) enthusiastic and highly motivated candidates to work on new representation of carbon loss pathways, leveraging novel observations, theoretical understanding, machine learning tools and integration of processes with land surface models. The topics range from modelling microbial carbon use efficiency, extreme fires,...
Earth System Models which are used to assessed the human impact on the Earth Systems predict nitrogen fluxes which deviate from fluxes derived from measurements of nitrogen isotopes. As a consequence of this deficiency these models are likely underestimating the availability of soil nitrogen a major plant nutrient controlling the response of...
The rapid advancement of the big-data-big-model has reached its bottleneck: high computational requirements prevent further development of Terrestrial Biosphere Models (TBM) that need to be integrated over long time scales to simulate the distribution of ecosystems carbon and nutrient pools and fluxes.
A research scientist is sought to join the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) as part of the CLAND Institute of Convergence project in France. The project brings together more than 250 researchers in the Paris Saclay area to tackle the scientific challenge of integrating research on climate change and its impacts on...
