EC41B:
Understanding the Coastal Carbon Cycle and Biogeochemical Processes in the Coastal Ocean: Observations and Modeling I
EC41B:
Understanding the Coastal Carbon Cycle and Biogeochemical Processes in the Coastal Ocean: Observations and Modeling I
Understanding the Coastal Carbon Cycle and Biogeochemical Processes in the Coastal Ocean: Observations and Modeling I
Session ID#: 11337
Session Description:
Transfer of carbon across the terrestrial-marine boundary and carbon cycling within estuarine and coastal waters are important components of the global carbon cycle. Yet carbon and its transformations in coastal environments remain poorly characterized. Estuaries have complex physical drivers and geochemical gradients that are coupled to watershed hydrology, tidal cycles, and extreme events (e.g., floods, droughts). Understanding the interactions of organic carbon in these environments, particularly in the context of global change, requires multiple observational approaches for identifying sources and ages, exchange mechanisms, transport pathways, and process time scales. We invite contributions that examine the dynamics of particulate and dissolved organic carbon in estuarine and coastal systems and how those processes mediate the transfer of carbon from land to sea and between the water column and sedimentary environments.
Possible topics include: transport of organic matter across the terrestrial- marine interface, partitioning of organic matter between particulate and aqueous phases, exchange between dissolved and particulate components, oxidation and burial in sediments, linkages between organic matter dynamics and nutrient cycling, response to seasonal variations and discharge perturbations, age determinations, biomarker and isotopic studies, as well as modeling approaches to carbon dynamics.
Primary Chair: Elisabeth L Sikes, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Chairs: Elizabeth A Canuel, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, Tomoko Komada, San Francisco State University, Romberg Tiburon Center, San Francisco, CA, United States, Thomas S Bianchi, University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Yizhen Li, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Weifeng Gordon Zhang, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Moderators: Tomoko Komada, San Francisco State University, Romberg Tiburon Center, San Francisco, CA, United States, Yizhen Li, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Elizabeth A Canuel, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison: Elizabeth A Canuel, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States
Index Terms:
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4235 Estuarine processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4806 Carbon cycling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4850 Marine organic chemistry [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
- B - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Source to Sink: Broad and fine scale observations of terrestrial vs marine derived carbon in a Scottish sea loch (fjord). (92448)
Seasonal and Interannual Variability of the Dissolved Organic Matter Composition in the Delaware Estuary (91028)
Annual and Seasonal Changes in POC, PON, and Total Particulate Matter in the Gulf of Mexico (88070)
Bioavailability of Riverine Dissolved Organic Matter in an Estuarine System: Evidence of the Priming Effect? (93571)
Sorting of Terrestrial and Marine Organic Matter along a Marginal Submarine Canyon: Radiocarbon and Biomarker Signatures of Surface Sediments (87669)
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