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Session 1:  Monday 14 April
Keynote addresseses:
  • 09:00 – 09:40  -  The Global Carbon Project  -  Josep Canadell, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO. 
  • 09:40 – 10:10  -  The Carbon Cycle: An emerging nexus between science and policy  - Martin Manning, Climate Change Research Institute, School of Government, Victoria University 
10:10 – 10:40 -  Morning Refreshment Break

Session 1:  Monday 14 April  The Global Carbon Cycle -  (session organiser: Mike Harvey)
The purpose of this session is to review the current understanding of the global carbon cycle from various interdisciplinary research efforts in biogeochemistry and atmospheric research.   Emphasis is given to work in the wider New Zealand region.  This session will include discussion of some large scale mitigation engineering options.

The atmospheric record
  • 10:40 - 10:55  -  CO2 and CH4 changes over recent millennia from the ice core record: causes, climate forcing and feedbacks   -   David Etheridge, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia
  • 10:55 – 11:10  -  Recording the past and informing the future: The history of atmospheric CO2 measurements in New Zealand  -   Dave Lowe, Lowenz, Wellington
  • 10:10 – 11:20  -  Session Discussion

Ocean processes:    Understanding ocean uptake and marine biosequestration
  • 11:20 - 11:35  -  Ocean feedbacks in the carbon cycle (chemical)  -  Keith Hunter, University of Otago, Centre for Chemical Oceanography 
  • 11:35 – 11:50  -  Carbon Cycling in the South West Pacific Ocean  -  Kim Currie, NIWA, Dunedin & Scott Nodder NIWA, Wellington
  • 11:50 – 12:25  -   The other side of the story: What the ocean interior data tell us about air-sea fluxes of CO2 in the Southern Ocean
  • Atmospheric radiocarbon: A window onto processes controlling Southern Ocean ventilation.              Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher, Princeton University
  • 12:25 – 12:40  -  Climate-mediated changes to mixed-layer propeerties in the World Ocean: how will phytoplankton respond?  -  Philip Boyd, NIWA, Dunedin, & Scott Doney
  • 12:40 – 12:55  -  (Bio)GeoEngineering - enhancing the biological pump & ocean carbon burial -  Cliff Law, NIWA, Wellington
  • 12:55 – 13:05  -  Session discussion
13:05 – 14:00  -  Lunch
  • 13:30 – 14:00  -  Discussion group for “Regional Carbon Budget Development Plan  -  Discussion leaders: Kim Currie, NIWA, Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher, Princeton
Land to Ocean carbon erosion
  • 14:00 – 14:15  -  Erosion and Sedimentation on the New Zealand Landscape: A Source or Sink of C to the Atmosphere?  -  Troy Baisden, GNS Science
  • 14:15 – 14:30  -  New Zealand Continental Margin C Fluxes  -  John Zeldis, NIWA, Christchurch

Engineering / mitigation
  • 14:30 - 14:45  -  Geological CO2 storage: the need for permanence and the ability to detect and quantify escape to the atmosphere -  David Etheridge, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia
  • 14:45 – 15:00  -  The Potential for Geological Sequestration of CO2: Opportunities for New Zealand and its Energy Sector   -   Rob Funnell,  GNS Science, Lower Hutt
  • 15:00 – 15:10  -  Session discussion

15:10 – 15:30  -  Afternoon Refreshment Break

Tools for assisting development of regional budgets
  • 15:30 - 15:45   -  Development of CO2 observation from space –the Orbiting Carbon Observatory  -   Brian Connor, BC Consulting Limited.
  • 15:45 – 16:00  -  Carbon-tracker Project  -  Andy Jacobson, NOAA Earth System Research Lab
Session 2: Monday 14th April 16:00 – 18:00
Posters  -  (Session organisers: Joint organisers: Alison Fordyce, Landcare, Rowena Moss, Sylvia Nichol, NIWA)
  • 16:00 – 16:30   -   Poster introduction – 1 min introduction from each poster presenter
  • 16:30 – 18:00   -   Poster session, drinks and nibbles
Call for Posters
We encourage researchers working on the global carbon cycle to submit a poster presentation to the workshop.  We are especially interested in
(a) work related to understanding carbon biogeochemical cycling,
(b) the quantification of regional budgets and
(c) research and policy aspects related to mitigation of carbon emissions.

