Coastal CARbon Synthesis (CCARS) Community Workshop

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Welcome

This workshop on CCARS (Coastal CARbon Synthesis) represents the culminating activity of a long-term U.S. coastal carbon budgeting effort, a collaborative effort between the Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program and the North American Carbon Program (NACP) that has been supported by NASA and NSF. The purpose of the workshop is to:

  • present draft carbon budgets to the community for final refinement, and
  • develop a community plan for future research activities to improve our understanding of carbon cycling in coastal waters

The workshop will be held August 19-21, 2014 at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, MA. We will be able to provide some travel support for interested participants.  Registration has now closed.

Background
The contribution of coastal margins to regional and global carbon budgets is not well understood, largely due to limited information about the magnitude, spatial distribution, and temporal variability of carbon sources and sinks in coastal waters. Building on recommendations put forth during the 2005 North American Continental Margins (NACM) Synthesis and Planning Workshop and progress made since then, OCB has been collaborating with NACP on a Coastal Carbon Synthesis Activity to stimulate the synthesis of observational and modeling results on carbon cycle fluxes and processes along the North American continental margins. This activity has been divided geographically into five regions: East Coast, West Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Arctic, and Great Lakes. This synthesis activity kicked off in December 2010 with a community workshop, during which participants started compiling relevant information, including data sets, process studies, and modeling resources that could be helpful in developing and refining regional coastal carbon budgets. Since this workshop, smaller regionally focused teams have collaborated via a series of meetings to gather data to improve coastal carbon flux estimates, including air-sea, land-ocean, sediment-water, cross-shelf, and biological fluxes (primary production, respiration, etc.). Outcomes of these meetings have included regional carbon budgets, process-focused research papers, and recommendations for future research and observational investments.

Objectives and Outcomes
This culminating community workshop will gather interested members of the community to share the outcomes of the regional CCARS activities, discuss major gaps in coastal ocean research and observational coverage, and develop core recommendations for a science plan to help agencies prioritize future investments in coastal carbon cycle research. This science plan will be the primary outcome of the workshop, to be developed by regional team leaders and workshop organizers with input from workshop participants and the broader community.

Agenda

Coastal CARbon Synthesis (CCARS) Community Workshop
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Clark 507
August 19-21, 2014

WORKSHOP AGENDA

 

Tuesday August 19, 2014

07:30   Continental Breakfast, hang posters (Clark 5)

08:30   Welcome and Introduction (Paula Coble, USF)    

 

PLENARY 1. Carbon Fluxes in North American Coastal Systems: Key Processes

Chairs: Marjy Friedrichs (VIMS), Simone Alin (NOAA/PMEL)          

Terrestrial fluxes (45 min. talk, 15 mins. for questions)

9:00     Lateral transfers of carbon from terrestrial watersheds to the oceans: Rivers and groundwater (Elizabeth Boyer (PSU), Richard Alexander (USGS), Joe Needoba (OHSU), and Richard Smith (USGS))

10:00   Break

Tidal wetland fluxes (45 min. talk, 15 mins. for questions)

10:30   Tidal wetland fluxes overview (Chuck Hopkinson, Univ. Georgia) - primary production and CO2 uptake, burial, lateral fluxes, etc.

 

Estuarine and shelf water fluxes (30 min. talk with 10 mins. for questions)

11:30   Lateral fluxes: Shelf-open ocean exchange (Marjy Friedrichs (VIMS), Penny Vlahos (UConn))

12:10   Lunch

13:30   Coastal primary production in North America (Steve Lohrenz, UMassD)

14:10   Coastal Net Ecosystem Production (NEP) in North America (Michael Kemp, UMCES)

14:50   Air-sea fluxes (Wei-Jun Cai, UDel)

15:30   Break

15:50   Burial and sediment-water exchange (Miguel Goñi, OSU)

16:30   Group Q&A and discussion

17:00-19:00     Poster session and welcome reception (Clark 5)

 

Wednesday August 20, 2014

07:30   Continental Breakfast, hang posters (Clark 5)

PLENARY II. Regional Coastal Carbon Budgets: Existing Gaps and Potential New Approaches

Chairs: Ray Najjar (PSU), Paula Coble (USF)

Structure: 15-minute talks to demonstrate synthesis work and updated budgets from each region, key accomplishments and remaining gaps/holes with 5 minutes for questions

08:30   East coast (Ray Najjar (PSU), Marjy Friedrichs (VIMS))

08:50   West coast (Simone Alin, NOAA/PMEL)

09:10   Gulf of Mexico (Paula Coble, USF)

09:30   Arctic (Jeremy Mathis (NOAA/PMEL), Jessica Cross (NOAA/PMEL))

09:50   Great Lakes (Galen McKinley, Univ. Wisconsin)

10:10   Break

 

10:30-12:30 BREAKOUT 1. Coastal Fluxes and Processes

Goal: Based on current regional budgets and associated gaps in understanding, identify highest priority process studies for advancing our understanding of the coastal carbon cycle.

