A new workflow to incorporate molecularly and spatially resolved data into soil biogeochemical modeling
EMSL Project ID
60635
Abstract
We propose a new modeling workflow to integrate molecular-level information on the composition and structure of soil and resident microbial communities into mechanistic process representations and parameterizations of a soil biogeochemical process module spanning across multiple scales. This computationally tractable workflow will enable incorporation of newly generated high-resolution biogeochemical and microbial process data into predictions of soil carbon dynamics from site to regional scales to advance the span and accuracy of multiscale models of the Earth system. We will containerize this new modeling workflow into an open-source web application that allows EMSL users to customize model structures based on process-specific hypotheses and simulate their own data with the various levels of mechanistic complexity of model formulations. This new capability will close a critical gap in BER model ecosystem and directly address EMSL’s research priority in developing multi-scale modeling tools to translate data from molecular observation network (MONet) into regional fine-resolution Earth system process models.
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Start Date
2022-11-30
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N/A
Status
Active
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