| Session Details | |
| Section | OS - Ocean Sciences BG - Biogeosciences |
| Session Title | Carbon Cycling In Ocean Margins |
| Main Convener | Dr. Zhongming Lu (Guangzhou HKUST Fok Ying Tung Research Institute, China) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Hongbin Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR) Prof. Minhan Dai (Xiamen University, China) |
| Session Description | Coastal and marginal seas play a key role in the global carbon cycling by linking the terrestrial, oceanic and atmospheric carbon reservoirs. There are mainly two different settings in terms of the source and mechanism that modulating the CO2 fluxes: River-dominated Ocean Margin (RiOMar) that characterized by concurrent inputs of autotrophic and heterotrophic loadings from terrestrial sources at the surface, and Ocean-dominated Ocean Margin (OceMar) that featured by dynamic exchanges of nutrients and dissolved inorganic carbon with the open ocean from the deep. The marginal seas adjacent to China (such as the East China Sea and South China Sea) span a wide range of latitudinal zones with diverse and distinct ecosystem structures. Added in more complexity are the land input from the major world rivers and the dynamic exchanges with the open ocean. As such, carbon cycling in China Seas exerts significance both at regional and global scales. Funded initially in 2008 and renewed in 2015 through China National Basic Research Program (‘973’ Program), CHOICE-C is a multidisciplinary project aiming to better understand the carbon budget, controls, ecological response and future changes in China Seas. We invite studies related to themes such as innovative observational, theoretical, experimental and modelling studies of hydrodynamics and biogeochemistry in individual ocean margins. Multidisciplinary studies and comparison with China Seas are mostly welcome and encouraged. |