North American carbon budget and implications for the global carbon cycle [also known as the Prototype State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR) focused on North America]

Keith H. Paustian

Natural Resource Ecology Lab

Colorado State University

Ft. Collins, CO 80523

Tel: (970) 491-1547; Fax: (970) 491-1965

 

Education

 

1977    B.Sc.    Forest Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

1980    M.Sc.   Forest Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

1987    Ph.D.   Systems Ecology/Agroecology, Swedish University of Agricultural

                        Sciences, Uppsala

 

Research Interests

 

Soil carbon sequestration in grasslands; mechanisms of soil carbon storage; modeling the carbon cycle in managed ecosystems.

 

Employment History

 

2001-present    Professor, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University

1996-present    Senior Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University

1993-1995       Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University

1991-1993       Research Assistant Professor, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State             University

1989-1990       Research Associate, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University

1987-1989       Research Scientist, Dept. of Ecology and Environmental Research, Swedish     

                        University of Agricultural Sciences

 

Professional Service/Activities

 

Executive Committee – Consortium for Agricultural Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases (CASMGS)

Coordinating Lead Author – IPCC Good Practice Guidelines for Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry, National Inventory Guidelines

Lead Author - IPCC Special Report on a “Land use, Land use Change and Forestry” Review Team - New Zealand National Carbon Inventory System

Co-chair for CAST Taskforce on climate change impacts and greenhouse gas mitigation in US agriculture.

Planning Committee member - Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Facilities, Dept. of Energy

Steering Committee member - International Geosphere Biosphere Program/Global Change in Terrestrial Ecosystems, Focus 3, Soil Organic Matter

Steering Committee member - U.S. Climate Change National Assessment, Agricultural Sector Team

Task Force member - DOE National Taskforce to develop a Carbon Sequestration Roadmap

Co-chair - IPCC Working Group on Methodologies for Country Inventories of Greenhouse Gases: CO₂ Emissions from Soils

 

 

Publications

 

Paustian, K., E.T. Elliott, G.A. Peterson and K. Killian. 1996. Modelling climate, CO₂ and management impacts on soil carbon in semi-arid agroecosystems. Plant and Soil 187:351-365.

Paustian, K., O. Andren, H. Janzen, R. Lal, P. Smith, G. Tian, H. Tiessen, M. van Noordwijk and P. Woomer. 1997. Agricultural soil as a C sink to offset CO₂ emissions. Soil Use and Management 13:230-244.

Paustian, K., C.V. Cole, D. Sauerbeck and N. Sampson. 1998. CO₂ mitigation by agriculture: An overview. Climatic Change 40:135-162.

Paustian, K., E.T. Elliott, J. Six and H.W. Hunt. 2000. Management options for reducing CO₂ emissions from agricultural soils. Biogeochemistry 48:147-163.

Collins, H.P., E.T. Elliott, K. Paustian, L.G. Bundy, W.A. Dick, D.R. Huggins, A.J.M. Smucker and E.A. Paul. 2000. Soil carbon pools and fluxes in long-term Corn Belt agroecosystems. Soil Biol. Biochem. 32:157-168.

Paustian, K., E.T. Elliott, K. Killian, J. Cipra, G. Bluhm and J.L. Smith. 2001. Modeling and regional assessment of soil carbon: A case study of the Conservation Reserve Program. In: R. Lal and K. McSweeney (eds) Soil Management for Enhancing Carbon Sequestration. Pp. 207-225. SSSA Special Publ., Madison, WI.

Conant, R.T., K. Paustian and E.T. Elliott. 2001. Grassland management and conversion into grassland: Effects on soil carbon. Ecological Application 11:343-355.

Eve, M.D., M. Sperow, K. Paustian and R.F. Follett. 2002. National-scale estimation of changes in soil carbon stocks on agricultural lands. Environmental Pollution 116: 431-438.

Conant, R.T. and K. Paustian 2002. Potential soil carbon sequestration in overgrazed grassland ecosystems. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 16:90_1-90_9.

Eve, M.D., M. Sperow, K. Howerton, K. Paustian and R.F. Follett. 2002. Predicted impact of management changes on soil carbon stocks for each cropland region of the conterminous U.S. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 57:196-204.

Antle, J.M., S.M. Capalbo, S. Mooney, E. Elliott and K. Paustian. 2002. Economic Analysis of Agricultural Soil Carbon Sequestration: An Integrated Assessment Approach. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 26:344-367.

Antle, J.M., S.M. Capalbo, S. Mooney, E.T. Elliott and K. H. Paustian. 2002. A comparative examination of the efficiency of sequestering carbon in U.S. agricultural soils. American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 17:109-115.

Reilly, J., F. Tubiello, B. McCarl, D. Abler, R. Darwin, K. Fuglie, S. Hollinger C. Izaurralde, S. Jagtap, J. Jones, L. Mearns, D. Ojima, E. Paul, K. Paustian, S. Riha, N. Rosenberg, C. Rosenzweig. 2003. U.S. Agriculture and Climate Change: New Results. Climatic Change 57:43-69.

Sperow, M., M.D. Eve and K. Paustian. 2003. Potential soil C sequestration on U.S. agricultural soils. Climatic Change 57:319-339.

DeGryze, S., J. Six, K. Paustian, S.J. Morris, E.A. Paul and R. Merckx. 2003. Soil organic carbon pool changes following land use conversions. Global Change Biology (in press).

Ogle, S.M., R.T. Conant and K. Paustian. 2003. Deriving grassland management factors for a carbon accounting method developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Environ. Management (in press).

Conant, R.T. and K. Paustian. 2003. Grassland management activity data: current sources and future needs. Environ. Management (in press).

Paustian, K. and B. Babcock (eds). 2003. Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Challenges and Opportunities for Agriculture. Council on Agricultural Sciences and Technology (CAST). (In press).