Coastal CARbon Synthesis (CCARS) :: Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry

Activities (2008-2015)

A Science Plan for Carbon Cycle Research in North American Coastal Waters (2014-2016)
Final coastal synthesis community workshop (August 19-21, 2014, Woods Hole, MA)
Gulf of Mexico coastal carbon synthesis meeting (March 27-28, 2013, St. Petersburg, FL)
East Coast Regional Team Meeting (January 19-20, 2012, Gloucester Point, VA)
OCB/NACP Coastal Synthesis Workshop (December 11-12, 2010, San Francisco, CA)

Products and 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., Cai, W.-J., Raymond, P.A., Bianchi, T.S., Hopkinson, C.S., Regnier, P.A.G., 2013. The changing carbon cycle of the coastal ocean. Nature 504, 61-70.

Benway, H., Alin, S., Boyer, E., Cai, W.-J., Coble, P., Cross, J., Friedrichs, M., Goñi, M., Griffith, P., Herrmann, M., Lohrenz, S., Mathis, J., McKinley, G., Najjar, R., Pilskaln, C., Siedlecki, S., Smith, R. (2016). A Science Plan for Carbon Cycle Research in North American Coastal Waters. Report of the Coastal CARbon Synthesis (CCARS) community workshop, August 19-21, 2014, Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program and North American Carbon Program, 84 pp., DOI 10.1575/1912/7777.

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).

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 92 (23).

Cahill, B., J. Wilkin, K. Fennel, D. Vandemark and M.A.M. Friedrichs, 2016. Interannual and seasonal variabilities in air-sea CO2 fluxes along the U.S. eastern continental shelf and their sensitivity to increasing air temperatures and variable winds. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 121, 295-311, doi:10.1002/2015JG002939.

Chakraborty, S., S. E. Lohrenz, K. Gundersen, 2017. Photophysiological and light absorption properties of phytoplankton communities in the river-dominated margin of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, doi:10.1002/2016JC012092.

Chakraborty, S. and Lohrenz, S.E., 2015. Phytoplankton community structure in the river-influenced continental margin of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Mar. Ecol. Progress 521: 31-47.

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., Lomas, M.W., Moran, S.B., Baumann, M.S., Shull, D., Mordy, C.W., Ostendorf, M. L., Bates, N.R., Stabeno, P.J., Grebmeier, J. M., (2014). Integrated Assessment of the Carbon Budget in the Southeastern Bering Sea. Deep-Sea Research II 109, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2014.03.003, 112–124.

Cross, J.N., Mathis, J.T., Frey, K.E., Cosca, C.E., Danielson, S.L., Bates, N.R., Feely, R.A., Takahashi, T., and Evans, W., (2014). Annual sea-air CO2 fluxes in the Bering Sea: Insights from new autumn and winter observations of a seasonally ice-covered continental shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 119, doi:10.1002/2013JC009579.

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

Evans, W., J. T. Mathis, J. N. Cross, N. R. Bates, K. E. Frey, B. G. T. Else, T. N. Papkyriakou, M. D. DeGrandpre, F. Islam, W. -J. Cai, B. Chen, M. Yamamoto-Kawai, L. A. Miller, E. Carmack, W. J. Williams, and T. Takahashi (2015), Sea-air CO₂ exchange in the western Arctic coastal ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 29, doi:10.1002/2015GB005153.

Feng, Y., M.A.M. Friedrichs, J. Wilkin, H. Tian, Q. Yang, E.E. Hofmann, J.D. Wiggert, R.R. Hood, 2015. Chesapeake Bay nitrogen fluxes derived from a land-estuarine ocean biogeochemical modeling system: Model description, evaluation and nitrogen budgets. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, doi:10.1002/2015JG002931.

Friedrichs, M., W.-J. Cai, R. Najjar. 2012. U.S. East Coast Carbon Cycle Synthesis Workshop; January 19-20, 2012 – Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Winter 2012 Issue of the OCB Newsletter.

Herrmann, M., R. G. Najjar, W. M. Kemp, R. B. Alexander, E. W. Boyer, W.-J. Cai, P. C. Griffith, K. D. Kroeger, S. L. McCallister, and R. A. Smith. 2015. Net ecosystem production and organic carbon balance of U.S. east coast estuaries: A synthesis approach, Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles 29, doi:10.1002/2013GB004736.

