Primary Convener:
Zhen Zhang, Tulane University

Convener:
Luke Lamb-Wotton, Tulane University
Lucy Carruthers, East Carolina University Department of Coastal Studies
Annie Tamalavage, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Early Career Convener:
Zoë Shribman, Tulane University

Chair:
Zhen Zhang, Tulane University
Annie Tamalavage, Smithsonian environmental research center
Luke Lamb-Wotton, Tulane University
Lucy Carruthers, East Carolina University Department of Coastal Studies
Zoë Shribman, Tulane University

Blue carbon (BC) ecosystems include a variety of coastal settings that can store carbon on millennial timescales. In tropical seascapes, this is mainly mangroves and seagrasses, which display high connectivity across sedimentary and geomorphic settings, and play a vital role in supporting the resilience of vulnerable coastal communities to climate change. BC research spans a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, from site-specific processes to landscape and global patterns, to seasonal and interannual variability, plus long-term trends.In this session, we welcome contributions that use diverse sampling methodologies to evaluate BC and/or its response to climate change and human disturbances. These include field methods (e.g., sediment coring, biomass estimates, flux measurements), ecological modelling, and remote sensing. Quantifying the diverse (sub)tropical seascape has application towards the mitigation of climate change impacts, improved understanding between ocean/climate interactions, and tracking environmental change and disturbance through time.

Index Terms
0428 Carbon cycling
0460 Marine systems
0480 Remote sensing
0497 Wetlands

Suggested Itineraries:
Gulf Coast Region
Climate Change and Global Policy
Open Science and Open Data
Global Impacts‚ Solutions‚ & Policies
Environmental Justice

Cross-Listed:
PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
OS - Ocean Sciences
EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
GC - Global Environmental Change

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering