B51N:
Coastal Wetland Carbon: Recent Advances in Measurements, Modeling, and Syntheses II

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Session ID#: 31726

Session Description:
Coastal marshes, mangroves, and seagrass sequester significant amounts of “blue carbon” in soils, sediments, and biomass. Complex interactions of climate, land use, sea level, species composition, and human management regulate the strength of the carbon sinks and the greenhouse gas balance. Our ability to measure and model the vertical (atmospheric) and lateral (hydrologic) exchanges of blue carbon at the land-ocean interface is limited. Their ecosystem services and the associated values of conservation and restoration in mitigating climate change have only recently been recognized by policymakers, coastal managers, and society at large. We aim to bring together biogeochemists, wetland ecologists, geomorphologists, earth system modelers, ecological engineers, and social scientists to discuss coastal blue carbon pools and fluxes, and their roles in global carbon cycling and climate change mitigation. We also aim to report recent advances in measurement methods, modeling, and synthesis results that can support carbon accounting in coastal wetland ecosystems.
Primary Convener:  Jianwu Tang, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Conveners:  Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States, Kevin D Kroeger, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Lisamarie Windham-Myers, USGS, State of California's Delta Stewardship Council, Sacramento, United States
Chairs:  Jianwu Tang, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Lisamarie Windham-Myers, United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Lisamarie Windham-Myers, United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0442 Estuarine and nearshore processes [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0497 Wetlands [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Methane Cycling in a Warming Wetland (282741)
Genevieve L Noyce1, Patrick Megonigal1, Roy Rich2, Matthew L. Kirwan3 and Ellen R Herbert4, (1)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, United States, (2)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, United States, (3)College of William and Mary, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Williamsburg, United States, (4)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States
Impact of sea-level rise on Everglades carbon storage capacity in the Holocene (252158)
Miriam Jones1, Christopher E Bernhardt2, G. Lynn Lynn Wingard3, Katherine Keller4, Bethany Stackhouse3 and Bryan Landacre3, (1)U.S. Geological Survey., Reston, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey., Reston, VA, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States, (4)Natural Systems Analysts, Inc, Reston, VA, United States
Spatial Variability of Salt Marsh Vertical Accretion and Carbon Burial Rates along the Gulf of Mexico at Local and Regional Scales (224884)
Jill Arriola, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Jaye Ellen Cable, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Marine Sciences and Curriculum in Environment and Ecology, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Modeling global mangrove soil carbon stocks: filling the gaps in coastal environments (261917)
Andre Rovai and Robert Twilley, Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, United States
Sediment Accretion, Carbon Sequestration, and Resilience to Sea Level Rise in Natural and Recently Restored Tidal Marshes (266086)
Katrina Poppe1, John Rybczyk1, Logan Parr2 and Analissa Merrill2, (1)Western Washington University, Environmental Science, Bellingham, WA, United States, (2)Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States
The Approaching Obsolescence of 137Cs as a Means of Dating Wetland Soils and Sediments in North America (210142)
Judith Z Drexler, USGS California Water Science Center, Sacramento, United States and Christopher Fuller, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States

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