CP002
Carbon Accumulation and Its Long-term Stability in Blue Carbon Ecosystems

Session ID#: 84846

Session Description:
Blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs) are coastal ecosystems, such as salt marshes, mangroves, tidal freshwater wetlands, and seagrass meadows, with manageable and atmospherically significant carbon stocks and fluxes. Each of these systems stores organic carbon in its soils or sediments, which comprise its carbon sediment “sink”.  Such sequestration of carbon provides a valuable ecosystem service by mitigating carbon pollution.  Although carbon accumulation rates have been measured in all types of BCEs, less attention has been paid to the similarities and differences in carbon accumulation processes in different ecosystem types and the relative stability of carbon sediment sinks under sea-level rise and global climate change.  In this session, we invite those working in a variety of BCEs to present their work on carbon storage assessments, but with a particular focus on cross-BCE comparisons, process-level modeling, impacts from climate change/sea-level rise, carbon crediting, and restoration challenges.  We welcome papers from across the globe on empirical studies, modeling, and management concerns.  Our overall goal is to facilitate discussion on the science of carbon sequestration, challenges in implementation, and opportunities for partnering with land managers to increase long-term carbon storage in blue carbon sediment sinks.
Index Terms:

1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: CHEMICAL]
4806 Carbon cycling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
4863 Sedimentation [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]

Primary Chair:  Judith Z Drexler, USGS California Water Science Center, Sacramento, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  James W Fourqurean, Florida International Univ, Miami, FL, United States and Ken Krauss, U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, LA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Judith Z Drexler, U.S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA, United States
 
Contribution of mud-associated organic matter to marsh blue carbon (641032)
Giulio Mariotti and Tracy E Quirk, Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
 
The Potential of Blue Carbon Management in Mexico. A Case Study From the Biosphere Reseerve of Sian Ka´an. (642211)
Jorge Herrera-Silveira, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados, Unidad Merida, Merida, Yucatan, YC, Mexico, Claudia Teutli-Hernández, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Facultad de Ciencias, Sisal, YC, Mexico, Patricia Arenas, WWF, Madrid, Spain and Jorge Montero, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV) Mérida, Recursos del Mar, Merida, YC, Mexico
 
Opposing Effects of Temperature and Elevated CO2 on Tidal Wetland Methane Emissions and Soil Carbon Sequestration (642279)
Patrick Megonigal1, Genevieve L Noyce1 and Matthew L. Kirwan2, (1)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, United States, (2)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States
 
Evaluating the vulnerability of salt marsh soil organic matter to microbial decomposition (643607)
Sheron Luk, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Meagan Eagle Gonneea, USGS, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Jonathan Sanderman, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, Kelsey Gosselin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Amanda C Spivak, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, United States
 
Blue carbon sources and carbon accumulation rates in restored versus historic marshes in southern Puget Sound, Washington, USA (644048)
Judith Z Drexler, USGS California Water Science Center, Sacramento, CA, United States, Melanie Davis, USGS Western Ecological Research Center, Olympia, WA, United States and Isa Woo, USGS Western Ecological Research Center, Vallejo, CA, United States
 
Assessment of Carbon Storage and Microbial Community Composition in Unique New England Wetlands (644343)
Tony Pham, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Robert Vincent, MIT Sea Grant, Cambridge, MA, United States, Lucy Webb, Johns Hopkins University, United States, Steven Smriga, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States and Andrew R Babbin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, EAPS, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Hurricane Harvey and salt marsh sediment carbon: Impacts of variable storm intensities across stable and dynamic marsh landscapes along the coast of Texas (646210)
Jill Arriola1, Jaye Ellen Cable1, Elizabeth A Canuel2 and Ann P McNichol3, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)Virginia Inst Marine Sciences, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Coupling High Frequency Atmospheric Carbon Flux Measurements with Seasonal Sedimentary Carbon Deposition to Constrain Short-Term Carbon Accumulation: Preliminary Data from a Restored Coastal Wetland in San Francisco Bay (648019)
Joseph A Carlin1, Patty Oikawa2, Jennifer Bahramian2, Theresa Duncan3 and Katya Beener3, (1)California State University Fullerton, Geological Sciences, Fullerton, CA, United States, (2)California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA, United States, (3)California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States
 
Carbon Sequestration in Wetlands: a cross Comparison of Intact and Restored, Tidal and Non-tidal Freshwater Wetlands (648781)
Ariane Arias Ortiz, University of California Berkeley, Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States; University of California Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Adina Paytan, UCSC-Inst Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Pere Masqué, Edith Cowan University, School of Science, Joondalup, WA, Australia and Dennis D Baldocchi, University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Sediment depth and accumulation constrain belowground carbon stocks across northern New World mangroves. (648988)
Matthew T. Costa1, Exequiel Ezcurra2, Paula Excurra1, Pelayo Salinas de León3, Benjamin L Turner4, Joy Kumagai5, James Leichter6 and Octavio Aburto-Oropeza7, (1)University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Riverside, Botany and Plant Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States, (3)Charles Darwin Foundation, Santa Cruz, Ecuador, (4)Smithsonian Tropical Res Inst, Ancon, Panama, (5)University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institituion of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (6)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States, (7)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine Biology Research Division, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Distribution and Source of Organic Matter in Cored Sediments From the Andaman Sea off Myanmar (649513)
H.M. Zakir Hossain, Jashore University of Science and Technology, Department of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Jashore, Bangladesh, Hodaka Kawahata, AORI, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan and Yoshikazu Sampei, Shimane University, Department of Geoscience, Matsue, Japan
 
