The Program on Climate Change (PCC) Undergraduate Cohort (Uco) is excited to be joined by Dr. Kendall Valentine (UW OCEAN) for an undergrad focused talk and discussion on Blue Carbon. This event is in tandem with the UW Earth week celebration and will be on Thursday April 24th at 4:30pm in MSB 123 (snacks provided). In this event, Dr. Valentine will give an overview of Blue Carbon, followed by a discussion about the future and feasibility of this climate mitigation strategy. More info below!
Calendar posting: https://pcc.uw.edu/events/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D181717160
Blue Carbon ecosystems – traditionally mangroves, marshes, and seagrass – are coastal systems that trap and store disproportionately large amount of carbon in sediments and belowground biomass. The rapid deposition and burial of organic carbon prevalent in these systems remove atmospheric CO2. There has been growing interest in harnessing the natural process to maximize carbon storage in coastal environment to mitigate climate change. While there is great interest and potential, there are a lot of questions related to the science, the related policy, and feasibility.
Dr. Kendall Valentine is a coastal geomorphologist and an Assistant Professor in the School of Oceanography at UW who specializes in interactions between waves, currents, sediment, and vegetation to drive coastal change. She works primarily in marshes and mudflats, using a combination of field work and numerical models. Her blue carbon work ranges from developing numerical models to track carbon in coastal systems, to quantifying carbon in mudflats and marshes.
Learn more about Kendall’s work: https://valentinelab336.wixsite.com/valentine-lab
