OS32A:
Carbon and Nutrient Cycling and Transport at the Land-Ocean Interface: Current Understanding and Future Research Directions IV

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Session ID#: 35044

Session Description:
As a result of natural and anthropogenic processes, rivers, estuaries and coastal margins provide a central link between the land and the ocean. Understanding this linkage is fundamental to understanding the feedbacks and interactions between terrestrial and marine cycles of carbon and other elements. This panel session is intended to synthesize research activities that address the impact of climate variability, climate change, and land-cover/land-use change on the transport and cycling of carbon and nitrogen to and within the coastal oceans through the use of field observations, satellite data and models including (a) effects of extreme events on the magnitude and seasonality of transports of carbon and nitrogen, (b) impacts of these changes on ecosystem processes and biogeochemical cycling, and (c) impacts of land use and climate variability on carbon and nutrient cycling in coastal ocean margins through changing the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems in major watersheds.
Primary Convener:  Wei-Jun Cai, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Conveners:  Hanqin Tian, Auburn University, Auburn, United States, Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, Gloucester Point, United States and Pierre A. G. Regnier, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Department of Geosciences, Environment, and Society (DGES), Brussel, Belgium
Chairs:  Hanqin Tian, Boston College, Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston, United States, Wei-Jun Cai, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Iris C Anderson, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Wei-Jun Cai, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0497 Wetlands [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4806 Carbon cycling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Progress and limitations on quantifying nutrient and carbon loading to coastal waters (Invited) (250397)
Edward Stets, U.S. Geological Survey, Water Mission Area, Mounds View, MN, United States, Gretchen P Oelsner, U.S. Geological Survey, New Mexico Water Science Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Sarah M Stackpoole, U.S. Geological Survey, Branch of Regional Research, Boulder, United States
Carbon Processing in Aquatic Critical Zones: A Source-to-Sink Perspective  (Invited) (268057)
Thomas S S Bianchi, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, United States
Carbon Transformations and Source – Sink Dynamics along a River, Marsh, Estuary, Ocean Continuum (Invited) (259556)
Iris C Anderson, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, Joseph Crosswell, CSIRO, Environment, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Kenneth Czapla, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Biological Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States and Bryce Van Dam, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute of Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Tidal Wetlands and Coastal Ocean Carbon Dynamics (Invited) (287266)
Charles Hopkinson, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, Shiyu Rachel Wang, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden, Inke Forbrich, University of Toledo, Department of Environmental Sciences, Toledo, OH, United States, Anne E Giblin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, United States and Wei-Jun Cai, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States
Understanding and Projecting Climate and Human Impacts on Terrestrial-Coastal Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes (Invited) (233162)
Steven E Lohrenz, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, School For Marine Science and Technology, New Bedford, United States, Wei-Jun Cai, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Hanqin Tian, Boston College, Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston, United States, Ruoying He, NC State University, Raleigh, United States and Katja Fennel, Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada

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