Soil carbon stocks, lability and decomposition rates of surficial and buried organic matter in a large tropical seagrass landscape (650301)
James W Fourqurean, Florida International Univ, Miami, FL, United States and Jason Lee Howard
 
Identifying Drivers and Modelling Variability of Blue Carbon Stocks (650778)
Carolyn Ewers Lewis1, Mary Young2, Daniel Ierodiaconou2, Jeffrey Baldock3, Bruce Hawke3, Jonathan Sanderman4, Paul E Carnell2 and Peter Macreadie2, (1)University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (2)Deakin University, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, VIC, Australia, (3)Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food, SA, Australia, (4)Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Carbon storage and sequestration of tidal flat and salt marsh sediments in the Korean coastal wetlands (650833)
Jongmin Lee1, Bong-Oh Kwon2 and Jong Seong Khim2, (1)Seoul National University, SEES, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Seoul National University, SEES, South Korea
 
Black to Blue: Quantifying Recalcitrant and Labile Carbon Stocks in a DE Tidal Wetland (654060)
Calyn Crawford, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Simpsonville, South Carolina, United States and Kari A St.Laurent, Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Dover, DE, United States
 
Turbulence structure and carbon stocks along a seagrass meadow (654639)
Jiarui Lei, Jiao Zhang and Heidi Margaret Nepf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Blue carbon stocks in temperate salt marshes (North Carolina, USA) vary in response to accelerated sea-level rise, salinity gradients and hydraulic modifications. (655470)
Donald Charles Barber1, Carey E Parker2 and Mercedes J Aponte2, (1)Bryn Mawr College, Departments of Geology and Environmental Studies, Bryn Mawr, PA, United States, (2)Bryn Mawr College, Geology, Bryn Mawr, PA, United States
 
Co-Evolution of Landscape, Forest, and Soil in a Planted Mangrove Eco-Park in Kalibo, Philippines (657994)
William Dimalanta1, Caroline Marie Jaraula1, Rene R. Rollon2, Maria Lourdes San Diego-McGlone1, Keith Limuel Bejasa1, Toshihiro Miyajima3, Fernando Pascual Siringan1, Giannina Marie G. Albano4, Keith Paolo Landicho5, Jeffrey C. Munar1, Celestine Marie Dalida1 and Ariel C. Blanco6, (1)Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, Metro Manila, Philippines, (2)Institute of Environmenal Science and Meteorology, UP Diliman, Philippines, (3)The University of Tokyo, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Kashiwa, Japan, (4)IESM, UP Diliman, Philippines, (5)GE Department, UP Diliman, Washington, Philippines, (6)GE Department, UP Diliman, Philippines
 
A Multi-algorithm Approach of Modeling Coastal Wetland Eco-Geomorphology at the Global Scale (639315)
Zeli Tan, Chang Liao, Yanyan Cheng, L. Ruby Leung and Vanessa Bailey, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
 
Sediment enhancement and hydrological restoration impacts on salt marsh vegetation and carbon storage in coastal New England (639661)
Danielle Perry and Carol Thornber, University of Rhode Island, Natural Resources Science, Narragansett, RI, United States
 
Tidal wetland Gross Primary Production across the continental United States, 2000-2018 (634916)
Rusty A Feagin1, Inke Forbrich2, Thomas Huff1, Jordan G Barr3, Jesus Ruiz-Plancarte4, Jose D Fuentes5, Raymond Najjar6, Rodrigo Vargas7, Alma Vazquez Lule8, Lisa Windham-Myers9, Kevin D Kroeger10, Eric Ward11, Georgianne W Moore12, Monique Y Leclerc13, Ken Krauss11, Camille LaFosse Stagg11, Merryl Alber14, Sara Knox15, Karina V Schafer16, Thomas S Bianchi17, Jack Hutchings18, Hafsah B. Nahrawi19, Asko Noormets20, Bhaskar Mitra21, Aline Jaimes22, Audra Hinson23, Brian A Bergamaschi24 and John S King25, (1)Texas A&M University College Station, Ecosystem Science and Management, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Elder Research, Inc., Charlottesville, VA, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (5)Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States, (6)The Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (7)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (8)University of Delaware, Plant and Soil Sciences, Newark, DE, United States, (9)USGS - National Research Program, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (10)USGS, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (11)U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, LA, United States, (12)Texas A&M University, Ecosystem Science and Management, College Station, TX, United States, (13)University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, (14)University of Georgia, Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States, (15)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, AB, Canada, (16)National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States, (17)University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States, (18)Washington University in St Louis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States, (19)University of Georgia, Griffin, United States, (20)Texas A&M University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, College Station, TX, United States, (21)Texas A&M University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas, TX, United States, (22)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, (23)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, (24)USGS-Calif State University, Sacramento, CA, United States, (25)North Carolina State University, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC, United States
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