Primary Convener:
Omar Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University

Convener:
Kevin Kroeger, USGS
Joseph Tamborski, Old Dominion University
Patty Oikawa, California State University, East Bay

Early Career Convener:
Joseph Tamborski, Old Dominion University

Chair:
Omar Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University
Kevin Kroeger, USGS
Patty Oikawa, California State University, East Bay

Coastal marshes, mangroves, and seagrass sequester significant amounts of “blue carbon” in soils, sediments, and biomass. They have potential as a negative emissions technology. With the increasing policy focus on climate change mitigation, we need to understand and predict wetland carbon cycling processes. Complex interactions of climate, land use, sea level, nitrogen pollution, and human management regulate the strength of the carbon sink and the greenhouse gas balance (including CO2, CH4, and N2O). Our ability to measure and model vertical and lateral (outwelling) exchanges, as well as the soil and sediment processes, at the land-ocean interface is limited. We aim to bring together researchers from various disciplines to discuss coastal carbon and nitrogen pools and fluxes, and their roles in global biogeochemical cycling and climate change mitigation. We also aim to report advances in eddy flux, lateral flux, field experiments, remote sensing, modeling, and synthesis that support coastal carbon accounting.

Index Terms
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling
0428 Carbon cycling
0469 Nitrogen cycling
0497 Wetlands

Co-Organized Sessions:
Global Environmental Change
Hydrology
Atmospheric Sciences

Suggested Itineraries:
Climate Change and Global Policy
Biochemistry
Global Impacts‚ Solutions‚ & Policies

Cross-Listed:
A - Atmospheric Sciences
GH - GeoHealth
H - Hydrology
GC - Global Environmental Change

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering