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Publicerad: 2015-11-02

Seminarium om klimatförändringar

NYHET Med förberedelserna för klimatkonferensen i Paris i full sving bjuder vi in till ett seminarium om vad Umeå universitets klimatforskare gör vid Climate Impacts Research Center i Abisko. Vi välkomnar Dr. Ellen Dorrepaal. Seminariet är på engelska.

Climate change is among the largest current global political and socio-economic concerns. In addition to anthropogenic causes, terrestrial ecosystems can cause strong climate feedbacks through uptake of carbon by plants and release via microbial breakdown.

The size of these natural feedbacks is one of the major uncertainties in current climate projections. Permanently frozen (permafrost) soils in the arctic store twice as much carbon as is present in the entire atmosphere of our planet. This carbon is currently excluded from the global atmospheric carbon cycle and thus does not contribute to climate warming.

However, there is great concern that warming and thawing of permafrost soils may stimulate microbial breakdown of the stored organic carbon. This would causing a large positive feedback to global warming. My research aims to understand carbon cycle-climate feedbacks from arctic terrestrial ecosystems and in this seminar I will give an overview of our approaches and main findings.

För tid och plats följ denna länk.

Denna nyhet publicerades på www.org.umu.se/riseb/