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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Media Advisory No.
0028.16 USDA Office of Communications.<br>
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Contact:</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1"
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</font><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">USDA Office of
Communications<u> (202) 720-4623</u><br>
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<b>Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to Announce Major Investment for
Conservation, Results of Climate-Smart Agriculture Plan at Center for
American Progress</b><br>
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WASHINGTON, May 9, 2016 - THURSDAY, Agriculture
Secretary Tom Vilsack will deliver keynote remarks and announce a
major new investment in conservation practices that improve soil,
water, plant, animal, air and related natural resources on
agricultural land and non-industrial private forestlands at the Center
for American Progress. Following his address, Secretary Vilsack will
be joined by executives from Land O'Lakes, Weyerhaeuser, and the
Environmental Defense Fund for a panel discussion on climate-smart
agriculture and forestry.<br>
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Building on the Obama Administration's commitment to adapt to
challenges presented by climate change, Secretary Vilsack unveiled the
Building Blocks for Climate Smart Agriculture in April 2015, an
innovative framework to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase
carbon storage and generate clean renewable energy across the
agricultural sector. On Thursday, Secretary Vilsack will share
the first results of the Building Blocks framework and the actions
USDA has taken to help farmers, ranchers, and forestland owners
respond to climate change over the past year.<br>
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Since 2009, USDA investments in climate change research and
conservation programs have helped agricultural producers in the U.S.
reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 60 million metric
tons annually. Using the building blocks framework, we expect to
reduce net greenhouse gas emissions and enhance carbon sequestration
by over 120 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent per year by 2025,
bringing us closer to reaching our national goal of reducing
greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by
2025.<br>
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<b>WHAT:</b></font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1"
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</b></font><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Agriculture
Secretary Tom Vilsack will address advancements in climate-smart
agriculture and announce a major new investment for conservation
stewardship at the Center for American Progress. Following his
address, Secretary Vilsack will be joined by executives from Land
O'Lakes, Weyerhaeuser, and the Environmental Defense Fund for a panel
discussion on climate-smart agriculture and forestry.<br>
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<b>WHERE:</b></font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1"
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</b></font><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Center for
American Progress</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1"
color="#000000"><br>
</font><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">1333 H Street,
N.W.</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
</font><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">10th
Floor</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Washington, D.C.<br>
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<b>WHEN:</b></font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1"
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</b></font><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Thursday, May
12, 2016</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1"
color="#000000"><br>
</font><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">10 a.m.
EDT</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
</font><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Members of the
media who wish to attend<u> may RSVP here</u>.<br>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">================== Net Primary
Production/Solar budget for life on Earth
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
"Only about a tenth of 1 percent of the energy received from the
sun by the earth is fixed by photosynthesis ...."</font></div>
<div><font size="-1" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">"Worldwide it is about the
equivalent to the annual production of between 150 and 200 billion
tons of dry organic matter ... "</font></div>
<div><font size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
"It is solar energy that moves the rabbit, the deer, the whale,
the boy on the bicycle outside my window, my pencil as I write these
wordsŠ Expanding human activities are requiring a larger fraction of
the total and are paradoxically making large segments of it less
useful in support of man."<br>
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Woodwell, George.<br>
"The Energy Cycle of the Biosphere."<br>
<i>Scientific American</i>. September, 1970</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"><b>What causes the
inverse relationship between primary production and export efficiency
in the Southern Ocean?<br>
</b>Frédéric A. C. Le Moigne, Stephanie A. Henson, Emma Cavan,
Clément Georges, Katsiaryna Pabortsava, Eric P. Achterberg, Elena
Ceballos</font><font face="Menlo Regular" size="-1"
color="#000000">_</font><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000">Romero, Mike Zubkov, Richard J. Sanders<br>
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<i><b>Geophysical Research Letters<br>
</b></i>First Published: 7 May 2016<br>
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<b>KEY POINTS<br>
</b>o<x-tab> </x-tab>High productivity low
export regions are widespread in the Southern Ocean<br>
o<x-tab> </x-tab>This may be due to high
surface bacterial activity and low fecal pellet export in high PP
regions<br>
o<x-tab> </x-tab>These two processes
must be implemented in POC export algorithms</font></div>
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Open Access<br>
<u>http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GL068480/full</u></font
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