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Recent Workshop: Managing Denitrification in Human Dominated Landscapes Date: May 12-14, 2009 Venue: University of Rhode Island Bay Campus, Narragansett, RI See full agenda >> Recent Publication - New approaches to modeling denitrification Biogeochemistry, March 2009. This special issue of Biogeochemistry presents products from the first workshop in the Denitrification RCN series which had modeling denitrification as its primary focus (November of 2006). The current status as well as new advances in modeling denitrification in terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments are covered, with an overall emphasis on scaling up from small scales to whole watershed perspectives. [More...] Our earlier workshop on "Advancing Methods for Measuring Denitrification in Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems" was held May 27 - 30, 2008. Please see more on the 2008 workshop page. Denitrification Blog Please visit the Denitrification blog at http://denitrification.blogspot.com (you will need a Google account to join) to post and review comments, questions and more with others interested in denitrification.  Thanks to Wendy Yang and Philip Taylor for initiating this blog at the second Denitrification RCN workshop.

Previous Workshops: May 12-14, 2009 Managing Denitrification in Human Dominated Landscapes May 27 - 30, 2008 Advancing Methods for Measuring Denitrification in Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems

NSF's Denitrification Research Coordination Network (RCN)

This project began in 2005 with the overall objective of creating a community of denitrification scientists from a wide array of disciplines, from molecular biology to ecosystem science, and from soil science to oceanography. Despite many denitrification studies, only a few locations have measurements adequate to quantify rates or to understand factors controlling denitrification at the ecosystem scale. The focus of activities of the Denitrification RCN is to advance across the range of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems on earth: 1) quantification of denitrification rates, 2) development of quantitative, process-based relationships between rates of denitrification and controlling factors, and 3) production of spatially explicit, process-based models that can be used to scale-up site specific measurements to ecosystem, regional and global scales.

While the Denitrification RCN has just been established, our long-term (10-15 year) vision is to have spatially explicit maps of denitrification rates for the entire earth system under current conditions, as well as past and hypothetical (future) scenarios. Toward that objective the RCN will:

• Facilitate the sharing of recent methodological advances in denitrification measurement and models
• Stimulate additional methodological improvements
• Enhance coordination of research activities and facilitate new joint research programs in under-sampled ecosystems and geographical regions
• Promote synthesis and integration at various scales
• Catalyze and stimulate interaction of scientists with policy-makers and managers on denitrification issues of concern to society