{"id":5,"date":"2017-11-17T09:14:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T14:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/co2-urban-synthesis-and-analysis-network\/"},"modified":"2019-07-25T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T20:19:52","slug":"co2-urban-synthesis-and-analysis-network","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;CO<sub>2<\/sub>-USA&#8221; Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>The third CO2-USA workshop will be in Boston, MA on Oct 7-8, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/454-2\/\">Click here for workshop information and registration.<\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Principal Investigators:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/home.chpc.utah.edu\/~lin\/\">John Lin<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hutyra\/\">Lucy Hutyra<\/a><span>,<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seas.harvard.edu\/directory\/swofsy\">Steven Wofsy<\/a><span>, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/essic.umd.edu\/joom2\/index.php\/faculty-and-staff?layout=user&amp;user_id=583\">Christopher Loughner<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Cities have emerged as leaders in US efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but the scientific knowledge to quantitatively track emissions and assess the efficacy of mitigation is lacking. As the global population increasingly resides in urban regions, scientific knowledge about\u00a0<em>how much, where,<\/em> and<em> why<\/em> a particular city emits carbon becomes increasingly important. \u00a0This workshop launches a collaborative network to exchange information on community standards and common measurements, facilitate data sharing, and create analysis frameworks and cross-city syntheses to catalyze a new generation of researchers and enable new collaborations tackling important objectives that are difficult to address in isolation. \u00a0Specifically this synthesis effort seeks to:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/co2usa\/files\/2017\/11\/Lin_Hutyra_Intro_final-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Lin_Hutyra_Intro_final\" width=\"496\" height=\"372\" class=\" wp-image-71 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/files\/2017\/11\/Lin_Hutyra_Intro_final-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/files\/2017\/11\/Lin_Hutyra_Intro_final-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/files\/2017\/11\/Lin_Hutyra_Intro_final-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quantify &amp; understand similarities\/differences in CO<sub>2<\/sub> and CH<sub>4<\/sub> fluxes across cities;<\/li>\n<li>Develop harmonized CO<sub>2<\/sub> and CH<sub>4<\/sub> mixing ratio datasets that are readily useable, traceable, and accessible by the research community and the public;<\/li>\n<li>Construct an atmospheric modeling system that is scalable and transferable between cities;<\/li>\n<li>Compare &amp; understand similarities\/differences between anthropogenic emission inventories;<\/li>\n<li>Improve estimates of biospheric fluxes across cities;<\/li>\n<li>Foster a community of urban carbon cycle researchers and generate collaborative studies;<\/li>\n<li>Engage stakeholders to link them with data, syntheses, and insights into urban emissions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><div class=\"bu-slideshow-container slc-workshop autoplay\" id=\"bu-slideshow-container-399\" data-slideshow-name=\"slc-workshop\" data-slideshow-delay=\"3000\" style=\"width: auto; \"><div class='slideshow-loader active'><div class='loader-animation'><\/div><p>loading slideshow...<\/p><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-slides\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow transition-fade\" id=\"bu-slideshow-399\"><li id=\"bu-slideshow-399_0\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-center\"><img src=\"\/co2usa\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_7895-1-636x633.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-center\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Group photos from our workshop in Salt Lake City<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-399_1\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-center\"><img src=\"\/co2usa\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_7899-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-center\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Group photos from our workshop in Salt Lake City<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation-container\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation nav-icon\" id=\"bu-slideshow-nav-399\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-1\" class=\" active\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>1<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-2\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>2<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Supported\u00a0through <a href=\"http:\/\/cpo.noaa.gov\/Meet-the-Divisions\/Earth-System-Science-and-Modeling\/AC4\">NOAA AC4<\/a> with workshop support from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nist.gov\">NIST<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/co2usa\/files\/2017\/11\/logos-1.jpg\" alt=\"logos\" width=\"3928\" height=\"391\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-381 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/files\/2017\/11\/logos-1.jpg 3928w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/files\/2017\/11\/logos-1-636x63.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/files\/2017\/11\/logos-1-768x76.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/files\/2017\/11\/logos-1-1024x102.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3928px) 100vw, 3928px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third CO2-USA workshop will be in Boston, MA on Oct 7-8, 2019. 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Principal Investigators:\u00a0John Lin,\u00a0Lucy Hutyra,\u00a0Steven Wofsy, Christopher Loughner Project Summary Cities have emerged as leaders in US efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but the scientific knowledge to quantitatively track emissions and assess the efficacy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13669,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/co2usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}