Bringing Wetlands to Market: Nitrogen & Coastal Blue Carbon

Dr. Omar I. Abdul-Aziz is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Florida International University. He is the modeling investigator for the BWM project. His expertise combines mechanistic and empirical modeling in a wide spectrum of earth and environmental sciences and engineering. He can be reached at: oabdulaz at fiu.edu

Steve Emmett-Mattox leads new initiatives for Restore America’s Estuaries, including strategic efforts in estuary economics and the connections between coastal habitat restoration and climate change impacts, mitigation and adaptation. He leads development of the methodology for getting carbon credits for blue carbon in tidal wetlands. He can be reached at: sem at estuaries.org

Dr. Kevin Kroeger is a scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole, and an applied science investigator for the Carbon Management in Coastal Wetlands Project. He has studied coastal ecosystems for 15 years, with a specialization in influxes and biogeochemistry of nitrogen in groundwater discharge to estuaries. He conducts field research on lateral carbon fluxes in wetlands for the BWM Project. He can be reached at: kkroeger at usgs.gov

Dr. Serena Moseman-Valtierra is a scientist at the University of Rhode Island.  She specializes in salt marsh ecology and biogeochemistry and work to discern ways that human impacts (such as nutrient loading, sedimentation, and biological invasion) have altered nitrogen cycling in coastal wetlands. She conducts field research on plant proxies for carbon storage on the BWM project. She can be reached at: smoseman at mail.uri.edu

Tonna-Marie Rogers is the Project and Collaboration Lead for the BWM Project and the Coastal Training Program Coordinator at Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. She leads activities to ensure that potential end-users of the science are linked with the scientists and are in engaged in a Collaborative Learning process. She can be reached at: tonna-marie.surgeon-rogers at state.ma.us

Dr. Jianwu (Jim) Tang is a scientist at the Ecosystems Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, and an applied science investigator for this project. His research focus is the impact of climate change on ecosystem processes and functions, and the feedback of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change. He conducts research on the lateral fluxes of carbon storage in wetlands on the BWM Project. He can be reached at: jtang at mbl.edu

Tom Walker is a natural resource economist. He recently directed the Manomet Center for Conservation Science’s biomass energy carbon study and is currently assisting with the natural resource damage assessment for the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He is leading an economic analysis of carbon market benefits for the BWM project.  He can be reached at: twalker01773 at gmail.com