The Group on the Carbon Cycle by CNR-DSSTTA: an inter-disciplinary working group to facilitate cross-collaboration on Carbon Cycle studies in Italy

Here, we present the activities of the "Carbon Cycle" working group (wg) (https://dta.cnr.it/ciclo-del-carbonio/; e-mail: carbonetwork@cnr.it; social sharing #CNR_CarboNetwork), established in February 2019 by the Department of Earth System Sciences and Technologies for the Environment (DSSTTA) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and composed by researchers from different CNR institutes, Italian Universities and other research bodies. The main goals of the DSSTTA "Carbon Cycle" group are: ? to engage the national scientific community involved in multiple aspects of the Carbon Cycle research, aiming at creating a transdisciplinary network; ? to contribute in defining common research themes on the Carbon Cycle, focusing on chemical, physical and biological interactions that regulate the exchanges between the Earth's "spheres"; ? to identify and report possible funding opportunities and project calls over national and international landscapes; ? to support the scientific community that studies the Carbon Cycle by communicating initiatives and events, updating on novel scientific literature, informing on opportunities; ? to organize scientific meetings, dissemination and training events (workshops, summer schools, seminars). Among the ongoing initiatives, the wg (i) releases a newsletter that highlights all the news and opportunities received from the Italian scientific community working on the Carbon Cycle every four months ("CarbonNetwork Newsletter") and (ii) it is currently organizing the International Workshop C4 "Climate Change and Carbon Cycle" (Pisa, 22-24/06/2022; https://dta.cnr.it/climate-change-and-carbon-cycle/). During this event the interactive laboratory co-organized by ICOS-Italia "Observation and Prediction: two sides of the same coin" will take place.