A Natural Climate Solution: Blue Carbon Ecosystems and Emerging Perspectives
Contents
Chair
Dr. Daniel M. Alongi
Tropical Coastal & Mangrove Consultants, Highview Ct, Pakenham, Victoria, Australia.
Daniel M. Alongi Ph.D. is a marine biogeochemist with over 35 years' experience with over 150 publications plus five books including Blue Carbon: Coastal Sequestration for Climate Change Mitigation (2018) and Tropical Marine Ecology published by J. Wiley early in 2022. Formerly a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Dr. Alongi now runs his own consulting firm, Tropical Coastal & Mangrove Consultants (www.coastmangrove.com). Although he has studied many aspects of the ecology and biogeochemistry of tropical estuarine and marine ecosystems, his expertise is in the storage, sequestration, and fluxes of blue carbon, especially in mangrove forests, seagrass meadows, coral reefs, and salt marshes. His research experiences in India, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia are extensive and wide-ranging as are his research interests. The latter includes the structure and function of tropical estuarine, coastal and shelf environments, coastal carbon biogeochemistry, sediment geochemistry, benthic ecology, mangrove blue carbon, wetland carbon cycling, and nutrient cycling.
Daniel M. Alongi Ph.D. is a marine biogeochemist with over 35 years' experience with over 150 publications plus five books including Blue Carbon: Coastal Sequestration for Climate Change Mitigation (2018) and Tropical Marine Ecology published by J. Wiley early in 2022. Formerly a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Dr. Alongi now runs his own consulting firm, Tropical Coastal & Mangrove Consultants (www.coastmangrove.com). Although he has studied many aspects of the ecology and biogeochemistry of tropical estuarine and marine ecosystems, his expertise is in the storage, sequestration, and fluxes of blue carbon, especially in mangrove forests, seagrass meadows, coral reefs, and salt marshes. His research experiences in India, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia are extensive and wide-ranging as are his research interests. The latter includes the structure and function of tropical estuarine, coastal and shelf environments, coastal carbon biogeochemistry, sediment geochemistry, benthic ecology, mangrove blue carbon, wetland carbon cycling, and nutrient cycling.
Speaker(s)
Prof. Kandasamy Kathiresan
Faculty of Marine Sciences, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, India.
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Topic: Mangroves: a Nature-based Solution to Climate Change
Prof. Martin Zimmer
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany.
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Topic: Ecosystem Co-design: Establishing Ecosystems That Contribute to Climate Change-Mitigation and Adaptation (and Beyond)
Dr. Tim C. Jennerjahn
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany.
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Topic: Blue Carbon and Beyond - Do We Also Need to Protect Other Coastal Carbon Sinks?
Dr. Kai Xiao
School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
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Topic: Vertical Convection Drives Organic Carbon Cycle in Mangrove Intertidal Zones
Dr. Ying Huang
State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, Center for Blue Carbon Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
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Topic: Understanding and Quantifying Blue Carbon Through Multi-scale Observations: Experiences in China's Coastal Saltmarsh
Dr. Naima Iram
Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
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Topic: Unlocking the Potential of Blue Carbon Ecosystem Restoration as a Nature-based Climate Solution
Programme
Programme
| Time | Chair / Speakers | Topic | |
| UTC+2 | UTC+8 | ||
| 10:00 - 10:10 | 16:00 - 16:10 | Daniel M. Alongi | Welcoming Address |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | 16:10 - 16:40 | Kandasamy Kathiresan | Mangroves: a Nature-based Solution to Climate Change |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | 16:40 - 17:10 | Kai Xiao | Vertical Convection Drives Organic Carbon Cycle in Mangrove Intertidal Zones |
| 11:10 - 11:20 | 17:10 - 17:20 | Q&A Session I | |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | 17:20 - 17:50 | Naima Iram | Unlocking the Potential of Blue Carbon Ecosystem Restoration as a Nature-based Climate Solution |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | 17:50 - 18:20 | Martin Zimmer | Ecosystem Co-design: Establishing Ecosystems that Contribute to Climate Change-Mitigation and Adaptation (and Beyond) |
| 12:20 - 12:30 | 18:20 - 18:30 | Q&A Session II | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | 18:30 - 19:00 | Ying Huang | Understanding and Quantifying Blue Carbon through Multi-scale Observations: Experiences in China's Coastal Saltmarsh |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | 19:00 - 19:30 | Tim C. Jennerjahn | Blue Carbon and Beyond - Do We Also Need to Protect Other Coastal Carbon Sinks? |
| 13:30 - 13:40 | 19:30 - 19:40 | Q&A Session III | |
| 13:40 - 13:50 | 19:40 - 19:50 | Daniel M. Alongi | Conclusion |
