Keynote Address
Dr. Don R. Cahoon
Understanding Wetland Elevation Change: a 20th Century Retrospective
1:30 PM
The Smithsonian’s Global Change Research Wetland (GCReW) is a
world-class facility for understanding the responses of tidal wetlands to
elevated CO2, warming, nitrogen pollution, invasive species, sea level rise
and other forces of change. It is a highly collaborative effort with three
primary partners (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Villanova
University, and Bryn Mawr College), and many external partners.
The goal of the symposium is to share and assess research arising from
the community of SERC scientists, collaborators and friends with
interests in coastal wetland ecosystems and biogeochemistry.
2017
4th ANNUAL GLOBAL
CHANGE RESEARCH
WETLAND SYMPOSIUM
24 March 2017
Mathias Lab
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
9:15
Arrive. Coffee, Tea, Bagels.
12:30
9:45
Welcome and Introductions
1:30
10:00
Dr. Pat Megonigal, SERC
“State of the Global Change Research Wetland”
2:15
10:15
Dr. Genevieve Noyce, SERC
“Warming Alters Seasonal Patterns of Vegetation Growth and
Senescence, CH4 Emissions, and CO2 Uptake”
2:30
10:30
Dr. Chunuw Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
“After 30 Years, Rising Sea Level Negates CO2-Induced Stimulation of
Elevational Gain in a Chesapeake Tidal Wetland”
Dr. Adam Langley, Villanova University
“The tide rises, the tide falls; Species shift, a redwing calls; Invaders
hasten through the morn; Despite the changes damp or warm”
2:45
11:00
Break
3:15
11:15
Dr. Tom Mozdzer, Bryn Mawr College
“Another year Phragmites marches on, how much longer until the
native marsh is gone?”
Dr. Andrew Pinsonneault, SERC
“Exportable DOC released during tidal flooding varies in composition
along a transect at Kirkpatrick Marsh”
Dr. Pat Neale, SERC
“Dissolved Organic Matter Fate in Estuaries: Spatial Variations in
Bioavailability and Photoreactivity”
Dr. Liz Canuel, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
“Concentration and composition of lipid biomarker compounds reveals
variations in sources of particulate organic matter at GCReW”
Dr. James Holmquist, SERC
“Coastal Wetland Soil Carbon Stocks Mapping and the Myth of
Fingerprints: ‘I’ve Seen Them All and Man They’re All the Same”
3:30
10:45
11:30
11:45
12:00
12:15
3:00
3:45
Catered Lunch. An assortment of sandwiches from Panera Bread.
Please advise Pat by Wed of any dietary restrictions or to request a
salad.
Dr. Don Cahoon, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
“Understanding Wetland Elevation Change: a 20th Century
Retrospective”
Dr. Karina Schafer, Rutgers University
“CO2 fluxes of temperate urban wetlands with different restoration
history”
Dr. Samantha Chapman, Villanova University
“Mangroves marching yet unchecked. Marshes waning we suspect.
Coastlines mangroves do protect. Rising seas, do they affect? Roots
& microbes intersect?”
Break
Dr. Grace Schwartz, SERC
“Quantifying the effects of activated carbon amendments and tidal
inundation on methylmercury partitioning in Phragmites marsh
mesocosms”
Dr. Andrew Heyes, UMD Chesapeake Biological Lab
“Methylation and export of Hg is dependent on bio-chemo-physical
setting and subject to change in response to climate and invasive
factors”
Dr. Meng Lu, SERC
“The King of The Mangrove Forests: Data Analysis for the Bengal Tiger
Conservation Project In Sundarbans”
Dr. Paul Brewer, SERC
“Anaerobic processes in aerobic environments”
4:00
Caitlin Bauer, Villanova University
“Nutrient pollution alters genetic identity and flowering phenology”
4:15
Reception at Mathias Lab
5:30
Group Dinner at Jalapeños Restaurant. RSVP to Pat by Wed.