Digging Up Dirt on Soil Carbon

Scientists learn more everyday about the fine-scale dynamics of carbon cycling within soil organic matter, and how stored carbon can have broad implications on overall soil health and the carbon cycle. Measuring these carbon stores and exchanges is critical in providing data that better inform scientific models developed to predict future soil carbon concentrations. It’s important that we, as a society, better understand why, and how, carbon concentrations in soils are changing, so that we might learn how to mitigate rising CO2 levels in our atmosphere that contribute to global warming.

Suggested citation for this video: National Ecological Observatory Network. February 8, 2023. Digging Up Dirt on Soil Carbon [Video file]. Courtesy: Battelle. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/khfIC5TpyPQ.

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