CD44B:
Land-Ocean Linkages Along Shallow Coastlines Under Human Impact I Poster Lightning


Session ID#: 38921

Session Description:
Coastal wetlands including the adjacent shallow offshore areas are of high ecological and recreational value. At the same time, they are heavily impacted by direct and indirect effects of anthropogenic activities such as drainage and eutrophication. In addition, the anticipated climate change and sea level rise will strongly alter their hydro(geo)logy as well as the biogeochemistry of soils and coastal sediments alike. Nutrient transport and turnover across the land-sea continuum is driven by hydraulic connectivity, sediment structure, and microbial activity. Plant and animal life along shallow coasts is impacted by submarine groundwater discharge and sediment transport on the seaside and flooding with saltwater on the landside, both of which change the species composition, diversity and overall biomass. Moreover, wave action and currents modify the sediment integrity and fluxes to the water column. To understand the details of the processes and their interrelations on land and in the coastal ocean, field studies, experiments, and model evaluations are likewise necessary. We therefore invite presentations from all scientific areas focusing on land-sea interactions across the coastal continuum. Interdisciplinary studies linking, for instance, hydrodynamics with biogeochemistry are highly welcome.
Primary Chair:  Maren Voss, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemuende (IOW), Biological Oceanography, Rostock, Germany
Co-chairs:  Fereidoun Rezanezhad, University of Waterloo, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Bernd Lennartz, University of Rostock, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Rostock, Germany and Stefan Forster, University of Rostock, Institute for Biological Sciences - Marine Biology, Rostock, Germany
Moderators:  Fereidoun Rezanezhad, University of Waterloo, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Stefan Forster, University of Rostock, Institute for Biological Sciences - Marine Biology, Rostock, Germany and Bernd Lennartz, University of Rostock, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Rostock, Germany
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Stefan Forster, University of Rostock, Institute for Biological Sciences - Marine Biology, Rostock, Germany and Bernd Lennartz, University of Rostock, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Rostock, Germany
Index Terms:

4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4820 Gases [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4840 Microbiology and microbial ecology [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4845 Nutrients and nutrient cycling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • AI - Air-Sea Interactions
  • BN - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients

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