Carbon Budget of Tidal Wetlands, Estuaries, and Shelf Waters of Eastern North America

Raymond Najjar1, Maria Herrmann2, Richard B Alexander3, Elizabeth W Boyer4, David Burdige5, David E Butman6, Wei-Jun Cai7, Elizabeth A Canuel8, Robert F Chen9, Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs10, Rusty A Feagin11, Peter C Griffith12, Audra Hinson13, James Robert Holmquist14, Xinping Hu15, W. Michael Kemp16, Kevin D Kroeger17, Antonio Mannino18, S. Leigh McCallister19, Wade R McGillis20, Margaret R Mulholland21, Cynthia H Pilskaln22, Joseph Salisbury II23, Sergio R Signorini12, Pierre St-Laurent24, Hanqin Tian25, Maria Tzortziou26, Penny Vlahos27, Aleck Zhaohui Wang28 and Richard Carl Zimmerman29, (1)The Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (2)The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, (3)United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA, United States, (5)Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States, (6)University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (7)University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States, (8)Virginia Inst Marine Sciences, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, (9)University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (10)Virginia Inst Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, (11)Texas A & M University, Ecosystem Science and Management, College Station, TX, United States, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (13)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, (14)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, MD, United States, (15)Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Physical and Environmental Sciences, Corpus Christi, TX, United States, (16)University of Maryland, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States, (17)U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (18)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (19)Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States, (20)Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (21)Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States, (22)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States, (23)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (24)Old Dominion University, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Norfolk, VA, United States, (25)Auburn University, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research and School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States, (26)City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (27)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (28)WHOI-Marine Chem & Geochem, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (29)Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth & Atmospheic Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States