[Coral-List] Ocean Sciences 2018 Session 29804: Spatial and Temporal Variability of Seawater Chemistry in Coastal Ecosystems in the Context of Global Change
Tyler Cyronak
tcyronak at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 16:49:51 UTC 2017
Hi all,
We would like to bring your attention to a 2018 Ocean Sciences session
focusing on the variability of seawater chemistry in coastal systems in
the context of global change. We highly encourage you to submit any
studies focusing on impacts and sources of this variability in coral reefs!
Session Description:
Coastal systems provide a range of goods and services that are under
threat from anthropogenic stressors such as ocean acidification,
deoxygenation, and eutrophication. Accurately projecting future chemical
conditions in these socioeconomically important regions remains
difficult due to the natural spatiotemporal variability in seawater
chemistry. In coastal regions, complex processes including
terrestrial-based riverine and groundwater inputs, intense benthic and
pelagic metabolism, and air-sea gas exchange act in combination with
physical processes affecting mixing, water column depth, and local
residence times. These biogeochemical and physical processes interact
over timescales of minutes to years and on spatial scales from
millimeters to kilometers to drive variability in seawater chemistry.
The complex, local drivers of seawater chemistry in coastal systems make
it increasingly difficult to predict how seawater chemistry will change
due to anthropogenic changes on a global scale. Importantly, certain
oceanographic areas and ecosystems could act as de-oxygenation and
acidification refuges by elevating DO and pH relative to source or
surrounding waters. For this session we invite contributions seeking to
understand temporal and spatial variability of seawater chemistry in
coastal systems in the context of global climate change. We also welcome
submissions that highlight the effects of seawater chemistry variability
on marine organisms and ecosystems.
Primary Chair: Tyler Cyronak, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La
Jolla, CA, United States
Co-chairs: Iris Eline Hendriks, University of the Balearic Islands,
Biology, Palma, Spain
Yui Takeshita and Andrea Fassbender, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research
Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States
https://agu.confex.com/agu/os18/preliminaryview.cgi/Session29804
Cheers,
Tyler, Iris, Yui, and Andrea
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