Submission will be through the conference web site:  www.confer.co.nz/carbon

Please supply poster title and author by:    15 Mar 2008
Confirmation will be sent out by:                18 Mar 2008
Please supply Poster abstracts by:           6th April 2008  (extended)

Early conference registration deadline:       27 Mar 2008
Poster format will be maximum A0 portrait format

Session 3: Tuesday 15 April
Carbon Policy, Policy realated science and assessment   - Session convenor:  Martin Manning

The purpose of this session is two fold:
(1) to provide a summary of the framework to evolving policy for carbon constraint through the Emissions Trading Scheme,
(2) to consider current and future science needs arising from evolving policy including  wider aspects of carbon constraint, especially those being considered under integrating frameworks considering biophysical, social and economic aspects.

International
  • 9:00 – 9:20  - Policy formulation and Simple Climate modelling  -  Greg Bodeker, NIWA, Lauder
NZ policy in international context
  • 09:20 – 09:50  -  Helen Plume, Ministry for the Environment
NZ national strategies and policy
  • 09:50 – 10:10  -  NZ domestic policy response  -  Phil Gurnsey, Ministry for the Environment

10:10 – 10:40  -  Morning Refreshment Break

Engagement and integrated study
  • 10:40 – 11:00  - Towards an effective climate change policy: context, dilemmas and options.  -  Jonathan Boston, Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University
  • 11:00 – 11:20  -  Integrating science and economics to inform the design of climate change policy  -  Suzi Kerr, Motu

Social dimension around C budget
  • 11:20 – 11:50  -  From global to local - application of carbon cycle knowledge to New Zealand communities  -  Fiona Carswell and Garth Harmsworth, Landcare Research
  • 11:50 – 12:10  -  The Essential role of Maori in the Climate Change Policy and Program  -  Chris Karamea Insley, 37 Degrees South
Agriculture and Forestry
  • 12:10 – 12:30  -  Climate Change Policy for the land base sectors - implications for Research  -  Julie Collins, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Inventory
  • 12:30 – 12:50  -  NZ greenhouse gas inventory -  Len Brown, Ministry for the Environment
  • 12:50 – 13:00  -  Session discussion:  -  (anticipated research needs arising from present/future Carbon Policy

13:00 – 13:50  -  Lunch


Session 4:  Tuesday 15th April
New Zealand Terrestrial Carbon Budget - Session organiser: David Whitehead

The purpose of this session is to review current understanding of the terrestrial Carbon inventory & New Zealand research on terrestrial carbon stocks, budgets and fluxes, including land-use, above ground carbon stocks, and soil/ pastoral carbon)
  • 13:50 - 14:00  -  Setting the scene  -  David Whitehead, Landcare Research
  • 14:00 - 14:20  -  Meeting Article 3.3 obligations under the Kyoto Protocol:  The LUCAS project -  Peter Stephens, Ministry for the Environment
  • 14:20 - 14:50  -  New Zealand’s terrestrial carbon budget and the effects of land use change  -  Kevin Tate, Landcare Research. co-authors: Craig Trotter, Miko Kirschbaum, Hugh Wilde, Adrian Walcroft, John Dymond
  • 14:50 - 15:10  -  Contribution of carbon loss from pasture soils to New Zealand’s soil carbon budget  -  Louis Schipper, University of Waikato. co-authors: Roger Parfitt, Greg Arnold, John Claydon, Troy Baisden, Craig Ross
14:50 - 15:40  -  Afternoon Refreshment Break
  • 15:40 - 15:55  -  Ecosystem carbon exchange in pasture systems  -  Dave Campbell, University of Waikato
  • 15:55 - 16:10  -  Net ecosystem carbon exchange for indigenous forest  -  John Hunt, Landcare Research
  • 16:10-16:30  -  Fluxes in soil carbon. Climate change and management of grasslands  - Tony Parsons and Paul Newton, AgResearch
  • 16:30 - 16:50  -  Possibilities for mitigating emissions using biochar  -  Atillio Pigneri, Massey University
  • 16:50 - 17:30  -  Panel discussion with speakers
  • 17:30  -  Workshop Closure