Environmental Research Letters (Jan 2023)
Multi-scale observations of mangrove blue carbon ecosystem fluxes: The NASA Carbon Monitoring System BlueFlux field campaign
- Benjamin Poulter,
- Francis M Adams-Metayer,
- Cibele Amaral,
- Abigail Barenblitt,
- Anthony Campbell,
- Sean P Charles,
- Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta,
- Rocco D’Ascanio,
- Erin R Delaria,
- Cheryl Doughty,
- Temilola Fatoyinbo,
- Jonathan Gewirtzman,
- Thomas F Hanisco,
- Moshema Hull,
- S Randy Kawa,
- Reem Hannun,
- David Lagomasino,
- Leslie Lait,
- Sparkle L Malone,
- Paul A Newman,
- Peter Raymond,
- Judith A Rosentreter,
- Nathan Thomas,
- Derrick Vaughn,
- Glenn M Wolfe,
- Lin Xiong,
- Qing Ying,
- Zhen Zhang
Affiliations
- Benjamin Poulter
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division , Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States of America
- Francis M Adams-Metayer
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- Yale School of the Environment, Yale University , New Haven, CT, United States of America
- Cibele Amaral
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- Earth Lab, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder , Boulder, CO 80303, United States of America
- Abigail Barenblitt
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division , Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States of America
- Anthony Campbell
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division , Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States of America
- Sean P Charles
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- Integrated Coastal Programs, East Carolina University , Wanchese, NC, United States of America
- Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta
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- Wageningen University & Research, Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing , 6708PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Rocco D’Ascanio
- Yale School of the Environment, Yale University , New Haven, CT, United States of America
- Erin R Delaria
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division , Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States of America; Oak Ridge Associated Universities , Oak Ridge, TN 37830, United States of America
- Cheryl Doughty
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division , Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States of America
- Temilola Fatoyinbo
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division , Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States of America
- Jonathan Gewirtzman
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- Yale School of the Environment, Yale University , New Haven, CT, United States of America
- Thomas F Hanisco
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division , Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States of America
- Moshema Hull
- Yale School of the Environment, Yale University , New Haven, CT, United States of America
- S Randy Kawa
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division , Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States of America
- Reem Hannun
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- Department of Geology and Environmental Science, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States of America
- David Lagomasino
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- Integrated Coastal Programs, East Carolina University , Wanchese, NC, United States of America
- Leslie Lait
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- Science Systems and Applications Inc. , Lanham, MD, United States of America
- Sparkle L Malone
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- Yale School of the Environment, Yale University , New Haven, CT, United States of America
- Paul A Newman
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division , Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States of America
- Peter Raymond
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- Yale School of the Environment, Yale University , New Haven, CT, United States of America
- Judith A Rosentreter
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- Yale School of the Environment, Yale University , New Haven, CT, United States of America; Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, Yale University , New Haven, CT, United States of America; Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, Yale University , New Haven, CT 06520, United States of America; Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University , Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia
- Nathan Thomas
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division , Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States of America
- Derrick Vaughn
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- Yale School of the Environment, Yale University , New Haven, CT, United States of America
- Glenn M Wolfe
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division , Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States of America
- Lin Xiong
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- Integrated Coastal Programs, East Carolina University , Wanchese, NC, United States of America
- Qing Ying
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- Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland , College Park, MD 20742, United States of America
- Zhen Zhang
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- Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland , College Park, MD 20742, United States of America
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acdae6
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 18,
no. 7
p. 075009
Abstract
The BlueFlux field campaign, supported by NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System, will develop prototype blue carbon products to inform coastal carbon management. While blue carbon has been suggested as a nature-based climate solution (NBS) to remove carbon dioxide (CO _2 ) from the atmosphere, these ecosystems also release additional greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as methane (CH _4 ) and are sensitive to disturbances including hurricanes and sea-level rise. To understand blue carbon as an NBS, BlueFlux is conducting multi-scale measurements of CO _2 and CH _4 fluxes across coastal landscapes, combined with long-term carbon burial, in Southern Florida using chambers, flux towers, and aircraft combined with remote-sensing observations for regional upscaling. During the first deployment in April 2022, CO _2 uptake and CH _4 emissions across the Everglades National Park averaged −4.9 ± 4.7 μ mol CO _2 m ^−2 s ^−1 and 19.8 ± 41.1 nmol CH _4 m ^−2 s ^−1 , respectively. When scaled to the region, mangrove CH _4 emissions offset the mangrove CO _2 uptake by about 5% (assuming a 100 year CH _4 global warming potential of 28), leading to total net uptake of 31.8 Tg CO _2 -eq y ^−1 . Subsequent field campaigns will measure diurnal and seasonal changes in emissions and integrate measurements of long-term carbon burial to develop comprehensive annual and long-term GHG budgets to inform blue carbon as a climate solution.
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