The First Announcement of 2011 Carbon Cycle Conference and 3rd Beijing International Summer School (BISS) on Climate and Environment，August 1-5, 2011, Beijing

Background Carbon cycle is becoming a central issue of climate, energy and environment. Fossil fuel and land use emissions drive up atmospheric CO2.  Carbon sinks in the ocean and on land are absorbing half of emissions, but how these sinks will change in the future to human management and climate change is not clear. Equally importantly, how such changes will feedback to climate and societal response is poorly known. Understanding and anticipating the global carbon cycle change is thus of great scientific as well as socioeconomic importance.

The International Carbon Dioxide Conference (ICDC; www.icdc8.org) is the world's leading conference on the global carbon cycle. Since 1981, the worldwide scientific community meets every 4 years at Bern, Switzerland (1981), Kandersteg, Switzerland (1985), Hinterzarten, Germany (1989), Carqueiranne, France (1993), Cairns, Australia (1997), Sendai, Japan (2001), Broomfield, USA (2005), Jena, Germany (2009). The next meeting (ICDC9) will be held in China in 2013, offering a golden opportunity to bridge Chinese carbon research with the world, and to demonstrate China's achievements in climate mitigation and adaptation such as reforestation and renewable energy.

Scope In anticipation of ICDC9, a conference in conjunction with the BISS summer school (school.climgo.org) is planned in 2011 in China. This will serve two purposes: (1) The conference will gather leading and emerging Chinese carbon researchers and exchange ideas on the status of carbon research in China. It will initiate the local organization for ICDC9, expected to be collaboration among a number of Chinese institutions；(2) The BISS summer school will provide an opportunity to train students and young researchers urgently needed in an area of critical importance to China.

Major topic areas will include the following components of the carbon cycle
1. Atmosphere
2. Land, including forest, soil, cropland, wetland, arid land
3. Ocean, including open and coastal ocean
4. Fossil fuel emissions, energy and economics
5. Carbon sequestration and carbon management

Dates:  Conference: August 4-5, 2011
Summer school: August 1-5, 2011 (Last two days coincide with the conference)

Organizing committee:

Cai Weijun (Georgia)
Dong Wenjie (BNU)
Fang Jingyun (IBCAS/PKU)　　　　　　
Guo Zhengtang (IGGCAS)　　　　 
Huang Yao (IBCAS)
Hu Yongyun (PKU)　　　　　　　
Li Zengyuan (CAF)　　　　　 
Lin Guanghui (Tsinghua)　
Lu Daren (CAS/IAP)　　　　　
Lu Riyu (CAS/IAP)
Luo Yiqi (Oklahoma)　　　　　 
Pan Yude (USFS)
Piao Shilong (PKU)　　　　　　
Ren Xiaobo (CAS)
Song Changqing (NSFC)
Wang Huijun (CAS/IAP)
Wang Pinxian (Tongji)　　　　 
Yu Guirui (CAS/IGSNRR)　　
Zhang Chaolin (NSFC)
Zhou Guangsheng (IBCAS/CMA)　　　 
Zhou Lingxi  (CMA)
Co-chairs:  Zeng Ning and Chen Jing Ming
Executive director: Xie Zhenghui
Co-sponsors: IAP, NSFC, LASG, Nanjing U, Tsinghua U, Peking U, Beijing Normal U, COAA ITEC, Maryland, etc.

Contract:
Jenny Lin
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modelling for Atmospheric Sciences & Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG)
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
P.O.Box 9804,Beijing 100029, China
Tel：10-8299-5230
Fax.: 10-8299-5172
Email: summerschool@lasg.iap.ac.cn
http://www.lasg.ac.cn/summerschool/2011