Hofmann, E.E., B. Cahill, K. Fennel, M.A.M. Friedrichs, K. Hyde, C. Lee, A. Mannino, R.G. Najjar, J.E. O’Reilly, J. Wilkin, J. Xue, 2011. Modeling the dynamics of continental shelf carbon. Annual Review of Marine Science 3, 93-122, doi:10.1146/annurev-marine-120709-142740.*

Huang, W.-J., W.-J. Cai, Y. Wang, S. E. Lohrenz, and M. C. Murrell (2015), The carbon dioxide system on the Mississippi River-dominated continental shelf in the northern Gulf of Mexico: 1. Distribution and air-sea CO2 flux. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 120, 1429–1445, doi:10.1002/2014JC010498.

Hunt, C., J. Salisbury, D. Vandemark, 2014. CO2 input dynamics and air-sea exchange in a large new England estuary. Estuaries and Coasts 37 (5), 1078-1091, doi: 10.1007/s12237-013-9749-2.

Jiang, L.Q., Cai, W.-J., Wang, Y., Bauer, J.E., 2013. Influence of terrestrial inputs on continental shelf carbon dioxide. Biogeosciences 10, 839-849.

Mannino, A., Signorini, S., Novak, M., Wilkin, J., Friedrichs, M., Najjar, R.G., 2016. Dissolved organic carbon fluxes in the Middle Atlantic Bight: An integrated approach based on satellite data and ocean model products. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 121, 312-236, doi:10.1002/2015JG003031.

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.

Ren, W., H. Tian, W. J. Cai, S. E. Lohrenz, C. S. Hopkinson, W. J. Huang, J. Yang, B. Tao, S. Pan, R. He, 2016. Century‐long increasing trend and variability of dissolved organic carbon export from the Mississippi River basin driven by natural and anthropogenic forcing. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 30(9), 1288-1299.

Ren, W., H. Tian, B. Tao, J. Yang, S. Pan, W. J. Cai, S. E. Lohrenz, R. He, C. S. Hopkinson, 2015. Large increase in dissolved inorganic carbon flux from the Mississippi River to Gulf of Mexico due to climatic and anthropogenic changes over the 21st century. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 120(4), 724-736.

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, 5439–5460.

Tian, H., W. Ren, J. Yang, B. Tao, W.-J. Cai, S. E. Lohrenz, C. S. Hopkinson, M. Liu, Q. Yang, C. Lu, B. Zhang, K. Banger, S. Pan, R. He, and Z. Xue, 2015. Climate extremes dominating seasonal and interannual variations in carbon export from the Mississippi River Basin. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 29(9), 1333-1347, doi:10.1002/2014GB005068.

Tian, H., Q. Yang, R. Najjar, W. Ren, M.A.M. Friedrichs, C.S. Hopkinson, S. Pan, 2015. Anthropogenic and climatic influences on carbon fluxes from eastern North America to the Atlantic Ocean: A process-based modeling study. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosci 120, 757–772. doi: 10.1002/2014JG002760

Wang, Z. A., Wanninkhof, R., Cai, W.-J., Byrne, R.H., Hu, X., Peng, T.-H., Huang, W.J. The marine inorganic carbon system along the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coasts of the United States: Insights from a transregional coastal carbon study. 2013. Limnology and Oceanography 58 (1): 325-342.

Xiao, Y., M. A. M. Friedrichs. 2014. Using biogeochemical data assimilation to assess the relative skill of multiple ecosystem models in the Mid-Atlantic Bight: effects of increasing the complexity of the planktonic food web. Biogeosciences 11, 3015-3030, doi:10.5194/bg-11-3015-2014.

Xiao, Y., M. A. M. Friedrichs, 2014. The assimilation of satellite-derived data into a one-dimensional lower trophic level marine ecosystem model. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 119, 2691-2712, doi:10.1002/2013JC009433.

Xue, Z., R. He, K. Fennel, W. J. Cai, S. Lohrenz, W. J. Huang, H. Tian, W. Ren, and Z. Zang, 2016. Modeling pCO2 variability in the Gulf of Mexico. Biogeosciences 13(15), 4359-4377, doi:10.5194/bg-13-4359-2016.

Yang, Q., H. Tian, M.A.M. Friedrichs, M. Liu, L. Xia, and J. Yang, 2015. Hydrological responses to climate and land-use changes along the North American East Coast: A 110-year historical reconstruction. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 51, 47-67, doi:10.1111/jawr.12232.

Yang, Q., Tian, H., Friedrichs, M.A.M., Hopkinson, C., Lu, C., 2014. Increased nitrogen export from eastern North America to the Atlantic Ocean due to climatic and anthropogenic changes during 1901-2008. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosci. 120, doi:10.1002/2014JG002763.