  1. What do we know?
  2. What don’t we know?
  3. What changes will most impact flux predictions?
  4. Consider the role of variability and space and time scaling on accuracy and uncertainty of flux estimates, as well as on the ability to predict future fluxes.

12:30   Lunch

14:00   Breakout 1 reports to plenary

 

15:00-17:00 BREAKOUT 2. Coastal Observations    

Goal: Based on current status of regional budgets, identify highest priority observations (by region) for coastal processes and fluxes discussed in Breakout 1 

  • East coast (Lead: R. Najjar)
  • West coast (Lead: S. Alin)
  • Gulf of Mexico (Lead: P. Coble)
  • Arctic (Lead: J. Mathis)
  • Great Lakes (Lead: G. McKinley)

15:45   15-minute break during Breakout 2

17:00   Poster session (Clark 5)

18:00   Workshop Dinner

 

Thursday August 21, 2014

07:30   Continental Breakfast (Clark 5)

08:30   Breakout 2 reports to plenary

 

09:30-11:30 BREAKOUT 3. Scaling Up: Integration of Observations and Models in Coastal Systems  (same regional groups and leaders as Breakout 2)

Goal: Recommend highest priorities for model development and integrated data and modeling approaches across different time and space scales

Potential discussion points

  • Working across terrestrial-coastal ocean interface
  • Estuarine and tidal wetland processes
  • Coastal ocean processes
  • Working across coastal-open ocean interface

10:30   15-minute break during Breakout 3

11:30   Breakout 3 reports to plenary

12:15   Lunch

13:30   GROUP DISCUSSION - Science plan, strategize about near-term research and field priorities and existing funding opportunities (2-slide summary of overarching needs and observational priorities)

15:00   Workshop adjourn and steering group meets to discuss science plan and writing assignments

Participant List

Click here for participant list.

Logistics

Welcome!

Following is logistical information to start your planning for the Coastal Carbon Synthesis (CCARS) Workshop here in Woods Hole, August 19-21, 2014. The meeting will be held in room 507 in the Clark Building on the Quissett Campus of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.  We will be paying for your lodging (we pay these costs directly to the hotels). We will also be covering your meals served at the meeting, which includes 3 breakfasts, 3 lunches, one evening reception with hors d'oeuvres, and the workshop dinner.

Hotel Information

Mary Zawoysky will make your hotel reservation based on your registration information and also keep the lodging lists for both  hotels, so you should not call the hotels to make a reservation. However, if you cancel at the last minute (the weekend prior to the start of the meeting), it is your responsibility to contact the hotel to let them know. Please call Mary at 508-289-2834 or e-mail her at mzawoysky@whoi.edu if you have any questions. We will have a shuttle bus circulating around the hotels to transport you to/from the meeting.

Lodging will be at the following hotels:

Inn on the Square in Falmouth (508-457-0606)
Holiday Inn Falmouth in Falmouth (508-540-2000)

DRIVING DIRECTIONS:
If driving, from the Holiday Inn, make a left out of the entrance, go to the second red light and make a left and the Quissett Campus is about 2.5  miles down the road on the left. Make a left onto the campus and then another left at the Stop sign and you will see the parking lot to your right shortly afterwards. If driving from the Inn on the Square, take a right out of the parking lot and stay on that road for about 4 miles. Make a left onto the campus and then another left at the Stop sign and you will see the parking lot to your right shortly afterwards. 

Ground Transportation

Ground transportation between Boston and Woods Hole
We recommend the following services to get between Boston and Woods Hole, and we will be happy to reimburse those fares.

The bus from the Boston airport http://peterpanbus.com has a stop close to the  Inn on the Square in Falmouth so if you won't have a car those would be your best choice. Put in Boston Logan Airport or T.F. Green Airport and then  Falmouth on their web site to get the correct schedule. The bus stop for "scheduled buses" can be found right outside each terminal at Boston Logan Airport. Also you do not have to reserve the ticket on-line ahead for a set bus, you can buy it on the bus and use the ticket back on any bus. If you take the Peter Pan Bus and you are staying at the Holiday Inn, you will require a taxi from the Falmouth bus station. You can call Falmouth Taxi at 508-548-3100 or All Seasons Taxi at 508-548-9990.
Boston Logan Airport link
Providence T.F. Green Airport Link

There are other methods to travel the ~90-minute trip from the airports to Falmouth such as the GoGreen Shuttle, White Tie Limousine, Enterprise and National car rentals, and taxis.  It is best to contact Mary Zawoysky at mzawoysky@whoi.edu to make those arrangements since she can get you our discount.

