Using Flux Measurements for Immediate Societal Benefits
Convener:
George Burba
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Co-conveners:
Susanne WiesnerECSECS,
Karolina SakowskaECSECS,
Andrey Dara,
Ruwin Pandithage
Most of the GHG measurements are then used for important discoveries achieved through process-level academic studies, and for long-term climate and ecosystem modeling. Most of the water measurements at the GHG flux sites are used for applications of computing and interpreting ecosystem-level GHG exchange.
Such measurements use ultra-high-resolution methodology and state-of-the-art hardware vastly superior to typical monitoring-grade methods and equipment deployed outside academia for a wide range of non-academic decision-making applications, from gas leaks to drought or heat wave detections. However, despite providing exceptional ways to measure GHG emissions and ET, direct flux measurements are very rarely utilized outside academia.
This session, organized through research-industry collaboration between Kisters Group, Carbon Space, Institute of BioEconomy (IBE) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), University of Wisconsin-Madison, LI-COR Biosciences, and Water for Food Global Institute welcomes new ideas and existing examples of how to better utilize direct flux measurements for immediate societal benefits.
These can range broadly including using directly measured ET for irrigation scheduling to avoid loss of water and reduce the price of food, using directly measured CO2 fluxes for agricultural or forest carbon sequestration and offsets, directly measuring CH4 fluxes for leak quantification from storage facilities or for optimization of landfill management, etc. The secondary products could include the use of instantaneous water use efficiency (a ratio of CO2 and H2O fluxes) for fertigation and reduction in fertilizer needs, the use of tower-derived GPP to tune remote sensing products for insurance and intelligence, validate models and ecological forecasts, and numerous other applications.