The International Workshop C4 “Climate Change and Carbon Cycle” 

The International Workshop C⁴ “Climate Change and Carbon Cycle” (Pisa, 22-24/06/2022) envisions knowledge exchange and cross-pollination within the scientific communities interested in Global Changes, Climate System and Carbon Cycle through time.

Predicting interactions between Earth’s climate and carbon cycle is challenging because of the volume of feedback and the number of processes involved. A growing wealth of geosphere, atmosphere, ocean, and ecosystem reconstructions and observations has provided essential insights into how climate change affects the ways that carbon moves through Earth’s environment from the deep past to the modern era, and into how carbon cycle perturbations affect climate system.  Yet, many fundamental questions remain unanswered. Perhaps the most challenging and societally relevant aspect to understand is whether the rate at which the land and ocean can sequester carbon will continue to keep pace with rising carbon dioxide emissions and the impact on Earth systems that could be associated with it.

To face this important challenge, we aim to discuss the frontiers of a new interdisciplinary research in which the integration of the different geological, biological, anthropic components, together with new emerging technologies, will produce a novel, global scientific view of the Earth System across time scales.

The overarching goal of C⁴ is to foster novel opportunities for collaborations among scientists by bringing together experts from different disciplines.

C⁴ welcomes contributions from proxy records of the deep geological past to modern observations and modelling that (i) explore linear and nonlinear processes resulting from interactions between climate system and carbon cycle at multiple time scales, (ii) provide insights into the past and present expression of combined climate and carbon changes in environments and ecosystems, and (iii) highlight the current knowledge gaps and how they can be filled through the combined efforts of the Climate, Paleoclimate and Carbon Cycle communities.

The C4 Workshop (Pisa, 22-24/06/2022) is promoted and organized by the Working Groups “Paleoclimate Dynamics” and “Carbon Cycle” of the Department of Earth System Sciences and Environmental Technologies of the National Research Council of Italy (DSSTTA-CNR).

PROGRAM:

The final workshop schedule can be downloaded here. Oral presentation consists of 10 minutes for the talk, followed by 5 minutes for questions and brief discussion.

REGISTRATION, FEES, GRANT AND DEADLINES:

The workshop will be limited to 100 people for logistic reasons, so we encourage registering early.

REGISTRATION: to register please click here.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: within Saturday 30th April 2022

This is the mandatory deadline for people submitting an abstract

Please send the abstract to c4.workshop@cnr.it indicating in the object the preferred session and mode of presentation (poster or oral) e.g. FRONTIERS/ORAL using the following template.

FEES

The registration fee includes the opening icebreaker with food and drinks, lunches and coffee breaks. Please indicate any dietary restrictions on the registration form.

Early payment (within Monday 31st March 2022) = 90 €

Late payment (within Monday 20th May 2022) =120 €

GRANTS

A limited number of grant will be available for presenting Ph.D and Post-Doc students and for early career and senior scientist from developing or low-income countries. Grants will cover the registration fee and the accommodation in Pisa.

Please send a brief CV, the submitted abstract and a motivation letter at: c4.workshop@cnr.it

The deadline for grant application is March, 31st

All additional information are available within the dedicated website: https://dta.cnr.it/climate-change-and-carbon-cycle/