Closing the North American Carbon Budget: Continental Margin Fluxes Matter!

Heather M Benway1, Samantha A Siedlecki2, Raymond Najjar3, Elizabeth W Boyer4, Wei-Jun Cai5, Paula G Coble6, Jessica N Cross7,8, Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs9, Miguel A Goni10, Peter C Griffith11, Maria Herrmann12, Steven E Lohrenz13, Jeremy T Mathis14, Galen A McKinley15, Cynthia H Pilskaln13, Richard Smith16, Simone R Alin17 and Coastal CARbon Synthesis (CCARS) Workshop and Science Plan Contributors, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Univ of Washington-JISAO, Seattle, United States, (3)The Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (4)Penn State University, Department of Ecosystem Science & Management, University Park, United States, (5)University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States, (6)USF, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (7)NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, (8)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (9)Virginia Inst Marine Science, Gloucester Point, United States, (10)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (13)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States, (14)NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States, (15)Columbia University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, United States, (16)United States Geological Survey (USGS), Reston, United States, (17)NOAA PMEL, Seattle, United States