We have set up a Google Docs spreadsheet to help participants coordinate (amongst themselves) ride sharing or booking group taxis/shuttles.

Please note that due to budget restrictions, we cannot guarantee reimbursement for car rentals at this time. We will assess the state of the budget after the meeting and do our best to reimburse everyone's travel expenses in full.

Visitor Information

About the meeting site
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is located in Woods Hole, MA. Woods Hole is approximately 75 miles south of Boston on Cape Cod. It is surrounded by the waters of Martha's Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay and just a few miles south of Falmouth, which is typically New England (village green, Main Street and a Congregational Church with a bell cast by Paul Revere).

Restaurants
For meals on your own, there are 6 restaurants right in Woods Hole outside of the continental breakfasts, lunches, one reception and one supper we will provide at the meeting. The Inn on the Square and Holiday Inn also have their own restaurants, and downtown Falmouth has many restaurants as well. If you have questions about where to eat locally, please consult our restaurant list or ask Mary or Heather.

Other helpful links

Falmouth Visitor Information

Woods Hole Village Visitor Information

Publications

A U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan (2011): A Report of the Carbon Cycle Science Steering Group and Subcommittee, Anna Michalak, Rob Jackson, Gregg Marland, Chris Sabine, Co-Chairs.

LandCarbon publications

Alin, S., S. Siedlecki, B. Hales, J. Mathis, W. Evans, M. Stukel, G. Gaxiola-Castro, J. Martin Hernandez-Ayon, L. Juranek, M. Goñi, G. Turi, J. Needoba, E. Mayorga, Z. Lachkar, N. Gruber, J. Hartmann, N. Moosdorf, R. Feely, F. Chavez (2012). Coastal Carbon Synthesis for the Continental Shelf of the North American Pacific Coast (NAPC): Preliminary Results. Winter 2012 issue of the OCB Newsletter.

Bauer, J. E. et al. (2013). The changing carbon cycle of the coastal ocean. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature12857

Benway, H. M. (2011). Quantifying the coastal contribution to the North American carbon budget: A Coastal Interim Synthesis Workshop, San Francisco, California, 11-12 December 2010. Eos Trans. American Geophys. Union 92 (23).

Benway, H. M., Coble, P. G. (Editors) (2014). Report of The U.S. Gulf of Mexico Carbon Cycle Synthesis Workshop, March 27-28, 2013, Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program and North American Carbon Program, 67 pp. (workshop website).

Cloern, J. E., S. Q. Foster, A. E. Kleckner (2014). Phytoplankton primary production in the world’s estuarine-coastal ecosystems. Biogeosciences, 11, 2477–2501.

Coble, P. G., L. L. Robbins, K. L. Daly, W.J. Cai, K. Fennel, S. E. Lohrenz (2010). A Preliminary Carbon Budget for the Gulf of Mexico. Fall 2010 issue of the OCB newsletter.

Cross, J.N., Mathis, J.T., Frey, K.E., Danielson, S., and Evans, W.M. (In press). Bering Sea CO2 Synthesis, 2008-2012.

Dinniman, M.S. and J.M. Klinck, 2004. A model study of circulation and cross-shelf exchange on the west Antarctic Peninsula continental shelf, Deep-Sea Research II, 51, 2003-2022.

Evans, Wiley, and Jeremy T.Mathis (2013). The Gulf of Alaska coastal ocean as an atmospheric CO2 sink. Cont. Shelf Res. 65:  52–63.

EXPORTS Science Plan (2014)

Fichot, C. G., and R. Benner (2014), The fate of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon in a river-influenced ocean margin, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 28, doi:10.1002/2013GB004670.

Fichot, C. G., S. E. Lohrenz, and R. Benner (2014), Pulsed, cross-shelf export of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon to the Gulf of Mexico, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 119, doi:10.1002/2013JC009424.

Hales, B., Wei-Jun Cai, B. Greg Mitchell, Christopher L. Sabine, and Oscar Schofield [eds.] (2008). North American Continental Margins: a synthesis and planning workshop. Report of the North American Continental Margins Working Group for the U.S. Carbon Cycle Scientific Group and Interagency Working Group. Washington, DC: U.S. Carbon Cycles Science Program.

Hales, B., P. Strutton, M. Saraceno, R. Letelier, T. Takahashi, R. Feely, C. Sabine, and F. Chavez, 2012. Satellite-based prediction of pCO2 in coastal waters. Progress in Oceanography, 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.03.001

Herrmann, M., Najjar, R.G., Kemp, W.M., Alexander, R.B., Boyer, E.W., Cai, W.-J., Griffith, P.C., McCallister, S.L., Smith, R.A (2013).  Net ecosystem production and organic carbon balance of U.S. East Coast estuaries: A synthesis approach.  Submitted to Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

Howard, J., Hoyt, S., Isensee, K., Pidgeon, E., Telszewski, M. (eds.) (2014). Coastal Blue Carbon: Methods for assessing carbon stocks and emissions factors in mangroves, tidal salt marshes, and seagrass meadows. Conservation International, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, International Union for Conservation of Nature. Arlington, Virginia, USA.

