Item talk:Q227092

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 "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/whcmsc/science/sea-level-rise-and-carbon-cycle-processes-managed-coastal-wetlands",
 "headline": "Sea level Rise and Carbon Cycle Processes in Managed Coastal Wetlands",
 "datePublished": "May 10, 2023",
 "author": [
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     "@type": "Person",
     "name": "Kevin D Kroeger, PhD",
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     "@type": "Person",
     "name": "Meagan J. Eagle , PhD",
     "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/meagan-j-eagle",
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     "text": "The USGS and colleagues will develop functional maps, models and predictions for the existing and future intertidal landscape. Specific tasks include:"
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     "text": "384 Woods Hole Rd.\nWoods Hole, MA 02543\nUnited States"
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     "text": "In this project, USGS scientists are studying how human modifications of coastal hydrology affect wetland resilience, migration, hazard mitigation, ecosystem condition, and carbon cycle processes. This knowledge will help guide decisions made by federal, state, and private land management organizations."
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     "text": "The U.S. Geological Survey is working to inform decision makers at Federal land management agencies, including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, state government agencies and private entities, on the role of coastal wetlands in climate change mitigation and adaptation. This includes assessing opportunities for ecosystem restoration to enhance soil carbon sequestration, reduce methane emissions, and to increase carbon and alkalinity export to the coastal ocean. This comprehensive knowledge of carbon cycle processes is necessary to support the integration of coastal ecosystems within programs that reduce and inventory greenhouse gas emissions, including development of programs for greenhouse gas monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV)."
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     "text": "Partners, stakeholders, and end users for this project include the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, state governments and private land managers, and non-governmental organizations. The USGS will continue to actively engage with them to ensure project objectives help meet their specific needs CONUS-wide."
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     "text": "Coastal wetlands and mangroves that have been damaged or destroyed can lose their carbon sequestration capacity and the large quantities of carbon stored there can be released into the atmosphere. Improved management of salt marshes and mangroves, leading to enhanced conservation and restoration, is therefore a crucial climate change mitigation strategy\u2014providing both enhanced carbon dioxide removal and avoided methane emissions."
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     "text": "Wetlands can capture large quantities of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in their soil and plants\u2014a process known as carbon sequestration. In fact, they are such significant carbon sinks that they can store carbon that has accumulated over hundreds to thousands of years."
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     "text": "This work is being conducted for current, future, and potential intertidal space throughout the conterminous United States (CONUS) and will include site-, state-, and regional-level analyses."
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     "text": "For centuries, in the U.S. and globally, there has been ongoing deployment of human-built structures that change coastal hydrology, including dikes, berms, levees, ditches, and seawalls. Additionally, transportation networks, including roads and railroads, cause widespread incidental tidal restriction in coastal wetlands. In a first set of national-scale analysis, we have estimated that more than 2.5 million acres of tidal wetlands in the conterminous United States are impounded, tidally-restricted, or drained behind infrastructure. In response to climate change and the accelerating rate of sea level rise, deployment of dikes is expected to increase in the coming decades, with potential for substantial additional impact on wetland ecological condition, on their ability to migrate landward in response to sea level rise, and ultimately the persistence of these vital ecosystems."
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     "text": "Persistence of these habitats in the 21st century depends on relatively near-term decisions regarding transportation infrastructure and other responses by society to sea level rise hazards. Maintenance and new deployments of roads and coastal defense structures, such as seawalls and dikes, can interfere with coastal hydrology, causing drainage or impoundment, and prevent tidal wetlands from migrating in response to sea level rise. When coastal wetlands are drained, impounded, or restricted, it jeopardizes the quality and existence of these vital ecosystems."
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   "name": "Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center",
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