Welcome

The Blue Carbon Timescale Network (BCTN) is looking to better understand variability in carbon burial for coastal vegetated ecosystems (e.g. mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrass meadows) through space (global) and time (modern to millennia) due to the importance of these ecosystems as global carbon storage sites.

We at Yale University are offering free radiocarbon (14C) analyses, as well as total organic carbon (TOC) analyses on soil samples collected from coastal vegetated ecosystems. We hope to expand carbon stock and carbon burial analyses to regions of the world with very limited data on blue carbon ecosystems.

Funding to supply 14C measurements comes from the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture and the School of the Environment at Yale University.

News

December 12, 2022
New technology at Yale is expected to help dozens of scientists assess the benefits of natural climate solutions to alleviate catastrophic global warming.
Liza Comita and David Bercovici (Photo by Dan Renzetti)
April 28, 2022
In a Q&A, Yale Center for Carbon Capture co-directors David Bercovici and Liza Comita discuss the center’s efforts and the scientific promise of carbon capture.    (Photo...
April 13, 2021
Seagrasses, mangrove forests, and coastal wetlands store vast amounts of carbon, and their preservation and restoration hold great potential to bank CO2 and keep it out of...