B41C:
Coastal Wetland Carbon: Recent Advances in Measurements, Modeling, and Syntheses I


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Session ID#: 59727

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 (including CO2, CH4, and N2O). Our ability to measure and model the vertical and lateral exchanges of coastal 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. We aim to bring together biogeochemists, wetland ecologists, earth system modelers, ecological engineers, and social scientists to discuss coastal 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, including the eddy covariance and remote sensing techniques, modeling, and synthesis that 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, Chris L Osburn, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States and Lisamarie Windham-Myers, U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Mission Area, Moffett Field, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jianwu Tang, MBL, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Chairs:  Jianwu Tang, MBL, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Chris L Osburn, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0442 Estuarine and nearshore processes [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Sediment Cohort Theory: Why Isotopic Dating Methods Give Conflicting Vertical Accretion and Carbon Burial Rates (380900)
James T Morris, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States
Qualifying C sequestration in the tidal wetlands of conterminous United States (382422)
Faming Wang, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Xiaoliang Lu, Marine biological lab, Woods hole, MA, United States, Christian J Sanders, National Marine Science Centre, School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, NSW, 2450, Australia, Coffs Harbour, Australia and Jianwu Tang, MBL, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Farming carbon: the link between saltwater intrusion and carbon storage in coastal agricultural fields (397436)
Elizabeth de la Reguera, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Katherine Lynn Tully, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, College Park, United States, Keryn Gedan, George Washington University, Department of Biological Sciences, Washington DC, United States and Margaret Palmer, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Annapolis, United States
The Influence of High Nutrient Availability on The Carbon Balance in Restored Marshes: An Example From Poplar Island, MD in Chesapeake Bay (397916)
Lorie Staver1, J. Court Stevenson2, Jeffrey C Cornwell1, Nicholas Nidzieko3 and Michael S. Owens4, (1)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States, (2)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Lab, Cambridge, MD, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States
Increasing accumulation of soil organic matter in mangrove forests could indicate greater-than-expected resilience to sea-level rise and enhance the ongoing carbon sink capacity (398081)
Joseph M Smoak, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Joshua Breithaupt, Florida State University, Coastal and Marine Laboratory, St. Teresa, United States, Thomas S S Bianchi, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, United States, Derrick Vaughn, Utah State University, Logan, United States, Brad E Rosenheim, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, Saint Petersburg, United States and Lisa G Chambers, University of Central Florida, Department of Biology, Orlando, United States
A century of erosion and deposition of a marsh planform – which has been more important at sculpting the landscape? (425826)
Christopher G. Smith1, Marci E. Marot2, Kathryn E.L. Smith3, Christian Haller4, Nicole Khan5, Stanley D Locker6, Terrence McCloskey7 and Lisa E. Osterman2, (1)USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center St. Petersburg, Coastal and Marine Science Center, St Petersburg, United States, (2)U.S Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Science Center, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, (3)USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, United States, (4)University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (5)Nanyang Technological University, Asian School of the Environment, Singapore, Singapore, (6)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (7)Cherokee Nation Technologies Contractor for U.S. Geological Survey, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Constraining Lateral Carbon Exports to the Marine Environment for Suisun Marsh, California, USA (427442)
Matthew Bogard, University of Lethbridge, Department of Biological Sciences, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, Brian A Bergamaschi, USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, United States, Frank E Anderson, USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States, David E Butman, Yale University, New Haven, United States and Lisamarie Windham-Myers, USGS - National Research Program, Menlo Park, United States

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