Dr. Susan Waldron1, Dr. Ian Grieve2, Prof. Dave Gilvear2,

Dr. Simon Drew1,2

Geographical and Earth Sciences, U. of Glasgow

School of Environmental Science, U. of Stirling

Welcome to CLAD

Introduction

Housekeeping ‘Home team’ Purpose of CLAD Structure of this meeting Rationale for the research community day Proposed outcomes of day 1 On with the science…

1. Fire alarm

2. Toilets

3. Problems

Housekeeping

More housekeeping…

Meeting 1:

Travel: £85 towards travel

2 nights @ £55 per night

Stakeholders are not similarly supported

Simon will co-ordinate reimbursement of this.

Food and refreshments provided at the meeting

Network dinner, plus a small amount of wine.

‘Home Team’

Dr Susan Waldron

Prof. Dave GilvearDr Ian Grieve

Dr Simon Drew

Co-PI, Network Facilitator

Helen Murray

GU Ph.D. student (year 3)

Melanie Van Niekerk

SU Ph.D. student (year 2)

Overarching aim of CLAD

To integrate the academic research community

with carbon landscape stakeholders.

From this interaction produce a better practical

understanding of carbon landscapes, drivers of

aquatic C losses and how best to monitor these.

Sediment and nutrient losses can also be

considered.

CLAD is currently funded to run for 3 years, until July 2012

Timeliness of this network

1. SNIFFER seeking EOI for an ‘Assessment of the contribution of aquatic carbon fluxes to carbon losses from UK peatlands’ (22nd Nov. 2009 deadline).

2. IUCN UK Peatland project : Assessing the evidence base underpinning current peatland policy and driving future policy developments

3. Questionnaire recently distributed by Rebecca Artz (Macaulay) on current state of knowledge and future evidence needs in relation to Scottish peatlands. Linked to the report on ‘Peat and Carbon’ by Richard Lindsay.

4. DEFRA: Recently commissioned Water@ Leeds to report on CH4 emissions from restored peatlands (Baird et al).

Many different initiatives being commissioned or have been published relating to ‘Carbon Landscapes’:

Timeliness of this network

4. EA-funded QUEST modelling on the bioclimatic envelope of peat vegetation initiation (Jo Clark)

5. SNIFFER UKCC21 Climate change, land management and erosion in the organic and organo-mineral soils in Scotland and N. Ireland (Alan Lilly et al).

6. ECOSSE report

7. Nayak et al payback time calculator for windfarm construction

8. Environmental Systems recently funded on remote sensing of peatlands

Please send information about activities and links to published reports to Simon for him to publicise on the CLAD webpage.

Purpose of the day 1 meeting

UK has considerable expertise in understanding C

losses to aquatic systems:

→ DOC production

→ processes regulating of carbon export

→ magnitude; spatial and temporal variation

→ quality of the DOM: composition; stoichiometry

Day 1 is an opportunity for us to come together and

share our knowledge.

Purpose of the day 2 meeting

To share that knowledge with ‘carbon landscape’ stakeholders (CLS).

To learn from CLS of their field-based problems and thus facilitate collaborative and focussed research opportunities

As disturbance of landscape can release C and nutrients, activities causing disturbance will be a focus.

The anthropogenic change causing most pressure at present is construction of windfarms (important stakeholder interest).

Plan for day 1

Are we all singing from the same hymn sheet?

Overview of our understanding.

Focussed working groups (pm) geared towards a

an academic output of the research community

gathering.

Outputs: review paper on C production / loss /

reworking and outstanding research challenges

Use this publication as a platform to support a

consortium grant application? (not necessarily

lead by CLAD PIs).

The ‘CLAD’ review paper

Biogeochemistry

Science Of The Total Environment

Both are interested in accepting a review paper.

All participants to co-author (unless they wish

not too)

Biogeochemistry particularly ask for ‘vision’

Biogeochemistry

"Synthesis and Emerging Ideas" section.

Papers may be theoretical, hypothetical, and/or synthetic.

Advance the concepts involved in Biogeochemistry

challenge and expand people's thinking→ lead to developing new tools and information.

Not "traditional" review papers simply summarising existing knowledge, but knowledge synthesis to produce new ideas and theory.

Require intellectual rigor, but less focus on the "rightness" and more on the rigor, interest, and potential use of the ideas.

"Will this advance biogeochemical thinking and research?"

The review paper

Is this an attractive proposition?

Research Community Overview

Overview:

1. Asked several people to provide an overview of a section of research we most identified them with.

2. Were told who else was in the audience.

3. Approximately 10 minutes each.

4. Discussion to be informal

Post presentation:

1. What is missing from what was covered?

2. Is anything incorrect?