Dear colleagues, We encourage you to submit an abstract to our organized AGU session, "Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Fluxes from Wetland Ecosystems: Implications for Climate Change, Coastal Management, and Adaptation" (session #3296).
Session Description: Wetlands play a pivotal role in soil-atmospheric exchanges of greenhouse gases (GHGs; including CO2, CH4, and N2O). A delicate balance in climate, land uses, hydrology, and ecological drivers determine the role of wetlands as the net source or sink of GHGs. The carbon storage of coastal wetlands is termed ‘blue carbon’, a concept for coastal management that can attract much private and public investment. However, an overarching science question is how wetland GHG fluxes respond to the changes in climate, sea level/inundation, and land management (nutrient loading). Do the sequestration and emissions scale in time and space? The science and engineering gaps create critical barriers to the management of wetland carbon stocks and their incorporation into a potential carbon market. This session welcomes contributions with basic and applied research on coastal/inland wetland carbon sequestration and GHG fluxes; reporting results from data collections and analyses, modeling and predictions, and engineering tools. Abstract submissions are due on August 6, 2014 at 23:59 EDT at the following website: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2014/scientific-program/ We are looking forward to your contribution. Conveners: Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, Florida International Univ., Miami, FL, United States: [email protected]. Jianwu Tang, The Ecosystems Center, MBL, Woods Hole, MA, United States: [email protected].
