USCCC Study Sites in the U.S.A.

1. Site Location Lad., & Long. Vegetation PI & Inst. Operating since USCCC Study Sites in the U.S.A. Poplar plantation Beijing 39°31´ 50"N, 116°15´07"E Poplar Zhiqiang Zhang, BFU 10/3/2004 Supratidal-Intertidal Wetland Shanghai 31°31.000’N, 121°57.643’E Spartina alterniflora Bo Li & Bin Zhao, FU 8/7/2004 Supratidal Wetland Shanghai 31°35.079’N, 121°54.207’E Phragmites australis Bo Li & Bin Zhao, FU 8/7/2004 Intertidal Wetland Shanghai 31°31.013’N, 121°58.297’E Scirpus mariqueter Bo Li & Bin Zhao, FU 8/7/2004 Stipa krylovii grassland Duolun 423203 N, 1161336 E Stipa krylovii Guanghui Lin, IB Under installation Agricultural land Duolun 423203 N, 1161336 E Triticum aestivum Guanghui Lin, IB Under installation Degraded grassland Xilinhot 433245 N, 1164040 E Leymus chinensis, Stipa grandis and Artemisia etc. Guanghui Lin, IB Under installation Sandland MU US 402251 N, 1083255 E Artemisia ordosica Guanghui Lin, IB Under installation Poplar plantation MU US 403218 N, 1084137 E Populus and liquorice (Glycyrrhiza uralensis) Guanghui Lin, IB Under installation Boreal forest Hu Zhong 5135.502N, 12312.807E Larix gmelinii Guangsheng Zhou, IB Under installation Typical steppe Inner Mongolia 4408.05’ N， 11619.43’ E Leymus chinensis, Stipa grandis, Stipa krylovii Guangsheng Zhou, MAC Operational Agricultural land Jingzhou 4108.59’ N， 12112.13’ E Maize Guangsheng Zhou, MAC Operational Wetland Panjin 41°08.440’ N， 121°54.710’ E Phragmites communis Trin., Suaeda spp., Paddy rice Guangsheng Zhou, MAC Operational Poplar plantation Anhui 3028’58.9’’N, 11659’2.4’’E Poplar Xudong Zhang, CAF Under installation Poplar plantation Dongtinghu 2931’58.8’’N, 11255’35.7’’E Poplar Xudong Zhang, CAF Under installation Carbon, Water, and Energy Fluxes at USCCC Sites Jiquan Chen, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43560; Phone: 419-530-2664, Fax: 410-530-44211; Email: jiquan.chen@utoledo.edu USCCC was established in December 2003 in Beijing, P.R. China as a collaborative consortium between American and Chinese institutions that have interests in studying the role of managed ecosystems in the global carbon and water cycles.  Representatives of two US institutions (Southern Global Change Program of USDA FS and University of Toledo) and seven Chinese institutions (Institute of Botany-CAS, Fudan University, Beijing Forestry University, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Nanjing University, and Meteorology Administration of China) participate in a planning workshop held in Beijing.  MISSION: To facilitate a better understanding of the environmental factors influencing the rate and magnitude of carbon sequestration and water cycling across a range of ecosystems and climatic gradients with the use of mutually agreed upon measurement protocols and equipment, and through a collaborated network of data sharing and analysis. SCCC Site in P.R. China USCCC Webpage at IBCAS Web-based database at FU The team agreed to propose a decentralized database management plan -- each institution will independently manage their data.  The data will be open to all the partitioning members through project WebPages with permission of the institution.  The committee strongly encourages its members to make their data as available as possible.  USCCC will adopt the data sharing policy of Long-Term Ecological Research Networks (http://lternet.edu/data/netpolicy.html) for our future research. USCCC is governed by a steering committee: Eddy-covariance flux towers are the central infrastructure of all USCCC sites (total 18). Ten towers have been installed: three flux towers in coastal wetlands in Shanghai (FU), one tower in a young popular plantation in Beijing (BFU), two in forested wetlands (CAF), and four towers in four contrasting ecosystems in northeastern China (MAC). The remaining towers will be completed before 2005 growing season. A webpage housing other site information (e.g., vegetation, soil, climate, respiration, stable isotope analysis) are under construction by each of USCCC member. • Dr. Steve McNulty, Co-Chair, SGCP, USDA FS • Dr. Xingguo Han, Co-Chair, Institute of Botany, CAS • Dr. Osbert Sun, Coordinator, IBCAS • Dr. Jiquan Chen, Science Leader, Univ of Toledo (UT) • Dr. Guanghui Lin, IBCAS • Dr. Bo LI, Fudan University (FU) • Dr. Zhiqian Zhang, Beijing Forestry University (BFU) • Dr. Xudong Zhang, Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAFR) • Dr. Guangsheng Zhou, Meterol. Admin. of China (MAC) • Dr. Shuqin An, Nanjing University • Dr. Ge Sun, Southern Global Change Program, USDA FS Training Workshop at the LEES Lab, Apr.-May 2004 • The steering committee is responsible for • Formulating study objectives and research questions through its annual meetings; • Establishing and implementing field instrumentation, data collection, and other sampling methods; • Practical solutions for data quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC), and data storage and dissemination; • Collaborative data analysis and compilation with the same metadata structure; • Forming consensus on research results for publications; • Determining authorship and approve papers prior to journal submission; and • Settling any problems or disputes that may arise within or between sites and members. EC tower in a coastal wetland (FU) EC tower in a coastal wetland, NC, USA FUTURE: USCCC welcomes any individuals or institutions to be an associate. For news updates and other detailed information, please visit US: http://research.eeescience.utoledo.edu/lees/research/USCCC/ China: http://usccc.ibcas.ac.cn/