Dear Colleagues, The Coastal Carbon Research Coordination Network is a project funded by NSF and hosted at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Our goal is to accelerate the pace of discovery in coastal wetland 'blue' carbon science by providing a diverse community of researchers and practitioners with tools, data, and synthesis opportunities. The Coastal Carbon RCN is poised to take on the many challenges in the developing field of blue carbon science and practice. Planned outreach activities include teaching field methods, data management and analytics via youtube videos, webinars, and individual consultations. The Coastal Carbon RCN will also improve access to data by hosting open online literature reviews, web-based modeling tools, and a database of over 1,500 soil carbon profiles. In the coming years, the Coastal Carbon RCN will also host a series of targeted meetings with the goal of generating high-level and scientifically groundbreaking synthetic research products. Importantly, the structure and goals of the Coastal Carbon RCN will be flexible, responding to community input. We would appreciate your feedback (and help sharing) our digital community survey, which will inform our 1st year planning.
https://goo.gl/forms/uchO1cdYNnslt1py1 Thank you very much, James R Holmquist Postdoctoral Research Fellow Smithsonian Environmental Research Center http://serc.si.edu/CoastalCarbon @CoastalCarbon
