Leveraging field and remotely sensed data to reduce uncertainty in national inventories of coastal wetland carbon fluxes: Year 2 findings from the NASA “Blue” Carbon Monitoring System

Lisamarie Windham-Myers1, James Robert Holmquist2, Isa Woo3, Brian A Bergamaschi4, Kristin B Byrd5, Stephen Crooks6, Judith Z Drexler7, Rusty A Feagin8, Matthew C. Ferner9, Meagan Eagle Eagle10, Kevin D Kroeger11, Patrick Megonigal2, James T Morris12, Lisa M Schile13, Marc Simard14, Ariana Sutton-Grier15, John Takekawa16, Tiffany Troxler17, Donald Weller13, John Callaway18 and Nate Herold19, (1)USGS, National Research Program, Menlo Park, United States, (2)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, United States, (3)USGS Western Ecological Research Center, Vallejo, CA, United States, (4)USGS Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (5)USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (6)Silvestrum Climate Associates, LLC, San Francisco, CA, United States, (7)USGS California Water Science Center, Sacramento, United States, (8)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (9)San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Tiburon, United States, (10)USGS Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, United States, (11)U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (12)University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States, (13)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, MD, United States, (14)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (15)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (16)USGS Western Ecological Research Center San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Station, Vallejo, CA, United States, (17)Florida International University, SE Environmental Research Ctr. & Department of Biological Sciences, Miami, FL, United States, (18)University of San Francisco, Environmental Studies, San Francisco, CA, United States, (19)NOAA Charleston, Office for Coastal Management, Charleston, SC, United States