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The Centre&#39;s research programme on soil carbon is designed to move beyond quantifying how much soil carbon is stored in agricultural soils into the challenging area of understanding the processes driving soil carbon storage and, crucially, manipulating these processes so that agricultural soil carbon is conserved and, where possible, increased. 
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<span class="h5">Goals &amp; Objectives</span> 
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Increasing the quantity of&nbsp;carbon stored in agricultural soils has the potential to offset emissions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. However, realising this potential is technically challenging, especially when soil carbon stocks are already high as they are in New Zealand. The NZAGRC&#39;s programme has three distinct components (1) assessing the potential to store carbon across the range of physical and climatic conditions found in New Zealand, (2) devising management practises that can increase the long term soil carbon store and (3) methods for verifying that soil carbon stocks have been changed.<br />
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			<span class="h6">Objective</span> 
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			<span class="h6">Leader</span> 
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			<span class="h6">Timeframe</span> 
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			<span class="h5">3.1</span> 
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			Limits of soil carbon storage in New Zealand soils 
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			Dr Mike Beare 
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			Apr 10 - Jun 12 
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			<span class="h5">3.2</span> 
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			Quantifying the carbon currently stored in New Zealand soils 
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			Dr Allan Hewitt 
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			Apr 10 - Jun 12 
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			<span class="h5">3.3</span> 
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			Process-based modelling of drivers of soil carbon change 
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			Prof Tony Parsons 
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			Apr 10 - Jun 14 
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			<span class="h5">3.4</span> 
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			Manipulation of carbon inputs, incorporation and retention to protect and enhance soil carbon 
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			Dr David Whitehead 
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			Apr 10 - Jun 14 
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			<span class="h5">3.5</span> 
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			Improved soil carbon measurements 
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			Prof Frank Kelliher 
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			Apr 10 - Jun 14
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<span class="h5">Principal Investigators&nbsp;</span> 
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Professor Frank Kelliher, AgResearch<br />
Dr David Whitehead, Landcare Research&nbsp; 
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<span class="h5">Linkages</span> 
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AgMardt<br />
AgResearch<br />
Agriculture &amp; AgriFood, Canada<br />
Colorado State University, USA<br />
CSIRO Land &amp; Water, Australia<br />
Landcare Research<br />
Lincoln University<br />
Massey University<br />
New South Wales DPI, Australia<br />
Plant &amp; Food Research<br />
Scion<br />
University of California, Davis, USA<br />
Waikato University
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<span class="h5">Stories</span> 
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			<td><a href="user/file/26/Release5_February_2012_p6.pdf" title="Prospects for manipulating soil carbon"></a><a href="user/file/26/Release5_February_2012_p6.pdf" title="Prospects for manipulating soil carbon"><img src="user/image/thumb/226/Manipulating%20soil%20carbon.jpg" border="0" alt="Manipulating soil carbon" title="Manipulating soil carbon" /></a></td>
			<td><a href="user/file/26/Release5_February_2012_p6.pdf" title="Prospects for manipulating soil carbon"><span class="h6">Prospects for manipulating <br />
			soil carbon</span><br />
			Release Newsletter - February</a><a href="user/file/26/Release5_February_2012_p6.pdf" title="Prospects for manipulating soil carbon"></a><a href="user/file/26/Release5_February_2012_p6.pdf" title="Prospects for manipulating soil carbon"> 2012</a>
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			<td><a href="user/file/24/Release4_Nov_2011_p4-6.pdf" title="Investigating the scope for increasing soil carbon levels in New Zealand"></a><a href="user/file/24/Release4_Nov_2011_p4-6.pdf" title="Investigating the scope for increasing soil carbon levels in New Zealand"><img src="user/image/thumb/229/Soil%20carbon%20levels.jpg" border="0" alt="Soil carbon levels" title="Soil carbon levels" /></a></td>
			<td><a href="user/file/26/Release5_February_2012_p6.pdf" title="Prospects for manipulating soil carbon"><span class="h6">Investigating the scope for <br />
			increasing soil carbon levels <br />
			in New Zealand</span>
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			Release Newsletter - November 2011 
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			<td><a href="user/file/25/Release3_Aug_2011_p6-7.pdf" title="Is biochar a possible solution for the mitigation of pastoral GHG emissions?"><img src="user/image/thumb/227/Biochar.jpg" border="0" alt="Biochar" title="Biochar" /></a></td>
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			<a href="user/file/25/Release3_Aug_2011_p6-7.pdf" title="Is biochar a possible solution for the mitigation of pastoral GHG emissions?">Is biochar a possible solution for <br />
			the mitigation of </a><a href="user/file/25/Release3_Aug_2011_p6-7.pdf" title="Is biochar a possible solution for the mitigation of pastoral GHG emissions?"> <span class="h6"><span class="h6">pastoral GHG <br />
			emissions?</span><br />
			</span>Release Newsletter - August 2011
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			<a href="user/file/27/Release1_Dec_2010_p4.pdf" title="Can we increase soil carbon in dairy systems?"><img src="user/image/thumb/228/Soil%20carbon%20in%20dairy%20systems.jpg" border="0" alt="Soil carbon in dairy systems" title="Soil carbon in dairy systems" /></a></td>
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			<a href="user/file/27/Release1_Dec_2010_p4.pdf" title="Can we increase soil carbon in dairy systems?">C</a><a href="user/file/27/Release1_Dec_2010_p4.pdf" title="Can we increase soil carbon in dairy systems?"><span class="h6">an we increase soil carbon <br />
			in dairy systems?</span><br />
			Release Newsletter - December 2010</a> 
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