Webinars
Upcoming Webinars
Mud matters: Understanding the role of ocean sediments in storing carbon
Thursday, November 9, 1 pm US EST/9 am US PST/6 pm UTC. Presented by: Sara Hutto of the Greater Farallones Association and Greater Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries. Description: The sediments of the vast ocean floor represent the world’s largest non-fossil pool of organic carbon, yet they are not well-studied or protected. The carbon in these sediments can remain stored for thousands to millions of years; however, activities such as mining, oil and gas exploration, and bottom-contact fishing can disturb sediment, resuspending it into the water column and potentially remineralizing carbon into aqueous CO2. Current understanding of marine sediment carbon along the US West Coast is limited, constraining meaningful management and protection of these critically important carbon sinks. The Greater Farallones Association, in partnership with NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) and NOAA’s Greater Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries, conducted the first systematic evaluation of marine sedimentary carbon stocks in North-central California. This webinar will discuss the importance of marine sediments in global carbon sequestration and storage. It will also present the results of this study, including an estimate of the carbon stock within the Sanctuaries’ marine sediments and identification of carbon “hot-spots” on the seafloor based on a novel spatial model of carbon density.
Past Webinars
Ecosystem-Based Zoning in the Bay of Samaná, Dominican Republic
The Nature Conservancy and Center for the Conservation and Ecodevelopment of Samaná Bay have recently completed a project to produce an innovative design of a marine zoning..
More Lessons from MPA Networking Programs
MPA News and the EBM Tools Network co-hosted a live Web-based seminar (“webinar”) on 19 October 2009 to explore lessons learned from…
Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris: Anticipating and Mitigating Its Impacts on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
This webinar explored how NOAA, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Digital Ocean Collaborative on Marine Debris, and other partners..
Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Planning into Traditional Scenario Based Approaches
Regional and local agencies in charge of policy-making and land use planning are in great need of increased technical capacity for conducting the kind of analyses…