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UC Davis International Center
Presented by the UC Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute and Delta Stewardship Council
About the Event:
This symposium convened leading scientists, policymakers, land managers, and stakeholders to explore the science and policy of blue carbon—carbon captured and stored in coastal and aquatic ecosystems—in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Bay-Delta) region. The event will highlight recent research on carbon dynamics across land-sea interfaces, identify key habitats and conditions that optimize carbon sequestration, and evaluate frameworks for carbon and greenhouse gas accounting and integration with climate policy.
Speakers:
- Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Lead Scientist, DSC/USGS
- Patty Oikawa, Associate Professor, CSU East Bay
- Steven Deverel, Principal Hydrologist, Hydrofocus
- James Holmquist, Research Staff, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
- Tyler Anthony, Senior Environmental Scientist, DWR
- Barbara Haya, Director of Berkeley Carbon Trading Project, UC Berkeley
- Grant Gutierrez, Head of Community Impacts, Carbon Direct
- Tomoko Komada, Professor, San Francisco State University
- Judith Drexler, Research Hydrologist/Wetland Ecologist, USGS
- Campbell Ingram, Executive Officer, Sacramento - San Juaquin Delta Conservancy
Planning Team:
- Alyssa Griffin, UC Davis BML
- Brooke Eastman, Delta Stewardship Council
- Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Delta Stewardship Council
- Maggie Christman, Delta Stewardship Council
- Moose O'Donnell, UC Davis CMSI
- Nick Rowlands, Delta Stewardship Council
- Tessa Hill, UC Davis BML
Suggested Reading:
- The Fate of Blue Carbon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta of California, USA
- Development of a model framework for terrestrial carbon flux prediction: the Regional Carbon and Climate Analytics Tool (RCCAT) applied to non-tidal wetlands
- Managed wetlands for climate action: potential greenhouse gas and subsidence mitigation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
- Hot moments drive extreme nitrous oxide and methane emissions from agricultural peatlands
- Implications for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions and Economics of a Changing Agricultural Mosaic in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta
- Investigation of Floating Peat Wetlands, Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, California
- Delta Islands Adaptations
- Solutions for subsidence in the California Delta, USA, an extreme example of organic-soil drainage gone awry.
- Present-day oxidative subsidence of organic soils and mitigation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, USA
- The Coastal Carbon Library and Atlas: Open source soil data and tools supporting blue carbon research and policy
- Localized Scenarios and Latitudinal Patterns of Vertical and Lateral Resilience of Tidal Marshes to Sea-Level Rise in the Contiguous United States
- Carbon Sequestration and Subsidence Reversal in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta and Suisun Bay: Management Opportunities for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
- Hydrologic Export Is a Major Component of Coastal Wetland Carbon Budgets