CP34A:
Interdisciplinary Approaches for Understanding Coastal Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemical Processes and Budgets V eLightning

Session ID#: 93294

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):
  • OB - Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry
  • OC - Ocean Change: Acidification and Hypoxia
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
Index Terms:
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:  Sophie N Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program, Woods Hole, MA, United States, 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:

 
Accuracy of CO2 System Calculations Improved with New Spectrophotometric K2 Model for Seawater (652082)
Katelyn M Schockman, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States and Robert Byrne, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, United States
 
Modelling Chemical Speciation in Seawater pH Buffers, Standard Seawater and Other Natural Waters: Applications and Uncertainties (642945)
Matthew Paul Humphreys, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Ocean Systems (OCS), Texel, Netherlands, Andrew G Dickson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States, David R Turner, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden and Simon L Clegg, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
 
A thirty-year retrospective analysis of Chesapeake Bay warming (650971)
Kyle Hinson1, Pierre St-Laurent2, Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs2 and Raymond Najjar3, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Williamsburg, United States, (2)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, Gloucester Point, United States, (3)The Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States
 
Quantifying the Impact of Nutrient Reductions on Dissolved Oxygen in the Chesapeake Bay: Has the Bay Become More Resilient? (643174)
Luke T Frankel1, Pierre St-Laurent2, Aaron J Bever3 and Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs2, (1)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, (2)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, Gloucester Point, United States, (3)Anchor QEA, Seattle, United States
 
The role of off-shore advection for open ocean export in the Mauritanian upwelling region (652819)
Steffen Swoboda1, Arjun Chennu2, Hannah Marchant2, Soeren Ahmerkamp2, Kai Schwalfenberg3, Jan-Hendrik Hehemann4, Hagen Buck-Wiese5 and Morten H. Iversen6, (1)MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen, Germany, (2)Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, (3)University of Oldenburg, Marine Sensor Systems Group, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Oldenburg, Germany, (4)Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen, Germany, (5)Max Planck Insitute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany, (6)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Polar Biological Oceanography, Bremerhaven, Germany
 
Biogeochemistry of the Mahaweli River, Sri Lanka (654331)
Emma Shipley1, Penny Vlahos2, Rohana Chandrajith3, Prasanna Wijerathna4 and Sachintha Senarathne4, (1)University of Connecticut - Avery Point Campus, Groton, CT, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, United States, (3)University of Peradeniya, Department of Geology, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, (4)University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
 
Spatial variability of partial pressure of CO2 in two subtropical estuarine channels with distinct levels of eutrophication (São Paulo, Brazil) (654570)
Bruno Otero Sutti1, Bruno Coimbra Pegoraro1, Ana Beatriz Leite Cavalcante1,2, Vitor Gonsalez Chiozzini1 and Elisabete de Santis Braga2, (1)University of Sao Paulo, Oceanographic Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (2)University of Sao Paulo, Oceanographic Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
 
Seawater Carbonate Chemistry at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Following Hurricane Harvey (657473)
Serena Smith, Texas A&M University College Station, Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, Shari Ann Yvon-Lewis, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, Lauren Barrett, University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, United States, Miranda Hooper, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, United States, Jason B Sylvan, Texas A&M University, Oceanography, College Station, United States, Adrienne Correa, Rice University, BioSciences, Houston, United States, Lory z Santiago-Vazquez, University of Huston Clear Lake, United States and Sarah W Davies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
 
Ocean Acidification and Carbonate System Geochemistry in the Arabian Gulf (638694)
James W Murray1, Connor Izumi1, Jassem Al-Thani2, Oguz Yigiterhan2, Ibrahim S Al-Ansari2, P Vethamony2, Caesar F Sorino3 and Dan Anderson1, (1)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Qatar University, Environmental Science Center, Doha, Qatar, (3)Qatar University, Environmental Sciences Center, Doha, Qatar