To Be or Not to Be…that is the Question One of the challenging questions facing bio-geoscientists is whether the hydrological cycle is changing in a warming world with more CO2. There is speculation and evidence for both acceleration and a reduction in evaporation. The answer to this question is mixed as it is based on… More

  Dear AmeriFlux community, We are launching a “mini-Review” series as part of the AmeriFlux Year of Water. In this short monthly review, we list and provide a brief introduction of recent papers that cover “water fluxes” and leverage AmeriFlux/FLUXNET data and other variety of techniques (e.g., field measurements, remote sensing, modeling, or theories). Through… More

The Rosemount AmeriFlux sites are located at the University of Minnesota, Rosemount Research and Outreach Center (RROC) – a 3,500 acre research farm (https://rroc.cfans.umn.edu/). Our eddy covariance sites were established in conventional corn/soy systems in the early 2000s to assess the long-term carbon balance of agricultural systems and to evaluate if practical strategies (i.e. cover… More

Greenhouse gas flux responses to wetland drying and vegetation succession in the Kenai Lowlands, southcentral Alaska

Thank you for attending the 2021 AmeriFlux Annual Meeting! All of you made possible a wonderful 3 day conference, in which we enjoyed catching up with colleagues, meeting new ones, and brainstorm new directions for high impact science around eddy covariance fluxes. We’d like to thank the speakers, panelists, breakout leads, poster presenters, and everyone… More

Congratulations to the several AmeriFlux community members who have been awarded DOE funding for eddy-covariance flux research! In total, $11 million in funding was announced “to Study Critical Ecosystems and Improve Climate and Earth System Modeling.” Notably, three of the PIs benefitted from the AmeriFlux support through the AmeriFlux Rapid-Response Flux System (RRS) program, the… More

AmeriFlux principal investigators are quickly adopting the new AmeriFlux CC-BY-4.0 Data License, which allows their sites’ AmeriFlux data to be shared under the widely-used Creative Commons BY 4.0 license (CC-BY-4.0). This license allows data use as long as attribution is provided. This new license is more open than the historical AmeriFlux data policy, which is… More

Natural climate solutions (NCS) refer to a variety of land conservation and restoration actions that increase carbon storage (or reduce greenhouse gas emissions) in forests and agricultural operations (Fargione et al., 2018; Griscom et al., 2017). Reforestation, extending forest harvest intervals, and avoiding conversion of forests to other uses are all important natural climate solutions…. More

On June 10 and 11, almost 300 scientists participated in the Land-Atmosphere Interactions 2021 Workshop, “Improving understanding of land-atmosphere interactions through integration of surface flux and atmospheric boundary layer measurements.” The workshop was organized in conjunction with the AmeriFlux Year of Water Fluxes, and in collaboration with, and community representation from, DOE’s ARM User Facility,… More

The AmeriFlux Theme Year of Water Fluxes was officially launched on March 21, 2021 and has inspired a flood of community activities. Read on to find out what’s going on and how you can get involved! Rewatch: Let water cycle science wash over you Two exciting events convened the community virtually already. The Early Career… More