CC013
Marine carbon cycle: past insights, present patterns, and future perspectives
Marine carbon cycle: past insights, present patterns, and future perspectives
Session ID#: 259691
Session Description:
Gigatonne-scale CO2 uptake by the ocean has been critical for the amelioration of anthropogenic climate change. Understanding this marine carbon sink is essential for carbon budgets, decarbonisation efforts and climate projections, but the chemical, physical and biological processes that drive marine CO2 uptake and its efficiency are rapidly changing. Global pressures include lowered seawater pH, reduced chemical buffering capacity and rising temperatures, with high-latitude ecosystems also affected by melting sea ice and glaciers, the expansion of boreal species and increased human contact. This session addresses the marine carbon cycle and carbonate system under past, present and future climates, in the global ocean including polar regions. We welcome studies addressing, but not limited to: processes and projections of ocean carbon uptake, including marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR); ocean acidification; physical and biological carbon pumps; air-sea CO2 fluxes; seawater chemistry and carbonate system internal consistency; measurement techniques and data compilations; biodiversity and the carbon storage potential of marine ecosystems (blue carbon) and sustainable management strategies. By bringing together diverse perspectives spanning oceanography, biogeochemistry and ecology across a range of timescales, this session aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on the marine carbon cycle, informing strategies for ocean-based climate mitigation and ecosystem stewardship.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- Air-Sea Interactions -
- Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry -
- Physical-Biological Interactions -
Index Terms:
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Student/Early Career Chair: Emily Stidham, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Rostock, Germany
Primary Chair: Dr. Matthew Paul Humphreys, PhD, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Ocean Systems, Texel, Netherlands
Co-chairs: James William Buchanan Rae, University of St Andrews, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, St Andrews, United Kingdom, Madison Shankle, University of St Andrews, Earth and Environmental Sciences, St Andrews, United Kingdom and Siv K Lauvset, NORCE Research, Climate and Environment, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
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