CP33A:
Interdisciplinary Approaches for Understanding Coastal Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemical Processes and Budgets I
Session ID#: 92833
Session Description:
The coastal ocean, including estuaries, tidal wetlands, continental shelf waters, and coastal upwelling regions, is highly productive and plays a role in the global cycles of carbon and other elements that is much larger than its area would indicate. The necessity to understand coastal biogeochemical processes is increasing as human activity creates problems such as eutrophication, harmful algal blooms, and hypoxia. In addition, climate change effects, such as warming, sea-level rise, acidification, and changing streamflow, will interact with these problems in complex ways. Our understanding of the role of these changes in the coastal ocean for a larger context is also hampered as the interaction of coastal regions and shelf seas with the global oceans is often treated as a “boundary condition problem” for the respective fields of study.
We invite observational (in situ and remote sensing), modeling, and theoretical investigations that reduce knowledge gaps and uncertainties in processes and budgets related to inorganic and organic coastal carbon and biogeochemistry. Of particular interest are interdisciplinary investigations that go beyond individual systems and enhance fundamental process understanding that has implications across the coastal ocean. Studies of changes in coastal ocean carbon and biogeochemistry due to climate and anthropogenic are also encouraged.
Co-Sponsor(s):
Primary Chair: Holger Brix, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
Co-Chair: Raymond Najjar, The Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States
Primary Liaison: Holger Brix, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
Moderators: Holger Brix, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany and Raymond Najjar, The Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison: Holger Brix, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Factors influencing pH and pCO2 variability in seagrass and adjacent nearshore habitats across climate zones (647147)
Alexander T. Lowe1, Amanda Reynolds2, Rachel Collin3 and Whitman Miller1, (1)Smithsonian Institution, MarineGEO, Edgewater, MD, United States, (2)Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, MD, United States, (3)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Calzada de Amador, Panama
Glider-Based Observations Reveal Seasonal pH and Aragonite Saturation State Variability in Coastal U.S. Mid-Atlantic Shellfishery Management Zones (643259)
Elizabeth Wright-Fairbanks1, Grace Saba1, Baoshan Chen2, Wei-Jun Cai2 and Travis N Miles3, (1)Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, (2)University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States, (3)Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, United States
Empirical Models for Estimating the Carbonate System Off the Northeastern US from Basic Hydrographic Data: An MLR Approach (651760)
Kelly McGarry, United States, Samantha Siedlecki, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Seattle, WA, United States, Simone R Alin, NOAA PMEL, Seattle, United States and Joseph Salisbury II, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States
The northern European shelf as increasing net sink for CO2 (651821)
Meike Becker1,2, Are Olsen1,2, Agneta Fransson3, Peter Landschuetzer4, Abdirahman Omar2,5, Gregor J Rehder6, Christian Rödenbeck7 and Ingunn Skjelvan2,5, (1)University of Bergen, Geophysical Institute, Bergen, Norway, (2)Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, (3)Norwegian Polar Institute, Oceanography, Tromso, Norway, (4)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (5)Norce, Bergen, Norway, (6)Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Rostock, Germany, (7)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Intertidal regions changing coastal alkalinity: The Wadden Sea‐North Sea tidally coupled bioreactor (652865)
Yoana G Voynova1, Wilhelm Petersen1, Martina Gehrung1, Steffen Aßmann2 and Andrew King3, (1)Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany, (2)Kongsberg Maritime Contros GmbH, Kiel, Germany, (3)Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Oslo, Norway
Organic Alkalinity Distributions and Characteristics in Two Gulf of Maine Estuaries (657150)
Christopher W Hunt, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Robert H Byrne, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Xuewu Liu, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, United States and Joseph Salisbury II, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States
Shell Day- regional collaboration and citizen science further understanding of coastal acidification (654759)
Carolina Bastidas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sea Grant College Program, Cambridge, United States, Parker R Gassett, University of Maine, United States, Jennie E Rheuban, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, United States, Katie O'Brien-Clayton, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Hartford, United States, Matthew Liebman, Environmental Protection Agency Region 1, United States, Christopher W Hunt, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Elizabeth J Turner, NOAA, National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Durham, NH, United States, Esperanza Stancioff, UMaine Extension and Maine Sea Grant, Waldoboro, United States and Emily Silva, NECAN and NERACOOS, Portsmouth, United States
Carbon and Nitrogen balances of the Long Island Sound Estuary (655963)
Penny Vlahos1, Michael M Whitney1, John R Mullaney2, Christina Menniti3 and Jonathan Morrison4, (1)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (2)USGS Connecticut Water Science Center, East Hartford, CT, United States, (3)University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey, East Hartford, CT, United States
