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.
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