Huettel, M.; Berg, P.; Kostka, J.E. (2014). Benthic exchange and biogeochemical cycling in permeable sediments. Ann. Rev. Mar. Sci. 6: 23-51.

King, A.W., L. Dilling, G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A. Houghton, G. Marland, A.Z. Rose, and T.J. Wilbanks [eds.] (2008). The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, USA, 242 pp.

Laffoley, D.d’A. & Grimsditch, G. (eds) (2009). The management of natural coastal carbon sinks. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. 53 pp.

Laruelle, G. G. et al. (2014). Seasonal response of air-water CO2 exchange along the land-ocean aquatic continuum of the North East American coast. Biogeosciences Discuss. 11, 11985-12008,  doi:10.5194/bgd-11-11985-2014

Liu, K.-K., Atkinson, L., Quiñones, R., Talaue-McManus, L. (Eds.) (2010). Carbon and nutrient fluxes in continental margins: A global synthesis. Global Change - The IGBP Series ISSN 1619-2435, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg., 744 pp.

Mathis, J. T., N. R. Bates (2010). The Marine Carbon Cycle of the Arctic Ocean: Some Thoughts About The Controls on Air-Sea CO2 Exchanges and Responses to Ocean Acidification. Article in Spring/Summer 2010 Issue of the OCB Newsletter.

McKinley, G., N. Urban, V. Bennington, D. Pilcher, and C. McDonald  (2011). Preliminary Carbon Budgets for the Laurentian Great Lakes. Spring/Summer 2011 Issue of the OCB Newsletter.

Najjar, R., D. E. Butman, W.-J. Cai, M. A. M. Friedrichs, K. D. Kroeger, A. Mannino, P. A., Raymond, J. Salisbury, JD. C. Vandemark, P. Vlahos, P. (2010). Carbon Budget for the Continental Shelf of the Eastern United States: A Preliminary Synthesis. Winter 2010 Issue of the OCB Newsletter.

Najjar, R.G., Friedrichs, M.A.M., Cai, W.-J. (Editors) (2012) Report of The U.S. East Coast Carbon Cycle Synthesis Workshop, January 19-20, 2012, Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program and North American Carbon Program, 34 pp.

Osburn, C. L., T. S. Bianchi, R. F. Chen, P. G. Coble, E. J. D’Sa, C. Chandler (2011). Building a CDOM Database for a Coastal Carbon Synthesis Project. Winter 2011 Issue of the OCB Newsletter.

Regnier, P. et al. (2013). Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean. Nature Geoscience DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1830.

Robbins, L.L., Coble, P.G., Clayton, T. and Cai, W.-J. (2009). Terrestrial and Coastal Carbon Fluxes in the Gulf of Mexico Workshop, St. Petersburg, FL USA 6-8 May, 2008: USGS Open File Report 2009-1070, 80 p.

Signorini, S., Mannino, A., Friedrichs, M.A.M., Najjar, R.G., Cai, W.-J., Salisbury, J.E., Wang, Z.A., Thomas, H., Shadwick, E. (2013). Surface ocean pCO2 seasonality and sea-air CO2 flux estimates for the North American east coast. Journal of Geophysical Research 118, 1–22, doi:10.1002/jgrc.20369.

Smith, S.V., Buddemeier, R.W., Wulff, F., Swaney, D.P., 2005. C,N,P fluxes in coastal zone (2005). In: Crossland, C.J., Kremer, H.H., Lindeboom, H.J., Marshall Crossland, J.I., Le Tissier, M.D.A. (Eds.), Coastal Fluxes in the Anthropocene, 232 pp, ISBN: 978-3-540-25450-8

Xue, Z., He, R., Fennel, K., Cai, W.-J., and Lohrenz, S. (2013). Modeling Ocean Circulation and Biogeochemical Variability in the Gulf of Mexico. Biogeosciences 10, 7219-7234, doi:10.5194/bg-10-7219-2013.

Preparing your poster

Poster abstracts are due to Heather Benway (hbenway@whoi.edu) by August 10. Abstracts received after this date will not be included in the abstracts document at the meeting. Guidelines for submitting poster abstracts and preparing posters are listed below:

1) Please submit your abstracts as a Microsoft Word document or text file

2) Abstracts should be 1 page or less of text in 12 point Arial font

3) Please include all authors and institutional affiliations (full address and contact info not necessary)

4) Poster boards are 4 feet wide by 4 feet high, so please size your poster accordingly.

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